quick post

hey this isn't for anything particular, but I have a great verse that really made me smile. =)


"Don't be fooled by those who say such things,
for bad company corrupts good character."
--1 Corinthians 15:33, NLT

Hope that made you smile like it did for me. :) That's something that I honestly need to take to heart.

My Secret Life: What say you? That is the question.

Well its been quite a while hasn't it? 

Sorry for not blogging sooner, I left ya hanging about my vacation hah. :) 

But yeah, it was fun! And now I'm back... and its been a few weeks. haha. I added a MixPod just a few minutes ago on the sidebar on this blog, so check it out if ya want to, its got a few of my favorite songs on there so yeah...

Well, I guess the good news I have for ya is that I'm doing amazingly at horseback FINALLY. =D

My official fave horse at FOD is now Tipper! He's so much fun to ride and I love him to death! And he's so pretty too. =D

 Ain't he pretty? =] He's my baby. <3 

 We did so good on Wednesday! I was so proud of me and him that we actually kept up a GREAT lope throughout the lesson when Corrie told us to pick up one.

I still have my seat to work on, but every single week I'm improving so greatly. =D 

Last week was SUCH an immense improvement I was quietly thanking God a million trillion times for guiding me along into improving my riding skills!

And and! I bridled him by myself without anybody's help!! =D Which was just fabulous!

He gave me some crap at first and I meant to smack him for throwing his head up, but I barked at him and he listened immediately. Its amazing what a little authority and firmness in your voice can do to make a horse listen ;) lol.

Especially because they are about 5x a human's size and weight! Tipper could kill me if he wanted to, but for some reason that doesn't bother me. Its so weird, I think about it when I'm home not at the ranch, and I realize how funny it is that I'm SO comfortable around horses. They are really big and can hurt me mortally or just kill me if they wanted to.

I don't even think twice when I approach a horse, unless its being a crazy angry horse. Corrie's taught me well in the art of being around horses. =) And my mom too, but I can go up to pretty much any horse and talk in a soft voice and they just look at me, sniff my hand and then let me pet them haha.

So yeah I'm really looking forward to next week's lesson. =D I just hope I can start working there asap, I know its a couple years but hey, that is my dream job after all. ;) 

Well right now I'm kind of blanking on what I want to write about now... but! I guess I can show you a little blurb of a book idea I had and I'm going to write. =D It's called Cursed, its my version of the classic tale "Beauty and The Beast"... well... the Disney version I guess.

Its gonna be fun writing it, and plus I'm also editing TWW. Which should be AWESOME to read after I'm completely finished! Here's the little intro.

Bella Casey, almost eighteen years old, has just graduated from the top riding boarding school in the United States. Graduated top in her class and several scholarship offers to great Equine colleges around the U.S., and she finally gets to go back to her home and focus on her amazing family, and finally get to see the Casey family’s brand new ranch in her hometown of Hamilton, Montana.

After finally getting back to her new home with her family, and reuniting with old friends and facing her old stalker Ethan Myers, her friends tell her some really strange things about the part of Hamilton she’s living in. They tell her that there was supposedly an old estate there which lived the richest people in Montana for many generations, until six years ago when the eldest son living in the house had a terrible accident and then his family just left without a word and abandoned their home and their son.

Bella doesn’t believe any of it, until she was taking a ride in the late evening when she found an old dirt road with overgrown trees and brush. And then the wolves found her, and chased her farther down the road. Her horse bolted and bucked her off, after chasing her horse down, she came upon an old estate. She knew she should take shelter, so she tried to find the person that lived there.

But instead of shelter, she came face to face with a living nightmare, a horrible beast, the same rumor that she didn’t believe. Imprisoned and locked away, Bella loses all hope of ever getting out.

Unless she could somehow soften her captor’s heart, she may never see life outside the walls that imprison her; or her family again.

So, whatya think? I actually don't have a lot of it finished. I barely started this little backstory of the beast's character, it's gonna be real interesting to see how this turns out. Its kind of a modern twist I suppose, not so medievelish. 

Well ttyl! I'll try to blog sooner than 2 weeks from now haha.

-Jazmine

My Secret Life: Almost home...

