New Years Eve was spent very quietly here because I knew today was going to be huge. Last night I sampled some flavoured vodkas that I got for Christmas over a very rare and juicy steak and about ten episodes of Great Teacher Onizuka ( Read more... )

Well, the first of two serious buyers for Jay came and looked at him yesterday. It was a father and daughter. Neither of them could ride, although they both had soft hands and good natural balance. The girl couldn't get him to trot, so I put him on the lunge with her on. The father got a trot ok, but couldn't get him to canter. Every him he ( Read more... )

I had the nicest ride this morning in the rain. It was so good to just relax with my horse and go for a wander, especially in the midst of selling him ( Read more... )

Today was the last day of training, so we did a really good fitness workout with some self defence drills, sparring and ground fighting ( Read more... )

I got the State Library of Victoria job! Yay! I start January 8th. Yay! Now I have to sell my horse. *cries*

This will be short, as I only have ten minutes of lunch left and I don't type that fast... But I've had a great week ( Read more... )

Well, I've blown all my money once more, but I'll get some more tomorrow, so I'll live. I had a lovely weekend around The Rocks in Sydney, and also in the bigger bookstores, Abbeys, Galaxy and Kinokuniya. I ate very good japanese food and very bad cakes. Met up with sewaddicted and Sarah who I met in Melbourne at Continuum this year and they showed me ( Read more... )

I went to compete in the International Budo Sports Australian National Tournament today. I came fourth highest scoring senior female competitor over all, and came first in Ground Fighting and first in weapons sparring. I came fourth in my point sparring, but I was up against two black belts and a brown belt (one away from black) and me a lowly ( Read more... )

Last night I watched Sleepy Hollow on the big TV with Champ. We were going to see Children of Men, but the weather decided us against going out. So I made some penne bolognaise and we stayed in. Because it was Hallowe'en we had to watch something scary, but not too scary because we are wusses and I really love Sleepy Hollow and Champ hadn't seen ( Read more... )

I finally got all the photographs together of the funkhana from a month or so ago. I had three people there taking photos for me and helping out. It was a really lovely day, only marred by the blistering heat in the morning and the savage wind in the afternoon, but surprisingly few of the horses got worked up by it ( Read more... )