Ms. MO’s Mad Mad World

Things in the news I found needs attention:

Marine Leader: Need More Afghan Soldiers in Fight Against Taliban

Washington Times EDITORIAL: Rewriting economic history – The stimulus has made things worse:

NYC Muslims Push To Add Holidays To School Year

On to Ms. MO news . I take my girls to one of the pools on post. Last week I saw three guys come in, go to the snackbar and walk back with a beer. I kid you not. I was like :O Brilliant! I’m sure they have a limit on how many they will sell you. You know how the military regulates everything. I just like when they finally let adults act like adults. Not that I’m going to go order one, only if they had a margarita machine, then honey, I’m all over it. One frosty margarita under a shade tree, ohhh yeah! Anyway, just thought it was an interesting tidbit.

Maverick is about half done with the deployment. For this half he has internet in his room thanks to his roomate and of course Maverick no longer needing to work seventeen hour days. He actually has time to be online for a little bit before he goes to bed now. I don’t know if this is 100% good or not. The reason being is because I don’t know if R&R threw me off, seeing him on webcam is throwing me off and making me miss him more or it’s a nice fun emotional combination. I have a feeling it’s the latter. Either way it’s no fun.

One major thing it’s affecting is my riding. Before Maverick came home I was doing quite well. When he was home I was loping around and having a grand ol’ time. Now, I feel like I have no control, I’m nervous, frustrated and *sigh – ack!* weepy. I still ride, I do what needs to be done but it’s thrown off my groove. I need to get my groove back. Blah. My daughter, G1, has completely gone the opposite way and gained confidence. Ohhh to be 13 again.

R&R was wonderful! It didn’t go too fast, of course it could have gone slower but overall it was perfect. We didn’t do all that much. We hung out at home, spent two nights at Lake Travis, rode horses together, ate out, saw “Land of the Lost” and reconnected. The reconnecting was the best part. Talking about what is important to us, reevaluating our goals and dreams. Maverick and I are in a great place right now. Deployments physically separate families however if you have a strong foundation nothing can come between you. That’s not to say that it wont be hard, only that it will not destroy you. I learned that from the last deployment, our first. It was such a hard time for me.

In horse news Big Daughter G had two playdays this past weekend. The first I have no idea how she did, it was done kind of odd, no age groups, the exhibitions were done after the main run which does not make sense. Exhibitions are done so you can fix mistakes you might have done, a signal given to the horse wrong, tack that might be feeling funny, why bother doing it after the fact? That doesn’t help anybody. It was frustrating, I wasn’t happy with the entire thing. It was good practice for her though. They had different patterns to run, so we’ll keep going just for practice alone. The greatest thing was Maverick got to see her run before he left the next morning.

Her Saturday playday was so much better. I really like the way Temple Longhorn Riding Club does things. They keep the grass mowed, big deal to keep bugs from attacking you. They have a snackbar, exhibitions are done before the main ride and they run by age group. Big “D.G.” placed second in barrels and straight away. She got a no time on poles due to her leaning and Tasha going around the poles. Tasha did what she was told though . Overall Big “D.G.” did very well and we’re so proud of her.

Hooah – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I had to laugh at a few of these:

“A substitute for “that’s cool”. “That’s hooah”.” – I have never heard this. Did the DOD edit this article? Are they trying to be cool? I have this saying about Disney that I find to be quite true for the military too. They find some cool-ish idea and then dork it up as much as possible. Seriously I will never say “OMG that movie was so hooah.” No not likely to come out of my mouth or anybody I know for that matter. Unless it was some over dramatic dorked up Army propaganda. Then the sentence/statement would apply but in a very snarky way.

“Glad to meet you, welcome” -really? I can do away with all other social pleasantries and just say Hooah after I have met somebody. Does this include a wave? Is it said during or after a handshake?

“You’ve taken the correct action” – Affirmative cyborg man from the future.

