Horse Ramblings and Daily Whatnots

This week I've been good on my word of riding daily--every day except Thursday has been spent either lunging or riding the horse for 40-60 minutes. Mah arms are tired....anyway. Two weeks ago I had posted a picture on Facebook complaining about the horse's sweat pattern:

 

 In this one (taken two weeks ago) the hair on her neck is wrinkled in vertical lines, meaning that she's been bracing her neck and altogether tense for the ride. I was shown how to get her to relax somewhat, so today I went for an hour-long ride and tried to use what I've learned.

(As a hint: it's really hard to remember everything I was shown. My body is sore and tired after only an hour.)

 

Here (taken today) she's a lot sweatier due to the humidity, but the vertical lines are less noticeable and most of her neck is fairly smooth. Plus (and this may just be hopeful thinking) I think she's got a little more definition than she did two week ago. 8D

So...here's to plugging away at it and keeping up with the riding. I have a book on dressage arena exercises that I may be able to pull out and start working on in a few weeks.

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And back to daily life...I'm in a rather 'poor me' mood tonight, but I'll try not to indulge that side too much. 

All I can say is...tomorrow will be 6 weeks. I miss everything, but mostly the daily interactions and little stuff. Like asking how his day was and what he had for lunch, and getting to talk at night and send silly youtube videos and dream about what we were going to do after we were together. I guess the problem with building castles in the air is that they're made out of nothing...but it still feels like something was lost when they collapse. It's a horrible feeling. And the worst part is being cut off (which, granted, was my idea. I can be an idiot sometimes) and not only knowing nothing, but feeling like I can't ask because he'll try to honor my request to not talk to me and just ignore any attempts at contact. *clutches head*

Have I mentioned that this has been highly messy and confusing? Don't ever get dumped if you can help it. *gestures vaguely* 

On a side note, I get the feeling that I'm turning into the mopey friend that people don't want to talk to anymore because all I can think about, after talking about the weather and one's health, is what's happened and I get all depressed. >.< It's really frustrating to try to hold a conversation and burst into tears at the randomest provocation.
Blargh.

Concerning the rest of daily life...there's riding, and school, and cleaning houses...I did go to see The Hunger Games yesterday. No one in my family wanted to go, and I decided to go 10 minutes before the movie started, so it was a lone venture. :p Overall it was enjoyable (though I missed the first 5-10 minutes), but the shaky hand-camera usage was way overused and headache-inducing. It was fairly faithful to the book, but the ending could have been less rushed, with more character development throughout. I know people don't like spoilers--so I'd say go see it, but read the book first. :p The music wasn't as memorable as I hoped it would be--nothing as memorable as the fan-made music I've been listening to for days. It made me sad.

And otherwise...meh. I spend a lot of time trying to distract myself. *shrugs* Someday I won't have to. But in the meantime....meh.