Busy days

Everyday last week was so busy! I took the weekend to just relax. It was so nice. On Saturday I went to practice for our student troupe's first performance. After dancing for a few hours, I came home to just veg out. Sunday I just spent the day playing playstation. It was a great weekend.

Yarn Bliss

Yesterday my friend and I drove down to the New York State Sheep and Wool festival. It was AWESOME!!!!!!!! We had the most amazing time. We got there about 1/2 hour after the festival started and they were already out of maps. Next year we are going to go on Saturday. Many of the vendors were running out of items. We looked at some really cool knitting kits at one place, and by the time we came back we couldn't find the one that I liked any more. Most everyone was really nice and friendly. We did run into one women who was mad that I had the last variegated blue ball of yarn at this one shop. I really wanted it as it was a full pound of yarn! I had bought a pattern early in the day and this yarn would go perfectly with it. She told me I should look at another color because she wanted that one. Too bad for you honey, I wanted that blue one! My friend who was with me is over six feet tall, she was ready to take this women out if she tried to take that yarn from me! It's nice to have protective tall friends! Here's my pound of blue yarn!

We then went to one barn where they were having a llama jumping competition. It was really funny to watch. The owners would get the llamas running up to the jump, hand the rope over to someone else, and the llama would stop and just look at the jump. They would try to pull them over it, a few did actually jump it and it was really neat to see. The picture is a little dark, but you can see the llama and the jump it was supposed to go over. I also bought myself this great licenses plate cover.

We saw a women who was using a drop spindle and after a long chat with her I bought a drop spindle kit. It has the spindle, some roving wool and directions in case I forget what she showed us! And, finally, I bought this amazing shawl kit. Yarn, pattern and all!! It was the last one!

Hanging Out

I went to dance class tonight, but since my ankle is still is an air cast I couldn't really do much. It was fun to hang out with the owner after class. She was so excited when she found out that I can French braid. I haven't braided hair is about 5 years, so it was not the prettiest braid ever, but it was passable. I'm trying to grow my hair out so that I can braid it again, and that was how the whole thing came about. Oh well, it was nice to talk with the owner of the dance studio. She is a really sweet person and I love her positive attitude.

Yarn addict!

Friday afternoon my hubby was working on our bathroom project. He had just opened an access hole in the floor that runs from the second floor of our house to the basement. He warned me that it was there. I knew it was there, I even said that if I fell in it it was me sized. Of course, I fell in it. Luckily, I did not fall all the way to the basement. One leg in the hole, the other twisted and split out. Off to the hospital we went. I got off lucky; only a sprained ankle. Of course that meant no dance class Friday night.
My hubby felt so bad for me that he took me out to dinner. Yummy. Dinner was great, but they put us at a table FAR from the door. Normally, I'd love that, but being on crutches, not so fun! It's more of a workout that I thought it would be! At dinner I said that I wanted to stop at the yarn store because I'm not moving far from the couch at home, I need something to knit!
My hubby is an enabler. The word sale to my husband is like money to a banker. He LOVES sales. He sees a good deal and he stocks up! So, my yarn addiction was fed hardcore. Cheap fun fur and this soft plush yarn that I like was on sale! He INSISTED that I get 2 of every color fun fur (that filled one whole shopping basket) and enough soft yarn to make a surplus of shawls (another whole basket full of yarn). I love my husband!
Here's my new collection of yarn..... oh, think of all the projects I can make!!!!! *^_^*

Apple Picking

Hubby and I went apple picking on Thursday! We went our first year of marriage, but last year we didn't get out. So, this our yearly tradition is not so yearly! We picked 4 full buckets. Two buckets are for his parents, and two for us. We picked Northern Spys and Jonagolds. Yummy!!! I love fresh apples! I have to make apple crisp and a maybe a pie. Actually, I've never made apple pie, so now is a great time to learn! ^_^
Look how lovely they look.... just looking at them makes me hungry!

Chanel the Diva

This morning I thought it would be good to let Chanel and Versace out to run around for a while. They don't get out as often as I could let them due to the fact that I'm not always right here to watch them as they run around. Chanel is fine when she is out. Versace however gets into trouble. I have to watch him at all times. Today, he didn't feel like coming out to run. Chanel did! Here she is hanging out by me.

