i am a cupcake.

first post of the new year, whoopee! -does a dance-

anyhow. first update: work was an adventure today! =D

because it had been raining and storming all night long, so the whole stretch of land Diamond Pointe takes up was mostly swamp. a lot of the pasture-space has been scarred clean of grass by years of horse hooves and people boots stomping all over it. and some places, like in front of the gates and water troughs, have been pounded into fine dust. which inevitably turns to quicksand-esque mud whenever it rains.

it was drizzling and mizzling and dripping for the first half of my shift, and for the better part of it i was walking to and fro in the pastures laden with whatever. so i was out in the wet and the muck all morning. most sane people would find this unpleasant.

my inner five-year-old was jabbering euphorically most of the time i was at the barn. i was getting to play in the mud and rain! and i was getting paid money to do it!! that is any child's dream job. and since i'm such a kid at heart, i was having way too much fun. is there any rule against having fun at work? if so, i broke it. majorly.

oh, i forgot one of the entertaining parts. for some inexplicable reason, when i first got to work there was no power for half the street. why, i still have no clue. but the streetlamps were out, and the lights in the barn wouldn't go on. and since i got there at about six fifty or something, it was still pretty dark and dusky out there. 'specially because it was raining and cloudy.

also. Alethea made a bad call last night and opted to leave the horses out. and it stormed all night. so everyone was wet and grumpy. some of the horses, i found out today, have fur that curls when it gets wet. the old man Flare is one of them, and he earned himself the nickname Curly-Q today.

if you're wondering about the title for this post, it's because i wore my cupcake beanie Kelsey gave me for Christmas. =3 it is cute. and i love it.

anyhow, enough rambling from the spaz. -salutes- peace owt.