They release the new episode of Ugliest House in America on streaming today. I love Retta.
Looked on max, and they still only have 5 seasons of Great Pottery Throw Down. Dang.
Did find the Secrets of the Zoo shows on Disney+ of all places. The other zoo show and some British zoo shows are on max/Discovery.

14. Mark Antony was born today in Rome in 83BCE. Have you ever seen “Cleopatra” starring Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra and Richard Burton as Mark Antony?

I think I've seen pictures, but never the movie.


15. If you could, would you like to be a little bit taller or a little bit shorter?
Never shorter. I occasionally would like to be a wee bit taller to look more elegant in the saddle, but I usually like who I am. Well, I try to, anyway. lol

5. Are you looking forward to any TV shows this year?

Lately I've been shying away from a lot of newer shows for a few reasons 1-I get distracted and don't finish watching them if they're doled out. 2-there is a lot more drama and angst in shows right now, and I don't do drama (or embarrassment). So I watch a lot of B horror, monster, and weather related (tornado, icenado, apocacold, etc).

But I do like things like (Spring, Halloween, Summer, Holiday) Baking Championship, Maine Cabin Masters, Ugliest House in America. :D

*Just saw part of a game where Fiji beat the crap out of US rugby. Ouch. Pretty men, though.

*I am sort of watching soccer. The soccer men just lost to France. Two men were doing the commentary during the game, but the after chat is two women. They have better energy.
Funny enough, in the non US game earlier today there was a man and woman commentating. I think.

*Women's soccer starts tomorrow.

*This is the first time I am absolutely happy I have Peacock streaming. (I got it for American Ninja Warrior)

*And now I forgot the other things I was going to say. lol

*While cleaning stalls today I saw a semi with a load of power poles skid around the corner to the cross street. Like, he barely slowed down, even. I was shocked the trailer didn't hit the ditch on the other side.

*We all know I like B movies, but this one I'm watching right now is OMG. First, it's based in Texas, and they had saguaro cacti. Some of the accents sounded like first year drama students. And then they live in a town of 8500 people, but it takes 40 minutes to get to the mall? A real mall. And they have their own TV station. Casper Van Dien is overacting so much. He's usually not bad, but dang. Oh, and don't forget the part of Texas they're supposed to be in is the hill country. And the 'small town' set they have only has scrub. And all the righteous crap from the lead woman, OMG.
Also, when the first EMS report comes on everyone is frightened. Uh, no, we don't freak out like that. And the views they keep showing of clouds then showing the people freaking out, not the right clouds.

*Okay, done bitching. For now.

*I finally ended up with covid. Dangit. Thought it was just a sinus infection (get those pretty regularly), but I checked because our numbers have gone up, and I wanted to be sure for church.

It's mostly snot. But also I have less energy, which is the frustrating part. Just enough energy to clean stalls and feed, but not enough to ride. At least I don't have the stalls piling up.

*Spent a large part of the 3 day weekend on the couches. One I get to sit on, and if I want to lay down, I have to go to the other one (because the cats are laying on the sitting couch. I must use the other, newer, not quite as comfortable couch. lolol)

*Since I'm whining, the snot and whatever makes both my reflux and my heart rate worse. Have I mentioned that the medicines I usually take for this also now increase my heart rate? Today I was feeling more energetic, then right before I went out my heart rate went up to 112. Fun times. Still cleaned stalls because who else is going to do it. (I generally am at 70-80.ish)

*Haven't ridden since Tuesday, and I feel like a lazy ass. (Yeah, I know)

*Binged "Hack my House" on Netflix. While I am over the term 'hacked' as a cute way to refer to fixing things up, the people on the show are really good. They spend time with the homeowners and evaluate use and flow, then a decorator, an engineer, a construction person, and a crazy man discuss ways to redo the areas they're having problems with. Did I mention there was an engineer-woman? And a crazy person? And the construction person is a woman who dresses very spiffy? The designer is totally a cute little gay princess. If you can ignore the constant 'hack'ing, it's totally worth it.

*I still wish Taco Time was a thing here. I used to eat soft meat burritos with extra sour cream when I was sick, and it made me feel better. I'm sure it'd taste different now, but I'd like to give it a try.

*wanted to do some yard work this weekend, but no spoons.

*Good thing I didn't do any yard work because I now have a bunch of blue dragonflies. I thought they were only near water. ? They are in the taller weeds.

Or, so I've heard. And it's almost June. Somehow.

*Antiques Roadshow and Celebrity Antiques Roadshow on Pluto is now on the episodes filmed after Covid started. I remember the spacing and etc, but it's really weird and actually kind of annoying to see them doing this in the show. And they're watching the auctions on iPads from parks and estates all socially spaced out instead of being in the auction room, which may be what really is annoying to me. lol It's an odd reaction, I think. But also, they're rerunning the same ones frequently, which they don't usually do.
They still have the visits to historic and interesting sites, so I'm happy.

