[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Tanya, I take it this is a friend of yours?
No, not personally. She came into AE's TF chatroom several times recently and somebody called her Aliciae.. I forget who. So now it's her nickname. Kinda like your very similar "jimscotscoot" chatroom-typo nickname from a long time ago. You should really come into the TF chat sometime.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]no, I'm not much of a horse lover... I took a big fall when I was little and I've stayed as far away as humanly possible from them ever since.
I've been riding for.. hell, I don't even know.. and I took my first fall a couple months ago. I was riding a big gray mare at a fast lope around a barrel and she swerved suddenly and stopped, and the momentum still left in my body caused me to go forward out of the saddle, go over her right shoulder and somehow hit the ground on my back, knocking the wind out of me. I got up, led her to more level ground and remounted. I *almost* fell two other times, once on her (in which case I sprained my right hand trying to stay on after she took me under low-hanging branches at a fast pace.. this was all before the fall) and once on another horse (my left foot slipped from the stirrup during a right turn at a fast lope and I instinctively bent forward in an attempt to not fall as I slowed the horse, getting jabbed repeatedly in the stomache by the saddle horn in the process). Also on the gray mare, I was loping along a barbed-wire fence and got the end of the leg of my jeans ripped an inch and a half. I'm so proud of that.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Twelve freakin hours to see Helis in natural habitat...
Once, during one of these semi-annual trips from here to Massachusetts, we drove for 23 straight hours from here to Pennsylvania, mostly at night (less traffic). I slept none the whole way... I do NOT sleep in the car. Ever. Because I do NOT trust my grandfather's driving. One time I nodded off involuntarily for about 3 seconds, but that was it. I just listen to music, read (in the rare daytime driving hours) and drink Red Bull the whole time when we go on out-of-state road trips (to either South Carolina, North Carolina or Massachusetts, depending on who we're going to see). I'm really used to it, and I'm okay in the car for a while with no stops except bathroom/food stops, but I have a certain sanity limit, and that sanity limit is 12 hours. Every time, without fail, I do fine for the first 12 hours, then for some unintentional reason I near insanity after that 12 hour mark.. I get unimaginably restless, can't get comfortable in any position whatsoever, and I start to retain water like crazy. I don't know why. It's not boredome.. I'm not one of those "normal" teenagers that HAS to be moving ALL THE TIME.. I have a pretty slow metabolism and I'm not FuLL oF eNeRgY like people expect me to be. The insanity just comes for no reason whatsoever. It just happens right after 12 hours. Don't know why.