Fadedwords

The black plague of death has descended upon me.  It started Saturday.  Sunday I was feeling so badly that I almost canceled my riding lesson.  I should have canceled the lesson, because after an hour of flailing about, I was completely wiped.

I stayed home from work yesterday, hoping a full day of rest would have me back on my feet.  I tossed and turned all night again last night, coughing and trying to breathe, and woke up this morning feeling worse than I did yesterday.  I slept all morning and am now watching my favorite sick day movie, ‘Hook’.

I feel dreadful.

It’s not often that jewelry strikes my fancy.  This can be proven by listing the jewelry I own:

-A silver claddagh ring
-A silver chain that holds a glass teardrop with a blue mushroom inside
-A diamond tennis bracelet that was a gift from my parents
-My high school class ring
-A necklace my friend Anita made me for Christmas two years ago

That’s about it.  So you’ll understand that I’m pretty picky about jewelry, and I don’t really get psyched about things too easily.  I found this on line today though:

I am in lurve.  If you click on the picture it will take you to the website.  They make it in silver and gold, but I’m partial to silver.  It’s so pretty.  Love love.

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I woke up this morning to a message with someone asking me if they could get this for me for my birthday!  I’m incredibly excited and feel so very lucky (haha) to have someone in my life that would be so kind and generous.

I got my hair cut and colored!

I’m really diggin’ it.

Dear GFGs,

Hey, how ya’ doing?  I hope well.  I know I shouldn’t look at websites that have horses for sale, but sometimes I really cannot help myself.  And most of the time I don’t even find anything that looks good!  So that has to count for something.

However, today I was looking at a site and I found a horse that is gorgeous and would really work well for me, and looks like a good mover.  This one, unlike Remy (second horse down!), is even close enough that I could go try him out!  And my riding instructor knows his owner.  How perfect is that??  He’s also even less expensive than Remy, at $7500!  BARGAIN.

GFGs, you should go look at Granite Ghost, or Deuce HERE.  Go to the “For Sale” page.  He’s the second horse on the page, black with a gorgeous white blaze on his face.  He’s 16.2 hands tall!  That’s exactly what I need.  Don’t let the western saddle fool you, because to me it looks like he’d be a great hunter prospect.  Also, I’ve been thinking about trying my hand running barrels, and this guy would be a great way to start.

This is how I look at it GFGs: Eventually I’m going to run out of lesson money.  I can’t, in good conscience, keep accepting money from friends to pay for it.  If I had a horse of my own I wouldn’t need to pay for lessons!  I could just go ride.  So I’d need enough to buy Deuce, as well as enough to pay for his board until I could get a second job.  I’m not even asking you to send 100% good fortune my way… just enough to get me through until I can pay to feed him with money from a second job.

Reasonable, right?

Think about it.

Love,
Kate

This has been a week that has shown me how possible it is for me to actually use my photography to make enough money to horseback ride.  Or have a little extra left over to buy a dvd occasionally.  The photographs I took at the horse show were incredibly well received.  Everyone who has seen them has told me how good they are.  Several people have expressed interest in buying them; enough so that I have developed a price list to have on hand just in case.  I have been so flattered by the things people have said.

Best of all?  Someone is actually buying one!  Granted, it’s a friend.  It’s also important to consider the fact that this friend is an artist, and she told me it’s one of the best photographs she has ever seen.  I was astonished by that feedback!

I’m hoping that I’m able to turn this into something.  If I could sell just 10 4×6 prints, or 4 CDs of pictures I would get nearly enough for one riding lesson.  I would really love it if I could turn this in to something that helped me out and made it so I didn’t have to worry every month about how I was going to afford groceries.

It’s been a good week, because I’ve seen potential and hope.