First One Star Down!

"You and I
We don't wanna be like them
We can make it till the end
Nothing can come between
You and I
Not even the Gods above can
Separate the two of us
No nothing can come between
You and I" 

-You and I by One Direction

Ew cheesiness! I'm not a big fan of mushy, gushy romantic stuff (okay, maybe a little bit), but I do have to say that song has a fitting ring to my weekend. Sorry, I try to make ya'll laugh at least once or twice in these thing. Stephens are notorious for their dry humor.

Okay! So, uh, Greenwood happened and I finished. 

It was a pretty good weekend, well for the most part. 

Dressage was awesome. I was so happy, and we put in one of our best test. Which in my opinion, at a one star, is a pretty good place to do that. Unfortunately, I was on first after the test ride. So naturally, my score was gonna be somewhat good, but somewhat bad. I got a sixty. Which isn't terrible for my first one star, but there was a 9.5 point difference between judges. But whatever, what the judges think the judges think. Its not a big deal. I came out and both Mike and Heather were smiling so I felt we did like at least a little bit good. 

Cross country was amazing EXCEPT for the minor miscommunication between mommy and pony to where Mystic didn't see a skinny that came after a giant log going down a hill until like ya know a good three feet until the base. Sorry baby. So we had what I call a drive by. Not a greeny beeny stop or a dirty stop, but more like a OH HEY! LOOK! THERES A JUMP THERE! Yeah...so my fault.... it's been six days since Saturday and I'm still beating myself up. But she was so great everywhere else! GAH! Rider errors suck...

And stadium, well stadium was amazing as well to where I walked out and Mike was like "Makes yesterday suck worse huh?" Uh yeah... just a little bit Mike. And its not like he was   disappointed in me or my horse; he was just upset it happened. He told me he didn't know if we were actually going to be able to do this and that I proved him wrong. He also told me that I had progressed so much since we started in Florida in January, but like grrrrr! 

Ya know, I come off and people are like how was she? I'm starting to get tired of telling people my horse was great and my score not showing it. I feel like its making me a liar. 

But needless to say it was a good weekend minus the run out. What this does mean is that we get to wait one more year for young riders. I don't want to push my horse to qualify, but its just kinda disappointing. We are still going to Chatt Hills for experience but then we are going to take a break until August and hit up Santa Fe HT and Colorado CCI*. 

I always have my nose in a book, and so before dressage I was reading The Shadowhunter's Codex which is like a companion novel, guide thing to a series I'm like royally obsessed with. So I was reading of my tack trunk, book in my lab, my beats on listen to a classical playlist I have before I ride dressage, and I come across a quote I will most likely live by for the rest of my life. It was: "Do not shrink from battle. Have faith, seek courage." Now yes, this is from a world where if you are afraid of the battles with demons you will most likely die, but just stop and think about what we do. We (or at least most of you reading this) are eventers. We jump over solid objects running 25-45 MPH on a living breathing thing that could KILL us. I mean, if we do shrink from the battle we fight everyday in our riding, the hobby and career we have set ourselves up in would end. I'm not sure why this quote stuck with me, but it did. Maybe it is because I'm tired of things not really going the way I want to, and it reminds me that things happen for a reason and one day I will make the team and everything will be okay. But don't get me wrong; I love Mystic and I love what we do, and I choose to bring up a young horse on my own. If waiting is the price I have to pay I'll do it, but I am a teenager and I do have insecurities. 

Okay there was my nerdy self doubt moment. You probably wont see one for like another two years. Well the self doubt thing. I'll forever be a nerd ;)  

Anyway guys, I appreciate you all for being supportive of Mystic and I and being there from the start. My video of the weekend is up so I'll add a link to that. I do have a question though: Do you guys want me to continue this blog and keep sharing my experiences? If so let me know in the little comment thingy on the blog or comment on the Facebook link. I will post after Chatt. We leave this Wednesday and Mystic has been awesome up here at Mike's :)

Here is the video link! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdNDZuF_230 (And where my run out was, I promise I did go back over it, but RNS didn't put it in the video)