I was in the grocery store with my dad, buying liquor because that is what my family does. We were having a party that weekend and we were picking up last minute necessities (alcohol) and my phone buzzes.
It's a facebook message from Emma, I quickly swipe it open expecting it to be about Isis doing something spectacular (because seriously, she's the best) and much to my dismay it is Emma giving 30 days notice on our lease. She just started vet school and it is taking up TONS of her time. Her horse, Izzy, is also going to be coming back into work next month and Emma had come to the conclusion that she doesn't have time for both horses. It was incredibly smart of her and I do appreciate her not letting my wondermare just rot in a pasture until December.
So needless to say I started freaking out. I have no money. I just got my first paycheck two weeks ago and it's all gone. Isis needs about 600 new things (bell boots, bits, her bridle broke, blah blah) and I did not have any time to save any money. The original plan was to save 500 bucks a month in my horse account so when miss mare came back I had some money to fall back on in case I found out I couldn't afford her. NOPE.
I immediately contacted the barn I was planning on moving Isis to, hoping they still had spots. LUCKILY she still had a few stalls left and was willing to work with me on working off lessons. I basically bragged about myself for twenty minutes and it paid off.
She pays super well and even told me she needed someone to ride the horses at shows and ride some clients horses and based on the videos she saw of me she thinks I will be perfect. She also thinks miss mare will be great with her more advanced students because she doesn't have any really competitive upper level horses! So it all might work out in the end.
We can only hope things will turn out okay, I just really don't want to have to sell miss mare and I would really prefer not to half lease her when I have her because I'm super particular about how she is ridden and I want her ON POINT.
I bought about 400 bucks worth of shit I needed for mare and now I'm panicking again about money. I shall be starting my masters (if everything works out okay) come January, so I can defer my student loans again which saves me 250 a month. My dad tried to convince me to keep paying them and I was all NO DAD HORSES.
Besides the horse situation work is going well. My days are complete trade offs between feeling like the smartest bitch in the world and feeling so dumb I can't even function.
Monday through Wednesday...
Thursday and Friday...
Lazy mare doesn't give A FUCK.
She's the cutest, I love her so much.
I shall keep y'all posted, I'll blog about the new things I got next time (when they get here) and more about our new barn!
Toodles.