Well, unfortunately my trip is almost over. =/

     But, I've still had loads of fun this weekend! =D 

     Tomorrow we'll be heading back to good ol' Humboldt. Right now, I'm sitting in my neato room I get all to myself in the hotel we're staying at currently. Its got a humongous bed! ^_^ 

     It has been so much fun going on this trip. =) 

     I wish I could've blogged more earlier than this, but I didn't get the chance, sadly. Two days ago we got to stay in this real fancy hotel with valets! =D It was so neat having them take our stuff to the room we were staying in! Our room was real nice to. =) 

     And that night after we got settled and stuff, we went to the Monteray Bay Aquarium like two blocks away. It was pretty sweet, we got to eat there and everything. Though I was a little irritated because there was little tables set up for everyone, a lot of people had to sit on the bleachers in front of the diving tank to eat their food. And plus the food sucked. 

    I hated it, there was nothing to eat at all. The best tasting thing there was the sourdough bread, now thats sad... I know its supposed to be for adults or something. But the PEG group my dad is with knows that people bring their kids, they could've put a little bit more of a choice besides dry rice and salty mashed potatoes. 

     It was annoying sure, but I loved it when the diving show started. =D That was so awesome! The fish were so beautiful too. ^_^

     And after we watched the diving show we went to go and feed the Bat Rays! That was SO much fun! The rays were so soft and slimy but so velvety, and they seemed so friendly too. They were popping their little heads out of the water near the edges looking for the food that one of the volunteers was going to handout to everybody.

     And once I got a piece of food that was so cool, one of them just swam right up to me and sucked it out from between my fingers like a vacuum. They were so friendly and fun to play with.

Yesterday though, that was even more fun! We went to see the rest of the aquarium and the fish were just so beautiful... it was truly breathtaking. =]

     My favorite part was definitely the otters. =D They were so cute swimming around being all playful lol. Otters are probably one of the most amazing creatures that God has created, I got a little stuffed otter too from the gift store. =D Its formed to be on its back and its holding a sea-star between its two paws. ^_^

     I can't wait until tomorrow either, we're going to go WALK across the GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE for the first time!!! I'm so excited! =D San Francisco is so amazing!! I'm actually considering it for a future home of mine when I'm adult. =) Its so beautiful and I love the city, its really pretty even though it is a city. I think I'd rather live in Humboldt for sure... but I really want to go out there and see the world.

     I think San Francisco is one of the places I'm going to start, possibly. I'm going to hopefully go to Central Wyoming College or something of sorts with my bestie Kayla. =) And then depending on whats going to happen after that, I'm not really sure, but I think Cali is definitely one of my places to go to college. Especially for what I want to go to college for.

     Like for an English literature degree, there is a college down south in LA I believe where part of my dad's family lives. A town near LA I think, its a really good school for Literature and stuff like that. My great aunt I believe Lydia, I think. She got a scholarship to that school in like Riverdale or something in English Literature, so thats definitely an option. =) But for sure I'm going to DEFINITELY go to college somewhere with Kayla for a couple years at least. 

     That's something I have to do no matter what, that'd be pretty awesome too. =D (Love you girlie! Hey, wanna come to Cali after Central Wyoming College and go to school with me here? lol!) 

      Well I gotta go, I need to get ready for bed, and I'd like to do something fun before I go to bed. =) Like writing...! I need to do that! I haven't written in my books in so long it seems like... =P 

Anyway TTYL! God bless!

-Jazz

My Secret Life: Almost to Monteray Bay :)

Well, this is going to be short. But I thought I'd update real fast.
Gotta go to bed soon anyway...
Well first of all, horseback is... better. My feet didn't fall out of the stirrups yesterday while loping, and I did a double lessons lol.
And I'm considering asking Corrie in a month or so if there is a chance I could get into the class before mine, I like that one a heck of a lot more than my class I'm normally in. I wasn't babied until I finally gave up bc Tipper was being a butt and jerking his head around while I was trying to bridle him. 
Plus I don't ride him that often... so that doesn't help.
Buuut anyway, I'm on a small weekend vacation right now to Monteray Bay. :) Its so far pretty fun, I got to swim in the pool at our hotel with my brothers, and eat some yummy pizza with my family.
So yeah I had a pretty good day. :) For now I guess I'm just gonna let all my worries go away, and hopefully just enjoy the trip..... though I kinda need to upload my pictures, I don't have that much room left on my camera chip. Ugh :P 
Well I'll ttyl! I'll write tomorrow when we're at the hotel. :D


-Jazzy