ride & show – also life

I have school to do again! Yaaay! I’m not at my dad’s! Yaaaay! Although, sorrowfully, I had to do six assignments in science – which I’d normally love – only five of them were freaking exams! D: I had to take the module 2 regular exam I skipped ‘cause I didn’t know I had to take that one and the advanced one, the module 3 advanced & regular exams, and the segment 1 advanced & regular exams. As well as the oral assessment over the phone w/ my teacher. Oy vey! I just hope my love for the subject doesn’t go out with my hatred of doing stupid, tedious quizzes that are basically the same except one has more questions, so I don’t see why I couldn’t just complete one. (A)

Tuesday was history class and einstein class. The latter is, you guessed it, about Einstein. Whoopie. History class is pretty fun – except I have to memorize allll the presidents! In order! WITH first names! And somtimes initials! WHAT THE FUCK?!
If you didn’t know, I suck at memorizing stuff. But I’m going to write down all the ones I DO know in order. I have to know all of them by next Tuesday. Did I mention that?

George Washington
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Martin van Buren
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
James Polk
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Franklin Pierce
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S Grant
…and then I always forget that guy
James Garfield

That’s the first freaking TWENTY, not counting Mr. Stupid Idiot Whose Name I Can Never Remember. What the hell? I suck at memorizing! It. Just. Doesn’t. Stick. Ughhhh.

To move on to a more pleasant subject, I rode on Wednesday. New course, fun, rode well, finished up. Then Bonnie and I played a card game called Horse Show and I brought it home, since she was coming over the next day. She had no homework for me to do, (I love doing the crosswords & word searches <3) but that was okay. Laura finished painting her new breathwork studio! She also added carpet. I am so excited for her! Especially since I’m helping her with color, design, and interior tips. (A)

As I mentioned earlier, Bonnie came over on Thursday. It was fun! I did school while she was at school and she went to the barn, then she came over and we hung out and played Horse Show and The Game of LIFE. I won. Anyway, she went home, Les (my mom’s bf) slept over, and I didn’t do any laundry.
Bonnie came over today, too. It was fun! Only. I finished up an hour before my mom, my sister, and Bonnie arrived – turns out my mom went to PayLess Shoe Store to try on shoes. That explains it. I would’ve done something, but I was sure they’d show up at any minute! Ughhh.
Anyway, it was fun! We played Horse Show again, and The Game of LIFE again – only it was more fun this time. (I won again.) Jill, Bonnie, and I have an ongoing joke that whenever we buy things we CERTAINLY don’t want to spend money on (thousand-dollar art, boats, $90,000 CABINS BY LAKES), it’s our husbands who buy it all without our permission, which pisses us off. So Bonnie was reluctant to get a husband.
“I don’t want to get married!”
“Well, you have to.”
“Noooo! He spends too much!”
“Well, divorce him later. If my husband buys anything, I’m divorcing him. Once I get to the point where I can STOP: Sell Your House & Buy a New One, I’ll divorce him if he’s spent too much money.”
”…If my husband spends too much money, I’m throwing him in the lake.”
”!!! *laughs*”

Well, sure enough, her husband bought something she didn’t want almost immediately, and she threw him in the lake, where he drowned. Aww. Poor Bob. Oh, well. Later on in the game (yes, I’m describing our board game to you in detail. The storyline was interesting. You’ll see. If you’re bored, go ahead and leave), she had a BABY BOY. I had a BABY GIRL from the turn before… Uh, she never got named. Come to think of it, neither did my husband. My family was basically perfect, by the way… Well, that’s not important.
So anyway, she and Bobby lived more or less happily with her $70,000 salary and job as a Tech Support. (“Oh, yay! He can’t miss his father because he was killed before he was born!” –revelation from Bonnie soon after Bobby’s addition to the car) And then… there came the cabin.
A vacation cabin by the lake – 90,000 dollars. Since she had no husband, she was forced to admit that her son had probably bought it off eBay and didn’t want to tell her. Well, she threw him in the lake. Yep. Her own son. This family needed a therapist, but to quote Bonnie, “I don’t think they have them in here…”
Then, on the very next turn, she bought something else that she didn’t want! …Wait. Her husband was dead, as was her son. So she must’ve bought it. “Oh… So I probably bought that cabin, too.” Whoopsies.

We fished her son out of the lake – he was alive! And then she committed suicide. There was a LIFE SAVING OPERATION space 9 spaces away (yes, I remember. Don’t judge me), but apparently her son bore a grudge and let his mother drown. That’s messed up. Then he had a midlife crisis (no doubt from the murder attempt, then apology and suicide of his mother). He got a new career… and a much lower salary. He also got married, but then he lost a lot of money that he would’ve received if he’d taken a different job offer. So he jumped off of a building into a parking lot. Aww! Suicide, just like his mother. And on their honeymoon, too! D:
That just left Bobby’s widowed newlywed wife. She successfully enhanced her salary and made it to the end of the game (however, my people ended up finding first Bob in the lake, then on the way back to the church for the burial, Bonnie and Bobby, which probably shook them up a bit). But they still won. Hah.

Bored yet? Thought so. Oh well, you’ve read this far, so keep going anyway. There’s not much more; I promise!
Les is bringing me to Bonnie’s house at around 3 45 tomorrow for my lesson and horse show prep. Then I’m sleeping over, and then there’s the horse show. Oy vey! Busybusybusy.

But hey… It keeps me entertained. ;) I just wish we could’ve played LIFE a little bit longer. $3C0ND & TH!RD G3N3RATI0N, BBY. be jealous of our pwnsome [prounounced: “pone-sum”] board game stuff.

And, yeah. I know you want to play LIFE now. Just don’t go stealing our storyline. Knock yourself out, bby ;)

Wish me luck in the horse show! I’m off to bed now. Wow, it took me a really long time to write this. Would you believe I started right after Bonnie left, once I’d brushed my teeth? Wow.

written from my laptop, finished 12 10 AM [Fri/Sat March. 6/7, 2009]