So I'm not sure if this will be a positive post at all. But you'll understand my frustration once I explain it.
For some reason the house moving has completely halted, we were all ready to have the keys last week, but that didn't happen. And then we were ready to have them by Tuesday, but that didn't happen either. And now we were hoping we'd get them today, but NOPE! The idiot airheads on the east coast that run the banks that are supposed to give our loan to us haven't figured out what they're supposed to do yet! Its just SO much fun having everything postponed.
I've got a gut feeling that our move is NOT going to happen for another two weeks at the latest. It sucks butt and it makes me angry beyond belief that we're having to wait this long, and go through all this bull crap to get a house! I thought we were almost done, but apparently not.
I was expecting to be able to be living in a new house by this weekend, but that's not going to happen no matter how much we pray. Because we did want to paint, AND we needed to do some more fixes to the house before we moved in. So basically I hate the banks on the east coast and they are complete jerks, they clearly have mental problems otherwise it wouldn't be taking this long.
I'm almost wondering if this is some sort of punishment from God for me not praying that everything goes well...
Anyway, on a positive note I get to go to horseback. Which I'm happy about. So yay!.... :-/ Who knows when this nightmare is going to end.
Bye for now.
~Jazz
Writer, crazy horse girl, artist, musician, stage actress, sister, daughter, and follower of Jesus Christ... Passion and love are my everything
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Sunday, September 4, 2011
My Secret Life: Moving.
I don't think I've actually ever mentioned the fact that me and my family are moving to a new house. :) Its exciting. We're going to paint in the coming week, which means no horseback for me, but if I want to paint my room I have to miss it. We're getting the keys on Tuesday, and its a bought house so we can do all sorts of stuff to the house.
Its kinda neat because I get to paint my room, which I've been looking forward to for a very long time. And there's this little nook behind some bushes where I'm hoping I can get a bench or something to set there and I can get "inspired" for my books.
Anyway, I gotta go but just thought I'd blog about that. Hopefully I'll get some pictures of my room in the process of getting painted. Fun fun fun. :)
Bye!
~Jazz
Its kinda neat because I get to paint my room, which I've been looking forward to for a very long time. And there's this little nook behind some bushes where I'm hoping I can get a bench or something to set there and I can get "inspired" for my books.
Anyway, I gotta go but just thought I'd blog about that. Hopefully I'll get some pictures of my room in the process of getting painted. Fun fun fun. :)
Bye!
~Jazz
Friday, September 2, 2011
My Secret Life: Bareback cantering!
Hey guys,
This is just a little bit later than I would've liked to post this. I kind of forgot though, just wrapped up in school and everything. Just thought I'd blog about the amazing horseback lesson I had on Wednesday!
I cantered... for the first time... bareback! It was incredible! Unfortunately I have a feeling I won't get to do it again for a few weeks, because next week we're doing cavilleties. [Which I'm equally excited about; they're basically ground jumps. And we're going to take them at a canter! AWESOME!]
Anyway, on with my story. So I was riding Sunny... [awesome horse, love him]
Gorgeous appaloosa horse as you can see above, and a sweetheart. [When he wants to be hehe]
So I'm riding him in the arena trying to get him to trot bareback, which I'm still very wobbly at, so I kicked him a little to hard and he tried to canter but I laughed it off and I was surprised that I managed to stay on. And then Corrie told us that whoever feels comfortable can try cantering bareback, and then everyone else took off, and I decided to take advantage of me not thinking it over and I tried it. I've fallen off before so the worst that was going to happen was lots of sore bones, I highly doubt I'll ever break a bone. Unless I'm jumping. As soon as I felt Sunny make the smooth transition my stomach lurched, but I remembered what Angela and Corrie told me. Don't cinch your legs upwards, and put your heels down like you still have a saddle. It worked. =]
It was SO much fun though! I hardly remember it unfortunately =[ I wanted to do it longer, but then it was time to let the other class in. I'm crossing my fingers that perhaps Corrie might do more than just the end of the lesson for bareback time. All though she uses that time for cool down so, its kind of like that. =] Sometime I'm gonna have to go up there just to ride and hang out with the horsey boys, and help out around the ranch.
