state fair...

i have officially lived through and returned home after another year of showing at the wisconsin jr. state fair, and this was my final year as a junior…talk about feeling old, i was the only one from my county who was on their final year. i got a blue with my calf, we looked awesome out in that show ring together, but it wasn’t nearly the week i was looking forward to. it was really quite bland…the word blah pretty much sums up my opinion of it. getting that blue was wonderful cause i didn’t expect it, but the rest was just blah. getting up at 3:30am and going to bed at 11:30pm is not a pleasant thing. i think most of my problem was that the chaperones were on my list of people i don’t tolerate well…there was too much favoritism, too much bossing around, WAY too many stupid, pointless, obnoxious rules that we were required too follow…just too much drama. nothing was any different than past years, but now that i’m older, i see the injustice more and lack the patience to just ignore it and deal. and…this being my last year, i thought i would be a sr. herdsman (4 older kids who are kinda the second level bosses…the go betweens)…but i wasn’t asked to do that. it’s not that i really wanted the job, but i wanted to know that i had the respect of the adults showing that they realized i was capable of filling that role. But, they didn’t pick me…they picked shelly over me, which was like being kicked in the stomach when i found out cause she has 3 years left to show. i think sarah, one of the chaperones, hates me. i can assure you that i am none to fond of her, but i don’t believe i’ve ever done anything outright to make her dislike me. she’s just crabby and bosses us around constantly. she makes a big deal about no one being allowed to sit down during chores, which mostly makes sense, cause yes, everyone should be working, but if someone sits down for a moment, she’s all over them about it, and then she goes and returns to her seat. that’s right…she does not help us…ever. she sits back and watches us, looking for any opportunity to boss us around. anyways, the whole week was filled with sarah’s crabbiness, and other people being stupid, moody and annoying. of course there were people that I thoroughly enjoyed being with. sunday night was our annual pizza party/water fight, but it was weak this year and nothing to talk about. linda and i had to do nightline Sunday night (stay out in the barn all night watching the 37 animals from my county). usually something fun/funny happens, but there wasn’t much this year, other than kyle just being weird. right now i’ve been awake for over 25 hours and had probably about 7-8 hours of sleep in the past 58 hours. i feel ok, but i’m sure i’d be out in a moment if i went to bed. i really screwed up my shoulder this week doing who knows what. it hurts when i move it in most directions and any kind of lifting or moving things is hard and painful. Unfortunately, with county fair coming up next week, there is no chance of it healing up any time soon. i really thought i would have something fun to write about…but i guess i really don’t. oh, i did have great fun with the ‘little boys’ from my county.they’re ranging in age from 15-12 and i could get most of them to do anything i wanted. ben is definitely the biggest flirt i have ever encountered and i got a lot of laughs at what all he’d say to me. actually, all the boys were really nice to me this year, so that was cool cause they can make things a HUGE pain. maybe they were just afraid of me, cause during the water fight, zach asked me to let him get bekah to the washracks to get wet, and he said that if i let him take her, he wouldn’t get me wet, and i said that he wouldn’t get me wet anyways, to which he responded, ‘you’re probably right, you punch too hard.’ i swear i never touched that kid but he was still afraid of me! i never really hit anyone that they would know, but i must just be intimidating enough that they were afraid, and zach is like 6’3”! how fun! but yeah, for the most part i love that group of kids, they’re cool, i just wish our chaperones would lighten up and let us make the work some fun. Ok, I’m out cause I’m literally falling asleep at my computer now…bubye.