I just agreed to what?

  • Jan. 26th, 2010 at 4:51 PM
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So I'm not busy enough. Go ahead, I'll wait for you to stop laughing.

I just agreed to teach a 5 week long introductory belly dance course at yet another RV Park as a trial to see if they would be interested in having me back next season as a regular Thursday night class.
 

Yep this would be me officall spreading myself too thin and loosing my mind. It's ok right? I always want to be thin and well, I've never missed my mind before.


The tilt-a-whirl needs a clone....

  • Jan. 17th, 2010 at 11:22 AM
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and 70 more hours in the week. Good thing I live the crazy life. We spent all yesterday painting the stage for faire. I must admit it looks pretty snazzy. It was a lot of fun to do and I'm still wrapping my head around the fact they like us enough and think we are enough of a draw that they are building us our very own stage.

The tilt-a-whirl should stop counting

  • Jan. 6th, 2010 at 10:28 PM
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So for anyone who's followed my blog, you know come the first Monday of January I start teaching an afternoon bellydance class at one of the local RV parks for the snowbirds who live there. Well this year I started at two parks, my usual Monday and now a Wednesday. This is all on top of the usual craziness of this time of year for me with faire, private gigs, and all the other dance and art classes I teach.

This afternoon was my first time out at the new park. Based on comments and inquiries I figured it would be a big class. 26 women and there will probably be more next week! WOO HOO! Its faboo when a class starts out with such an enthusiastic response. Topping that off a gal from a differnt park asked for my contact info and was I avaliable to teach at her park. Course the only time I have left is Thursday evenings so who knows if it will work out but I'm hopeful.

Current total of students I have taught this week? 61. If the class tomorrow is at it's usual numbers I will total around 80 students this week. Definately a faboo way to start my year off!

And then the world ends

  • Dec. 18th, 2009 at 7:29 PM
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Please hug your loved ones. A dear friend lost her husband Monday morning. http://www.yumasun.com/news/border-54967-patrol-hoag.html
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said compliment is prefaced with "Please don't take offence at this". Yep that would be the compliment I got this morning. One of the seniors is apparently reading Sarah Palin's book and told me I "remind her of Palin" Yes the brain monkeys started flailing, howling and generally wreaking havoc while I smiled and said thanks. She them added that its because I'm so passionate about the things I do, completely outspoken about what I think without appologising to anyone and driven to be the best at what I do. Ok, that I can live with, but really Palin? ***shudder*** It also proves my ability to hide what I'm really thinking when the subjects of politics, healthcare and religion come is wayyyy over developed.

So much to be thankful for

  • Nov. 27th, 2009 at 12:02 AM
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It's been a crazy year so far and I'm having a very hard time coming to terms that the calander will turn the year again very soon. I have so very much to be thankful for, nice man and kiddo, my parents (step included), dear friends, the amazing ladies in my troupe, my students who continue to inspire me to keep working to be the best damn teacher I can for them, the fans of Banat Tabla who are helping to put out name on the map locally, all the people who have hired myself and the troupe lately for gigs, and the fur babies, JarJar and Yoyo. We have a new edition to add to the furbaby list.

Last Monday an orange and white kitty turned up on our doorstep. We tried ignoring her thinking she was just a local outdoor or stray. When she turned up at the back window, meowing, we went out to try and convince her to go away before she figured out how Jarjar's doggie door worked and came in on her own. What we discovered was she is totally a love bug of a kitty, declawed on her front claws and most definately had been someone's pet recently. Not wanting to leave her for the local ferals/toms or to get run over we locked her in kiddo's bathroom overnight in hopes we could track down her owner.

Calls to the pound, local vets, door to door and flyers in the neighborhood and checking the paper, no one was looking for her. Nor as it turned out was she microchipped. Amazingly enough Yoyo has pretty much ignored her unless she gets in Yoyo's face or trys to cuddle with me. It's ok if I go pick her up and cuddle her, however Yoyo makes sure she knows I am HER person if she tries to approach me. Luckily she seems to have bonded to kiddo, probably in part to those first couple of days being locked in kiddo's bathroom.

So without further ado, the littlest furbaby to our home...Trinket the Turbo Kitty (Turbo Kitty was my addition to her name after several mornings of kitty romps through the house while I was trying to sleep :P)

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Note to self

  • Oct. 26th, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Skirt

Green tea body scrub and eyes with contacts in do not mix well. Side note, need to order more lenses soon :P

The tilt-a-whirl scores!

  • Oct. 21st, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Skirt
I don't know if men run into this problem at all but for women finding a good pair of jeans is like finding the Holy Grail. And of course its one of those you know its coming things, finally find the perfect jeans and the company will stop making them, thus starting the great jeans crusade over again.  