It would be a lot of fun to get to go riding around her property, and the roads near her house and stuff, even though I don't know how I'd handle it heh. Anyway, I'm just really excited about trying out cantering bareback again soon! And the cool thing is I probably won't have to do it on Tipper, who has a huge canter, and I would definitely fall off if I did it on him before I have a steady seat in bareback. Anywho, I gotta go, bedtime... so I'll blog again soon! :)
Bye!
~Jazz
This is just a little bit later than I would've liked to post this. I kind of forgot though, just wrapped up in school and everything. Just thought I'd blog about the amazing horseback lesson I had on Wednesday!
I cantered... for the first time... bareback! It was incredible! Unfortunately I have a feeling I won't get to do it again for a few weeks, because next week we're doing cavilleties. [Which I'm equally excited about; they're basically ground jumps. And we're going to take them at a canter! AWESOME!]
Anyway, on with my story. So I was riding Sunny... [awesome horse, love him]
Gorgeous appaloosa horse as you can see above, and a sweetheart. [When he wants to be hehe]
So I'm riding him in the arena trying to get him to trot bareback, which I'm still very wobbly at, so I kicked him a little to hard and he tried to canter but I laughed it off and I was surprised that I managed to stay on. And then Corrie told us that whoever feels comfortable can try cantering bareback, and then everyone else took off, and I decided to take advantage of me not thinking it over and I tried it. I've fallen off before so the worst that was going to happen was lots of sore bones, I highly doubt I'll ever break a bone. Unless I'm jumping. As soon as I felt Sunny make the smooth transition my stomach lurched, but I remembered what Angela and Corrie told me. Don't cinch your legs upwards, and put your heels down like you still have a saddle. It worked. =]
It was SO much fun though! I hardly remember it unfortunately =[ I wanted to do it longer, but then it was time to let the other class in. I'm crossing my fingers that perhaps Corrie might do more than just the end of the lesson for bareback time. All though she uses that time for cool down so, its kind of like that. =] Sometime I'm gonna have to go up there just to ride and hang out with the horsey boys, and help out around the ranch.
It would be a lot of fun to get to go riding around her property, and the roads near her house and stuff, even though I don't know how I'd handle it heh. Anyway, I'm just really excited about trying out cantering bareback again soon! And the cool thing is I probably won't have to do it on Tipper, who has a huge canter, and I would definitely fall off if I did it on him before I have a steady seat in bareback. Anywho, I gotta go, bedtime... so I'll blog again soon! :)
Bye!
~Jazz
Saturday, August 20, 2011
My Secret Life: Last Saturday of the summer
Hello all,
You know its really hard to believe that the year only has four months left. It seems like only a month or so ago I was sitting in my grandma's house in Idaho watching the ball drop on January 1st 12:00 A.M. Ahh memories... lol.
And today is the last Saturday of summer, school starts on Monday for me. Though I suppose not everyone starts on Monday so. :P Anyway, the real reason I'm blogging right now is just to update on everything that's been going on in my life lately. I've had a pretty fabulous summer, even though we didn't go camping, so that was disappointing. BUT, my cousins came to visit! And I got to meet my cousin Emily for the first time, she's so great! I love her.
Someday I'll be able to make a trip down to southern California and visit all of my family down there, I haven't been to see them in many-many years. We're always going north to visit my Mom's family.
On to the rest of my story!
Horseback has been pretty great lately, though I really need to speed up my tacking time. Because I'm always the last one up there, this last Wednesday it was pretty bad lol. I almost didn't have time to tack up completely. I was just bridling Benny when everyone was going up, but I had no worries about bridling him because he's pretty good about accepting the bit and letting me put his ears in the bridle.
By the way, I LOVE Benny! He's such an awesome horse! :) I also got to ride Tipper a little while ago, and boy did I miss riding him... he was a lot of fun to get on again. I really wish Corrie would let me ride him more often, but I guess she thinks I'm a better fit for Benny and Sunny.
