Valerius
Posted July 27, 2008. Filed under Blog, Horseback Riding, School. Leave a comment?

Well, thought I’d finally post some pictures of my “pony” He went to a dressage schooling show about a month ago, and won two blue ribbons with my instructor riding him! There was a really good profesh photographer there, and she took some great pictures. You can see them on her site, here: Pictures of Val

Anywho, Val’s a 15.2 hand bay paint gelding. He’s got the sweetest disposition, but he can truly act like his namesake- Valerius Magnus, a pretentious vampire from some of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Hunter books—from times to time. For the most part, he’s just a big teddy bear ;P

Next time around, I’ll be able to ride Val in a show. Sure, we won’t place as well, but we’ll try our best and have a good time. I might be doing a schooling show at Long View horse park, an eventing one. That would be so exciting! It’s in late August… it all depends on if my jumping would be solid enough by then.

I can hardly believe that school starts in about a month. I’m really ready for this year, though. I’ve got lots of interesting, challenging classes on my schedule. It should be rather interesting having a horse with the increased work load, and then adding a job on top of all that when I turn 16 in November!

That’s all I’ve got to say for now

Acronyms Without Rhythm
Posted March 21, 2008. Filed under Blog, School, Opinionated, Music, StumbledUpon. 1 comment.

I’ve always been kinda into these little combos of letters. Why? ’cause they can always mean so many things. Whenever I see an acronym I always try my best to fit words into the letters.

Recently, though, I’ve started making my own.
NEETS- Needs eventing expertise; terrible seat.
That’d be me right up thar.
LAURA- Lacking Artistic Undulations; Recently Afflicted.
A friend who hasn’t update her webcomic in a while
ALLY- Always Loyal, Loving, Yes!
My puppy.
LOVE LACE- Lately Original, Very Effortless. Loves Assisting Citizens Expertly.
Yeah, some of these are shaky! Anyhow, thought I’d put these in here before I forgot them.

They’re also pretty useful study tools. If I need to remember something for a test, I just make it into an acronym and then find a tune for it that fits well. Usually, if I can remember the first letter of each word I’m fine. Just one of quite a few study tricks I use (:

In other news, I have no sense of rhythm. Seriously, I can’t even snap my fingers at the same time during a song consistently. I haven’t done much dancing in my time, but I’m going to take a guess and say that I’d fail epically. How is it possible for me to be this bad at rhythm? I have no idea.

My mom finds it kind of amusing. She was the first to notice my deficiency, and ever since I always try to keep the beat of a song when she’s around. I can’t. We laugh. It’s a pleasant cycle, to ease the pain of PHAILURE /melodramatic. (:

Finally, I’m done talking bad about StumbleUpon. I joined, and I really love it. I’ve had some great discoveries so far! My favorite is definitely Pandora, a music website that allows you to give examples of the music you like- artists and songs- and then it picks more songs you’re likely to enjoy based on the properties of the music.

Before I praise it too much, I ought to mention that it apparently restricts access to people outside the US, which I know is a lot people from Snark ): Maybe some day it’ll open its doors to international traffic.

It’s pretty amazing, though. All the songs I gave it happened to have piano, but they were all ’soft’ pop-ish songs. So, Pandora guessed that I’d like Boston by Augustana and it was very, very right. I’ve liked the song for a long time, and I guess I never knew why, seeing as I’m usually a country person.

I’m figuring out that I have a thing for pianos. A lot of the music I like has some piano in it. Very strange, seeing as there’s so little Country with piano in it and that’s what I grew up listening to…