Actually, more like Lady Lady. For some reason I’ve been watching old animated series that I used to like when I was a kid. I love it! Even though my sister doesn’t, despite watching and enjoying it as a child. She said it is much too sad for her taste, when normally she’s the one into “all things gloomy” while I’m all about sunshine and cheerful colours. Its sequel Hello! Lady Lynn is what I liked even more due to Lynn’s involvement in her school’s equestrian team. I used to LOVE that as a child. It made me feel glee whenever I saw anything resembling jumps in a riding ring… I am so happy to finally have experienced jumping. Here are the openings and ending of the series for your viewing pleasure!

For a long time…every time I went to the bathroom it sounded like there was someone in my room jumping on my bed. Of course, being me, I took no notice of it and didn’t even try figuring out where the sound came from and what it really was. I just figured “there has to be a more logical explanation” and left it at that. Also, it is quite satisfying when people are like, “What? There are ghosts in your room!?” to which I reply, “Hmm… who knows {mysterious smile}”. This evening, I was in my bathroom attending to my bi-daily facial ritual when I started to hear that noise again. In frustration I thought, “What IS that? It makes no sense!”. Then I figured out that… it was me… my continuously shifting weight between my feet in my bathroom slippers made that noise… LOL!

I have finally come to the conclusion that no watch could ever suit my Juicy Couture jewelery, and that it is so big that it is not meant to be worn with watches anyway. Or that’s just not my style because it feels like too much. I haven’t been able to wear their charms on the bracelet for a very long time anyway… feels like too much.

After years of owning my DS Lite, I finally decided to cute-ify it!

My recent addiction is hoodies. I got one that I wear with a tank top and jeans sometime ago and I love it! But I don’t wanna wear it out because it’s so cute – a very light pink undertone. Speaking of which, most of the contents of my closet sit on hangers in a corner in someone else’s room now. My room isn’t naked enough for renovations yet and I’m so tired of packing already but at the same time stubbornly refusing help because I want to know where everything ends up.

The mare I rode last time (also known as D) is one that I haven’t been on for about a year. She is friendly, energetic and very cheerful. She is very happy to be asked to do things and tries very hard for her rider. One bad thing is that when others ride her she is pretty much taught to follow. When we were alone she listened to just me, but when other people came in she kept trying to run off and follow them. I think I did well having her listen to just me. If people are a few meters in front of me trotting, and she trots – I slow her to a walk, then ask her for a trot a few minutes later. She loves to canter. Her back is very comfortable for me! She quickly picks up on the canter, you only have to tell her once and she responds instantly. She is so happy to be asked to canter that she sometimes bucks/half-rears when she does it. I don’t think that she does this because she is in pain or anything because she has always been like this (she’s pretty young). Last year one girl I rode with accidently asked her to canter (it was her second day riding) and she half reared and the girl fell. Others freaked out about it, but really – the mare just stood there when she realized that no one was on her back which tells us that she is very well broke, she wasn’t upset or scared.

I read that some horses really are happy to be asked to canter that they buck. Although they do this, usually the trainer must stop them and then ask them to canter again until they learn to do it without bucking. Even though she isn’t my horse and her owners are the ones that should be concerned with this, it is a good thing to keep in mind.

Maybe some of you remember how my last jumping lesson went last year? It was hilarious on so many levels, but I haven’t really jumped since then. Except my accidental-on-purpose trotting over poles with S which caused him to jump a little (trainer removed the polls when she realized what I was doing!).

Yesterday, though, as I was cantering with D I lost my stirrups. Usually I like to canter without stirrups but these days I’m trying to teach myself to canter with them so I can go back to jumping lessons. I am getting much better at finding my stirrups while in the canter, but I guess doing that takes away most of my concetration so I didn’t actually tell D to stay near the wall of the indoor we were riding in. There were two poles placed sort of in the middle… and as soon as trainer realized where we were going she called out, “No! Don’t go that way! She’s going to jump!”

And she did.

