Below are the 13 most recent journal entries recorded in 3quine's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
6:07 pm	Bergh It makes me increidbly sad that someone i used to call a friend would have so many bad things to say about me and that they hate me. I'm really down about it. I deleted my other journal, will most probably ressurect it to move some of my friends over to this journal. I was on the verge of tears all day. Current Mood: depressed (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 1st, 2005
10:41 pm	Thoughts Working out in the gym I often find myself self conselling or just thinking about how things are going in my life. I often think whats its going to be like to be able to ride a horse again, , have a horse to call my own and to hug and wipe tears on when I am down. I just cant believe it is nearly 8 weeks until we leave here. That is barely any time at all and soon after I will be buying that horse I dream about every day. I'm so unprepared mentally for this I think. I'm going to be simply overwhelmed with joy :) Geoff is not going to know what to do with me! hahaha :) Until I fall off and cry and whine like a baby. I've always had a type of shock when falling from a horses back. I will start shaking and crying and then start laughing at myself for crying like a baby. I get up and hop back on, unless terribly hurt like the time pinnochio galloped me into the fence and i broke my collar bone. I never believed in letting a horse win by tossing me off. I guess thats a healthy attitude to take. Pinnochio sometimes won much to my amusement often bolting home leaving me standed to walk. He would wait at the fence with his reins dangling on the ground with an evil look in his eye which was so comical i cannot put it to words. I miss that little guy so much. He was an honest little pony with a heart of gold, we were best friends, I'm glad he came to me in my dreams not so long ago to put my mind at ease and know he has gone to a better place. Anyway I just cant believe its so soon. I am almost drooling in anticipation. I'm sure Geoff is sick of hearing about horses by now, i can imagine in 8 weeks time he will have no hair due to pulling it all out stand by stand with mention of the expensive hay eater. :) YAYYYYYYYY a boyfriend with no hair and a horse, well maybe not the no hair bit (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 13th, 2005
1:25 am	I hate it when i have confusing moments!!! There are two horses i've been looking at for a while, one i think i like more than the other but i am unsure which one would be more suited for me. I'm wondering what you guys think, opinion wise, seems i have a thing with Fire 1. Fire Dance he is beautiful with four white stockings and beautiful face markings He has crabbet breeding (which i'm very fond of) He is still a colt Has not been shown, is not broken and has not been floated He comes from a small Arabian breeder 3 years old 2. Fire Maker He is beautiful with 3 white socks and a blaze He is a gelding He has been shown (National Champion and East Coast Champion to date), broken and floated From a world renouned large stud 3 years old The thing is Fire maker is $500 extra than fire dance plus GST but he has been broken to saddle and gelded. I'm unsure if i would geld fire dance or not. I have not ridden much in 6 years and i would need to find a breaker if i purchased firedance and possibly have him gelded. I'm a little confused right now. Should I go with the gelding who has been saddle broken and been to shows before or go with a colt i'd need to find a breaker for and do all the extra work? They are both the same age and both gorgeous horses. I should post pics i guess too ay? :) Also Firedance is $35 a week ajistment and firemaker is $110 a week, if i bought now i would have to pay ajistment until i got back. Firemakers price will be going up in a few weeks also because of his training. And who knows, either of the horses may sell. I also have to look at how appropriate having a stallion would be if i get into university, i have no idea if you can take a stallion, plus it may be alot of extra hastle for me. I've also thought of buying a much cheaper horse ($1,000) and just having a cheaper horse for a couple of years while i can chill out and then buy a suitable mare for breeding or showing at a much higher price. There is so much to think about! (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
8:22 pm	horse rugs I was just looking on a site for horse rugs just to see roughly how much i am going to have to spend come winter in oz... well i must add, my horse is going to look like a complete faggot. Most of the rugs are pink or purple or a gay light blue colour. There was one dark brown rug which looked manly though... Maybe i should get a mare to match my rugs lol. Seriously why dont they make more masculine rugs for Stallions and geldings? Gay gay gay i tell ya! :) Please dont think i am homophobic, this is not the case, i love gays but i dont want to subject my horse to having to look gay when he clearly prefers pussy... It's pretty certain ill get a gelding/stallion/colt...i like boy horses more. I like the penis! (j/k) ok enough about gays and penis and faggy looking rugs! ... (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 7th, 2005
6:52 pm	Eek Well I was looking at horse ads last night on the site where Firedance was advertised, seems his ad isnt up anymore. I thought about emailing them to see if he was sold but refrained myself from doing that becuase i didnt wanna bug them. Well this morning I get an email from the people who own him (We have told them we will let them know by the end of November) They are going to hold off readvertising until i let them know which is very nice of them. :) I was so worried he was sold before i even got the chance. I have a strange feeling about this horse, he is just so damn pretty! We'll see, it was just odd that they emailed me after i was oh so curious to see if he was still available. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
