Shake something!

[ebonlock]

Submitted for your approval and with the use of aelfsciene's wonderful camera (and expert photography of jakejr, my favorite pics from our last recital:

Warming up at home

Pre-performance pose

Baby got back

Apparently this is my best angle

Can you tell we were having fun?

We did it!

We ended up dancing for about ten minutes or so straight through and by the end were ready to drop, but hung out "backstage" to chat with one of our fellow dancers as the Straw Hat folks screwed up everyone's performance music. My youngest sister kept threatening to go back and kick their asses and take over the DJing for the evening. I kinda wish she had.

On the plus side the crowd was enthusiastic and seemed to be having a great time. The dancing was fantastic despite the glitches, and I was delighted to see so many of our wonderful friends in attendance. Aelf and I also got invited to dance in a little over a week with Alyne and some of her friends at a senior center. Not exactly a gig at Menara, but it's a start.

Oh, and I believe there's a bellydance party this Saturday at Menara as well unless I'm much mistaken. I'll pester Aelf about posting details in case anyone's interested in attending.

One more quick thing, the sale at We3 yesterday was stupendous, silkblade managed to find some of our chiffon half circle veils in a gorgeous royal purple and deep green in one of the boxes. Aelf grabbed one of the greens and I grabbed the green and purple to give myself a second set that will match almost all of my other dance costumes. Go me!

And uh, the "Crouching Tiger" move is way harder than the "Magica", we found that out yesterday.


Kinda busy weekend, in that I had loads of work to get done on Saturday and I did it all. This consisted of dropping my sisters at the airport nice and early and cursing the stupidity that is the rerouting they've got going on. You now have to drive all the way around the entire airport just to get to terminal C. Great thinkin' guys. Afterwards I hit Cosentino's (greatest grocery store in the world) and started on the three loads of laundry I wanted to take care of that day. Then straightened up, vacuumed, cleaned up the bathroom, and then faced the horror that was my yard.

Now the front yard was fine, I'd made time just before my sisters arrived to run out and cut it. No problems there. However the jungle out back was another story entirely. I could've been smart and just kicked up the gasoline mower, but the part of me that loves to do things the hard way kicked in and I powered through it with my push mower. My allergies weren't happy, but boy was it ever a fantastic workout! I was drenched in sweat and sore by the end, but felt like I'd started to work off some of the excess weight I put on during my vacation.

Finished up the laundry, took a nice cool shower, and proceeded to spend a good deal of the afternoon vegging and napping on the couch. Also finished up Al Franken's "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot: And Other Observations", which made me wish Al would run for President. Not only does the man seem to know what he's talking about and share many of my views, but he's funny too. Personally I'd love a President with a sense of humor.



I'll admit, it's a vice of mine, I just really like the show and the way the correspondents cover their stories. Always have, probably always will. Scared myself silly cheering for Andy Rooney's piece last night, "It's Just My Opinion", I shudder to think what kind of hate mail the man's going to get for it, though. Was fascinated by the "Clinton Vs. Dole: A Question Of Money" debate, and frightened by the "Exiled Ayatollah Awaits Return To Iraq" story. We're not seriously contemplating putting a religious zealot into a position of power in Iraq..are we? But if not al-Hakim then who? Questions, questions, but very few answers these days.

Comments

Belly whee!

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It was super cool to see you all dance. You and aelf and Cari looked awesome. You've got serious moves!

Also enjoyed meeting your sisters, even though I didn't get much of a chance to talk to them. It was neat to see the three of you together.