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94. You wash polos/wraps/saddle pads in the washer at home everyone gets mad about the horse hair on their clothes and you don't understand why 95. You spend more money on horseshoes than you do on your own shoes 96. You laugh, it sounds like a horse whinnying 97. You hate to shovel snow off your driveway, but mucking out stalls is no problem 98. The barn is home and your house is a long vacation. 99. Your boyfriend or girlfriend is jealous of how much time you spend with your horse instead of them. 100. The smell of DMSO makes you feel nostalgic 101. You know what DMSO is. 102. You get home and every one leaves the room that you have just entered 103. You try to get your dog to move out of the way by clucking to him/her and trying to kick with your heels 104. It doesn't matter what kind of day your having...You go to the barn to see your horse and EVERYTHING is better 105. You miss school so often for horse shows that when you finally go back you can give yourself the lecture that the truancy officer is about to give you as soon as you walk into the office. 106. Your regular friends stop asking you to do things with them after school and on the weekends because they know that if you don't have major family obligations (or even if you do) you're going to be at the barn or a show 107. You're planning your wedding, you try to figure out how you can incorporate your horse into it. 108. Your car is broken or your parents have both so you don't go to work but you readily hop on your bike and ride it 60km to take care of your lame horse for that whole week 109. You tag your horse in your Facebook photos 110. You give your horse a drink of your gatorade and then drink after him and wonder why people are looking at you funny. 111. You talk about how sore you were the next day after riding for 9 hours (for us endurance racers), and how great he was in the water - such a champ because that was his first time, how after an hour or so he leveled out and was a really smooth ride, and when we finally finished he pulsed down amazingly fast...and you wonder why people look at you all goggle eyed and speechless. 112. You love dressage because it's the only sport where you can say 'piaffe' to the judge..." (anon) 113. You know your vet and his/her family by first name, but have trouble remembering who your own doctor is. 114. The smell of a burning hoof (during a hotfit) makes you feel nostalgic 115. You cut class to go stand with your horse while he's being shod. 116. YOU FALL OFF BUT YOU GET RIGHT BACK ON!!! 117. You have a pair of work boots in your tack box, car, garage, basement and bedroom and when asked why, you simply reply, "What, don't you?" 118. You think of jumping courses during history class because you don't really care about who won WWII, you just want to work on your distances 119. You send or receive a birth announcement for a foal 120. You get sick and tired of explaining such simple and obvious concepts such as: ponies are NOT baby horses; all riders do NOT listen to country music; and YES it is a sport 121. You call the farrier, vet, or barn owner more than your friends 122. Phenylbutazone (bute) isn't even hard to spell 123. You have alternate meanings for the words: green, hunter, english, western, cross country (jumping vs. running), lame, tack, lead, diagonal, standard, and vertical 124. You hurt your foot and don't know what's wrong with it and you rest it a few days ( not even bothering to go to a doctor to see what you did to it), but you're a basket case until you know what's causing your horse's slight head-bob limp. 125. You forget your significant other's birthday, but you throw a baby shower for your friend whose mare is expecting. Then the following year you forget your significant other's birthday again and throw the foal its first birthday party. 126. You are totally scandalized when your friends/family/significant other fails to get your horse a Christmas/birthday present. I mean, not even a carrot?!?! 127. You'd much rather watch a mare give birth than go out to a romantic dinner with your significant other 128. You tell your significant other when you started dating that your horse is your real man/woman. After awhile, said significant other accepts this. 129. You disregard whether your parents approve of your new significant other, but seriously reconsider being with the person if your horse doesn't like them. 130. When you're in a boring class, or having a slow day at work you try to calculate in your head how much money you would save on bills if you married a vet or farrier. 131. You tell your friends that you are going to compete in "cross country" they think that you are going to be running 132. You buy toy horses that look like your real ones, down to the markings. 133. You will memorize your association's rulebook, but decide that memorizing for a test at school is not worth your time. 134. You were younger you would look through the sears or jcpenny catalog for christmas presents and only mark things that were horse related. 135. You are listening to music you think of how your horse's strides match to it 136. You have more saddle pads than skirts 137. Putting on polo wraps is a breeze, but changing a tire escapes you 138. On vacation, you stumble across a horse show, and of course, MUST watch the Grand Prix showjumping. 139. You don't take a vacation- instead, you ride in the horse show. 140. You cringe at a $20 t-shirt, but don't hesitate to buy $80 protective boots for your horse 141. Your curtain rods are obscured by ribbons from various horse shows, and your bookshelves house trophies. 142. As a child, you didn't read Goosebumps or Nancy Drew (except the ones with the horses on the cover)- you read Saddle Club and Black Beauty. 143. You exhausted the supply of horse books not only at your elementary school library, but also at the public library and the local bookstore 144. You get your driver's license for the sole reason that you can go to the barn whenever you want 145. Your favorite magical creatures in the Harry Potter books are the Hippogriffs, unicorns, Abraxan Horses (the giant horses the Beauxbatons students arrive with) and Thestrals. 146. You learn geography by which breeds come from which country