I thought I was doing pretty good on Tippy earlier on, he's a great horse even though he's a pain in my kiester sometimes.
So before I get to how my writing is going, I'm going to tell you about a friendship I rekindled. :) I'm pretty sure I've mentioned my friend Paul on here, but I haven't talked to him in months. So I got up the guts to call him up a few weeks ago and ask him to come on over, so now we're trying to hang out every couple of weeks. And its super fun, I so miss the days of being little kids with him. But I have many fond memories locked away in my head.
And now I'm going to blab all about my writing life.
I'm beginning the long and tedious process of editing my 112K book "The World Within", oh yes, that big sucker. Pretty positive I've mentioned it before, just don't remember when. It is a long book, around 400 pages, and needs some major remodeling. I'm almost tempted to post a sign on my bedroom door when I'm editing it and say "CAUTION: Book remodeling in progress" lol. That's how bad it is, though some people would probably say I'm being to hard on myself, I don't think I am. Because I'm willing to spend the time giving it love and making it the best it can be, it is my baby after all. And a mother should never abandon her baby; she should keep raising the child until its the best it can be.
(This is how much I love this book, and how much faith I have in it. I'm using the application of being a mommy... I am a little cooky sometimes but, whatever. :)
Someday it will be polished to perfection - as close as I can get it - and I will begin the anticipated day of emailing agents with my query letters and book samples. Now if I'm lucky, I can do such a thing my late junior year, or senior year in High school. Though, I have no idea where God is going to take me on this journey, I'm praying that I'll get such a chance to get published. Every author wants to be a New York Times Bestseller, I don't think that'll happen to me, but it will be a blessing just to get my book published and in people's bookshelves for reading.
I would sincerely love it if my book became loved like C.S. Lewis' masterpieces, or Lord of the Rings. (That's a huge dream, but a girl can dream, can't she? ;D )
And to make it even better, I've been re-reading Inkheart (amazing book) and I've been inspired to edit and write in my Amerada books again. I forgot how amazing the Inkworld trilogy is! I might just have to pull out my other two books in the series when I finish Inkheart. And I'm really looking forward to getting farther in TWW and re-discovering the characters I created a couple years ago. Max, Kelly, Arianna, Owen, Ryan, my hotshot Skyeler, and of course my heroine Leslie. :D
Though I'm considering changing the way her name is written to Lesley. It looks prettier, I suppose.
Anyway, on to other writing things. I got to partake in a writer's conference online, which was absolutely amazing and I am so happy I signed up for it. I thought it would just be a waste of time, and far to boring, but I was so wrong. I got so much advice, and websites for people considering publishing and helping them do it. I'm ecstatic to finish the second draft of TWW, which if I get on it I'll finish it in a few months I think. And now the same people that put on the writer's conference, are doing a Query Letter thing on the same website. Query letters are something you must send into an agent when you want to get published, and I posted mine on there and I already got some good feedback. :) Though I'm a little worried now because there are no people besides me and two other people that posted their query letters. I guess we'll just see what happens.
Its exciting knowing that I might be able to get published in the future, I would love to be able to share the stories I've written with the world. If only patience was an easy thing. ha-ha.
Anyway, I hope you liked reading my blabby words about my life. :)
Have a great Saturday everyone!
~Jazz
You know its really hard to believe that the year only has four months left. It seems like only a month or so ago I was sitting in my grandma's house in Idaho watching the ball drop on January 1st 12:00 A.M. Ahh memories... lol.
And today is the last Saturday of summer, school starts on Monday for me. Though I suppose not everyone starts on Monday so. :P Anyway, the real reason I'm blogging right now is just to update on everything that's been going on in my life lately. I've had a pretty fabulous summer, even though we didn't go camping, so that was disappointing. BUT, my cousins came to visit! And I got to meet my cousin Emily for the first time, she's so great! I love her.
Someday I'll be able to make a trip down to southern California and visit all of my family down there, I haven't been to see them in many-many years. We're always going north to visit my Mom's family.
