hafital | weekend won't stop, and it's still not over

It's like the universe is trying a little too hard to make up for not being at VVC. haha. IT CAN STOP NOW. SERIOUSLY.

This is my weekend, which started on Thursday, sort of:

Thursday AM

AM Doctor's appointment, in which I discover I am kind of totally healthy, like seriously, why are you here? haha. Well, they poked and prodded and took blood, and my lower back hurts all the time because of horseback riding, but it's fine, and there's this little bump there but Doctor Man was like it's nothing, and I can go to every 2 years on my paps because they always come back normal, and yeah, maybe take some enzymes? for that food irritation thing? maybe?

Thursday Afternoon

Curse co-worker S who conveniently took that week off and so as a favor to my boss I took in all his incoming claims, of which there were SEVERAL, and then of course one with a deadline of, oh, FRIDAY (it's Thursday, remember), and I'm OUT OF TOWN Friday, but I write up the claim and hand it in, and whatever they got a tolling agreement and so it was a lot of hullabaloo for nothing. yay?

Thursday Afternoon Part Deux

Surprise Performance Review is a Surprise! Yeah, and it was all glowing and my boss was really kind and said lots of nice things about me and said I'm awesome, which totally took the wind out of my grump, I'll tell you.

Thursday Evening

Rode new horse Copperfield whom every one wants to call Cloverfield. HAHA. He's a doll, hates going to the right (at least with me) and I was apparently not aggressive enough with the crop and he's normally ridden with spurs, but we did all right even though my instructor yelled at me the entire time (yelling with love, mind. she's awesome).

Friday Morning

Drive 2 hours to Wedding Ceremony. Get all dolled up and prettified. I think there will be pictures, eventually. I will share.

Friday Afternoon

Watch friend J get married. Had my once-a-decade communion.

Friday Night

Boogied. Ate a lot of food I really should not have (but it was tasty!)

Saturday Morning

Drove another hour and a half (bah, traffic) to Del Mar race track for Zenyatta's Day, in which I got two Zenyatta Beer glasses! AWESOME.

Saturday All Day

Did my little volunteer thing for TROTT and sold a lot of T-shirts and made some money for horses. Managed to refrain from being rude and snipy and super annoyed at all the super annoying people who are shocked none of our stuff was free (WTF, people, I'm tripping over your sense of entitlement). Really wanted to stay and watch her race, but her post time wasn't until 6pm and I had to get back up to LA and was anticipating traffic, and there was a possibility she was going to be scratched over concerns about the track and safety for the horses. Or course, she did run, and WON AGAIN BECAUSE SHE IS AWESOME but I missed it. That's okay. Ate more food I'm not supposed to.

Saturday Night

Drove 3 hours in intermittent traffic to my friend's N's house for a party, in which I proceeded to hang out with my barn girls and we just did what we always do and talk about the barn, horses, the instructors, the riding school, the horses again, the barn, horses, made fun of our instructor (who was with us, mind, and making fun of us right back again), horses, the riding school, and probably horses one more time. I ate even more food I'm not supposed to. Went home way too late considering I needed to be up at 6:30 AM the next morning.

Sunday Morning

Got up at 6AM annoyed at someone elses alarm in another apt that was going off and wouldn't stop. grr. Got up, regretted all the food I shouldn't have eaten all weekend, dressed, ate breakfast, played with the cat for a sec, then headed out to the barn for my first-ish jump lesson, only I was on a non-jumping horse so we just did trot poles. This little guy used to be a trail horse so he's sweet, but doesn't get to canter all that much so he was all WEEEEEE (or actually more like OMG AIIIIII) at the canter and it was kind of startling but okay and fun, and then he was all like, I'M DONE. And he doesn't steer very well, but that was probably my fault.

Sunday Morning Continued

Drove to work to get some work done (hah) only to discover that I've lost the key to the drawers in my desk, in which I hold my cookies. SADNESS. NO COOKIES FOR ME. WOE.

Sunday Afternoon

Will do some work and then head back to the barn for my afternoon shift from 1pm to 4pm close.

Sunday Evening

Heading to the 'rents for dinner and we'll see how long I last because I AM TIRED.