My Favorite Family Memory

I don’t have just one favorite family memory, but I do have a most memorable one, or in my case several! The particular memory I am trying to describe begins at the dinner table with my mother, my younger sister, my even younger brother, my youngest sister, and of course ME. My supper table is arranged with me at one end of the table, my dad at the other, and the other four at each of the sides. Having that many people at one table it would be natural to think that we’d have to have a pretty big table. Well, we do. On several occasions when I or one of my siblings at the table had asked for a certain dish it just happened to be closest to my dad. He picked up a spoonful of , for instance, mashed potatoes and acted as though he was going to plop it down on my plate and didn’t. Next thing I know my face is covered in garlic mashed potatoes. I retaliated and hit my mom. The hour long food fight left an enormous mess from the dining room to the bathroom and back to my moms’ bedroom. There were vegetables, potatoes, biscuits, and even the pork chops ALL over the house.

My Favorite School Memory

As awful as this might sound to other people, my favorite ever school memory would have to be a fight that I had gotten into in the 8th grade. The whole school knew not to mess with me or make me mad, but every once in a while someone decided to try me. As I was going into 5th period, I had gotten called to the office for a previous fight that day. I went back to class and there was a new girl in there that had not only taken my seat but thrown my stuff on the floor. I flipped out. I barked an order at her to get out of my chair and she wouldn’t, so I dumped her out of it. When she stood up she proceeded to cuss me out and we began arguing; and with me being the REDNECK that I am cussed and screamed and hollered back at her, and “looked her up and down.” She didn’t like that too awful much. She threatened me and even drew me a map of how to get outside to the football field, which ended up getting torn into shreds and thrown back into her face. She made it outside before I was able to at lunch time and she ended up with a black eye, fat lip, and bloody nose. She got her licks in too. I had a black eye and a bruise on my back where she sucker punched me. The first fight of the year that year and still the best, at least as far as chick fights go.

Accomplishment Most Proud Of

Not very many people would call this an accomplishment, as they would a talent but either which way you decide I am very proud of it. My whole family brags on it. Is that enough anticipation yet? I ride bucking horses and almost never get thrown. The more times I am able to stay on I see that as a major accomplishment, especially being a female. Not to mention the size of my arms are bigger than most of the guys I go to school with now because of it. I never hesitate to get on a horse that I know is going to buck! When I know that I am going to get on “A WILD ONE” it gives me a type of adrenalin rush and I LOVE IT!!!!!

What Is Most Important To Me NOW

For most people this will eventually change but as for me I don’t think so. What is important to me now is what has always been and always will be. MY HORSES!!! Having the student aid period that I used to have drove me nuts because I wasn’t able to be out and active. Not to show any offense to those that have one but those stupid desk jobs would dive me crazy, but without people who do that the world would be in total chaos. Other than horses in particular some things that are important to me now is my self respect, my family, my friends, and making my way to farrier school. Right now the most important thing to me is doing what I want and being who I am for me, not being the someone that other people want me to be.

What I Worry About NOW

The things that I worry about now, as opposed to worries I had two or three years ago are a lot different. As time around me changes, the world around me changes, as well as what I worry about. For a short list of some of the things that I worry about now! I always worry about my animals but especially my horses; whether they are pregnant, limping, thin, or even perfectly healthy I worry about them. How my family back home (in Arizona) is; for instance my cousin who is also my best friend was involved in a rollover accident and ended up being hospitalized, so that goes to prove that anything could happen at any time. I am on constant alert to know if either of my younger siblings are being bullied at school and will be even more worried if I don’t hear about it when they are. I guess you could say that I am a worrier, but I always have been and always will be a worrier!

How I Like to Spend My SPARE Time & What I Like To Do

Not that I have a whole lot of time to do things that I want to do, but when I do I am out riding or messing with my show steer Dozer. I also like to barbeque with my friends, and draw. Aside from working (training outside horses) I don’t have very much extra time on my hands, because I cant just reward a horse for doing the wrong thing, therefore I am sometimes working one particular horse until feeding time. Not to mention the fact that I have 5 sometimes 6 horses to ride a day, none of them being my own most of the time.
                                

My Plans For The Future

In the hopefully near future I want o get the money to send myself to farrier or horseshoeing school. The school that I want to go to is just outside the city limits of Purcell, Oklahoma. It is currently rated the second best farrier school in the country, and I have wanted to go there since I was thirteen, and as of 2/27/08 I am now 18. When I get there I am going to take the longest and most in depth course they offer. When I graduate from OFS (Oklahoma Farrier School) I plan to start my own business and will have a certificate saying that I specialize in corrective shoeing, or fixing the problems that some horses have with their feet.

My Future Family Plans

Up until about a year or two ago I had always said that I never wanted to have kids or get married but now I am not so sure. I want to get my career going before I even think about either one. If it happens then it happens but if it doesn’t then it doesn’t. Either way is okay with me.