*Someone whined too much about not enough rain here. Jerks. The last 1.5 weeks we've had rain off and on. And on. And on. My stall runs are lakes. I have random water in in barn. I have to be careful walking to the barn in case I slip and fall on my ass. The horses have been in the small pasture since May 12th to save the big back pasture from getting torn up.
It is nice to have rain and actual grass growing in the pasture.

*Went to a show with Zolar weekend before last. We learned some good things. Had a really harsh judge. For some reason the first day they had two judges (Which they don't/shouldn't at my level for regular shows), and K had some amusement reading the difference between the two. But, K was there this time (she usually doesn't come to my shows), and we worked on things like me being more relaxed and having better posture.
Zolar was also tense, so wasn't loose over his back. And then the second day he was so slow on his second test because he was tired from being stressed. Also, tests at a show are always more tiring than at home.
But, K says she wants to come ride him the day before our lessons this summer and get him more consistently working through and doing changes.

*Managed to pick up a screw in my truck tire at the show. Luckily, I didn't notice until a week later, when I went to drive the truck, and she was like, dude there's no air in my tire. Thank God for a slow leak because the show was 4.5 hours away from home.

*You know that thing where you think the cats peed in the laundry room, but then you realize it's just your manky barn clothes from yesterday? Yeah, all this rain is making it feel like we're in Houston. But without the nearby Costcos.

My favorite holiday is Halloween. I'm not a big decorator of my house, and am not really great at making costumes, but I still love it. Luckily most of the people in the clinic are also into dressing up, so we do some fun group costumes. This year we're being the 'spice' girls. I'm curry. And they're going to decorate the clinic with kitchen stuff.
(It can be a little hard because everything has to be kid friendly-nothing scary).

My second favorite holiday is Thanksgiving because food. :)


TVs: Halloween Wars, Halloween Baking Championship, Outrageous Pumpkins. lol (I need to get a new DVR so I can record them).


Netflix: Watched Office Invasion today. 4.5/5. Funny polemic about how corporations treat their employees, but then aliens. I swear it's worth it.
Also, Nailed It:Halloween dropped on Friday.



Took Zolar to the vet Saturday (best time for me in the next week) for lameness. Right after I got there an emergency came in. Surgical emergency. So, I left Zolar there and went to eat lunch. Came back, waited some more. It was sad, though, because the kids that brought the horse in were all so worried and upset. I hope their horse survives. It did make it through the surgery. (I prayed for them, poor kids)

Zolar passed the lameness exam for the most part, but C(the vet) injected his hocks anyway (K and I were worried about him not sitting back enough+his age+some head bobbing at times was due to that). C has been concerned about his back muscling before (not enough of it), and this time he lasered his back and wants to do a med that will help with that.

My mom called while they were lasering Zolar. Apparently she went to the ED the night before because she had one too many glasses of wine (she's okay). Also, there is a small herd of deer in the backyard eating the apples(?) that have fallen and not been picked up. The drunk deer scare my mom, so she is taking their garbage in the car around the street to the alley where the garbage can is. lol
Drunk mom, drunk deer, drunk horse (they drug them when they inject joints).


I am doing a sleep experiment the last week. Generally, I stay up a bit too late reading, and by the time I get to Friday I'm really tired, and take an hour nap each weekend day if I can. The last week I have stopped reading right at 9:30 to get in bed by ~10.

No naps this weekend, but I did watch some bad TV while laying on the couch for an hour or two. But, this morning at church my brain was not in gear. I was part of the Psalm duo, and when M asked me to sing my first line a cappella so he could walk into the seating and listen I just couldn't think of my note. This happened TWICE, even with him giving me the note previously. The third time he played two measures before without me asking, so I could get it, but dang. It was a bit different than usual because I was singing the first note an octave up, which could have been part of it. I jut felt like an idiot.

When I'm tired I don't have/remember my dreams as much. This week they were very vivid-I don't remember them, but they are often weird/somewhat disturbing. I think that cuts down on my sleep, but I don't know. I kind of want to go back the other way just to cut down on the dreams. (I have a big imagination anyway, but atenolol that I have to take makes them so much more.)

I'll give it one more week. Probably.


Oh, skipped the opera Saturday night. Surprise! /not. But spending 5 hours at the vet, hooking then unhooking the trailer, and being cold and wet was not fun. I just wanted to stay in, read, and chill. I was looking forward to it previously, because it's a comedy, but I just noped out. (also, I heard it was really long, and even the friend that ribbed me for not going said they left at the first intermission, so there).