nysak comin at ya

Lemme see, where was I? Oh right, I haven’t posted in ages and should really(really should) let the five people who read this thing know what’s up in my life.

Winter is on the way out, this makes me INSANELY happy, I love the warm air, the melting, the SUN, the promise of another record flood down at the river I don’t love so much but it doesn’t really effect me.

The situation with Ben’s car isn’t as dire as it was, yeah the Daytona is still broken but my Da has promised we will work on it come spring. The real reason it isn’t such a bad thing is that Ben found a car down in FL that he likes and it’s not too far out of our desired price range, it’s a 2002 Subaru Impreza WRX, it won’t be the cheap ($2000ish)get him to work car we were after but it will replace the Saturn as our main trip taking car, with the poor Saturn relegated to being my car for around base and town runs. I’m ok with this, it’s a car he REALLY likes and the Saturn is getting on in years and miles.

I’m giving riding lessons to another friend(K) so my income is going up(yay) so far she’s only ridden with me twice but she likes it a lot, K does have her own horse but it’s gated(not suited to english riding) so she’ll be riding either one of my horses or a friends horse for her lessons, and we can get away with it because my friend is preggers and needs her horse exercised, and I have to be there because K doesn’t know how to ride english, we are sneaky LoL

I am very much looking forward to the end of the month, I’m signed up for a big riding clinic AKA three days of torturous riding lessons, I’m hoping it gives me a real edge with Holi for our upcoming summer of showing.

I’m also REALLY looking forward to my lover coming home in April, if he gets the car we are thinking of buying then I’ll fly down and make the drive back with him, a nice little vacation right before our anniversary, sounds good to me.

I am so incredibly pissed off right now, Ben’s car is dead and I blame my parents/father for it, yet I cannot make them pay for a repair OR put money towards a new car seeing as they are just as hard up for cash as we are.
Here is the sordid tale.
They are here for the winter, normally they have two vehicles at but they were rushed this fall and only have one out here with them(the truck) so Ma had been using my car for getting back and forth to base, no problem there I’m fine with sharing. However my car is a wuss about cold, it does not like being outside in extreme sub-zero temps, it’s new and can’t have a cheap hose heater, it needs a engine block heater, so they opted to have Ma drive Ben’s car more and get a cheap hose line heater for it, she still takes my car for town trips, again no problem.
Except that Ben’s car hasn’t been right sense the hose line heater went in, it’s not circulating coolant correctly, it was overheating AND having no heat inside, not much fun for Ma, Da’s been refusing to work on it, he didn’t want to waste a day off greased up in the car, Ma just dealt with it thus far. Yesterday she and I decided to see if it had an air lock, let the radiator heat up, boil the bubbles out and fill it, well it boiled and bubbled and such but never quit, and it never circulated. SOooo today Da is off, they came over and decided to see if the thermostat was working, took it out and tested it(it wasn’t working) so we put in a new thermostat(Ma had gotten one in town the other day) it STILL overheated, well crap, maybe the hose heater is in wrong and not letting coolant by? next Da took the thermostat out completely, watched what the radiator and engine did and announces that the engine has blown a head gasket. WTF!?! he explains “oh it’s from running hot so many times” well fuck me, why has it been running hot? because something got fucked up when YOU put the hose heater in and YOU have refused to work on it sense. GARRRRRRGHHH

In fairness Da has said he’ll pay for a repair but the car just isn’t worth it IMO, I know Ben loves it and all but it’s old, and it’s got other things wrong with it not related to the engine. We are kinda looking into a new car, but the plan was to sell this one, not junk it. I’m just irritated and stressed and I don’t need this right now.

I shall be a good blogger and update.
I had an AMAZING time down in Florida with my Lovers Mans, it was warm and sunny for most of it, we ate too much good food, spent too much money on movies and the like and drove about the area wasteing gas, and I wouldn’t change a thing about the trip. There are a bunch of pics on bookface if anybody cares to go see them.

Coming back to the cold of NoDak was a shock but we have been blessed with some unseasonably warm temps for the past week, I have made the most of it, riding Holi every day sense Sunday with the exception of yesterday(she and I both needed the break) today looks to be another great one out, the high is 33 or so and SUN, yay for sun! so I’m heading to the barn in a bit to ride yet again

Not much else to report, thinks are going well for me, horses, cats and dog are all good, the new barn tikken is great, yeah…that’s about it.

We had a great Turkey Day, Ma and I handled the cooking(turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry jelly, cranberry orange relish, green bean casserole, crescent rolls, broccoli and cauliflower with cheese sauce) it was a great meal.
I invited a few friend from the barn over, Dena is a single lady with no family in the area, also Elsbeth and Jesse, they went to Elsbeth’s family for T Day last week and she was not planing on making an entire dinner just for them.
After stuffing ourselves with a late lunch we needed a while to digest, so we decided to play some RayMan Raving Rabbids, and was it FUN!! if you don’t know that is a Wii game that consists of many mini games, you compete for the best scores in silly things like pulling worms from bunnies teeth, flinging cows and “dancing” to a beat, we looked retarded I’m sure but we had fun, LOTS of fun.
Once our arms were too sore to fling the WiMotes around anymore it was time for the deserts, Pumpkin Pie(of course) Apple Cranberry crunch top pie with caramel sauce and the best No-Bake Peanut Butter Pie, delish!

Today was for rest, all I did was till the indoor arena and then take Holi mare for a nice trail ride, probably the last day that will be nice enough to head out there.

I hope all of you(who celebrated) had a great Turkey Day as well