And thus, I shall post a post filled with quotes. Mbawah. Sad rhyme. This is also known as “I have no idea what to blog about so I’m taking the easy way out.”

Clients from Hell – Site

“It seems as though every time we ask you to do any work, we have to pay for it.”

“When I scroll down the page, the header and logo disappears”

Four more words I hate – Client: “This should be easy.”

A client calls at 5 minutes to midnight and whispers “is it too late?”

I think your fees are reasonable and I do look forward to working with you if I sense the Lord wants me to proceed.

Client: “Well, you just made a terrible mistake. We never want black or hispanic people in our advertisings. I’m sorry if this may sound a bit racist..but we are.”

Me: “The database is messed up. What’s the server log on?”
Client: “What do you mean?”
Me: “I mean I need access to the server.”
Client: “I don’t know how to do that.”
Me: “Who set it up?”
Client: “I’m not sure.”
Me: “Who owns the server?”
Client: “God.”

*Is sitting very uncomfortably*

Sooooo… yesterday. I had my riding lesson. I am finally graduating to trotting at the diagonal (yay!) and was having a ton of fun as my instructor, Zul, has the mannerisms of a drill sergeant.

“Are you doing it correctly?”
“I think so.”
“You can’t ‘THINK’! You have to have CONFIDENCE. Now, ARE YOU DOING IT CORRECTLY?!”
“YES SIR”
“WRONG!”
*insert facepalm*

*Grin* But seriously. He is awesome. Honest.

Anyway! The club had acquired some new horses and he was trying out one of them; an extremely gorgeous ex-polo mare (But then again… all of them are ex-polo ^^ since they’re a subset of the royal polo stables)

But that day she had firmly decided that, nope. She did not want to be ridden that day and was trying from the moment he mounted her, to throw him off. Not in play, not because she was confused, but because she absolutely did not want to be ridden.

See, while I was trying to get the feel of telling whether Tobi’s hooves were hitting the ground in time, she was off the side bucking and prancing around. And Tobi? As much as I adore Tobi, and how calm and normally unflappable she is, she has this habit of, “Oh hey I’ll do what that horse is doing too!” So I can rely on her to trot when Yusuf, Zul or Lily’s horse starts to trot.

And… you can probably guess what happens next.

In mid-trot, Tobi suddenly decides to join the fun and promptly dug in her front-legs into the ground, lifted up her rump, and sent me crashing onto the dirt. To my credit, I failed my “SHIT!” and instead passed a more dignified, “WHOA!” as I landed right on the bony part of my right hip, followed by a whack to the back of my head.

And Zul, from right to the end of the arena, could actually hear the impact.

And dude, did it hurt.

Had a bit of fussed over; I was told to stay down and relax a bit. Zul straightened my legs and had me check that yes, I could still move my toes and nothing felt broken. And behind him Tobi was watching me with wide eyes all; What did I do?

Silly horse

Riding lesson ended 10 minutes early, and when I got home the pain started spreading so dropped by the hospital for a bit. Everything’s fine though, which is good, and I’ve got some lovely painkillers to numb the pain. Unfortunately I’ve been advised against riding on Friday, so I’ve a week’s rest now.

But man, if there’s one thing that really sank in? Helmets are a godsend. Zul showed me my helmet and the place where my head had slammed against the ground, there were huge scratches.

I am so getting my own helmet before the next lesson

Hur hur. Couldn’t sleep = surfing around fanfiction.net reading up crack pairings. Though a “canon” pairing actually took up most of my attention; yay Gray x Juvia from Fairy Tails!

Yea. I’m now downloading the manga and reading it all mish-mashed. And just for the hell of it, my computer decided to humor me and played “Within You’ll Remain” by Tokyo Square when Lyon and Gray started fighting over Juvia.

“Illusion says there will be another man, who will interfere into my plans.”

My brain took a while to cackle. But cackle it did.

And I don’t know why.

I can’t move.

Woke up this morning and I couldn’t move without any of my limbs crying out in pain before just passing out imprevious to my brain going, “ZOMG MOVE DAMNIT” 

Yesterday was nothing short of insane. There was a miscommunication between RBPRC and I about my Wednesday lessons, so I turned up without my usual instructor there. Zul popped up though and took me on. From what he’s seen, I’ve got a huge problem with balance, so we were working on that.

Let me just say here and now, that I can’t stand in the saddle to save my life. I keep hollowing out my back and can’t last more than 5 seconds. The very longest was about 8. Yes. I am that sad A lot of strain was put on my thighs, the outside of my calves, my ankles God only knows how, and my sides.

Then the next half hour began.

From the first sentence, it was chilling. “Can you tie a knot in the reins? Really really high up. Ok, good. Now. You’re going to trot without holding them.”

Me: *blink blink*

Then came the most weirdest game of horseback “Head, shoulders, knees and toes.” Zul had me trot while directing me to move my hands to my hips, onto my shoulders, then on my head. Then completely outstretched without any dipping at all. And to do whichever one he told me to do.

But… it was odd. When I just fully concentrated on it, it came pretty ok. I managed to go a round at a non-stop trot whilst holding my arms out which apparently is the toughest of all the exercises. Now, if I could just figure out how to stand properly

Tobiyana quirk of the day? At one point, she faced the VIP seats and just… stared. Totally focused; eyes and body forward, ears pricked forwards. Not a single muscle moving. And I had to pull the reins really hard to even get her to turn her head.

The one problem though was that Tobi and Vinata (Lily’s horse) apparently hates each others guts. They kept trying to bite each other, and at several points Tobi was dancing away from her with her ears flat against her head and baring her teeth. Talk about freaking me out But the cutest thing? When I was standing between them with my helmet in my hands, the two of them started snuffling it like a little baby foal. It was so adorable

Now, I’ve got today to rest up. And tomorrow… will be interesting