So another round of updates since many months have passed.
Big things:
My husband took riding lessons at the local college for a semester last fall.
My husband now works for The Man. He works four days and week and gets to do a lot of travel on the company's dime. He is overall happy with his new job (3months and counting)
We moved again. We are now in Central Cali. Husband does not like how hot it is in the summer. However, he doesn't like heat in any summer no matter where we live.
I have opened up a shop on Etsy. I make things out of wire. I love it. Now I just need to have more people buy my stuff!
Little things:
I went Comic Con for the second time. Loved it even more. Mom even got her pic on imdb.com!
I have a new helmet, saddle, and bit. I love collecting horse tack for that eventually day when I own a horse (or two or three).
My closest cousin has spent the previous 9 month interning in Cali (yay) and will be leaving for Germany again (boo).
I have a new cooking passion: pies in a jar!
Most recently:
We moved to a country home that we are just renting. I love most of it. The kitchen is huge and has been updated. Every room has windows so the house is filled with natural light. I love not being in the gloom anymore. This home has rooms! I have a room all to myself, where I can use my computer in private and work on my Etsy stuff. We did have a problem with bugs (ick!) but we are winning the war. We have had several friends and family members come and visit. It was wonderful being able to offer them a room to stay in!
This house is located on 2.5 acres of horse property! I might be able to have a horse here at the house. I think it would be totally awesome and a bit of hard work. The problem is the best horse pasture isn't fenced and I really don't want to invest that much money on safe fencing on a property that we will most like move away from in a year or so. The other problem is that half the fence is bordered by oleander, a stupid, sturdy, toxic plant. The home owner won't let me rip it down. The next best spot to put a horse is missing fence on one side plus houses the well. The place I would most likely board the horse is fully fenced but an old garage takes up the middle. However, there is a little carport next to the garage that would make a good lean-to. Here is hoping that I can have a horse because I have two prospects lined up.
Horse one is my favorite stallion. I love him silly and he loves me. He is around 21 years old and has feet like a mule. The major set back to me, is he not multipurpose. What I mean is that he is not the best beginner horse and I would feel comfortable letting my husband go off on trail with him or let my mother do the same. He is safe to handle, easy to work with and will do anything I ask of him. I just think it would be in his nature of take advantage of a beginner when ridden. His other draw back is he is sick at the moment and needs to be nursed back to health. He has a fly allergy that was not properly handled this year and has lost some of his coat and some weight. My poor baby would need some loving before we could romping around the trails.
Horse two is a gelding. My favorite gelding. He kicks ass at games, loves trails, and is a giant hug monster. A totally sweetie. I want this horse so badly because he is the same personality as my husband. If any horse can get my husband to like riding it would be this horse. However, he was donated to a summer camp a few years ago and I don't know if he is for sale. If he is, this is the horse I would pursue first. While he is not as fast as my stallion, he is the type of horse I could put beginners on, and I can still have fun rides on.
Ideally, I would take both. I love them both so much that I can see the positives to owning either horse but I would miss the presence of owning the other. Its also much harder to go a trail with Husband if I don't have a second horse.
This could all be a moot point anyway. I could have a mean a landlord who won't let me keep a horse here. Husband has made it fairly clear that we don't make enough to board a horse at a stable. Which I can see his point since we are looking at selling my truck and getting a more fuel efficient car. We currently really like the Jetta TDI.
