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.