Feather1414
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Most of you know that I have had my fair share of family problems, especially with my mom, and trust me, they aren't any better.
But this isn't about that.
This summer, I am moving closer to where I go to school for a few reasons...can't stand living at home, my gas bill weekly to drive to school is outrageous, and I am really just sick of the way my mom looks at me when I walk through the door, or how she will leave the room if I try to start a conversation with her at all.
So I have been saving up for rent on a house I will be sharing with several friends. Thats not going to be cheap with my car insurance, food bills, rent, utilities, ect.
Not to mention I may have to factor in my horses, but I am thinking I am going to free lease them for at least 1 year to a qualified home, no strings attached.
So right now I don't exactly have the most money in the world, considering I work a whole 2 days a week and I go to school full time.
I was planning on showing in Pueblo Co, about 3-4 hours away from me on May 3rd. My dad was going to take me at first, but he doesn't want to go, and then I was going to go with someone else, but they don't want to pay all the gas so it's looking like I am not going.
Then I quite honestly do not like showing at the Estes Park show in June, so I wasn't planning on attending that.
I want to go to Area 6 in July but I am not sure if I want to drive 9-10 hours with my mom and I was trying to catch a ride with the same lady. However, she is tagging along with another farm and they don't have room for my two horses, so I may just drive myself up, but I don't know if I can afford it with gas getting so high. I would just be sleeping in my tack stall
Apparently the lady I have showed with for a long time now, lets call her "stalker" called up my mom and brought up the fact that I don't want to show at the Pueblo show, and possibly not at all this year.
I end up getting all these texts from my mom saying "I have ways of getting what I want, and I can't be a quitter, and I just give up too easily and blah blah blah"
Then I start getting texts from "stalker" saying she has this plan that I will drive her trailer to the May 3rd show with my jeep, and take her along and this way we can go and she isn't planning on helping me pay for gas...
So I told her no, because I have never trailered before in my life and I don't want to learn on the HIGHWAY going through downtown Denver and that gas bill will be around $200-300 dollars and I can't aford that for a one day show.
So she writes me back saying "I don't know whats up with you, why are you giving up on showing this year, you are being so fickel and giving up something great"
I'm not giving up, I can't afford it, and to be perfectly honest, I don't have the same passion for showing now that in addition to entry fees and stall fees, I have to pay for gas to the shows and a possible hotel room unless I want to sleep in a stall. It's just to expensive for me. I am only 18 and I really don't have that much money to my name. My gas bill is $80 a week to get to SCHOOL alone.
Maybe if my mom paid for my gas the way my mom pays for my brothers gas I would be in a better position to do so.
But no, my mom has to pay my brother money "So he doesn't end up like his sister"
My life is wonderful.
But this isn't about that.
This summer, I am moving closer to where I go to school for a few reasons...can't stand living at home, my gas bill weekly to drive to school is outrageous, and I am really just sick of the way my mom looks at me when I walk through the door, or how she will leave the room if I try to start a conversation with her at all.
So I have been saving up for rent on a house I will be sharing with several friends. Thats not going to be cheap with my car insurance, food bills, rent, utilities, ect.
Not to mention I may have to factor in my horses, but I am thinking I am going to free lease them for at least 1 year to a qualified home, no strings attached.
So right now I don't exactly have the most money in the world, considering I work a whole 2 days a week and I go to school full time.
I was planning on showing in Pueblo Co, about 3-4 hours away from me on May 3rd. My dad was going to take me at first, but he doesn't want to go, and then I was going to go with someone else, but they don't want to pay all the gas so it's looking like I am not going.
Then I quite honestly do not like showing at the Estes Park show in June, so I wasn't planning on attending that.
I want to go to Area 6 in July but I am not sure if I want to drive 9-10 hours with my mom and I was trying to catch a ride with the same lady. However, she is tagging along with another farm and they don't have room for my two horses, so I may just drive myself up, but I don't know if I can afford it with gas getting so high. I would just be sleeping in my tack stall
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Apparently the lady I have showed with for a long time now, lets call her "stalker" called up my mom and brought up the fact that I don't want to show at the Pueblo show, and possibly not at all this year.
I end up getting all these texts from my mom saying "I have ways of getting what I want, and I can't be a quitter, and I just give up too easily and blah blah blah"
Then I start getting texts from "stalker" saying she has this plan that I will drive her trailer to the May 3rd show with my jeep, and take her along and this way we can go and she isn't planning on helping me pay for gas...
So I told her no, because I have never trailered before in my life and I don't want to learn on the HIGHWAY going through downtown Denver and that gas bill will be around $200-300 dollars and I can't aford that for a one day show.
So she writes me back saying "I don't know whats up with you, why are you giving up on showing this year, you are being so fickel and giving up something great"
I'm not giving up, I can't afford it, and to be perfectly honest, I don't have the same passion for showing now that in addition to entry fees and stall fees, I have to pay for gas to the shows and a possible hotel room unless I want to sleep in a stall. It's just to expensive for me. I am only 18 and I really don't have that much money to my name. My gas bill is $80 a week to get to SCHOOL alone.
Maybe if my mom paid for my gas the way my mom pays for my brothers gas I would be in a better position to do so.
But no, my mom has to pay my brother money "So he doesn't end up like his sister"
My life is wonderful.