Mischief Managed

In view of the fact that I'm going to be moving out of here in a few months I've been going through some of my stuff. Oh my god. I keep everything. I have instruction manuals for electrical items which died about ten years ago. Although what is nice about being a hoarder is that I can look at letters that my friends wrote to me in 1993 and look at my old passports and train tickets and cinema tickets and remember what I was doing on 23rd September 1999 if I so wish. I think I've kept every single cinema ticket since about 1999. Is that a bit strange?

What's most upsetting is the vast amount of videos I have of things I've recorded off the TV. Odyssey 5, seasons 2 and 5 of Angel, season 3 of Smallville, seasons 1 and 2 of Enterprise, seasons 5, 6 and 7 of SG-1 (1 - 4 are on DVD - I donated the video copies to a friend), every single episode of Deep Space Nine, The Next Generation and Voyager (god knows why), season 7 of Buffy and probably some other random things like 24. Some of these I've got on DVD now and some I'm never going to watch again (season 3 Smallville, I'm looking at you). Do I just lob the ones I don't want in the dustbin? That feels really wrong somehow.

In other news, the weather has been really crappy this weekend and Oscar went totally lame after the farrier came out on Saturday. He had to have his shoes taken off but that only seemed to make him worse. He's a little better now but he doesn't want to put his left fore foot down. Hmmm. I'm not sure if the farrier has nicked him with a nail. If he's no better tomorrow the farrier's going to have to come out and have another look at him. Arse.

We had an incident that's funny, but not actually that funny when you think about what could have happened - one of the other horses on the field swallowed the string on a balloon that had floated into our field (Happy 40th Birthday!). Of course, the balloon was still attached to the end of the string hanging out of his mouth and it followed him around. He completely freaked out and we could only catch him when he was so tired that he couldn't run any more. The string came out okay and all was fine. It could have been nasty, but I'm just left with this image of a pony running around with a balloon trailing behind him.

I'm really struggling to keep up with LJ at the moment. I think it's the time of year - I'm not usually in until seven or eight at night after I've been to the field.

I'm still enjoying Supernatural. Some of the plots are fairly cliched (and I love the imaginative (!) episode titles - Hook Man!) but it's enjoyable nevertheless. I must say I prefer Jared Whateverhisnameis to Jenson Ackles, although yes, they're both quite pretty.

So, you knew it would be coming at some point - SPN RPS. Anyone got anything they want to rec me? :D

I rode for the first time in ages last night after work. It's stupid because I feel like I haven't got the time to ride because there's so much other stuff to do up there - picking up poo, pulling/spraying ragwort, mending fences, checking the electric fence, cutting down the brambles and gorse that keep growing up. And it's just never ending! But what's the point in having the horses if I don't ride? (Not that I can ride Oscar at the moment anyway but that's not the point.)

After we'd ridden we went straight to the pub for something to eat. Unfortunately that meant that we went in our smelly stable clothes! I tried not to let Oscar rub his face on me after his dinner and I almost succeeded. I only has a small patch of bright green grass nuts on my t-shirt.

I was torn between posting with my new Robert Pattinson icon and this Neville one by grrliz_icons. The Neville one won. Awwww.

I'm pretty sure that the internal sound on my laptop is gone for good now. But now I have an external soundcard that means I can hear things again. Hurrah! What an idiot I am. My poor computer. :(

My mum went to the field by herself this morning as she had a lie-in yesterday while I went. I had a long lie-in and now I feel very rested and like I've caught up on the last three weeks of sleep. Yay sleep. An update on mucking out - I'm still crap (haha - pun unintentional) at mucking out wood shavings. There was poo everywhere and it took me a ridiculously long time. No one would employ me as a groom.

ETA: If you want a Christmas/holiday card from me - go and comment on this post.

I rode Oscar today for the first time in about four months. He went quite well and didn't really feel lame at all which is brilliant. He was pretty well behaved too which is a minor miracle. He did bolt when a large brown dog leaped out from the trees and chased him but I think I'll forgive him for that. Did I get an apology from the dog's owner? Did I hell. Ignorant wanker.

I have furthered my quest to fill my room with giant furniture by buying a giant desk chair today. My task for tomorrow is to assemble it. Yay for giant furniture! I now need to go to bed as I have spent far too much time buying said giant furniture and moving other giant furniture around.