11 Days!

Until I go to college. That's when I move to Athens. Classes start on the 15th. :)

Still need to buy a fridge.

I've been babysitting all week. They're awesome girls, but I'm also happy that today is the last day. I am so tired. Gonna go help my boyfriend at a horse show this week, too. So much stuff this week. But it was awesome, cause we got to go out to lunch at a pizza place, got frozen yoghurt, went to Jump 2 It, Urban Jungle, swimming a few times and and and.. awesome week :)

I'm gonna finally spend next  week packing. Juan is taking me there hopefully. I hope he can help me move in and all, but we're gonna have to see if he has to work. He's built 15 grooming boxes that we sold for $600 and now he's working on 2 medicine boxes that can be hung up on a stall for horse shows for $700. And then we're gonna build a small tack box. It's awesome. :)

I got my animal practicum book yesterday and it's awesome! Love it. I'm so excited for that class to start.

I applied for about 10 jobs yesterday, too. I finished my resume and I'm gonna send it to a few places in Athens that I talked to when I visited with my mom. I'm really hoping I can get a job, so I can save up at least a little bit of money for when vet school starts. It might not help much with tuition and stuff like that, but at least with the applications. Having some savings for that will make it a bit less stressful. :)

Here's a picture of my favourite Shirts for Shelters dog toy.

She's so cute, isn't she? <3

No more braces!

I got my braces off today. Finally. I've had them for about six years now. They were a huge pain, but now I'm done with them. I'm getting retainers in two weeks, but that won't be too bad. I'm getting the invisible ones for during the day, so it won't be as bad. :)

Bf is gone to Auburn again. We're almost done with the grooming boxes. It's taking longer than expected because of so much rain here in Georgia. Then once we get paid, we're starting the next project - a medicine box that can be hung up on a stall. We might get to make two of them. Lots of money. :) We made business cards and I hope those will help get us more work once the horse shows are over and he doesn't have to work so much there anymore. He's gone for 5 days this week and then 4 or 5 days again next week.

19 days until move-in at UGA. I'm so very excited. All I need now is a bike, and then I'm done shopping.

My fish are getting very interested in us. They let us touch them and learned how to get attention when they're hungry. I didn't know they are that smart. They jump a little out of the water when they want to be fed.

Can I leave already?

I'm so anxious to leave. The vet office I asked to shadow at never called back. Cool. Not really. If you don't want me, at least tell me so I'm not waiting forever. I'm getting really bored at home and I wish that I could already move to Athens. At least I could go around there then and explore.

I decided that it probably would be better not to have a car in college; at least for the first semester. I applied for a job and if I get it, I might be working weekends, too. Then it just wouldn't make sense to come home for a few hours. Waste of gas money. And my mom wants to come for events anyways every once in a while. And I know that my boyfriend will come up all the time anyways. Which I love. I think it's good that we won't be together every second anymore. I wouldn't get any studying done that way. But I will enjoy every minute with him when he does come up. :)

He's coming back from Auburn today. It was a long horse show 'weekend' without him. He already had to leave Tuesday morning to set everything up. I'm excited to see him tonight. :)

Isn't that such a sad picture?! I made a fb group for my 'Shirts for Shelters' project and that's what I chose as a picture for it. I hope that a lot of people will donate their clothes to help with this. It'd be awesome. There's another girl already that wants to help with making the toys. :)

Shirts for Shelters

So I'm thinking about starting a project that could help dogs at shelters. Now that I'm off to college, I am reluctant to start volunteering permanently somewhere. I don't want to be overwhelmed by everything in my first semester/year already. So I thought of a way to help from home (or in this case dorm room), because I'd still like to help out and do something good. :)

Shirts for Shelters

I want to collect old shirts and blankets and just pieces of fabric even and make different things out of them. It's easy to make dog toys out of strips of fabric and if I have the patience, I could make blankets, too. We'll see. I like the thought of making toys. I think that many puppies and young dogs would really appreciate them and that it would make their time in the Shelters a little better.

How do I get those shirts? Well, I'm planning on using my own shirts that I really don't wear anymore. I also want to make a facebook group,  so that any friends or people from college and close by can donate their stuff if they want to. I want to collect as much as possible, so I don't only have one or two or even five toys whenever I go to a shelter. No! I want to bring boxes of stuff to them! Many people just have their old stuff lying around, why not find a good use for it?

Please, give some feedback on that idea and tell me what you think. Or if you want to make your own, share them on my facebook page that I will make soon and then post here. Thank you. :)

Sheep LED

Funniest video ever that I found on a vet student's blog today..

Changed Schedule

So, I finished my final schedule. Or at least, I hope this is it. I don't want to have to worry about finding another class to fit my schedule again. My first one was great time-wise, this one is ok. MWF will be much longer..

I dropped Psych 1101 because I sent in my old AP scores. I got credit for Macroecon, so I don't need to take another class for that section. I also dropped Engl 1101 because I got 3 credit hours from my 11th grade AP English class. Another class taken care of. :) I'm gonna take Engl 1102 and be done with English classes for the rest of my life. I will be starting my freshman year with 9 credit hours done already. :) To get a good number of hours again and not waste any time, I added Math 2250 to my schedule. Calculus. Ughhh. I hate math but just like with English, it will be the last math class I need to take. UGA Vet School doesn't require any math classes, but some others do, such as Auburn, so even though I hate, I still decided to take one. Just to be sure.

