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*bashes head against wall*
Aug. 13th, 2008 04:53 pmSo, one moment everything is fine, the next I come against brand new barriers to fight. Just for a few days, I'd like to be able to progress through life in a blissful 'everything is done, and I can do nothing but enjoy myself for a while' way. I've had two phone calls this morning, one which went better than I could have supposed - no, we're not going to have the water cut off, and one forwarding call which I oughtn't to have forwarded, it seems, because it might interfere with paying said water bill. Life is far too complicated.
Having dealt with these phone calls I discover that my mare had done it again - the weather clears up, and she throws her shoe, meaning that it's going to take another week at least to get the farrier in again. Just once I'd like to phone the farrier and book an appointment while she's got two shoes on, when she's due to have the shoes reset. It's really aggravating to have her constantly throwing them and go 'right, what's wrong in her field this time?' or 'what have I done wrong?'. She's behind an electric fence in a nice bit of pasture with no bits of twisted wire -- the only thing she has is a stream, but even that wasn't the culprit this time, as the shoe ripped off a huge lump of overgrown hoof wall when it came off this time, about two inches long by half an inch high. Trimmable, but really irritating. It means she's unrideable again, and I was just about to step her up to going out on long walks (on the lead) outside the grounds, getting her used to traffic and long distances again. No such luck. It's almost September, which means the warm weather will be going soon, and I don't want to be working on a lead rope when it's squelchy out there.
So that leaves another bit of euphoria. I'm 22, 23 in October, and this September I'll be getting my own car. A Skoda something or other, my mum couldn't remember over the phone. I don't really mind what the car is, the most interesting thing is that I'm going to be taking driving lessons with a professional instructor who is a friend of ours, and spending a fortnight in Northampton. I can't wait to be able to drive, so I'm going to have to buff up on my knowledge and make sure I'm really, really ready for it. So there you go, good things and bad things. Northampton means, however, that I might be in the UK some time before the end of this year. Meetups might be nice, no?
Question: I want to change my name back to my mother's maiden name - actually, I was born Windsor, so it's debateable as to whether it was changed when my mother married two years later, but I grew up Hicks. Now I want to change it back to Windsor, because it just sounds better, and although I've been using it, I'd much rather be able to use it in an official capacity. I think the thing that's bothering me the most is I just got my passport renewed, but I don't want it to be ten years until I change my name, and I'd rather not have to change it on my passport and my driver's license at the same time. Oh, and my preliminary driver's license says Hicks. So what do you think? Leave off making the change for a couple of years? I don't think there's enough time now before I'd theoretically be taking my test to wait a month for a passport and then another month for a replacement prelim. x.X Am I doomed to be Hicks forever?
Having dealt with these phone calls I discover that my mare had done it again - the weather clears up, and she throws her shoe, meaning that it's going to take another week at least to get the farrier in again. Just once I'd like to phone the farrier and book an appointment while she's got two shoes on, when she's due to have the shoes reset. It's really aggravating to have her constantly throwing them and go 'right, what's wrong in her field this time?' or 'what have I done wrong?'. She's behind an electric fence in a nice bit of pasture with no bits of twisted wire -- the only thing she has is a stream, but even that wasn't the culprit this time, as the shoe ripped off a huge lump of overgrown hoof wall when it came off this time, about two inches long by half an inch high. Trimmable, but really irritating. It means she's unrideable again, and I was just about to step her up to going out on long walks (on the lead) outside the grounds, getting her used to traffic and long distances again. No such luck. It's almost September, which means the warm weather will be going soon, and I don't want to be working on a lead rope when it's squelchy out there.
So that leaves another bit of euphoria. I'm 22, 23 in October, and this September I'll be getting my own car. A Skoda something or other, my mum couldn't remember over the phone. I don't really mind what the car is, the most interesting thing is that I'm going to be taking driving lessons with a professional instructor who is a friend of ours, and spending a fortnight in Northampton. I can't wait to be able to drive, so I'm going to have to buff up on my knowledge and make sure I'm really, really ready for it. So there you go, good things and bad things. Northampton means, however, that I might be in the UK some time before the end of this year. Meetups might be nice, no?
Question: I want to change my name back to my mother's maiden name - actually, I was born Windsor, so it's debateable as to whether it was changed when my mother married two years later, but I grew up Hicks. Now I want to change it back to Windsor, because it just sounds better, and although I've been using it, I'd much rather be able to use it in an official capacity. I think the thing that's bothering me the most is I just got my passport renewed, but I don't want it to be ten years until I change my name, and I'd rather not have to change it on my passport and my driver's license at the same time. Oh, and my preliminary driver's license says Hicks. So what do you think? Leave off making the change for a couple of years? I don't think there's enough time now before I'd theoretically be taking my test to wait a month for a passport and then another month for a replacement prelim. x.X Am I doomed to be Hicks forever?