On second thought, never mind... let's change the subject.

I had a lengthy topic here all written out and decided to scrap it. I may or may not revisit it on another day but for now it is on a shelf.

So instead, let us talk of fun things... like horses in the snow, kids self piercing their nose (*sigh*) and other foolishness. And goats.

First, a bit of video of the ponies in the snow:



*happy sigh* Aren't they adorable? As always, I sound like an idiot when i talk to them, lol.

Oh Hai! Is snowy!



Pretty trot:



WHOA! there is a fence there!!



FLUFFY!



It's a shame i don't feed her enough, look at this, she is skin and bones!!!




So, yeah. Tiffany came in to the livingroom and said, "Um, mom... did I show you my nose?" *raises eyebrow* Yeah, she had pierced her septum herself several days earlier. She found a loophole in my "no facial piercings" rule. She researched before hand, sterilized her tools, blah blah blah... it is healing up really well and since i was concerned about her using a chain link as a nose ring i went ahead and got her an actual horseshoe ring to wear. No pictures of her with the real ring but these were ones I stole off of her MySpace showing her new nosewear...



She has been doing this Egyptian Princess thing with her eye makeup and her hair is now purple.



hey, I grew up when Boy George and Micheal Jackson were hot stuff, ruffled skirts and mega floofy hair were the shizz-nit and it was still cool to talk like a valley Girl, FER SURE!!! So... I have no room to talk. And i still think she is adorable. In fact, I kind of like it. because I am weird, I guess.

This weather we have been having across the US has held up the delivery of the parts for my car, so it is still at the car doctor. *sad face*

Oh, and we should know soon whether or not Tsu gets a bonus this year and how much money I will have to apply toward my goats. YAY!

I think I had something else I was going to talk about but I forget now, lol.

Check up for my itty bitty car....

Well, we sent the Pony-Mobile in to the car doctor for a full check up and anything that might need fixin'. Looks like something related to steering and something called "tie rods" need to be fixed. I'd figured on this when we bought a cheap older car with over 170k miles on it, and in fact the quote they gave us is well under half what I expect to spend getting a used set of wheels all up to snuff. So my little buddy will be spending a few nights in the car-clinic. I miss it already. Hehe.

This morning I used the remote starter to get it warmed up and we took it down to wait for the bus. I'm going to be sooo spoiled.

Then I ran to the post office in it. It drives pretty well, and is nice and easy to get into tight little parking spots. I can't wait to get it back home. It still hasn't given me it's name or gender. Usually my cars turn out to have male personalities but I think this one might be the grandmotherly type. I'm thinking maybe Matilda. But I will know for sure once I drive it more.

Spent the day washing laundry and looking at goats online. Tsu took the car in, then Jer called looking for him. I told him where he was and so Jer called him to see about doing something tonight. We picked up a cheap trac phone for Jer this weekend, just to make sure he had a way to contact folks since he didn't have a working phone and heather uses their cell... so it was nice to see that was already useful. Anyway, once the car had been diagnosed and a prognosis had been passed along Tsu called Jer back and got a ride home.

Jer was pushing my buttons the whole time, as usual, lol. This time, though, I was just kind of getting sick of it. Yeah, great, you think I should get a lawnmower instead of goats. I have a lawnmower, don't need another one. You can't milk a lawnmower. You can't turn a lawnmower into a roast or jerky. We want goats, not just me but Tsu, too. Ya don't live here, and you aren't a part of our marriage, so, um, if you don't like the goat idea... so what! Oh, you don't want goat poo where you ride your motorcycle. Hm. Too bad. Your option is occasional goat poo or ride somewhere else. *tips head to the side and smiles sweetly* This is a small farm. Small farms have livestock. Deal, or shut it. *grin*

I don't know if it is just the time of year (seasonal affective disorder, yay... blah) and lack of meds, or that I am tired, but stuff that would normally just amuse me was grating on my nerves. I don't think he was acting any different than normal but it left me feeling jumpy and paranoid and I hate that.

Man, I can't wait to get my car back. i want some Gypsy Horse stickers to put on it, maybe a Chinese Crested Dog sticker. And I want to get in touch with a couple of local goat ladies I got numbers for... and I want to start looking for a job.


Speaking of which, i am going to go do my typing lessons. Then bed time. I hope Tsu isn't gone too long. He headed over to Jer's to hang out for a while, but he is trying to get on to day shift schedule. He had today off and has tomorrow off. I got giddy when I took the "day sleeper" sign down.

Oh, side note... two weeks since our TV died. One week since the tech was out. Still no part. called today to find out what was up... part is supposed to arrive 11th of this month... but the return appointment for the tech was the 10th. REALLY? By the time this thing gets fixed poor Tsu will have been without his TV for almost a month. *bangs head on wall* Now we have to call them once the part arrives and schedule the tech to come out. The TV isn't even a year old. *rips hair out*

I think I'd feel better if my evening involved alone time with Tsu and tequila.

Goats and cars and other things...

I just spent over 2 hours scanning in old pictures. I was looking for pictures of my late goat, Sarahgoatkin. I've been toying with the idea of getting goats again for a couple of years now but this last two months I have got serious about the whole idea. I joined a goat forum, and have been researching and learning a lot. I was looking for the pictures of my Sarah girl for days. I gave up, then was looking for some books and found the pictures but not the books, lol. Then I remembered where the books were while I was on farmville on facebook, haha!

At any rate, with no further adieu... My precious Sarahgoatkin, may she rest in peace:




Her home was the old chicken coop which my ex later dragged out back and burned for a bonfire at one of his parties. One of these days I will write out the tale of how i came to have this wonderful little sprite, and how I lost her.

Now on to cars... the tractor is gone, and the car is home. It is a Mitzubishi Mirage. It is the size of a matchbox car. I love it. It has a remote starter in it too, hahaha! The trunk is MASSIVE for a car this small. I'm soooo stinking happy with it. It needs some new stuff put in the front end (flies over my head) and it has pretty high miles but it belongs to us free and clear and gets like 40 MPG.




The ponies were like, "WTF? She has the camera out and isn;t taking pictures of US? PFTHTTT!"

Anyway, whilst looking for goat pictures i found some pictures of Trooper. Man, I miss this horse. The world just seems a far more empty place without this big knucklehead in it... at times Brego is so much like him that it almost brings me to tears of joy.







I also found a ton of adorable pictures of little Tiffy:





and last but by no means least... Young fit Jamie, still recovering from his last major founder, moving sound but with funky feet (please forgice his sad excuse for a tail... The aforementioned sarahgoatkin had eaten the entire thing off to the tailbone not too terribly long before this picture, lol. I loved her anyway.):



and old silly Jamie, in his tractor tire hay feeder: