January 6, 2011
And so begins the first update of the New Year for me! Lets start with Winnings.

The Win Somes
The Spanish Sport Horse End of the Year Awards have been posted, and Cheshire Farms has achieved the following titles:
2010 Champion Trainer
2010 Showmenship Champion
2010 Top 10 Highest Earning Stable
(ps: these are based on earned points, so no, I'm not sticking my hand in the cookie jar LOL)

Some of our horses have received recognition as well:

CF Avispados Pearl
2010 Top 10 Point Earner
2010 Top 5 Sires
2010 Stallion of the Year


CF Fox Trot
2010 Ideal SSH Mare Nominated
2010 Top 5 Ideal SSH Mares


CF Red Hot Fox
2010 Top 5 Ideal SSH Mares
2010 Top 5 Broodmares

And now sadly for the Loose Somes...
Mainly loosing time. In the beginning of November I traveled 3 hours away from home for a interview about transferring my job (cake decorating) to a different store. The day before the interview, my breaks locked up and I rear ended the back side of a truck, which cracked my little Dodge Neon's face in two. It looked worse then it was, but the end result was the radiator (that we just replaced that year) cracked and needed a new one. Even more annoying was my breaks were just replaced the day before that, and I had no idea that I didn't have anti-lock breaks on them, I didn't even know there were breaks that were not anti-lock. Until I could get a radiator I was staying with friends up there. Thankfully I was able to transfer my job class up there, and get to work right away so I didn't miss much time. In the mean time I had been already looking at apartments up there, and unfortuntally had to put a deposit on one sooner that I had anticipated. Here I was moving in November, and wasn't planing to move until December. So after the deposit sucking my reserves, I had to wait till next paycheck to get the radiator. Which after we told them which one we specifically needed, the dingbats ordered the wrong one. So this is me waiting another week for the right one to come in ---> !@#$%&!@#$%& *pause* !@#$%&!! And then during all this, my friend I was staying with finally received a call back for her job and needed some one to watch the babies (whom I call my Nephews)during the day since she would not be working from home any more, and her husband is a school teacher. So now I picked up two jobs, a 8:30 to 4:30 nanny watching a 3 yo and a 7mo, and then decorating and closing a huge bakery from 5 to 10, Monday through Friday, while pulling doubles on the weekend at the bakery. Needless to say when you're getting up at 7am and not getting home till 10:30pm, you don't have much free time to do anything. In fact many times I end up pulling all nighters and load up on espresso while taking power napes while the babies are sleeping. The last month and a half has been the hardest because the youngest baby was diagnosed with Glaucoma, which means he has pressure building up in his eye, which = inconsolable screaming baby. This poor thing, at 7 months old he's been in pain for the last 6. First it was the baby food recall which inflamed his intestines, and then it was a Doctor misdiagnosing his eye condition due to allergies. He's already had surgery on both eyes, and after his check up yesterday he will have to come back in another two months to see if he'll need surgery again. And then as of January 10th I will be going to college again Wednesday and Friday nights, and Saturday mornings while also taking some online classes. x_x @_@ z_z ;_; pray for my sanity please.

The End.