not everything is always just as it seems

had a WONDERFUL day off yesterday :)

I spent the morning cleaning up my room a bit and hanging out. then i went to the beach in the afternoon which was wonderful.

I was laying out and enjoying not being bothered by a soul until around 4... and this big black guy came and laid his towel down next to me and then went into the ocean.. and all i could think was jesus christ... please just leave me alone... i had my headphones on... i clearly didn't want to be bothered.

but of course. when he came back he was just laying on his towel...and then i went to get up around 430 and as soon as i took my headphones off he starts talking to me, asking me all these questions about what i like to do. and just generally being annoying. and i knew it was coming... i knew he was going to try to be a creeper and ask me out or something. i could just tell.
so he's telling me about how he likes to do all the same stuff as i do and all this bullshit... and then he asks me if i'm single. which. btw. i should know by now that i should always just say no. i should ALWAYS just say i have a boyfriend. but anyway. he said something like, "yeah i'm single too. i wish i just had a nice girl to hang out with"
uggg
so i'm like walking away and he starts walking with me. ugggggg. and he keeps talking...and every once in awhile i'm just like, uh huh... yep.... uh huh.... not being very friendly.
and he goes, "ya know... not to be creepy or anything, but i was just wondering if you'd be interested in letting me take you to a restaurant sometime or something"
and i was like... uhh no thanks... i'm really not here for very long. i'm just visiting..

and he then proceeded to tell me about how he makes $80000 a year... and so i immediately was like, "oh yeah?? what do you do??" and he was like, "uhhhh.... ya know... criminal justice stuff"

i did my best to restrain myself from laughing... there's no way...i think he meant to say criminal stuff... hahah.
anyway. so i continued to walk... and he continued to walk with me... which i just assumed he was going to his car... and he was like, ya know if you do want to hang out i just need to grab my phone from my car so we have to go over there... and i was like... uhh no thanks.. i'm gotta go.
and he continued to try and he was like, well ya know i like church events and things too if that's what you're into.

i wanted to just be like, GIVE IT UP!!!! i said no!! leave me alone!!!

i don't understand people that can't take a hint ya know?

anyway. other than that minor thing my day was quite pleasant :)

today is also a pretty relaxing day. did two of the ponies this morning at 7:30... and going back over around 1 to do the other two, pick out stalls, make dinner, and then come back home :)

i have pretty simple days which is nice.

anywhoo.

i just figured i'd update a little bit

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nothing else compares

so i finally did it.
i made the leap of FINALLY getting out of vermont!
as much as i love many things about the little state, i really needed to get out of there and really experience life away from all things familiar.

So, i got a job working for Diane Rodich of Top Class Dressage as her groom.

Jack and Mouse outside :) sooo cute

I went from working for Madeleine Austin at Imajica, taking care of 30 or so horses a day, to taking care of 3 horses... 4 starting tomorrow.
regardless of how much easier it is... it's nice to be working for someone who is appreciative of the job i'm doing, and showing it. I get paid on time, if i need an afternoon off or some time to do things i want to do i can, and i get told how good of a job i'm doing and how much i'm appreciated.
having that really makes a difference in how hard i want to work.

this is my driveway leading to my house

i'm also living with the most amazing people. The owner of the house, Annette, also has her own farm, and life of her own, but chooses to take people in all the time! she's really wonderful, and just the kind of horse person that i would want to be living with. there are so many people in the horse world that take others for granted, its just nice to know that i'm working for and living with people that clearly don't think of me as just some slave. I'm also living with a girl named Kendra. She's suuper nice and has tried to help me find good places to go out and such. which is awesome. i think she's probably my age, or maybe a bit younger... but she's pretty great.

anyway. it's been a nice change. thats for sure.

ALSO!! i get to start riding at some point!! and possibly jumping some too which would be excellent, because i haven't jumped in a long time, so it will be nice to get back into that. BUT it will also mean that i'll get to learn more about dressage rather than just picking things up from watching. don't get me wrong, i've already learned a lot about it just by working at Madeleine's farm, but i feel like it will definitely help me to learn things by riding as well.This is Poppy, possibly the horse i might start riding

Liz has also said that i might get to go over and trail ride one of the horses at Stacey's (where she's keeping Tweak, Hero, Coltrane, and Copland). so that will be fun!

all in all, this move was for the best i think. even if it does have to come to and end at some point... which... it might, it might not. we'll see.

on a more personal note... liz, emilee and i have checked out the club scene now, which... i'm quite fond of. haha
there's much more perving to be done down here, which i'm not super ashamed to say i have been partaking in. ha :)

i met a guy the other night, Angelo, who's italian... and he was very sweet and nice. granted he did continuously tell me how much he wanted to take me home, he didn't really push it. and he didn't try to get me hammered... as a matter of fact when i told him i might have to drive my friends and i home he offered to get me water and basically told me to make sure we were safe.
we exchanged #s and he wanted me to go out the night after too, but i didn't make it out. i was too tired... the clubs here don't close until 4 or 5am, and i start working at like 6:30 or 7 everyday... sooo uhhh sleeping doesn't happen when i go out the night before. ha. but anyway... we'll see. if he doesn't get in touch with me again i'll know it wasn't meant to be and be fine with it, but if we get together again i wouldn't complain :)

it would be nice to meet a nice boy down here though.

anyway. i need to clean my room a bit, and then i need to go back over and feed the ponies :)

i'll keep posting things every once in awhile.