And, I have this dream

So, today was freakin' amazing.

Class, I only have one english class today. I love thursdays. So I get to laze from 11-12 while Kristen's in her freshman experience class and then right after she gets back, we run to lunch and then the barn. We signed up for 1 o'clock jump setting (All of us had to sign up for something).

Needless to say, I raked up loose straw. Huge fun that.

About forty five minutes into it, I was summoned. One of the other students told me Sam was looking for draw-reins. I bolt up to the locker, get stuff, go to Eagle's stall, see Sam's assistant (Tonya) with Eagle.
I go :D :D :D

Because Sam is going to ride him and I can watch!

So, she rides him for about fifteen minutes while I watch, just talking me through what she's doing. Really, it was amazing to watch. He settled down, was long and low. She had the same 'troubles' with him that I did, but he was really a good boy for her.
While she was riding, my other instructor Jill, came out and was just watching. They then started arguing on who had more 'right' to ride him. Apparently he's been the talk of the instructors (dressage ones included) and some of the seniors. Yikes.

So I get on him (In Sam's realllllyyyy nice saddle) and she walks me through what she was doing with him. It's really interesting, but it really worked. Then she took us down in the field and we -gasp- trotted poles. And fences. Poles and fences are not my friend. Nor eagle's. We rush them. O_O

But today, it was amazing. She told me to think of melting into him to melt him into me. I kept saying "Marshmellow" over and over again. Thinking of s'mores and gooey goodness. Whatever it was, it worked. The thing that Sam brought up was keeping a picture in my head of it, seems to work with him. It 'works' with most horses, but with Eagle, the more you imagine him doing what you want him to do, the more he does it.
Self fulfilling prophecy. The more I think of him being bad, the more he is bad.

So we jumped, and we didn't rush fences and we came back after. I was really happy about it!
Sam's new thing is that "He's a horrible horse for you. You should sell him. To me." xD And, if not that, then I should quit and donate him because my heart is broken about the horse field and it's cynicism. And I can't stand to be around horses, thus, donating him. Rofl.

Apparently Eagle reminds her of her 'baby' at the barn, Cee Cee. Mom and Dad - you'll remember when the woman taking us on the tour doubled back to a horse saying "And, Sam's made him a part of the tour. Mandatory" and she liked Cee because he rats out riders when they're doing it wrong, ect?

Eagle is, apparently, Cee as of 10 years ago.

So Sam wants to ride Eagle every so often and work with me with him.
I'm really excited about it.
Things just keep falling into place with poneee. The road-block I felt that I've had, the rushing and running, the not coming back to me and ignoring me, is finally starting to feel as if it's disappearing.

I can't wait to see where this keeps going.

On a non-horse note!
Tonight was delegated to "Cleaning and laundry". Blah.
It did all get done, but our vacuum is being tempermental, so we didn't get to do that. The room looks nice again, though, and we have clean socks. always a must.

However, walking out into the parking lot to the dumpsters, there's a gazebo that I walk by. I was carrying out the trash first, and the cardboard would be the second trip. There were about ten football players hanging out there It was about 9:30, not too late, it was dark. And they're just talking and I hear "You have any beer?"
and I'm guessing that they're talking to someone else, so I just ignore it.
And then a "Well, I guess that's a no."

So, apparently they were talking to me.
Nice. Very attractive, idiots. Way to look like mindless fools. Beer! Gasp. Ugh, there has to be more to life than that.
And so I go back to the room, and Kristen's there, but Mark stopped by (his room got overrun by girls watching Grey's Anatomy) and I tell them the story, because frankly, it's a bit amusing but a bit eerie, too. Don't want to go back out alone. So, Mark being the (hahaha. Guy. He gets to carry the most stuff) guy, he gets to come with! Carrying out cardboard, ect, and so I walk by and the guys ask "Well, what about now?"

Mark, who is one of the nicest guys I know (with the typical snippy attitude of most gay ones) shoots back with a "Why do you think it'd change? Because she's got better company now? Lemme tell you, if she had any, there's better things to do with booze than waste it on a bunch of louts."

That made me laugh. xD
And they were just left going "....?"

So. That was my night. Except now it's fifteen to midnight and I want to sleep but the chicks across the hall won't shut the heck up, which is annoying BUT I GET TO SEE MOM AND DAD TOMORROW which is super exciting and I can't wait.

Love you all!
-El