A Post of Random Porportions

Today was the first day that it really felt like winter was around the corner. I actually had to scrape frost off of my car this morning! And the sunset tonight just had a winter glow about it.

I've been tagged by my Arabian loving friend over at her Fantasyk Voyage blog. Here are the rules:

Link to the person who tagged you.

Post the rules on your blog.

Write six random things about yourself.

Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.

Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.

Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Six random things about me? Am I only limited to six? Okay, I kid, I kid. Here are six random things coming from a pony girl who has a major viral infection brewing in her sinuses right now, so beware!

1. I am a product junkie. My bathroom shower and drawers and counter top look like the isles of your local Ulta or Sephora or drugstore. I've been this way since a small child, so I am sure it is my mother's fault. Hi mom, love you! In particular, I am obsessed with hair care products. I love the challenge of finding a new shampoo. I have used everything from products that cost $1.99 to $20.00 a bottle. I am still trying to find my "holy grail" of hair care products. The ones that don't pass? If I can't return them, I pass them on to my family members, or use them on my horse's tail. He's not as particular as me.

2. I have never been to Europe! I hope to one day. There is a slim chance I could be going to Italy this spring. Really, it's just a chance, but I'm happy to live on that chance for now.

3. Three years ago, if you'd asked me if I would ever be riding or owning a horse again, I probably would've have said "Oh sure, maybe someday." I never would have expected that someday to come so soon!

4. I love Christmas. When it's over I am sentimental and depressed for a month. I know it's not all about the gifts. But I love trying to be creative and finding unique gifts for the loved ones in my family. Some years have been better than others in terms of intuitive or inventive shopping. But last year, it was I that got the best gift of all~ MY BOY!

5. I have never broken a bone! Actually, I have never fallen off of a horse. Maybe that's why?

6. Keifer Sutherland, of 24 and The Lost Boys (the original and best vampire movie, thank you very much "Twilight" fans!) kind of hit on me in a bar in Canada around seven or so years ago. I say kind of because I don't think he had any specific intent, he just came up and talked to me. Well, I guess he did kind of put his hand on my knee when he leaned in to talk to me....hmmm. Let's just say this was before his career took off again with 24 and he was not in the best frame of mind at the time, if you catch my drift. Oh, and speaking of Keifer, the time he actually kind of left the Hollywood limelight for so many years, he was actually riding, ranching, and rodeoing. Who knew? Maybe he could have been my cowboy. Here is a piece I lifted from an interview with Keifer:

So in 1998, he took time off to ride horses; he had picked up the basics on his film The Cowboy Way, and he learned fast. "Those two years on the ranch were my college years," he says. "Three or four guys riding round in a truck from rodeo to rodeo. It was fantastic." Sutherland is genuinely modest, but this masks a formidable sense of purpose. Of his rodeo career, which saw him win the national team roping competition twice, he suggests he was really a glorified groom, shoveling manure half the time. John English, his roping partner in those victories, disagrees. "Keifer was accepted very quickly by the other cowboys," he tells me. "He's a mild-mannered guy, but he was as aggressive as any of them once he got out there. They appreciated that." Sutherland will only admit, "What I lacked as a roper and a cowboy I could make up for in horses. Roping is one of those sports like polo where you get infinitely better the better your horses are. I had some great horses."

Well, as it's nearly Thanksgiving and I am sure you will all be busy spending time with family and cooking delicious meals, I have opted not to tag anyone at this time.

I also want to thank my friend Lisa over at the the Laughing Orca Ranch for a great award! It's the Hot Blog award, hot bliggity-blog!

I want to pass this award on to the following hot bloggers:

My cousin K over at Saddle Mountain Rider

Meg over at Lucchese to Louis Vuitton

My energetic equine and canine loving buddy over at her Smrp Blog

Karen over at a great new blog I've recently discovered~ Life at the Rough String

Another new blogging friend, Natarojo at Just Horsin' Around.

Well, I am off to my parents' place in a few days for the Thanksgiving Holiday. I hope to spend some time with my mom's horse Dusty while I'm there, so I will report on how that goes.