A random absence and the oddest month of my life.

Hey everypony!
I decided to make a blog entry as to why my name seemed to disappear all together from Everypony for the past few weeks - I can assure you, I did not forget you wonderful ponies~! Actually, it's getting back here that's probably kept me going the most in what I've been doing - but let me explain what's been going on.

About a month ago I went to Jack n the Box and decided to spoil myself with an ultimate cheeseburger with extra sauce. For those of you unaware of what on earth that is, it's a burger (a little too peppery for my tastes, since they changed their recipe) with american cheese, mayo, mustard and ketchup. BEFORE they changed how it's made, it used to be the most delicious thing in the entire world to me. So I ate that - ALL of that and went on my merry way, playing Bioshock til about 1:00 AM when I ended my call with Pinkie (Rasii on the forums, for you veterans who remember him) and my boyfriend (MangaTurtle/BonyTurtle) for those of you who know him. I was feeling pretty sick but I thought it was just my adrenaline from the game, as I got into a pretty intense part of the game. So I went to bed feeling fairly cold - no matter WHAT I did, I could not get warm. Eventually I fell asleep, and was in and out of sleep for half an hour before I jolted awake feeling utterly MISERABLE. Sure enough my body rejected EVERYTHING I ate - I'll spare you the gross details. I ended up calling my boyfriend (as I was house/horse/dog sitting at the time, lucky me, right?) saying "I need you." I called my Mom (also my manager at work) letting her know I wasn't going to be in AT ALL that week (this happened on a Thursday morning so I was out Thursday and Friday). So my boyfriend tried to get water into me and get me to sleep... but every hour, then every hour and a half, then every two hours my body was rejecting ANYTHING and EVERYTHING we put in it. It wasn't til around 11 (the last time my body rejected anything) that we decided to get food in my system since I seemed to be fairly awake. Which is amazing considering all night I was in and out of sleep due to, y'know, my body going "OHHEY. Bathroom. Now." So I got saltines and apples... as well as the "Smartwater" brand of water since it has the electrolytes. My boyfriend was gracious enough to be up with me EVERY time I rejected something, as well as be up early enough to feed the horse, then wouldn't leave for home til I was stable enough to last a few hours til my mom could come over and spend the night. So my life was saltines and apples for a good three days since my body could not remember how to eat. Kids, never get food poisoning, it's a real kick in the arse. Should note, boyfriend took care of horse stalls, fed them and topped off their water, as well as, fed the dogs before he left. I couldn't have been more thankful. But, oh god, the last thing on my mind was doing anything that Thursday. Friday I was on skype but didn't feel up to much of anything else. I remember popping in once or twice going "not on long - food poisoning, just checkin' in". So that was all fine and dandy. The next week I worked my butt off getting used to working again - I know I DJed a few times, even once with Bawnty, so all was getting better but I still didn't know how to eat properly. It took me about a week and a half to learn how to eat normal meals.

Well two weeks after I got food poisoning... I ended up with a cold. I stayed home and SLEPT my butt off while taking things to defends against the cold. This meant going to bed early, waking up late and making sure I stayed away from as much sugar and dairy as I possibly could. It took a good week for me to get over it, a week I was supposed to get back into a horse riding habit again. Well I FINALLY got better and this entire week and half of last week has been nothing but going out there... but not just for riding.

You see... my horse developed rain rot. Now it's not as HORRIFIC as "rot" sounds, but it's still not fun to deal with. Basically the horse didn't fully shed out so extra heat was being trapped on her flank, eventually the hair started to curl up and bumps started to form. Flies probably helped get the 'infection' settled in (rain rot is a shared name among a few different but similar looking problems, each are treated the same way). So every other day we have to bring her out and give her a good brushing, then get out a gentle curry brush and get the scabs off. It looks and sounds nastier then what it is - honestly it doesn't bother the horse! The only thing they hate is the removal of the scabs. So we have to do that as often as we can (I say we cause my boyfriend helps me with this) so avoid it getting worse and more bumps forming. That's been taking all my nights after work, so I've been unable to get my butt in here. It doesn't help that, at work, when I usually keep both chats up, I'm training a new employee so that's A LOT of time away from my desk, and therefore, my computer. However, she's almost fully trained on everything and things seem to be going good with my horse, so I should on a little more often in the evenings, and maybe even a couple mornings!


So, I am very sorry for my disappearance, but real life troubles had to be dealt with. <3