12:01 am	WAHH :( awww man. This coming weekend is the 2005 world crabbet convention which is held right outside of brisbane this year (where i'll be in a couple of months) I am more than displeased i could not attend...I've been looking online at the dates for this for ages pouting and pouting about not being able to be back in time.. I am such a sook...I really really would have loved to go. My passion resides with this Arabian Breeding It's really hitting home now that it is starting in 5 days and i wont be there to see and enjoy it. I am going to go feel sorry for myself now :( (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 24th, 2005
6:37 pm	:) Am I ever so excited! Halloween is finally just around the corner. Brilliant. It means that there is little over 3 months left in Canada. This is great on so many levels. For xmas I hope my family listens to me this year and actually gives me something i need not ramdon garbage. I will be asking for horseland vouchers. For those that are not in Australia Horseland is one of the major chain horsey type stores in Australia, they carry alot of useless shit but some of it is great, they have a fairly decent selection of rugs and i'd most likely get a pair of good clippers from there too, I'll probably be making my own first aid kit because i think its better to do that than buy an already made up one that may have items i most likely wont use or items i'd rather buy in a bigger form because i know i will use. I am so damn excited about all this. I havent had much time to actually sit down and read my books much more, I will be though in the next couple of weeks. I have started selling furniture now which seems to be a huge chore. Though things are slowly selling and alot of the items people have asked me to hold for them. Geoff is asking his work in November about a transfer for work, if all goes well i can purchase a horse whenever i want after then. If firedance is still available i will have the option to buy him and Geoff will be totally ok with it. I emailed one horse breaker just to enquire about the costs of breaking and they said it would be $800 plus GST for 5 weeks and any additional feed after 5 weeks i'd need to pay. Seems doable if i did buy an unbroken youngster. My opinion is i'd rather buy a younger horse because as untrained as it is. I can grown and learn with it, i will be owning this horse for hopefully the rest of its life, so 3 as opposed to something like 10 is a good option. horses inbetween these ages tend to go for alot more money, because they are young and fairly trained. I also forgot i bought these brilliant buckets about 1 year or so ago, they are stainless steel and just are amazing quality, they should be for $20. Cant wait to use them to carry my horses feed out :P I've kept them from being used for house cleaning etc forbidding geoff to use them. Though we put some ash from the fireplace in them but that wont hurt a horse because they will be washed out thoroughly. A little ash never hurt nobody! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
8:26 pm	:) Well I bought my 2nd horsey book. I've been reading it too so now I have two books on the go. I really need to alocate more time to actually get into reading them both, then ill go through the conformation book and write down reference notes here so i can look back and review what i'm teaching myself. The 2nd book is about keeping horses on small acerage, it has plans on how to build stables, round yards areanas etc and what to look for when buying a property. We are hoping for 2 acres with our first home. If we cannot find that we will buy a small house and live there, pay it off some then rent it out and buy another house, things may be hard when we first get back especially if geoff doesnt get a transfer with his comapny :/ I'm a little worried about that. Geoff will talk to his work in November to find out about a transfer, if all that goes well I can purchase a horse whenever i want, if not i'll have to wait until he has gotten a job, around the time we leave here i find out about university, so we'll see what happens, if i dont get in i'll get a job and apply for other subjects to try to get my credits up. I want to buy a number of other books on horse ownership, I can confidently say I know enough to keep a horse as I completely cared for my horses when i was a teenager, I mixed their own grain and took care of all health concerns, i exercized them etc etc. I want to gain more knowledge though, especially about feeding and natural horsemanship. LAte last week I got a sale DVD from one of Australias top Arabian studs King Estate International, their horses are so beautiful. I wish I had more cash to spend, there is an especially lovely stallion who moves so beautifully he leaves me breathless. The horse I enquired about is not on the DVD though, he is a 3 year old gelding who is just being started under saddle. I've had my eye on him for a while also. His price is going up soon though since he has started his saddle education. I told the seller i'll visit him when i get back to Australia if he is still for sale they have an open house in February i'd like to visit. Geoff thinks i'm jumping the gun looking at horses, but I see it this way,... It may take me months to find an ideal horse, I've seen only 2 horses in my price range i'd consider buying. That isnt many considering the amount of horses in Australia. I'm extremely picky. I really want a Chestnut with white socks and face markings, arabian with good conformation. I've always wanted a horse with socks, and I have no idea why, i just like them. There are lots of chestnuts with white markings but they are either way overpriced, or their conformation isn't ideal to me. I know its silly wanting a horse to have markings but i think its important to really adore what your horse looks like. I also like greys so i'm open to that option also. I'd like crabbet breeding somewhere in there too (FireDance has that) but if not thats ok. Ok enough blabbering, I should go lay down with one of my books :) Soon it will be time to start a list of horsey items i'm going to need ~Squeeeeeeeeee~ Geoff actually suggested I start on that :) I'm getting damn excited! Less than 4 months until we leave canada. Holy crap! :) (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 6th, 2005
