sofa.

sophie's mammory gland[s] is infected.
she is very ill.
she went to the vet today and got medicines
but the puppies have to be bottle fed
from now on.
poor sofa worm.

soooo me&derek joined in the
activities, and will probably
need to do so as often as we can.







it was eating his nooose! <3

oh, btw.

THIS is my favorite picture of shooter that
i am taking to work.



because unless you have been with shooter
in his home, you don't know this shooter.
he has his "yeah, i'm a terror and i don't care"
face on. but he is posing at the same time
because he has to be the center of attention...
at all times.
i think this picture is shooter in a nutshell.


if you have only seen shooter OUTSIDE of his house,
you would think we beat him. he is a nervous wreck,
and will not go near anybody he does not know.
sometimes he won't even go near people he does know.
he will poop 10 times because he is scared poopless;
literally. he is a very strange dog.
but i couldn't see him being any other way.

life is good.

first off,

HAPPY FAT TUESDAY.
i have mad mardi gras
beads and nowhere to wear them!
fun fact; mardi gras
actually started in mobile, alabama
not new orleans!

on to my happy blog...

i am so pleased with my life right now.
soph has puppies, i have an awesome
boyfriend, and an awesome job,
and i can still horseback ride despite
my busy schedule.


i'm going to be riding on tuesdays
starting the first week of march.
yay.

so yesterday was my second full day at
fisher's friends and there's nothing i
don't like about this job!
there's even a coffee fund.
free coffee! [i got hot chocolate]
there is a note on the board to
take in pictures of our dogs.
i'm taking my most favorite picture
of shooter in, and i'm taking in
pictures of the puppies &moose&soph.
i'm having them printed @ walgreens so
they'll be nice. :]

today i am also going to buy
some prismacolor markers,
go to joanns,
go to the grocery store,
and maybe do laundry.
i have to cram everything into
one day! i keep telling myself
it's only 90 days!
then i'll have weekends,too.
just in time for summer.

my car tire is fixed but i am still
driving my dad's torrent. until he
feels like switching back lol.

i can't believe i got up at 9 on my day off!
haha this morning derek was leaving for work
and i thought i still heard him in the kitchen and
i went to grab my mardi gras beads and make sure
he wore some to work! but he was gone,
i think i was still half asleep haha.


well, i better get going.busy day.

ha.

you poor, pathetic soul.

flickr.

click here to see my pitchas!

ponies.

i miss being in shows so much.
i'm saving my money and showing ASAP.
&next time i'm at my parents i'm going
to dig out my old ribbons.

how could i even consider quitting riding?
it's a very big part of my heart.

i feel fine.

so, i've been back...only wrote once
about my vacation, i guess. haha.
well anyways i got home around 11
on thursday and derek picked me up
from the airport. flights were
very short and both were early.

then yesterday was my first day of work
at fisher's friends. it was great, i love it there.
and i was driving to mcdonalds on my lunch
and guess what, i had a flat tire i didn't
know about haha and it went totally flat
and the tire came off the rim so my grandfather
had to take me back to work and i'm driving
my dad's truck til my tire gets fixed.
but i am missing derek's show tonight because
my dad doesn't want to drive my car
downtown on a donut. then i'll have the truck
back after tonight.

derek&i went to see RAIN last night,
it was AWESOME! i loved it, and i want
to see it again. my dad&brother are going
tonight.
they had the songs spot on. it was so fun.
then today i went back to work @ tops,
and it went fast but ugh...the start
of my 6 day weeks. blah. whatever.
at least there is a riding spot open
on tuesdays [my only day off]
so i can ride then. woop.

and SOPHIE HAD HER PUPPIESSSS.
6 of them! all by herself!
the neighbor who was checking
in on her said he went there
early thursday morning and the
puppies were there!
so derek &i went to see them
thursday after we got back to his house
right after the airport.
i cleaned things up and OMG they
are so cute.

there are 2 white w. black spots,
one white w. grey spots
one grey
one tan
and one black.
TOO CUTE!
i'll get pics up when i get
some good ones of them.
they are only 2 days old so
they are not at their peak cuteness right now.
haha.

i bought shooter some fancy dog treats in alabama
that looked like cupcakes. haha
he loved them so much.



i'll post all my pictures/videsos in the
next post. i may even start a flickr,
just to get all of them in there,
and i won't have an infinite post of pictures.




k, going to relax for now.


