hahahaha http://www.facebook.com/pages/Yo-tambien-quiero-un-pony/103692449102?v=feed&story_fbid=123784518626
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Monday, 4 January 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Monday, 4 January 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Zoning laws forbade stabling horses in our town, but one of the horse girls is a grown-up horsewoman living in Austin TX (we friended each other on FB and I wrote 'HA! Traded 100 Breyers for 4 actual steeds, yes?). Most of the horse girls in my school (including her) could manage the horse thing *and* the Nadia Comaneci obsession *and* the Dorothy Hamill obsession. We also made wrist bracelets out of Dixie cups and played 'Wonder Woman' in them.
― sacher torte reform (suzy), Monday, 4 January 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
I lived in the 'burbs and had no horse of my own (over which I cried myself to sleep on many occasion) but I did take lessons. Also: cut out horses from magazines, backed them with card stock, made bridles out of yarn and little saddles of felt, and galloped around the neighborhood carrying them a la the chick in National Velvet. When done galloping came back in and rubbed paper horse down with bit of felt.
So much more I could say about being a horse girl, but it is rather embarassing :(
― quincie, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
my mom had 5 horses over her childhood, including 1 foal she raised. her first major in college was horse husbandry but then she abandoned that dream and in our house, we were not allowed any pets, so i drew lots of pictures of horses and did science projects on horse anatomy and would go crazy over all the horses at summer camp and stuff. i still get excited if we go on a trip somewhere and i can do a trail ride.
― tehresa, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i did know a girl though, who was kind of nuts, and would run around her house like a horse -- galloping and whinnying and it was a little creepy even to me.
― tehresa, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
one of my bffs now - was a horse girl - I think she lived on a ranch, so she actually had horses - and she said that having to clean the genital area of male horses is a sure cure for any sexual fantasies involving horses.
― sarahel, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
ew
― tehresa, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah - that's how she described it - but if you don't clean it, they could get nasty infections which would require expensive vet care.
― sarahel, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
no i understand cleaning but i was kind of O_O at horse sexual fantasies!
― tehresa, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
apparently they're quite common! GIS pony play.
― sarahel, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
OK for the record I never had horse sexual fantasies! Although I did do the creepy galloping and whinnying :(
― quincie, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i used to wear t-shirts w/ horses on them, too!
― tehresa, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i think horses are the new wolf in terms of "hipster fashion" - also unicorns
― sarahel, Monday, 4 January 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I wasn't a horse girl, I never really grokked that stuff. I was a bike girl, and a sci-fi girl, and a marching band girl, and a whatever-my-dad's-doing-in-the-garage girl.
So basically I was kind of a boy.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
gtfo
― tehresa, Monday, 4 January 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
the same bff sabrina (the one who dated ryan) and i had our best friend break up over different sci-fi tastes - she liked Anne McCaffrey novels, which just seemed to me like girl/horse stories, except the horses were dragons, and i wasn't really into that. I think I liked more dystopian stuff that was more "serious."
― sarahel, Monday, 4 January 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
xp to tza Yeah, I have found most of this thread incomprehensible even tho you of all people know I am a giant hair-curling gurl in adulthood. I don't post here much; just checking in today, I guess!
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Laurel, please post here more! I don't want to be the only non-horse girl.
― sarahel, Monday, 4 January 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
horses aren't really a girly thing tbh
― jortin shartgent (harbl), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean irl horses, pictures/models of horses maybe
― jortin shartgent (harbl), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
not exclusively, but ...
― sarahel, Monday, 4 January 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I wasn't a horse girl, either. There's a picture of me somewhere sitting at the fifth grade lunch table with Donna the Horse Girl and she has a horse notebook in front of her and I have a copy of Stephen King's Firestarter, which pretty much sums me up, childhood-wise. The juxtaposition, not the book. Try as I might, I am still unable to set things on fire with my mind. :(
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
ha - that reminds me of roxy's posts that started us on the topic of young adult novels!
― sarahel, Monday, 4 January 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i was def not into horses at all. they scared me.
