Dressage Progress and barn dilemma

I think I have had five or six dressage lessons now and my husband, Christopher, finally came to my lesson yesterday and took some video for me.  I have improved so much.  I love documenting my progress and my coach said I could probably start competing in the spring.  Unfortunately, however, my dressage coach is moving barns to a barn farther away from where I live and I haven't decided if I'm going to follow or not.  I know that if I don't, it will be near impossible for me to find another coach to take me on as a working student so close to my house.  I am still not earning much money and if I want to seriously pursue equestrianism to the degree that I dream, then I think I should follow my coach to the new barn.  At least for now.  She's moving barns in about a week, so I only have one more dressage lesson before it happens.  I'm mostly worried about affording the gas to get there.

I don't want to quit now as I can see myself improving so much and I just got back into horseback riding seriously.  Horseback riding has been saving my life for the past few months while I fight depression and suicidal thoughts.  It's been very therapeutic.  Horse Junkies United posted my story on Halloween.  I have fallen in love with dressage and it has been helping me so much.

I don't normally add copyrighted music that I don't have permission to use to my videos, but Emilie Autumn's "A Cure" strikes a chord with me and is just too fitting of an instrumental piece for me to pass up.

Without much further ado, here is my most recent progress video.

Dressage update!

I've had four or five dressage lessons now and I can really see myself improving.  Today was my first time with the canter in the lesson and for some reason, I felt off-balance and like I was going to fall off or Maxi was going to topple over.  Maybe it was just because of my lack of sleep last night, but it was really weird.  I canter the polo horses all the time no problem!  Other than that, the lesson went really well and I hope I am good enough to compete come spring!

Polo season is over and I've just been hanging out.  Last weekend, I house sat and horse sat the polo horses.  They all behaved very well and there was nothing exciting.  I rode once and jumped Allie a little bit (a very, very, very low jump that she could walk over, but she acted like it was really high at first.  Goofy horse).

With lack of anything else to say, here are some photos.

 Me "jumping" Allie in a polo saddle

 Me hugging Allie.

 Oprah, who is an ex-polo horse that has arthritis and is looking for a new home.

 Allie

 Allie

 Foxy, Nicole's dog.

 Aussie, one of the cutest horses I have ever met.

 Maxi, the horse that teaches me dressage... She's a saint with my bad riding.

Nicole working with her horse.