Tiredness, Tack, and Agitation

This has been a very long long week, well two weeks to be exact and it won't be until next week that everything will be back to normal (hopefully at least.) I had been babysitting/nannying A LOT for these past weeks and it is starting to wear me down. Don't get me wrong, I love the kids, I've known their whole lives (literally!) and out of all the kids I have babysat for they are the best. It's just getting to that point where I need a break. I'm mentally and physically very tired. And it doesn't help having to ride your super athletic horse five days a week and give medication to your sick ferret three times a day. I'm just physically and mentally tired. But I am making money and that is a great thing. So, I thought I would buy myself something nice and what I mean by "something nice" is a horse item! I bought myself this nice Weaver headstall off of horse.com. This headstall is perfect for everyday riding but has enough bling for the show ring, which is perfect for me. I'm really excited, I don't have many "nice" horsey items so this will be great. It should be here next week.

Tomorrow (Thursday) is my brother's 17th birthday! 17! So, we'll have some cake and presents then the next day we're going out of town for a few days. He wanted to go walk around in the city for some reason, haha! It should be nice to get out of our little town for a bit.

I worked and rode Babe yesterday and will do it again today. I hoping I can get in some hours tomorrow as well, maybe I'll go really early before my brother wakes up. Ava had two days off of being worked and it showed. She wasn't controlling herself very well and practically wore herself out cantering on the lunge. Fine for me though, I didn't want her freaking out with me on her back. We did walk, trot, and canter, rollbacks, 360's, and just warming up to where we were again.

I wasn't in a great mood when I went down there, I didn't want to see my BO but he's always there so I just had to deal with it. His son's were there too. His youngest kind of annoys the crap out of me, he is very much a country boy and doesn't seem to care much for horses at all. I know this because when Ava was pawing while being tied he called her a stupid horse. Ava is not stupid or instead, horses are not stupid, they are brilliant, talented, and amazing. How many prey animals do you know that can be saddled up, be ridden, and be asked to do things that are all very unnatural to them?! Not many... So, that kind of ticked me off when he said that, I think he was mainly trying to get my attention but I just ignored it... His older son on the other hand was actually pleasant. He would still tease me but just enough where it could make me smile and not annoy me (I think he could tell I wasn't happy), and since I wasn't in a great mood it actually made me feel a little better. When he's down there it almost makes it tolerable to deal with his dad and brother. He's going to be the thing I miss the most when I leave, him and the beautiful facility.