― DAN P3RRY MAD AT GRANDMA (just1n3), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
i never "got" science fiction but i don't think it's for boys really
― jortin shartgent (harbl), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I did love those Anne McCaffrey dragon books. I had the whole series, and the parallel "Harper Hall" ones too. Mostly what I loved about them was the lack of conservative sexual mores because I was sure I was never going to kiss/date/sexor more than one person in my life and it was going to be the one I married and I was pretty in despair about it. But hey, what can you do about God's will?
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
well - most of the girls in our class weren't into it except me & sabrina.
― sarahel, Monday, 4 January 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
On other other hand, as joshea is sure to point out, I got to drive a dune buggy. So maybe it evened out.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
you were cooler than me - i did logic and math problems with my dad, when i wasn't making up elaborate sci-fi epics with barbies with sabrina.
― sarahel, Monday, 4 January 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
l u know ilu!
― tehresa, Monday, 4 January 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I was pretty wild about Anne McCaffrey, too.
xp - logic and math and Barbies are also cool!
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes, we did logic problems at the dinner table, and also "Think of words that include the syllable '-round'" (ie around, surround, roundhouse, quarter-round, etc) sort of family competitions.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
we played "i'm thinking of a word that rhymes with" games on long road trips - my dad's West Virginia accent was kinda a handicap in this, because he believed that "since" and "fence" rhymed.
― sarahel, Monday, 4 January 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
People in books that I read were always going on about the Beauty of Nature, and communing with the woods, and getting a spiritual charge from wilderness, and blah blah blah. I remember sitting in a tree and trying to feel something, but nada. I guess when you live in the country it's hard to find the outdoors remarkable?
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
because he believed that "since" and "fence" rhymed.
Haha! I like this. We sang songs in the car -- rounds and hymns and folksongs and show tunes from all of history that my mother knew. She had a song for every occasion (still does).
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't even know where half of them come from, tho I bet I could google.
"I love you a bushel and a peck / a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck" <--- why I knew that a "peck" was a unit of measurement
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
lol that's like how where i grew up "pin" and "pen" rhymed!
― tehresa, Monday, 4 January 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
xp - that's from Guys and Dolls, i believe.
tza - according to my dad, pin and pen also rhyme.
― sarahel, Monday, 4 January 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I really really wanted to be a top rollerskater and have a satin jacket that would billow out with the wind. Unfortunately for that dream, I wasn't allowed to go to the roller rink much b/c the kids there were too "rough" and because it cost money (sending us out to play in the woods was free).
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
i was a cat girl - i drew cats on everything when i was a kid. i think i also liked stories about large families where there were a lot of kids, because i was an only child. but maybe the large family thing was due to me liking epic things with a lot of characters. i was also really into greek mythology.
― sarahel, Monday, 4 January 2010 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
would like to be a top rollerskater and have a billowy satin jacket right now
― horseshoe, Monday, 4 January 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I know! Someday I would master the cross-over cornering maneuver and then I would be So Cool.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i can do that maneuver! or i could when i was 10. /braggin 2010
― horseshoe, Monday, 4 January 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I had a book on how to draw cats. I was really into it.
Still can't rollerskate, though.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Monday, 4 January 2010 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, I can't rollerskate either - there was a period in high school where my friends were into rollerskating, and I went with them sometimes, but I was horrible at it. And there was this guy, Steve, who wore hypercolor shirts and might have had a crush on me, and who I then threw non-dairy creamer at and hit him in the face, and I think if he had a crush on me before, he didn't after that. I forget why i threw creamer at him.
― sarahel, Monday, 4 January 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I accepted that, no matter how many "Learn to Draw!" books the Scholastic Bookclub offered, it was an art, inherited only by the elite, and beyond my abilities. I went with origami instead.
― WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY (Laurel), Monday, 4 January 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
we used to have rollerskating birthday parties. they were the best. now the roller rink is like, meth central :(
― tehresa, Monday, 4 January 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
tbh i can't believe it's still there!