PLEASE READ! I will be absent until Tuesday, May10th

Hey everyone! Sorry for not being on much the past few days. I should have posted this before things started getting too busy.
Anyway, in my real life I am an equestrian competitive athlete. I go to competitions in mid-Spring through early fall. The rest of the year is training season. My first competition is this coming weekend, May 6th-8th. We leave a day before, so on May 5th I will be making the five hour driving trip to Syracuse, New York. On May 4th, I have my last riding session and chance to practice for the competition, on May 3rd I need to get a birthday present for one of my fellow riders and one of my best friends and pick up my riding clothes from the tailors, and drop all of my competition gear at the ranch so they can drive it up, then on May 2nd, tomorrow, I have to clean all of my riding gear. Today I'm starting on that, so these next few days will be incredibly hectic for me.
I get back from the competition on May 8th, this Sunday, but I will need that day and the Monday right after it to regroup and get my energy back up. After that I should be good to come back on.
The past few days have been really busy as well, with riding, preparing for the competition, and everything else. This is one of the bigger shows, which is why it is taking up so much of my time. I ride huntseat, and my barn has Arabian horses. For AHA (Arabian Horse Association), there are essentially five levels of competition. Intercounty is the lowest (and most common and the most cheap), then Class A to qualify for Regionals, Regionals to qualify for Buckeye/(Youth)Nationals/Scottsdale, (Youth)Nationals, and then Buckeye/Scottsdale. Buckeye and Scottsdale are two different competitions, but are on the same level. The competition in Syracuse is a Class A show, so it will qualify me for regionals. My barn is going to Buckeye and Youth Nationals not this year but the next year, so that summer will be eve worse. Most of the time we go to intercounty shows and a regional level show because we teach lessons for younger kids, and therefore they aren't ready for very high shows, but this year we are going to a lot of Class A shows and two regionals. So yeah. I'm gonna be broke and tired XD
But yeah, I figured I would explain everything to you guys in detail.

FOR PEOPLE I AM IN A ROLE-PLAY WITH! You have permission to control any of my characters that are NOT high positions. You have complete contorl of them, and please stay true to their character. I don't want to hold any threads back. IF YOU ARE in a role-play with one of my high positions, E-MAIL ME asking for permission and saying what you need the character for and I will most likely say yes.

Anyway guys, happy role-playing and don't forget how much I love everyone here.

Awww she's a beauty!!! I'm gonna miss you Smoke! Good luck! You will do great!

Small update people!
I will be on tomorrow! I underestimated how tired I would be and I slept all day yesterday and I went riding today, only to come home and do hw and other horrible things.

homie it's may 14 and you ain't on why you playin

(Just joking! That's amazing, horses are wonderful creatures. Feel free to take any time you need to rest, that all sounds like really hard work. :3)

Aww cute horse:3 Sorry for not replying earlier, I hope you had a great time, Smokey. How'd it go?

Very well. I managed to get a National-level trainer to hate me now. I beat a bunch of her clients and cut her off twice in the warm-up arena (accidents, I assure you, being my shy introverted self I apologized profusely)... so yeah.
I've got another show not this weekend, but the weekend of June 9th. We leave June 8th so I get to kip the last two days of school, yay! Except I have a three day final in French that literally ends the last day I'm there, so I'm seriously pushing it.
I will be replying to all of our RPs tomorrow, btw, got lots to do rn, super sorry!

Woah that sounds amazing! Nicely done Smoke, it sounds like you're pretty fantastic at horse riding ;3
Yikes, that french exam sounds so brutal. I finished french a couple of weeks ago and trust me, it is such a relief when it's over xD
Don't worry about being on very often, I'll be on as much as I can atm. Just don't overwork yourself!!

AWESOME!!! Wait a minute? Your school ends then? Mine ends May 25th. Jeez, I only had to take a World Affairs final. It was two hours. I have a packed summer, a lot of traveling and marching band camp. So I'll be on as much as possible.

I still have a bunch of exams left, but yeah school's finished for me. Do what you can on the site, Kit, but don't stress yourself about the site. Enjoy you summer! :3

Same to you too! I hope you do good on your exams!

Yeah, I hope so too XD