Boyfriend is gone to Auburn for a horse show. He's getting paid more now. It's wonderful. :) And apparently tons of people are interested in my tack trunk and horse jumps and stuff. We are currently building little grooming boxes (15!), because one of his bosses is wanting them for her horse shows. They are very cute and easy to build. We bought new tools for them, and we will still make enough money from them. I am so excited about all this. My mom told me yesterday that I should start a real business with it. Really?! :D It's all so exciting and I will look more into that..

It's less than a month now until I move in! I am very excited. We're almost done shopping for everything. Well, according to my mom, we're done. But we'll see. ;) It's all so exciting. hahaha I got a purple chair for my dorm room yesterday. It was cheap, but it's sooo comfortable and it gives my a great place to read. We also bought a new desk chair. I have trouble with my back and that one will hopefully help a lot. My side of the room will be decorated in mostly purple with little things in light blue, teal, light green and pink. It's all very cute. And I'm taking my wonderful tack trunk. I love it. Thanks to my wonderful bf! :)

Home alone..

Once again. My mom is off to see a friend who is also moving back to Germany. So many people leaving. Not much sooner and we're gonna be the only Germans here.. jk. There's too many of us living here. That can't happen.

We went to the bank today and I have my own account now. Finally. About time with me going off to college. And it's linked to my mom's, so she can always put some money on there. ;) I got her to give me $60 a week instead of $50, because she always gets money from my grandma for me. That way she doesn't keep it all. hahaha

Good news! Now we have one person who wants one tack trunk, another wants three and then another one wants ten! Isn't that awesome?! I'm so excited! And he also is thinking about having us build a whole ring full of jumps. :D A lot of people are asking for our business cards. Well.. we don't have any. But we're making some! This week when Juan gets back and then he can take 'em to the shows the next few weekends. It was a good idea that he took my tack trunk to the show. That way people don't only know that we make them, but also what they look like. :)

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to my little sister! She is 16 now. :)

Van found out that I have fish now today. It was kinda funny. He sat in front of the shelf that they are on and just kept looking up at it. From behind, he looked like a bat with his ears falling back and standing up. He's adorable like that. He also keeps licking his muzzle which usually means he's thinking about food. I'm not sure if he's planning on eating my fish.. lol

We have someone who is interested in buying one of our tack trunks to give away at her horse shows. Awesome! :D There are other people looking at it today, too. If you're in Auburn at horse shows the next few weeks, you should take a look at it. Juan is working there and he took the tack box that he made for me. It's beautiful.

We are also making a price list now for jumps. Because all our tack trunks are custom made, we can't really put one price on it. But most jumps will be the same, so it's easier to put a price. We might have someone who wants us to build a whole ring! I'm so excited! We really need some work right now.. If you have the time, please check out Sayrian Charm. It's our facebook page and you can see some pictures of what we build. And if you're not interested in buying anything right now, it'd be awesome if you could still become a friend. Thanks. :)

My friend just came back from orientation from UGA and we're gonna have The History of Horse Racing together. Awesome! We're both horse crazy and it's gonna be an awesome class. I heard the professor is awesome. :)

Edit: I just heard that three more tack trunks are wanted. I'm so excited! The more we make the more people talk about them and we get more customers. :)

I'm still here

Sorry for not blogging in a while, but I was either too busy, not feeling good or just didn't really feel like it. Lo siento..

There hasn't really much been going on. I was working my butt off at an horse show without getting paid to get experience as jump crew and in-gate person. Maybe I can find someone to work for next summer with that. It was nice though, working with my boyfriend. But damn, Jumpers can be so much work when you're doing jump crew. Especially if someone thinks it's funny to make a different course for each class where you even have to move several jumps. Thanks. :P But oh well. Gave me something to do during this endless summer...

I have a few more lazy weeks left before I'm gonna babysit for five days. I'm excited for that because I love little kids and getting $200 right before I start college sounds good, too. I really hope I can find someone to babysit for in Athens. My favorite family here is sadly moving back to Germany soon. No more babysitting there. They have awesome kids and the parents are supercool to hang out with, too. I'm gonna miss them. :)

My boyfriend actually moved in with my family now. Not what I planned after just 3 1/2 months, but it's going pretty well so far. We have some fights sometimes because I like having a few minutes to myself sometimes, but I think it's good when a couple knows how to fight. Haha. I don't know how it will go once I go to college though. He doesn't want to stay here by himself, so I hope he can get an apartment close to Athens. That'd be wonderful. But I know my mom wouldn't mind him staying at the house. He's so nice and very helpful around the house. :) Now he's off to a horse show until Sunday. That's how it's gonna be for a few weeks now. Gone on Thursday, back on Sunday. But he promised to go to Tai Spice with me on Wednesday. That's my favorite restaurant and it will be our 4 months. :) I know it's not a big deal, but I'm just really happy with him now that we're finally officially dating. :)

Guess what! I got a pet for college. Two to be exact. Hahahaha. Juan and I went to his friend's wedding and they gave us two goldfish to take home. He loved the fish at the the Georgia Shrimp Company and although he says they're useless now that we have two, I still catch him watching them and smiling. And he likes to take care of them, too. :)

My greencard request finally got approved. They should be sending the actual card in the next two weeks. Then I can finally get approved for in-state tuition. My mom just told me that I can't go if I'm counted as Out-of state. Sucky. But it's all good now. :)

My dogs are lazy as always. Chloe looks like such a baby when she rolls up to sleep. It's so adorable. Especially when she's dreaming and quietly barking to herself during it. :) But sometimes, like now, she stretches out all the way and she looks so hugggee. I'm not feeling too great today again and I'm really enjoying the time with her on the couch all day. :)