Then she checked out my slippers. "Hey that looks like me!"
"Look at me, I'm so pretty!"

"All the modeling makes me tired."

Here's Versace just chilling in his house.

Isar, the belly dancer

Last night at belly dance class we had our normal class. We've been working on learning tribal style as well as a Turkish choreograph. I love our choreography because it's so light hearted and fun. Tribal style is hard of me, we normally learn cabaret style at class. So, we started to learn slow tribal moves last night. We had been learning all fast moves until now. The slow is much harder in my opinion.
After class we had student troupe. This troupe meets once a month and it's just getting started. It started back in January, and we have been talking about performing since the go. However, our fearless leader is also the head of the professional troupe. She told us that after the pro troupe's season is over then she can start to think about the student troupe performing. Last night she told us that we ARE going to perform. It will be a big party at the studio so we are in a safe environment to perform our dances for the first time. She wants us to eventually go out and dance for restaurants and other venues of that sort. I think it's great!
We had to think about our Arabic names. We were asked to choose a name that A.) no other dance in the area had, B.) one that fit our personalities. I chose Isar, which means fascinating. I asked if our teacher thought it was a good fit for me. She said that since no one else has it, I could use it! So, now when I dance I am Isar!
We also thought about what songs we could dance to. We had a choice of five and I chose one that I really like. My group to dance with is 3 other women. Two of them I get along great with the 3rd one I don't know as well. My two friends are very tall and they are in the front row to dance. I am short as is the other women, so we are in the back. It's fine for me! We ran though our dance once and it was great! We had to not look in the mirrors so, it was much more challenging to do. We did it and we stayed in our formation! Our big party is in one month. I think we can be ready!
After class, I went out with one of my friends. She asked me if I would consider doing a duet with her for the party. I told her I would think about it. Today I am going to look at the music that we though would be good for us. I will try to count out the beats and see what she thinks about it. We are going to put together what we know and if it's not ready, then we won't do it.
Last thing that we need is to get our costumes together. As a group we were asked to get coin bar covers that match our hipscarfs. It should be fun!

Bubbly Celebration!

Yesterday I got the good news I had been waiting on... I GOT THE JOB!!!!!!The call came yesterday morning as an unofficial announcement. They asked me to think about the answer I would give when they called me back later in the day. Hummm... of course I said yes I would love it! I had to tell my tutoring job that I was done. I was a little sad to say good bye to them as the school was as great school. My student that I was tutoring was really sweet. I also went over to the school I was at last year to tell them my news and say good-bye for now! Maybe someday I'll work with them again, but for now, I'm moving on to my own school, my own class and my own students!!! I am really really excited about this! I have to go over today to verify everything and sign the contract. I'll go in on Tuesday to meet the kids and the staff! ^_^
My hubby was so excited that he took me out to dinner last night. We can't go out today because he has to work, so we celebrated last night! He took me out for a lovely dinner and then we came home and had some champagne. Yum. It was a great day yesterday! I know today will be just as good because I haven't calmed down yet about getting a job! What a great feeling it is and I feel less stressed today! ^_^

Interviewing and Demo Days

Yesterday I had an interview for a school district that is very small, but they want to grow. I loved the people who talked with me. They were really nice and their questions were all things that I could talk about with knowledge and ease. It felt really good. They had to have some more interviews before they can choose who gets the job. I felt like I did the best job that I could do!
This morning my hubby got very early and declared that he would work on the bathroom project. This means that we had to tear out part of the kitchen walls to fix all the electrical wires for the bathroom. My whole house is under demo right now, but every step means that it is closer to being put back together better that it was. This house is an electrical nightmare! One wire that we found had been nicked so they tried to fix it by taping it back together. Normally with electrical tape that would be a fine idea, however, they used cello tape which is NOT safe at all!!!!! We are really lucky there hasn't been a fire from all the crazy wiring that we've found! Slowly the whole house is getting up to date wires! It makes me happy every time we take out an old wire and throw it away! ^_^

Subbing System and an Interview

The past two days I've had the subbing system calling me. I am really excited that I have the chance to sub, however, yesterday I had to pass on it due to the fact that I was tutoring in the afternoon. Today I also had to pass because I have an interview.
I am really excited about this one. I hope that it works out for me! I want to find my forever school and my forever job soon!!! I hope this is the one for me! ^_^