Kayla's LJay

Well it was such a nice day today (likely our last), so I thought I'd take advantage and grab some pictures of the 3 beasties at home.


( Cut to save the friends! )

To really kick myself in the ass and get things started re: diet. As its Ukrainian New Years. So that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Mkay? Thx.

I've got a call into the farrier about Rico, so hopefully he can come out in the next couple of days and see about getting things fixed. I'm actually excited about this, and the money I paid at the vet was well worth it, because now I KNOW that I'm not doing my horse any harm in riding him. In fact, the vet said that he wants this horse ridden 5 times a week if possible, and that he's strong enough to really push. I'm putting him on a vit E/selenium mineral supplement to help with his musculature as well as MSM. Vet also said he was the smartest and loveliest Trakehner he's seen in a long while :P Yay Rico!

In other horse news, I just heard that Costa's sister is for sale now. I freaking LOVE this mare. I saw her at her inspection, and while she didn't score as high as Costa did, I think she actually had slightly better movement and more elasticity. She was also the only foal at that inspection to be awarded Premium. If only I had money... I'm surprised at the price though, honestly. It's a little bit high, to my way of thinking, especially in this market. Although, who knows. That mare's full sister sold last year as a yearling for 12k, so I guess she's just thinking that as a 3 year old, or turning 3 year old, she's worth more. Makes me glad though that I only paid 3k for Costa when I bought him though, because God knows, I couldn't afford him now if that was any indication!

At the barn we had a bit of a tragedy. On Dec. 27th, the horses were playing quite rough, and one of them got kicked. Broke his cannon bone in a complete freak accident. His owner decided to try to fix him, so the vet was out each day monitoring him, and they built him a jolly jumper in his stall to support his weight (sad, I wish she would have just let him go, because you could tell he was absolutely miserable). Anyways, last night, he must have slipped, because he refractured it to the point that the vet thought that it would only be kind to euthanize him. So RIP Carson-run free.

Anyways, on the school front, I'm about to kill the schedulers. I have THREE 8am classes. That's brutal, because I'm 45 minutes away from Campus, but add rushhour to the mix, and I have to get up around 5:30am. Mornings make Kayla a very, very grumpy person. Not to mention that by 1pm, I feel dead to the world and just want to sleep. I'm literally dragging myself through the motions right now during those days so I hope that as I get more in shape, get some sleep and get into a schedule, things won't seem so excrutiating.

I also have to get myself out of debt. Like majorly. I have one last credit card spending that I need to do for books, and than thats it. I've got way too much debt right now, and need to pay it off before my student loans come due. So Im hoping to be able to put $500 a month on it, and if I do that, I should be able to pay it off in about 16 months...*le sigh*


Tis all!

I swear, while my friends plan what shops they want to hit on boxing day (although why you wouldn't just wait until the next day is beyond me, since most sales go to the 29th anyways!), Kayla marks her calendar 5 months in advance detailing when the Greenhawk Boxing Day Sale is-and makes sure that she takes it off work :P
Last year was a disappointing sale, with not that much to buy and nothing that I wanted.
This year, I'm quite pleased to admit (although yet again, my Visa takes quite the beating), that the ponies got new stuff!


So, what you see in the picture is as follows.
+Excalibur - for all your sheath cleaning neeeds. (and kindly remember that I have 4 geldings :P so I'm...uh...up there quite a bit It's originally $12.99 and was on for $8.99
+MSM - 90 servings. For Enrique-I figure that MSM is good for soft tissue things, so it definitely won't hurt him to be on something like this. It was originally $18.99 and was on for $14.99
+Stirrup leathers - because mine on my dressage saddle are almost to the point of no return. These ones are really nice too; Kieffer, so I'm hoping they last. They were originally $59.99 but I got them for $29.99
+Halter - bright yellow! that's for Costa and his "going away from home to get his ass kicked and become a super star dressage mount" gift :P It was originally $19.99 and I got it for $11.99
+Shedrow cooler - I LOVE this sucker. The material is that stuff that is supposed to wick away sweat. It's for Enrique, as he only has a little wool one that comes halfway up his butt. It was originally on for $79.99 but the sale brought it down to $39.99

And that's it! So while my bill was something like $100+, I like to think of the fact that it could have been more had it not been for the sale :P:P



So now that I've bought everything necessary to make me a Super Rider Extreme (with Kieffer stirrup leathers, of course!) I need to start riding my grey beast. I haven't seen him in close to 2 weeks.. So come Monday, I need to get in some riding before my eye surgery, and then when I'm back to riding (on the 15th of January) there better be nothing stopping me! I have plans, people! I want to take Enrique in a show in March (training level), another one in April (training level) and take both Costa (hopefully! we'll see how the little bugger does after 3 months undersaddle) and Enrique to a show in July, where God willing, I can do training level with Costa and 1st level with Enrique. I figure I'd have to be totally crazy - or intoxicated, which I'm thinking might not be a bad idea! to take TWO horses to their FIRST show TOGETHER :P so I need to get my ass in gear, lose weight, and take Enrique first.