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| Me and Emily at the beach! So much fun with that girl! :) |
On to the rest of my story!
Horseback has been pretty great lately, though I really need to speed up my tacking time. Because I'm always the last one up there, this last Wednesday it was pretty bad lol. I almost didn't have time to tack up completely. I was just bridling Benny when everyone was going up, but I had no worries about bridling him because he's pretty good about accepting the bit and letting me put his ears in the bridle.
By the way, I LOVE Benny! He's such an awesome horse! :) I also got to ride Tipper a little while ago, and boy did I miss riding him... he was a lot of fun to get on again. I really wish Corrie would let me ride him more often, but I guess she thinks I'm a better fit for Benny and Sunny.
I thought I was doing pretty good on Tippy earlier on, he's a great horse even though he's a pain in my kiester sometimes.
So before I get to how my writing is going, I'm going to tell you about a friendship I rekindled. :) I'm pretty sure I've mentioned my friend Paul on here, but I haven't talked to him in months. So I got up the guts to call him up a few weeks ago and ask him to come on over, so now we're trying to hang out every couple of weeks. And its super fun, I so miss the days of being little kids with him. But I have many fond memories locked away in my head.
And now I'm going to blab all about my writing life.
I'm beginning the long and tedious process of editing my 112K book "The World Within", oh yes, that big sucker. Pretty positive I've mentioned it before, just don't remember when. It is a long book, around 400 pages, and needs some major remodeling. I'm almost tempted to post a sign on my bedroom door when I'm editing it and say "CAUTION: Book remodeling in progress" lol. That's how bad it is, though some people would probably say I'm being to hard on myself, I don't think I am. Because I'm willing to spend the time giving it love and making it the best it can be, it is my baby after all. And a mother should never abandon her baby; she should keep raising the child until its the best it can be.
(This is how much I love this book, and how much faith I have in it. I'm using the application of being a mommy... I am a little cooky sometimes but, whatever. :)
Someday it will be polished to perfection - as close as I can get it - and I will begin the anticipated day of emailing agents with my query letters and book samples. Now if I'm lucky, I can do such a thing my late junior year, or senior year in High school. Though, I have no idea where God is going to take me on this journey, I'm praying that I'll get such a chance to get published. Every author wants to be a New York Times Bestseller, I don't think that'll happen to me, but it will be a blessing just to get my book published and in people's bookshelves for reading.
I would sincerely love it if my book became loved like C.S. Lewis' masterpieces, or Lord of the Rings. (That's a huge dream, but a girl can dream, can't she? ;D )
And to make it even better, I've been re-reading Inkheart (amazing book) and I've been inspired to edit and write in my Amerada books again. I forgot how amazing the Inkworld trilogy is! I might just have to pull out my other two books in the series when I finish Inkheart. And I'm really looking forward to getting farther in TWW and re-discovering the characters I created a couple years ago. Max, Kelly, Arianna, Owen, Ryan, my hotshot Skyeler, and of course my heroine Leslie. :D
Though I'm considering changing the way her name is written to Lesley. It looks prettier, I suppose.
Anyway, on to other writing things. I got to partake in a writer's conference online, which was absolutely amazing and I am so happy I signed up for it. I thought it would just be a waste of time, and far to boring, but I was so wrong. I got so much advice, and websites for people considering publishing and helping them do it. I'm ecstatic to finish the second draft of TWW, which if I get on it I'll finish it in a few months I think. And now the same people that put on the writer's conference, are doing a Query Letter thing on the same website. Query letters are something you must send into an agent when you want to get published, and I posted mine on there and I already got some good feedback. :) Though I'm a little worried now because there are no people besides me and two other people that posted their query letters. I guess we'll just see what happens.
Its exciting knowing that I might be able to get published in the future, I would love to be able to share the stories I've written with the world. If only patience was an easy thing. ha-ha.
Anyway, I hope you liked reading my blabby words about my life. :)
Have a great Saturday everyone!
~Jazz
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