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Today I am hoping the arena is tilled, I kinda want to lope out of the round pen. I rode Ben the last two days. I needed to and Ben needed me too. I was so rusty loping that I felt like I just learned. I did however do so much better controling Ben and feeling when he was actually going to lope from a trot before he did it. I have to “bump” him and remind him who exactly has their foot on the accelerator. Now to keep him moving and not stopping when he wants to. He, at the moment, is controlling the breaks. Oh well it’s all coming together, slowly, but we’re getting there. I am excited to teach Maverick to ride! Can a modern Cav’ boy ride horses?

So much closer to R&R HOOAH!!!! *giggle*

“Offensive”: Supervisor Removes Worker’s American Flag – I for one don’t see how displaying your own country’s flag is offensive. I mean it wasn’t an “I club baby seals and eat their eyeballs” flag. Holy crap when did being an American become offensive in our country? Makes me sick really!

In MO Life News R&R is just around the corner. Like really I am about a block away from it all I have to do is stand here and wait for the “ok to walk” to flash and I’m on my way to it. I need R&R probably as much as Maverick. For months all I have needed is a hug to make me feel better. For two weeks I will have even more than that. I can’t wait and May is dragging it’s ass. June is jumping at the bit to get here but May wont get the frick out of they way.

In other bit news … I haven’t rode in a while. Almost two weeks. I fully planned on riding today but it rained last night. The ground just dried out too. I didn’t ride yesterday. It was quite hot, Big Daughter G had homework to do and since taking care of the other two horses, dinner has been slacking. I started last week not going out until after dinner. My goal was to be kick ass by the time Maverick was home for R&R, but I guess I will have to be ok at riding. Oh well, I’m a five times better rider than I was before he left. He will just have to be impressed enough with that .

Speaking of riding, Big Daughter G had her first playday in a neighboring town. She won 2nd on barrels, 1st on the straight-a-way and 2nd on poles. We’re all very proud of her.

The succubus has taken R&R from us again. With only seven days to go they decided we didn’t need it until later. This is exactly what happened last time. The wind is out of my sails and I feel the Bitter Army Wife coming to knock on the door and take over once again. She has been gone for nearly a year, but I see her peeking through the windows wanting back in to control things. I am doing my best to close the shades and not answer the door. She is quite persistent and does not like being ignored.

In horse related news I loped on Ben Saturday. I was told I did quite well. A lot better than the first time and that felt great! I was on cloud nine, until the phone call of course. This is going to turn into a pity party, I will spare you all.

Ok, it’s not as dramatic as all that…

On Monday the horse I ride freaked out again. I had his lead rope in my hand, it went through my fingers, burning my skin and ripping patches off two of my fingers. My hand was on fire all night. It was waking me up every hour. I had my hand in a bowl of ice water in bed and I had to get up to add ice.

The next morning the blisters stopped burning somewhat but where the patches of skin are off, the pain was going down to the bone and making my fingernails hurt even. Today the wounds have crusted over… nice picture for you to imagine huh. I took a picture of my fingers on my phone but I do not know how to send them to Facebook or Twitter, then I could save the image and post it here. That will be a treat. I put peroxide on them and also alcohol, it didn’t sting like I thought. And today I can actually use my fingers with out cringing too bad. Talk about lesson learned, let go of the rope

In the world out of the Barn, R&R is sooooo close that I am getting anxious and feel like my house will not be ready on time and 5lbs will never just fall off and he wont like my hair, a lot of you dear readers know what I am talking about. ACK! Well I’m going to leave you with pictures. Everybody likes a picture

Yesterday I learned to lope. According to everybody on and off the internet the key is to relax and roll your pelvis with the lope. Yeah ok, easier said than done. Seriously, it’s not that easy, at least for me, to relax. I am not discouraged though. I didn’t think I would get posting down but I have done quite well with that. With time I will get this down too. R&R is very close and I will have so much to show Maverick. Too exciting!!! .

This cowgirl thing is quite the obsession. Maverick even wanted to get me new boots for Mother’s Day and all I could think was the tack I could get for that much money… lol. A while ago I would have been Woo Hoo new boots, now I’m like ohhh I wanted a headstall and reins. I also want a saddle, for Big Daughter G of course . We could share. When I’m not using it, hee hee. Then after the tack, with saddle, the horse and then we’ll look at boots and big blingy belts. Mmmhmm.

Too excited about R&R, I’m jumping out of my skin.