-mints.

deep south.

didn't think we'd have internet here.
my grandparents have a laptop haha.


so now i can blog my experiences!

the ride was long but i slept a lot of the time,
we stopped overnight in kentucky.
my mom left a bag there [naturally]
so i guess they'll get that on the way home.
i was still really sick on the way here.
i'm better now because my grandma
had a whole bottle of amoxacilin [sp]
lucky me. :] feeling better today,
no more sore throat but still no
appetite, and still sleeping a lot.

i guess we drove all together about...20 hours.

so we finally got here about 5pm on valentines day.
today is sunday. this morning was wet, it rained last night
but my brothers and i went to the beach anyways really early
and fed the seagulls. we were scared of them at first.
then we came back up to the condo. i took a nap,
then we went to eat at about 11...we ate at FISH CAMP.
i got a burger. haha. my grandma insisted on bringing all scraps
back for her friend, who feeds these stray cats.
they aren't feral, though. and they were all spayed and neutered
and had their shots, bbut there was no room inthe shelter
so they were returned to the beach. beach kitties.

then we went go-karting on big woody. it was a sweet
go-kart course, but my car was way faster than everyone elses
so nobody could even catch up! and my dads was so slow that i caught up to him!
haha. then we got back to the condo and went skim boarding.
jake asked for a skim board so my mom bought one.
sooo we tried it out. pretty unsuccessful
and we fed the birds, again. i've developed a way to get
them inches from my face. haha.
if you throw it in the air to the ones looking at you,
they will come closer and closer. scary if you look at
their beaks but pretty cool when you see how they wait
for you to give it to them.

then we came back and i read my book and fell asleep
again...its the antibiotics fighting in my body.
i slept through dinner and games. they even tried
to wake me up and i didnt hear anything.

so i am up now, still no appetite except for cereal
and they only have 2% milk. [barf]
ill probably get a pop from the vending machine,
go back and read and fall asleep again, not a good way
to spend vacation but i am relaxing. ill be better by tomorrow,
im pretty sure of it.

not sure what we are doing tomorrow but i will try
to write about it, may not get around to it!
the weather today was about 67 and sunny! it was PERFECT.
not looking forward to coming back to cold but this
is nice while i have it!


also, in kentucky i got this travel book that
has an ad for the 2010 all equestrian games,
first time they're going to be in the U.S. ever!
in kentucky. im going to ask allison to go with
me, doesnt even say the dates yet, but my mom said
we probably have time share in lexington. that would
be awesome. couldnt stay all 16 days, but id like to see
the dressage and the showjumpping and maybe the vaulting.
ticket prices arent even posted yet.


okay im going to have a banana and text my boo.


goodnight!


-mints.

oh, my.

can't believe that plane crash last night.
we stayed up &watched it on the news.

STORY HERE


so sad. and LITERALLY, right down the street.
i can imagine that has to be one of the worst
and most frightening ways to die.
and the poor luck of that person who died,
whose house it landed on.
i think the rest of that family got out, though.

i can't even think of how scary it would be...


i wonder if my mom will let me fly home from
alabama by myself still... well she has to unless
she pays for my ticket. but im feeling kindof nervous
about it myself.
this is the second plane crash in a little more than
a week! except they all lived on one, they all
died on another. things like this don't happen
down the street from you!


:[

ugh.

i am soooo sick. and i have to work 8.5 hours tomorrow,
then go do laundry and pack and clean up my room
@ my sister's, and leave the next morning for
a very long ride down to alabama. i hope i am
feeling better by the morning.

thankfully i have a boo that buys me
chicken soup, orange juice
with lots of pulp, and
baja blast mountain dew [by request]

im going to sleep it off now...
and it's 9:00...

aaat last...

so last night i got some people to go to
olive garden for derek's bday, unknown to him.

so we got there and ate dinner w. joe, mike, and pat.
i invited a bunch of other people but they
couldn't come, but his 3 pretty much best
friends showed up so i was happy.
and joe brought a cake.

it was fun.

not as eventful as last year.
last year i took him to lasertron,
locked my keys in my car and his
car key opened my door! then we ate at
the melting pot. whew.

