So last night, Sunday November 1st, I went to the Paramore concert. It totally kicked ass! Hailey is insane! LoL, well in an adorable way. But the big news, is while we were sitting there getting ready for Paramore to come on. TAYLOR SWIFT, yes THE taylor swift walks right by. Now we had some damn good balcony seats, only one row in front of us. And in front of that first row was enough space to walk through to other front rows. While waiting for Paramore I suddenly hear screaming and look to the stage, thinking Paramore is finally on, but no it is Taylor Swift walking right by!!! She went to the section right beside ours in their front row, so she had center balcony seats, we were to her left. It was so cool, but naturally she was instantly mobbed by people so the best shot I got of her was her curly blond head.

So last night was a very interesting night, who knew Taylor Swift could rock so hard. Thought she was gonna fall OFF the balcony she was head banging so hard. Well, I'll have photos up soon!

yea, yesterday we got the results from our who's who contest for us seniors...and I lost to a girl who'd only gone to our school 1 1/2 years. Where as I'd been a damn member of this hell hole for my whole life. Damn popularity...but...oh well

Hey there peeps, I had some story ideas I'd love to do. But it's rather difficult finding someone who knows the plots and characters well enough

So here's the list...

1.)Full Metal Alchemist
2.)NCIS
3.)CSI
4.)Trinity Blood
5.)Osmosis Jones
6.)Ouran High School Host Club
7.)X-Men
8.)Batman
9.)Yu-Gi-Oh(Original or GX version)
10.)Bakugon

Once again, anyone who knows these stories well enough please feel free to note me. I'd love to do stories with these topics

Well, this is the end of our school's Homecoming week and the end of my last one at that. Being a senior, this is my last homecoming...and guess who's not GOING to her last homecoming dance...that's right, me.

I Just had a rough day today but that pretty much hurts the most. No one asked me, even this one guy who three people told him to ask me. I mean I didn't LIKE him like him, but it'd still have been nice for him to ask me and us go as friends.

I don't wanna sound like a drama person, but I just felt bad and need to say something. Sorry for sounding like a venter, I try not to be

It was amazing!!!! Ok ok ok, *Deep breath*

Ok, this story begins where my last journal ended. The next day after I Decided to try and...sort of apologize for hitting Rico, my horse, across the nose so hard. So while I discussed how rudely he'd acted I groomed him. Well, he decided he wanted to fight me in his stall. This was not the best area for him to do battle with me so I popped his jaw again, though not nearly as hard as the day before.

Well that calmed him down a little bit and I continued. When I got to cleaning his last hoof he was obviously threw with acting nice and started acting up agian. He would move around, fidget, paw at the ground, anything he could do to keep me from that last hoof. Well I was growing irritated, so I stuffed my hoof pick down into my utility belt and leaned against the wall. I told him..

"Rico, you know how to get out of here and back to the pasture to eat. Now I'm not leaving without getting that last hoof and neither are you. Make your choice," And with that I stood there. He would lower his head and give me this 'go to hell' look, paw at the ground, look back up at me with the same glare, paw at the ground, this went on for about 5 minutes until at last he stopped moving.

So I gave him this 'are you ready now?' look and went for the last hoof. He gave it up with no fight and I finished. And true to my word I released him back to graze. Well, I kept this up for around a week and a half (give or take a few days), and my dad happened to notice Rico's progress. By now I had gotten to brushing Rico's tail which is a MAJOR leap forward, he hates his tail to be touched let alone combed.

My dad made the comment that Rico was being so good that maybe it was time for us to try and saddle him. Now, we've tried this before around a couple months or so after we got Rico and it was a horrific failure. But I had to agree with him, Rico was being fantastic in behavior and I thought that maybe he was good enough to at the very least try and put the saddle blanket on. Now if you've not been following this drama, Rico is completly untrained. He is the equivilant of a mustang.

