Summer Update:

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Summer Update:

Ok, so my updating of this blog has been terrible, but I promise, there’s a really good reason for that!! Nah there’s not actually, I just worked so much this summer that I had very little to blog about!

Being “home” from Canada is weird. I’m back at college now, going to classes, and keep seeing old friends from Kingston everywhere I go…. then I realise it isn’t them… I miss Kingston a lot, mainly I miss my friends, as I seem to have more friends on that side of the Atlantic than this right now! Classes started last week, and already I am snowed under with work. I’m also applying for graduate schools, and taking 2 non-credit language courses, something which is required of me for my PhD applications.

This summer has been a mixed bag to be honest, I’ve had a lot of ups and downs, and quite a few accidents. My allergies have driven me bonkers most of the summer, but appear to be settling down, I had a wonderful, if slightly tedious summer job, working in an HR/Admin company, and I currently am working for my friend’s taxi depot, as well as temping for a recruitment agency, and trying to fit in a shift or two in the hotel as well!

I had a great summer horse wise too, even though I ended up not competing for various reasons. Trudi is her wonderful, quirky, sometimes annoying self, and Morgan, the new little stallion is just wonderful. That little pony has so much attitude that it just radiates out of him…. Sometimes he uses it for good ends, and works like a SUPERSTAR, and sometimes he uses it for bad – such as last weekend, when we were out driving and he planted his feet after 2.5miles and WOULD.NOT.MOVE.

He just had that look of “Neh-neh-neh-neh-neh-neh! You can’t make me! I will not move. I will NOT.”

I’m just going to go and attach a bunch of pictures from this summer now… Holidays, 21st Birthday, ponies, and of course “The Accident”….

Oh yuh… I had a BIG ONE this year… an “I should have died” accident… It was a fluke, I wasn’t wearing my hat, and even if I had have been, it wouldn’t have mattered… It was a hospital job, that’s for sure!

So; I was helping Christine handle the foals, and we were trying to get the halters on them. The little filly gave up the chase after about 2 minute, stood in the corner, and let us put her halter on… so we went to the colt’s stable. Colt ran around, and ran some more, and crashed into his mum, and ran some more. I DID get my hands on him, but he balked, and got away… We decided to give him a breather, and leave the stable. I was walking along the back wall, keeping VERY close to his butt, (which is what you’re meant to do, that way, if they kick, you only get a little bit of force, rather than the full extension) and the next thing, I see something coming out of the corner of my eye, turn to look, and get landed, square between the eyes, by the foals hoof. He’d “double barreled” me, meaning had kicked me with both feet, but only one of them hit me… I banged the back of my head on the stable wall, and fell to the ground. Christine let the horses out, and got me out of the stable, taking me to the ER/A&E… She really should have called the ambulance, but apparently I protested! I have very little memory, but from what I’m told, I was on cloud 9 that day! haha! In an attempt to keep me awake/conscious, Christine told me to phone my mum, to phone Conor, to phone Christopher on 40min journey to the hospital. When we got there, I got seen immediately, the blood gushing out of your face is usually a good one. They did some tests and scans, apparently I *do* have a brain, and kept me in for 12 hours to “observe” me… They let me out once they saw me scoff a whole Big Mac meal, and not vomit it! I walked out of the ER with a broken nose and a fractured skull! It’s ok though, I was back at the barn 2 days later! There’s no lasting damage, my nose is a normal shape, and my skull is healing… I was lucky though, had the kick been to the side of the head, I most probably wouldn’t be writing this…. :-S Scary, but sure… If I didn’t ride, I’d be insane, so I guess it’s worth the risk!