but this year was just as fun because it was a surprise.
:]

i have to work 11:30-8 today...SUUUUCKS! its going
to be sooo dead in floral by 8. and i have a sore
throat and a huge headache that will not go away.
and i never get headaches, its been there since
last night. :[

we're leaving early friday morning to alabamz,
should be there by saturday. then i am
flying back by myself on thursday, so i can go
to my first day of work the next day!
and we are also going to see rain after
i get out of work.
THE BEATLES EPERIENCE! HOLLA!


okay. thats about it.

is it just me or...

does it feel SO MUCH BETTER to just cry
while you are singing out loud to
your favorite songs?


it may not sound very pretty.
but close your eyes, get your ipod,
and cry about everything you have inside
of you, at the same time singing the
words to your favorite songs
out loud for everyone to hear.



you will almost feel better.

just for fun.

1.YOUR REAL NAME:
Mary Katherine Penny

2.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME:(mother and fathers middle names)
Marie Charles

3.NASCAR NAME:(first name of your mother's dad, father's dad)
Louis Richard

4.STAR WARS NAME:(the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name)
Penma

5.DETECTIVE NAME:(favorite color, favorite animal)
Purple Horse

6.SOAP OPERA NAME:(middle name, town where you were born)
Katherine Buffalo

7.SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd fav color, fav drink, add "THE" to the beginning)
The Grey Tea [hahahhaa]

8.FLY NAME:(first 2 letters of 1st name, last 2 letters of your last name)
Many

9.STREET NAME:(fav ice cream flavor, fav cookie)
Chocolate Chocolate Chip

10.ROCK STAR NAME:(current pets name, current street name)
Shooter St. John
[i guess, since i take care of shooter
he is my current pet. lol]

11. PORN NAME: (1st pet, street you grew up on)
Zak Cleveland

12.YOUR GANGSTA NAME:(first 3 letters of real name plus izzle)
Marizzle

13.YOUR IRAQI.. NAME:(2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, first two letters of your middle name, last two letters of your first name then last three letters of your last name)
Ankaryeny [pretty sweet...]

14.YOUR GOTH NAME:(black, and the name of one of your pets)
Black Moose

15. STRIPPER NAME: (name of your fav perfume/cologne, fav candy)
Delicious Chocolate
[OOH we may need to change that to WHITE CHOCOLATE!]

i'll never understand.

i go in and out of my country phases.
right now i'm in one. and my radio has been
on the country station for almost a week now.
i can't wait to be on the drive down
to alabama! i can't wait to be in alabama!


but when i come back, will start my first week of
6 day work weeks. for 3 months i have to work
6 days a week guaranteed. blah.
this is because my benefits don't come to me
at fisher's friends until 90 days.
so until those 90 days are up i am going to work
weekends at tops to keep my tops benefits until
i get my new ones.
it's only 3 months. and i'll have mad money
for disneyworld. :]


and my only day off is tuesday...
which means thats the day i will be riding.
im going to be exhausted!

10 hour days during the week,
8 1/2 hour days on the weekends,
and riding on tuesdays.
aycaramba.

i got the job.

OHHH YEAHHH!

okay so ready to hear about my new job,
the best job ever?

i am an attendant at a doggie day care!
I GET TO PLAY WITH DOGS ALL DAY LONG...
and get paid for it.

i'm in heaven.
and it's a full time job...
with benefits.

the name of the place is fisher's friends
http://fishersfriends.com/





i'm so excited.
i start on the 20th, after i come home
from alabama, but she said i can come on
my days off from tops until then,
because i have to give my 2 weeks.
my first day is this thursday.

it's 10 hour days, but i only work 4 days a week.
it's going to be awesome, i know it is.

one more thing.



i still love him.
gq named him best new designer of
the year. he finally has his own clothing
line!


but uh, yeah das ma boo.