We rescued Rico from our local Animal Control Officer. So we can only be lead to believe that Rico came from...not so good pastures, before us. So we can only assume that this is why he is so hard to work with, humans haven't been his friend. So this saddle thing is very dangerous water for us. And it's not a light weight english saddle, oh no, it's one heavy ass western style saddle.

So during our first failures, I think I wasn't helpful. I wasn't strong enough to smoothly put it on his back. So it was sort of roughly done and that didn't help any. So yesterday afternoon I finished grooming Rico and my dad came out with the dreaded saddle DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUH

Well Rico instantly tenced and started to fight. Well by now I had figured out when soothing words didn't work...head locks finish the job. I grabbed his ear and twisted it like a wet rag.

( FACT PAUSE!!! Did you know that horses have nerves in their lips, ears, and a part of their shoulder area that if you grab and twist it will instantly calm the wild horse, sort of a pressure point. it doesn't hurt them, just gets them to sit there and take 5 while you still work)

Rico lowered his head with my ear twist and we actually got the saddle on and strapped up. Now this whole prosses took about er..roughly 1-2 minutes perhapes less time. Now for this wild horse, this is a LARGE step toward success. We let him stand there for a few minutes just to absorb the fact that there was something on him. Then we quickly took it off and he was free once more.

Well, after this we now have to put this into his everyday routine so he can get used to it. So today we walked out there, groomed him as usual and held him down while we got him ready. But today I didn't have to hold his ear!!! And we got it on him and strapped up even faster!!! But now came the real test, letting him walk with it on.

Now his stall is big enough he can walk around and get a good jog going, but it's not an enormous stall. Well, in the past once we released him he would flip out, run around like he was insane, trip and fall, it was caios. But we released him into his stall with the hopes that there wouldn;t be any room for him to get seriously hurt. Plus we were right there at the door in case things did turn sour. We let him go, ran out the door and he went nuts.

He actually tried to jump the side of his stall, but there was an overhanging that caught his head and he got back down when he relized 'oh, I can't jump out that way'. When he got back down of the wall he stood there. Now this is where things get amazing, and idk if it's just me who notice things like this, but it was amazing none the less. I actually saw Rico, think.

Now it's not like his brow was twiching or anything like that. He was just standing there looking at me, trembling with fear and panting from his freak out. Well I called to him, asking him to come to the door so I could comfort him. He wanted to come over, you could see he wanted to, but he was scared that the saddle's straps would hit him again. It's not that he hates the saddle itself, he does not like the sturrups and other hanging straps to hit him.

So he took one baby step, stopped, took another, and stopped. He was comprehending things! He was testing things! He was doing...human things! It was fasinating!!!!

Then he took off again, making a couple of slower laps in the stable. He wasn't running! He had LEARNED that running got him into trouble! After a couple of laps he stopped agian. He was still shaking, but not as bad. I called him over, but he didn;t. He took a couple more laps and came up beside me at the door.

I calmed him down, then pushed him a bit so he'd take another lap. He did, each time he was learning and comprehending. You could see the wheels in his head turning as he thought of ways to move and test the saddle. After about a half hour we finally freed him from the saddle, he still freaks out with the dismount of the saddle, but that's just natural and he'll learn to get over that. But the point was I got to watch a very smart animal learn. It was amazing, such a fasinating thing to behold!

But more importantly, perhapes Rico isn't such a hopeless case after all. One good bitch slap across the nose and both he and I learn something. I'm not as scared of him anymore, it's more of a respectable fear than the phobia it once was. Now I'm not scared to go toe to toe with him. And as I've discovered, I don't have to do much to get him to listen to me now.

It's really boosted my confidence. I'm stronger, mentally and physically. The first day we saddled Rico up (yesterday), I had to bring it out and my dad did the saddling up. When I lifted the saddle it wasn't nearly as heavy as I remembered, I could even hold it with one arm. Which when I first got it I could barely pick it up with both arms. This is deffinatly an adventure worth continuing.