Karma and Ranting

I have been very, very bad! I haven't posted since the ice age and now I know karma has made me pay for it.

So little Miss Cowgirl Emmy has been asking all week to go to Papa's to ride the horseys. We were even going to pick Daddy up to go to lunch and she told me she preferred going to Papa's instead of seeing Daddy. Apparently she was going through a major withdrawal.
So Sunday afternoon, we set the last session of conference to record, then headed out to Emmett to ride horses. Now this is where things began looking fishy. First, Papa saddles his horse, Blue, which is a horse with an major attitude towards all other horses, but especially Pogo. So guess who Papa says is getting saddled up also? Yep, Pogo. Not Paint, who Blue actually likes, but Pogo the gentle palomino who Blue loathes. We saddle up, then head into the round pen for some riding.
Emmy is riding with Papa on Blue and I am riding Pogo. Everything is going great, Emmy is having a blast and there is a nice breeze to cool the unnatural 90 degree October afternoon.
We then realize that Papa's other granddaughter wants to ride and that we should just go ahead and saddle up Paint. So, Papa hops off Blue and heads into the shop to get a halter to catch Paint, while Doug holds Blue and Emmy gets up with Mom to ride Pogo.
Blue then decided now was his chance to get to Pogo without the boss around and quickly lunges across the round pen at Pogo, ready to bite. Pogo understandably, rears back to avoid the bite but in the process created enough momentum to send Emmy falling off. I tried to pull her back but I lost my grip on the saddle horn and we both fell to the ground.
I tucked Emmy into me and angled so she wouldn't hit the ground and instead land on me. It worked, but left me worse for wear. I am entirely bruised up and down my right side with every joint aching as if being batted around with a mallet. My other arm and the top of my chest is bruised where Emmy landed on me and my hips all through my pelvic bone are stiff and painful. I am pretty much out of commission and Bless my dead husband's heart for helping to clean the house after he got home from work.

But I would do it again in a heart beat.

Now onto the ranting.

Seriously the AP voters are biased and off their rockers. How they can truly say that Oregon deserves to be #3 over Boise State is obscenely ridiculous. Let's look at the facts.
-BSU has played and beaten two ranked teams. Oregon has played and beaten one.
-BSU was told they need to blowout all of their next opponents. They beat New Mexico St. 59-0.
-Oregon has been behind by 10 or more points in their last three games which were "stronger" schools. BSU has only been behind in one game for roughly five minutes.
-TCU is told they can't jump BSU (unless BSU loses) because they lost to them in the Fiesta Bowl and have lost a good portion of their starters. BSU has beaten Oregon twice in the last two years, once at their home, and has returned about the same starters as TCU.

Call me crazy but as of right now, it appears that Oregon isn't really any better than BSU at all. So either I am just not up on my college football or the AP had seriously just decided to boast up their little media darling in favor of an outstanding team that may shake up their cozy little system an actually make them do their jobs by reporting accuracies. 

But, I will say this, Jesse Palmer is right on cue for appreciating a good college football team. He defended BSU against his colleague admirably, and I could just kiss him right now.