10:26 pm	This horse makes me drool! These are some pics the owner of fire dance sent me. I think this horse is so beautiful, if i cannot buy him i hope i can find another like him. What a stud :) ( Read more... ) (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
8:27 pm	Firedance well the horse i talked about a few posts ago isn't sold yet. I emailed the owners and they have sent me more information about him and some photos of his Dam who looks beautiful. You can really see where he gets his markings from with his 8 crosses to Rissla. I'd love to buy this horse, he is everything i would want in a horse. Everything I could dream for, I talked to Geoff about it and he thinks its a bad idea since we have no guarantee of having jobs when we get back. He wont talk to his work for another month about being transferred to Australia and working from home. So I have to wait a month, if he gets a transfer i will most probably get a vet check done and if all works out we'll buy him. I know it may seem silly to buy a horse sight unseen,He is from a stud so these people would have a reputation to uphold so i'm sure they would not lie to me. He is untrained and i dont mind doing that myself as unexperienced as i am in these things i'd be able to do it i'm sure, especially if i got some expert help (which i would do of course) A lady from the US is going to see him in November so I hope ~fingers crossed~ that she doesnt buy him and import him to America :( I atleast want to have the possibility or chance of breeding to him down the track if i cannot buy him! So I'll just sit and wait, if he is meant to be he is meant to be. We have the money it is just the timing. Geoff wants to buy the next book soon about keeping horses on small acerage, he is set on getting us atleast 2 acres when we get back to Australia, then we can build a stable and have our horses at home. Gatton where the school is (I hope my luck is good and i get in) the houses are cheaper, I saw a new house on two acres for something like $250,000 which isnt bad. I just hope with all my heart the transition moving back to Australia is smooth, everything works out, we get a mortgage, i get into school, geoff gets transferred or gets a job. ~crossed fingers~ I am bound to have some luck somewhere (10 Comments |Comment on this)
7:04 pm	Hoof conformation A couple of pics i found interesting Normal Leg Cross section Acute Founder cross section I've been reading about natural hoof care, there are a whole bunch of natural hoof trimmers out there today to trim a hoof the natural way so that horses can go barefoot. Aparently its better in alot of cases for the horse. I find the concept quite interesting, I must admit after i stopped riding and shoeing my pony his lameness issues went away and a huge bruise grew out of his hoof. I really hope I get into school, I love researching up horse related information, I'm interested in nutrition and also care of horses in general, i think you can never know too much! (11 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
7:55 pm	Oh My God Seriously, Today while searching through the horsey classifieds (my daily fix) I went to the ahsa website and looked at the most recent ads. And there pops up Salam Firedance. Well a couple of months back..probably around 6 or 7..I saw him advertised in the Crabbet influence classifieds for $10,000...he a little out of my price range at the time and i kept going back to the studs website drooling everyday over him. I finally caved in and emailed the people anyway because i thought he was an absolutly beautiful animal, Thought i'd test my luck to see if they could sell him gelded at a lower cost. They said at the time they had three serious interests and two of them were from overseas. So with my hopes diminished i tried to move on and forget about him, they said they had a mare i may be interested in, she looked nice but wasn't my cup of tea. Anyway, his price has halved, i have no idea why. Maybe 10,000 for an unstarted horses is a little too much. He is so beautiful though. I have no idea why i like him so much, he just looks so softly put together He is a gorgeous Chestnut Arabian, four white socks to his knees and gorgeous very different face markings. I emailed the people again asking if they could keep him for me if i decided to buy him, Geoff would probably convince me otherwise. If only ....I can dream cant I? Current Mood: hopeful (9 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
10:47 pm	:) I think i'm going horse mad but thats ok. Atleast I know what I want to do with my life. Alot of people cant even figure this out. I'm going to use this as a reference for all my horsey talk. If you have any ideas or imput into what i type here go for it. I am going to write hopefully alot of notes from books i'm reading etc so i can reread and learn more by rereading things implanting them in my brain. I also see this as a way others can learn if they want to, or can suggest better ways or other ideas. To be open to new ideas is better because you learn more (Comment on this)