It was… the coolest thing. The first time I ever got to experiance jumping while in canter. Know what the best part was? I didn’t fall. Although I felt like I was flying, I managed to regain my position after the jump and into the canter. Know what else? I hadn’t found my stirrups yet. I was pretty shaken up at the time (and it was the end of my riding time anyway). But as we were driving home I thought, “You know what? I wanna do this again!”. Can you tell I really like jumping? I wouldn’t mind riding D again also because she obviously loves to jump. On my last jumping lesson the horse needed a lot of encouragement to jump… and a lot of the time he actually jumped from halt (which caused several amusing accidents because I wasn’t prepared), but D? The only thing I told her was to canter on her right lead!

One other thing that I find extremely adorable about D (other than the way she looks and her size, of course) is that whenever we stand next to other horses she goes out to nuzzle them. I usually let her because I think it’s good for her to be social when we aren’t particularly doing anything.

Today I will leave you with screencaps from Persona: trinity soul. My sister and I really like it so far.

I hope everyone had a good Eid!

Might update you guys with my Persona 3 status tomorrow just to prove how easy it is with the new cycle feature. I almost feel like I’m cheating! I am so worn out from today’s events for so many reasons that I don’t think I have the energy to write much tonight. Speaking of writing, I somehow tricked myself into thinking up a story that I may enjoy writing more than this one. I dunno, though. My problem is that I like my characters too much. Maybe that’s not a bad thing, but on the other hand I might end up portraying them too perfectly; which isn’t good in my opinion. To have other people like your characters, and relate to them, they must have their humanly flaws. That’s what I think anyway. Beautiful Imperfections – I shall elaborate on this at another time.

As promised, this is the project that I’ve been working out with one of my little hooks. The pictures were taken some days ago because I’ve already finished one pair of the fingerless mitts and haven’t had the time to finish the other one yet. Using one strand of yarn that’s very colourful is interesting to me because I can’t really predict the results especially when I am just making up the so-called-pattern as I go along. Gosh, looking at it reminds me that I haven’t reached the end of Gundam Seed, yet! I don’t even remember what happens at the end from when I watched it the first time.

Added translations in the description of The Hello World Chronicles if anyone is interested.

Today I am so bored that I don’t know what to do with myself. Finishing up on some house chores that I usually do during the weekend, but I still have some studying and French homework to do, but I just don’t feel like it! You’d think we’d get too old to be lazy at some point, but no! Well, I’ve been good for the past 16 weeks… can’t slack off near the end now, can I?

Maybe I am feeling this way because I let what other people say affect me too much. This morning was a lot of fun and I was feeling very proud of my achievements. That is, until someone in a stronger position said they felt that my performance isn’t as good as it should be. I don’t claim to have that much knowledge on the subject in quesiton, but I know enough to understand that what they’re saying isn’t true. Sure, there are problems but they are no different than the problems I’ve been having over the past year. If anything, some aspects of those problems have become better. Even though they probably didn’t mean to make me think about it this much, and were just trying to help by pinpointing what needs to be worked on and telling me how to get it to work better. I just wanted the good things I do to be noticed, too.

Then while working on my blanket later on (I was halfway through the second piece) I realized that I messed it up. Instead of trying to fix it, I ended up shredding the whole thing. I’ll just find a pattern for something else to work on till I feel like going back to my blanket. I am feeling so discouraged now.

A bunch of things have been disappearing around the house. It wasn’t just a bottle of nail polish and some bottles of perfume. My longer pink knitting needles gone missing, too. That is in addition to the lace shrug, which I believe to be the start of it all. What is upsetting about all this is that I already know who’s been going around doing this. I’m not mad at the person, but I can’t help but think about how this went about. Did they think I wouldn’t notice? Are they so used to this that they didn’t even think twice? Did they stand there for 10 minutes thinking whether or not they should do it? Did they just grab the stuff without thinking about it – and still not thinking about it?

I won’t be confronting them with it. Although, this makes me a bit more worried about when I’ll be moving everything out of my room for redecoration. (Yes, I’ve been watching a lot of Gundam Seed lately, and I still get goosebumps the same way I did when I first saw it several years ago). Maybe I’ll go bake cookies or something…