I managed to find the perfect brand and style about 10 years ago. Over the next three years after the discovery of the perfect jeans, once a month I would go back and buy a pair or two of these jeans so I could have a stash for when the brand did away with the style.

My last pair of the stash turned in their final notice this spring. There was the appropriate wailing, moaning and weeping over this departure and after the assigned number of days of grieving, the great jean hunt began again. Today I was once again searching through the abyss that is Wal-mart's jean selection in vain hope of finding anything, the less than perfect but will do for now, would have been fine at this point. Winter season starts in less than two weeks and I can't wear my dance pants for things like oil painting and silver smithing.

I hit a clearance rack that had not been there a week or so ago when I last went on the hunt. I wasn't expecting much but never say I leave any stone unturned. I saw the brand and had a little stirring of hope. These were by the same manufacturer that my much lamented perfect jeans had been made by. Could I get so lucky? Probably not, I know Wal-mart and Targets jean sections like the back of my hand and I had never seen these before. No way am I going to get that lucky.

I rummaged through the stacks finding not the size I wore before, but sizes one up and one down from that. They were the tall length I prefer, I know I'm not all that tall but I like the extra long jean legs, and a mix of mid and low rise. My old jeans had been low rise which I prefer since they sit at the hip line instead of the waist, a much more natural feeling for me, but hey beggers can't be choosers and at this point I'm desperate.

I grab a few pairs in either size thinking I would probably need the larger size, isn't that always the way of it, and head off to the horror of the dressing room. There you stuff yourself into a box the size of a phone booth with dim lighting so you don't have to face the true horror of florecent lights. I'm sure there's a marketing stratagey on the changing room size invovled there too, that or they are designed by the same people who design airplane bathrooms.

Tenitively I tried on the smaller pair figuring I might as well get it over since no way in hell.......Holy crap they fit! Not only do they fit, they fit well! No chopping me in half in places when I bend or sit, the length is good, in fact they are if anything a tiny bit looser than the old ones had been. I'm sure the size in reality is probably the same but the tag says its a size smaller and my ego is going with what the tag says.

I managed not to start screaming triumphant war cries and doing the Happy Snoopy Dance, barely, got dressed and rumaged through the display to find more of these magical jeans. Five pairs later I was a deleriously happy hunter having found the object of my summer long quest. Not only had I finally found perfect jeans but five pairs for 11.00 each. SCORE!
 
I'm sure people thought I was nuts wandering through Wal-mart to pick up the other few things on my list with an ear to ear grin. No one is ever that happy to be in Wal-mart unless they are a few screws shy of something.

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18 years....my how time flies!

  • Oct. 12th, 2009 at 1:33 PM
Skirt

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Yes that is the nice man and I 18 years ago today. And yes, the picture still makes ma all teary-eyed. It was my favorite photo from the entire day, me and my knight in shining armor (ok dress blues, close enough).

Oct. 9th, 2009

  • 4:45 PM
Skirt
Off to a day of workshops tomorrow with a bunch of my gals from the troupe. It ought to be a lot of fun.

Today has been phone call after phone call, mainly inquiries about preformances by the troupe. YAY!!!! I love answering my phone when its people who want to have us perform calling. Now to see if these leads all work out. If so, its going to be a busy winter!!

Origins...the start of something good

  • Oct. 5th, 2009 at 11:30 PM
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There is so much to say about the show. I don't have words to say how proud I am of the students and my troupe. We had some hiccups and learned a few things for next year. Yes there will be a next year. We cleared out costs and were able to sell enough tickets to make sure we can do this again next year. I'm still in shock.

Lots of photos...enjoy! )

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Oct. 4th, 2009

  • 2:17 AM
Skirt

It's two in the morning, I am still pinging off the walls and totally exhausted. We had an audience of just shy of 400 people for the show. I am so freaking proud of my students, Angie and Lisa's students, the troupe, everyone really came through. We had tons of great feed back from people who enjoyed the show!

It's hard to believe its over. At least until next year!!

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Oct. 1st, 2009

  • 8:08 AM
WTF

According to the MSN weather website it's only blowing about 10 to 11 mph here. According to the whistling of the wind through the dog door and the way the trees are waving out the window its more like, "We're not in Kansas anymore" kind of wind. Why do I have a feeling it's going to be one of those days???

Random Halo ODST quote

  • Sep. 24th, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Skirt
As said by the nice man in the other room. "Okkkk, learned something new. Don't go past the buoy. Gunny don't float"

The tilt-a-whirl is random.....

  • Sep. 22nd, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Skirt

and taking a cue from a few others, just a random list of things to let people know I'm still alive. Not sane, but still on the planet.

Got the ad proof for the show today. It looks good. Not as nice as the posters Ike did but definately well worth the time invested int he bellygram the other week. The magazine is getting handed out at PLAY Days so who knows if it will bring more people into the show.

