And it all falls down..

Ugh. So I kinda disappeared. Dunno if you noticed. But my world got turned upside down.

Wednesday morning I got a knock on my apt door. Some guy handed me court papers. Um, what? Yeah. Apparently my roomate hadn't paid rent. Coooool. The apartment complex was suing us.

Well, I got on his ass in an instant. Everything got paid, and I dont have to go to court. But, my lease is being terminated at the end of Feb. 

I think I found a place to live. Its a cute little house with some girls I know. Fingers crossed it works out.

So this really threw me for an emotional workout. Poor Ries had to suffer without rides because I was so stressed. Everytime I went to the barn I was left a lone with my own thoughts. I wanted to vomit from anxiety. 

I went out to play with my boy today though. He was having a thoroughbred day lol. But I have cute pics. 

He reeaaallly didnt want me to get on. He was pretty much begging me to lunge him. 

But alas, I was able to get on afterwords. He was still wound up so I pretty much just trotted. 

We really werent aiming for a correct frame. I mostly just wanted him to relax. He got so freaking sweaty. A fantastic time to try out my new full body cooler!

Omg. Yes. Ebay came in to save the day! I couldn't find one used, and didn't feel like spending a fortune. Got this one for $37.95 plus shipping. The fleece is thin enough to allow for fast evaporation, but thick enough to keep him warm.

The brand is Derby Originals and I bought it from Tack Whole Sale. Super pleased with the product and had fast delivery! Poor Riesy has such a long back he needed an XL. It's hard when you are 16.2 TB and a blanket size 82/84. 

But that is a catch up on my life. I have some awesome ideas for blog posts. Can winter be over? 

Micaylah in Paint Land

Lolz I couldn't pass up the opportunity SprinklerBandit presented of drawing myself in paint. Therefore, behold, me and Riesypie in paint!

Starting with me. From the top, you'll notice my hair in a bun. Because I hate doing my hair now that it is long. There is also a pretty bow because I'm in a sorority, TSM. My right eye is multi-colored and also loves to fixate on my horses beautiful mane while I am riding. I have the worlds longest torso, which means no low rise and no crop-tops (although, admittedly, I've worn them before). I am also wearing a VS t-shirt because I can't escape the comfort. Lol. Oh and I have boobs because(besides obvious reasons) I always forget to wear a sports bra. I normally go straight to the barn after school and I'm not down to rock the sports bra in my college classes with some hot guys. Ya know?
Oh and then there is my hands. My fingers refuse to stay closed. Perma-open. You know, incase my horse decides he reaaally needs the reins, apparently I won't stop him. Oops. There is also bubble-butt, which is hard to tell from the picture. But yes, biggest butt and I cannot lie. But it makes sitting on a hard saddle better, or falling off. 
Uhh what else is there? Oh yeah there is also my giant calves. The ones that require wide tall boots when I SERIOUSLY AM NOT THAT WIDE. Like, the hell? Ergh. Gunna start a campaign one day called "Real Riders Have CALVES!" I believe that is the extent of my anatomy. Now to move on to my glorious mount, Riesling.

Glorious Riesy Beefcakes. His head is cute as a button. He has almost no forelock. He has the beefiest necks of all the beefy necks. He is also super spotty. I joke that he is purple. He has super mega long lengs, because thoroughbred. Oh and also the worst thoroughbred feet. He had to get lifts put on. Diva. Oh and of course the WORLDS LONGEST BACK EVAR. Takes forever for him to warm up his back. His natural pose is always one hind leg resting. Oh and he has the world's saddest tail. Its really depressing. We try really hard to make it not suck. He likes when I have a long tailbag on him because then he can slap me with it when I'm behind him. He loves that game.

And that, my friends, is me and Riesy in MS paint. I was too lazy to draw arrows and write with the paintbrush. So therefore I typed it out.

Micaylah Land

So uh. Not much new going on in Micaylah land (that I will chose to talk about :p) I definitely havent been horse shopping like cray since my saddle is now with SB.

Yesterday I had a nice quick ride on Ries. He has been super putzy and it was bugging me. Also my leg position has been super frustrating. So we pretty much walked. And walked. And I worked really hard on concreting my position. 

I am a firm believer that 9 times outta 10 if my horse isnt doing what Im asking its because of me asking wrong. So at my last lesson CJ reminded me that Ries was probably refusing to go forward because 1) my rein contact was too heavy and 2) my legs were moving so much he didnt know when I was asking to go forward and when my leg just was sucking lol

So first day after my lesson I rode with super loose reins. And worked on my legs. He seemed mildly improved and I figured he was probably still stiff/sore. Fast forward to yesterday. He was a little putzy warming up, and then his mild spook instilled some energy into our ride. 

I thought to myself: "Ries if you have energy to spook, you have energy to move forward".

So I adjusted my seat and leg amd BAM forward trot. I tried not to interfere with my hands too much amd kept my leg silent. Everytime we slowed down I put on leg and it was like a firecracker went off! Wee! Then my leg fell silent and we were left with a glorious tempo. He offered to stretch his neck and bend and I smiled with joy.

My easy going, ready to please horse was finally back! 

Canter transitions werent the best, but they werent bad either. Pretty average.  He even offered a long and low canter. We had a few mild spooks but otherwise he was so relaxed! 

I threw him on a loose rein and gave him a big pat. I couldnt stop smiling. We have speakers in the indoor and Mean To Me by Brett Eldredge came on the radio and I serenaded to crap outta my horse. It was mushy and delightful. RedHeadLins happened to stop by as well and took a fabulous pic of us. 

Bling on Bling

Bling on bling action

Oh man. Oh man oh man oh man. I am tiiirred. Last night's lesson consisted of trotting circles and doing figures. I suck at knowing where the letters are, so this was especially challenging for me. I definitely got to the point on my lesson where I didn't know which way was left. But I had SB there and she took pics AND videos! Yee-haw! First, some pics.

 

Ries taking direction from CJ

So tired. Need a full neck cooler lol

Burgundy Pants

Wow. I suck at creative post titles. Anyways, CJ was sick yesterday so lesson is tonight! Woo! I hopped on Riesy and he gave me way less of a middle finger. Kept it simple since we have a lesson today. There was some jerk that hauled in to use the indoor and was just an overall asshole. At one point he did a sliding stop (a shitty one) right in front of me walking Riesy on a loose rein. I was about to beat him with my dressage whip. But anyways, ride was still good and we managed some decent pics. One was on one phone and some are on yhe other so thats why they look diff lol

Yay pony! We should have pics tonight from the lesson :)