Sunday, September 04, 2005

Back in the saddle

I am so full of shit.
I can give it but not take it.
Actually that is not true. I was taking it no problem on Saturday. Sed had pointed out that I had been a bit stupid in one section of my rant. I realize that I had written it wrong and my real meaning was off. Not worth going into now. I was handling the email rant with no problem. It was making me shake my head but I was dealing with it.
I was fine until ‘The Sound of Music’.
-The fields are alive….
Started crying. From that point I couldn’t handle ANYTHING!
Li thought I was just being the usual sap that I normally am when watching movies and was ignoring me, thankfully. It wasn’t until I was on the computer and crying till he asked me what the hell was the problem.
-It is an Alisha thing. Ill be ok in a bit.
He took JiXiang into the other room and let me work things through.

I actually slept fairly well last night until around 3. JiXiang woke up, so I fed her but then I couldn’t get back to sleep. I ended up having quite the half asleep nightmareishy dream.
The Dream
I was sitting on a fence very similar to that of the ring at Island 22. The ring was full of horses and riders of all ages. No jumps. This one horse with a rider far to small was on the far side. Her (could have easily been a he) horse spooked and took off in a flat out gallop. The tiny girl on the big horse started to slide and was soon in the overly dangerous position of near hanging. She was holding on for dear life with fear written all over her face. Her foot was stuck in the stirrups and the reins were wrapped around her hands. One wrong move and she would be underneath of smashed into the fence by the out of control horse.
(Note that this child did NOT look like JiXiang or me in any way that I could tell.)
People were freaking left and right, a few tried to desperately control the crazed animal.
I remained sitting on the fence watching.
The horse ran around the ring a few times with a few people making attempts to stop it, a awhile I sat trying to decide what to do.
Then all of a sudden the horse galloped passed me and I jumped on behind the child.
Note: This is a dream. Cant even pretend to do that in real life.
I preceded to upright the girl and untangle her hands. I slowed the horse down and asked the child to take her feet out of the stirrups for safety.
Here is the odd part.
The teacher in me took over and instead of handing the kid to her stricken parents I proceeded to bring the now totally calm horse for a walk around the ring.
Note: A dream. No horse I have ever encountered would be that calm after running at a full out crazed gallop and who now had two people on its back.
I proceed to ask the kid why she thought the horse panicked and explained to her about the horses pee sized brain and its inability to work under certain circumstances.
I then brought the child to its parents who were a splitting image of Barbie dolls all dressed in stupid cocktail dresses. Totally NOT horse wear.
I proceeded to chastise the parents into tears.
Why was this child on a horse of this size?
Why was this child with out a handler?
Why was this child wearing stupid unsafe boots with toes too big to safely remove from the stirrups AND that had no heels?
Why was this child in a saddle without breakaway stirrups?
Stupid people!
I handed the child back to the people and the horse…
Well I don’t know what happened to the horse.
It just disappeared and I fell asleep finally into a deep sleep.

Li tells me I won.

I know who the horse and the child are. And yes, I feel much better.
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