My students are doing really good with their pieces. Still some rough edges but then again many of them have only been in my classes for 16 weeks or so. I'm so proud of all they have accomplished in such a short time. I'm also thrilled with how much effort most of them are putting into costuming. I gave them ideas and suggestions to start with and some of the really have done some nifty things.

Nice man is playing Halo ODST. Nathon Fillon and Adam Baldwin both are voices in this one. There was just a great little video clip. Apparently warthogs (ground vehicles for non Halo players) were not meant to fly.

Still so much to do for the show and now so little time. I still haven't nailed down what my solo will be.

Two possible gigs have come up for us for November and December, and another vauge "I'll get a hold of you" one may still come through for the same time frame. I've been asked to do a bit,. 30 second or so part in a local play for two weeks in November and daytime classes start the first Monday of November. Faire rehearsals also get rolling around then, and of course any winter time shows/bellygram gigs. Somehow I must find time to get out and get some training for myself too. I know don't complain. Better to have too many oportunities than none at all. Some days though, feels like I'm drowning.

Nice man brought me a white chocolate macadamia nut cookie from the place he had dinner at tonight. It's a good day *GRIN*



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This is it....

  • Sep. 19th, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Skirt
Our show poster....


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Sep. 14th, 2009

  • 2:52 PM
Skirt

Both bellygrams went fantstic, however my new to me blue and gold needs work. First time it slipped down so the top edge of my bodystocking briefs showed and the belly band unsnapped the first set of snaps from the bra. It was orginially designed to go around the belly but I didn't like how that cut on me so I fixed it up to make a long "V" down from the bra. It looks much better on me but requires some fiddling to get it right.

Today the belt stayed put, skirt didn't slide and snaps stayed in place. However one of the big rhinstones popped out all of three seconds in. ARGGGG!! If it's not one thing it's another.  

Alls well that ends well thought. The birthday boy this weekend had a ball and was totally surprised. He's one of my "employers" for faire so it made that one tons of fun since none of them had seen me to do the glitz bit, only the faire dancing. Today's client was a student of mine and it was for her Red Hat club. Sweet ladies and we all had a ball! I will hopefully pick up some gigs from it for either me and or the troupe.

Now to go run by the dance studio to drop off rent for rehersal space, to class to teach, then hang around afterwards to let one of my gals tape a couple of the routines for the upcoming show since she will miss a rehersal, then home to pass out before going back in to work tomorrow morning. I know the busy season starts in November but we're ramping up to it nicely....whimper

The tilt-a-whirl toots its own horn

  • Sep. 1st, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Skirt

Just a little...lol! My troupe is the featured dancers for September on the Joy of Bellydance website. I'm so proud of my gals!
http://www.joyofbellydancing.com/spotlight2.htm

Sleep blessed sleep

  • Aug. 25th, 2009 at 5:50 PM
Skirt

It's not big secret I've spent most of my married life sleeping on various couches because nice man snores. Not just snores but snores so loudly my brother once asked how I could sleep in the same zip code with him. The answer is I don't.

I am typically an uber light sleeper unless I've taken meds in which case a thundering heard of wildabeasts couldn't wake me up. Of course in those cases I'm groggy and woosey all the next day so its not really a win situation. Not only am I a light sleeper but I don't sleep much when I do sleep. My mother took my then newborn brother to our Dr because he was sleeping so much. The Dr's response was "That's normal for a newborn, its your daughter who isn't normal"

So for some unknown reason I have hit the pillow the last two nights and become dead. Nice man says I'm still breathing even if he has to actually touch me to make sure of it, I snuggled over when he came to bed, but for all purposes I am sleeping like the dead. I have no idea why I'm actually sleeping without drugs but it's lovely. Of course waking up ten minutes before he's supposed to leave for work and having to wake him up and get him to comprehend that not only did I sleep in the bed all night but that I way over slept and if he doesn't move NOW he'll be late to work isn't fun, but hey I got to sleep all night two nights in a row in my bed. WHOOT!

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The tilt-a-whirl needs sleep......

  • Aug. 24th, 2009 at 2:50 AM
Skirt
After a rough day, I was only supposed to be down one dancer for rehearsal today (I guess it would tecnically be yesterday now :P) and I ended up down half the troupe due to life, the universe and everything. We only have three, maybe four rehearsals left before the show so I was completly freaked out.

So since I was already having issues it seemd the perfect time to pull down and delete all the files from off the website server and try to get it all updated. I started around 9 Sunday night and its now.....almost 3 in the morning. However Banat's website is back up and running, not as many pictures, but a new look, new front page, new class info....yep I'm happy. Now to figure out why my design program is still not uploading to the site. I definately don't want to hand load and figure out which pages need what re-nameing and so on ever again.


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