[sorry nani.]

dreamsss.

had the weirdest dream last night
i can't remember the whole thing but i remember parts
of it.

i remember being in dereks bed and there was birdfood all over
the floor. then i saw that there was a cardinal in there, and
i had it on my finger and was feeding it birdfood from off the floor.
then i saw a pair of derek's jeans and i tried them on and
they fit me perfectly, but still too loose to wear...thats what i thought.
so i got up and started putting the birdseed in a bowl
and i didnt see the bird anywhere. then i saw it moving under the covers
and i let it out and fed it more birdseed.

then i remember i was at toys r us and there was a cash drawer sitting
on the counter and i took it to my car, took all the 20's out
and put them in my gym bag and took the drawer back in and said i found it
they wondered where the 20's were and i was like let me go check my car!
this army guy went through my gym bag and found them and i said,
oh they must have fallen out
while i was carrying the drawer in my bag to bring it back in here.
i don't know if they believed me or not but they let me go.


then i was in a city and some guy came crawling out of like
a sewer pipe and he was all bloody and stuff, and i followed
the sewer pipe back to where he came from.
[in my mind, i didn't physically go in there] and it was a street
so somehow i was on the street and talking to people.
then next thing i know we're in my old house and this
detective is handing me and other people those triangle
highlighters with the 3 colors on them. and told us to pick
our favorite color on there or something and she had us doing
all these things to like analyze us. and then i was a murder suspect,
and i didn't even know what was going on! i was like the main
suspect, too. then next thing i remember me and someone
who was smaller than me, i dont know who it was
were in this guys house and we were in the kitchen and
the living room was really really dark
and going down to the basement he had all this ice cream
in all kinds of crazy flavors. so i called derek to ask him
what kind he wanted. and then the whole house got dark
and for some reason i had a feeling bats were going to come
out of the hole in the ceiling in the living room, but
we heard growling coming from there so we ran out the door,
into his garage cos it was attached to his house and we didnt
know how to get out and i called derek and told him that
joe was trying to kill us
i never saw the guy but i knew his name was joe.

next thing i remember is my brother jake driving me to the movies
to meet derek. and i got some pecans out of the trunk and put them
in my hoodie pocket before jake pulled away. and i was looking
at the other snacks i could get at the concession. and this old lady
saw me eating my pecans out of my pocket and thought it was the
cutest thing ever. then i found derek and we ran into a dif.
movie for some reason, i'm not sure why...i think to get something
and then the lights started going down and we ran out really fast
and tried to find the theatre that our movie was in.

THEN i was on a boat with other people, again i don't
know who. and this crazy guy was trying to kill us i think but he
was being nice to us at the same time. he had this boat that went
underwater and the sides were glass so you could look at everything
around you. i was freaked out, i hate water. we were in the ocean, too.
and he was like "i can open the sides up and let the water in, too"
"you just have to hold on to the top" and i was flipping out like
just close your eyes and you wont see anything so you won't be scared.
but i was still scared. then i remember he came up above the water
and then the boat started sinking and me&the people i was with were
trapped behind a gate of some sort and these evil tomatoes were either
coming over the fence by themselves, or someone was throwing them
at us, but we had to keep throwing them back because
they would bite us, i think. and the fence kept getting higher
so it was getting harder to throw them over and i kept having to tell this
girl that they were not real tomatoes, because tomatoes grow
on vines, and she kept disagreeing with me.



and i think that's when i woke up.

soph.

is probably due around the time we will be in alabama.
:[ so she is staying with my mom's friend who
knows how to birth puppies. I WANTED TO BE THERE!
my mom told me to stop being dramatic as i pretty
much had her repeat this person's resume to me.
my little worm is havin' babies and i won't be here.
maybe she will wait for us...


so i hope i hear about the job today.
my second interview was cool.
i don't really want to say much about the
job right now because if i don't get it
i will be upset. but if i do, expect a really
long blog about how awesome my new job
is going to be.

right now i am reading an ann rule book
rage to kill, has a bunch of shorter stories in it
and i am also reading snuff by chuck palahniuk.
both good. i love chuck's books.

this is driving me crazy just waiting for a phone call.
i don't even know why i am, because that's how you get
dissapointed. i'm just hoping she calls today.
i'm gonna find some stuff to do to keep my mind off it
i'll probably do laundry and go to my grammas
and eat something and ahhhh.


went to a family superbowl party last night. blah.
very blah. but the food was good.
i left after halftime and that was my night.
so glad i have off today, though.
but i can't ride on friday morning for some
reason and i have to figure when i can ride
so i have to call my trainer and i hate
being on the phone. i dont know why.


allison got a pomeranian puppy for her dad.
he named him gibson after his guitar haha.
so now they have 3 dogs, 3 cats, and 1 bird.
and at her sisters across the street
they have a dog and a cat. i love it!


well im going to go eat and read and do things
before i drive myself mad waiting for this phone call
i have never wanted a job this bad! it's the most
amazing job EVER!