Relaxing Morning

I still feel like I have too much to do, but I woke up more relaxed. Yesterday I just hit a state of almost panic over the amount of things I have piled on me. So what made me feel better? Nothing is cuter than a bunny bouncing around. I let Nesquick and Tira run around for a while with me today. Their old cage they had so much room to romp that they didn't need me to let them out. Now the cage they are in is a bit smaller so they need romp time. Here's Nesquick having fun.
Here's Tira looking crazy!

Uphill Battle

Some days it just seems like everything is an uphill battle for me. I have about five thousand things going on. I need to have a chat with a co-worker about something that happened. I have to update my resume. I have to call and fix a few things with my job and then I have to clean up my house.... ahhhhhh.... it feels like I have a thousand things to do!

Holiday Prep

Today my neighbor's were putting up their Christmas lights. It seems like everyone on my street has lights up already. It looks so pretty and I think that we are the only ones that don't have lights up right now. Maybe this weekend we'll think about putting some decorations up. ^_^

Thanksgiving and Black Friday

I went home to my mom and dad's house to help my mom get ready for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. Here's the set table Thursday morning.

Here's the Turkey before it went in the oven. Here's the shrimp dip that my mom made as an appetizer. Here's the table right before we ate.

Yummy PIES! Thanksgiving was great. We had such a wonderful meal and then our annual Turkey Bowl of Trivial Pursuit. It was such a great time!

On Friday, Mom and I went shopping. However we did not go at 5 a.m. like some people. I got this cool bag at Victoria's Secret. We had a great time. Today I called a friend of mine from college who got engaged over Thanksgiving. I am SUPER excited for her! I've spent the day in my p.j.'s. It's been a great day!

Snow

We got our first ground covering of snow last night. Here's my backyard this morning.

Good Books

One thing that I love to do is read. I got this boxed set of books a week ago and I just finished the final book this morning. I had read the first book before and at that time I thought it was really wired. Then I got into it and loved it. It's about a girl who has nightmares that someone she knows is going to die. She tries to save them by figuring out what her nightmares mean. It's kind of cool once you get into it.

I Can Spin!

The first meeting was a success! When I got there it looked like I had stepped back in time. There were wheels everywhere! I was a bit shy and hung out by the door until a very nice lady named Carolyn asked me if I was new. Well, I guess I stood out like a sore thumb, but she grabbed my hand and said I needed to learn. What did I want to learn drop spindle or wheel? I chose drop spindle. She was so nice, she gave me some of her roving and loaned me a spindle. Before long I was feeling pretty good about my ability. Carolyn thought so too and dragged me into the middle of the circle to show off what I had done. Here is my first "skein" that I spun at the meeting.
I joined the guild and was able to sign out the spindle for some much needed practice at home. I also bought this cute roving called "frost." I am pretty excited about this and It's going to be a fun place to hang out! I can't wait until next month for the next meeting!!!

Spinning Day

Today is the third Saturday of the month. Of course this means nothing to almost everyone, but to me it means that I can go to the hand spinners guild today and learn how to spin. I am so excited! Also, randomly enough, last week before the hafla, I met a woman who knows how to spin, works for the same school system as me and also is taking belly dance! What are the odds of that??? I e-mailed her yesterday to see if she was going to be at this meeting, but she can't come. I'm off to it by myself. My friend who I was going to drag along told me that she will not be coming. Oh well, if I can travel to foreign countries alone, I can go to a spinning meeting alone! Anyway, it's become an obsession of mine to learn. However, the woman that I met who spins said that if I miss the meeting that she can teach me sometime! She also told me that the meetings are great fun! I have a few things to do first, but then it's off to learn some spinning!

Professional Belly Dancers

WOW, WOW, WOW!!! The belly dance superstars is so worth seeing!!! Even though we got home really late, it was amazing! I had a great time. It was my mom's first time to see belly dancing at all and she had a good time too! I bought a new hip scarf last night that is purple and violet. It has only beads on it, no coins! I wanted one that had no coins so it won't make a lot of noise. All the other ones that I have have TONS of coins on them! My friend bought two hip scarfs, a tee shirt and a pin. One of the hip scarfs her mom got her for Christmas. We had the most amazing time. We all met for dinner before hand and so at the show we were stuffed! The show was so cool. One of the girls was shimming so long that they brought out a drum for her. We thought "oh, she's going to stop shimming and play the drum." We couldn't have been more wrong! In fact, she kept shimming and stood on the drum and then danced on top of it! It was unbelievable!!! I loved every second of it! I hope they come this way again next year!

Superstars

Tomorrow night the Belly Dance Superstars troupe is going to be performing near my hometown. My friend and her mom are going to drive there with me. We are going to meet my mom at the show. I can't wait! They are a really famous troupe and they have been around the world. It's going to be awesome! The show starts pretty late, so we'll get home late. I'm going to be dragging on Thursday for my classes!!! I'm going to go to bed early tonight so I can sleep well after the show Wednesday!

Hafla Time

Last night was our belly dance hafla. Good music, good food and of course dancing! I did three student troupe songs and one duet with my friend. It was a great time! There was a raffle and so much food it was crazy! Here's one of the dancers with a candelabra on her head! It was awesome!

Yarn Explosion!

On Wednesday after belly dance, one of the instructors asked if I would bring some of my knitted pieces to sell at the performance on Saturday night. I've sold a few things to the owner there and I've got my biz cards out there, but this would be great! However, I do not have that much knit up for a show, so yesterday before work I made up a crazy little scarf pattern that uses some of my scrap fun fur up! I acutely was able to make 3 of them before I went to work. I made a 4th one before I went to bed. If I can make about a dozen of them to sell that should fill out my sell pile nicely. I have two wraps, one shawl (at this point, I'm trying to get a second one done!) and a triangle scarf. If I have a bunch of crazy scarfs then I think I'll be ok. I did ask my friends what they thought of my scarf creations, and they were a hit. Hopefully, people will like them enough to buy them at this here party!
Here's my scrap fur box... the pile is getting smaller! ^_^

Practice Makes Perfect?

Today was a busy busy day! I was running from school to a meeting to dance class. Before dance class we were able to practice our duet. We only have a few more days before the show. Tomorrow we are going to practice again and again! I'm sick of our song already, but I need to get the moves down perfect. I know about 1/2 the dance really well, just need to get the second 1/2 as well. I'm glad that we have time to work out the details and practice, practice, practice!!!

The Crazy Train Rolls On

As if my life isn't crazy enough, I just realized that our first belly dance performance with student troupe is on Saturday. I'm still working on my duet with friend. We worked on it Monday night and she helped me sew part of my costume together. This is so chaotic!
At school, yesterday my class went not so well. They are working on a project and that part was fine. However, there is only one example they have to share. Some of my friends did not like sharing and needed a little talking to. Today I am teaching my other class so hopefully it will go better.
Versace only needs two more full days of meds. Try getting meds into a mad rabbit. Not the easiest task in the world. He doesn't want to come out for them right now. Everyday it's a battle between us to see who will give in first. Maybe he'll be good after I log this blog in. My magic 8 ball says "most likely not." Oh sad.

Friday

It has not started out as the best Friday for me. First I have to Versace his meds. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get meds into a bunny that doesn't want to take them?? I couldn't even get him out of the cage today. My hubby had to wake up and help me with him. That was lots of fun.
Then I went to school. I have two schools that I go to, and the first one the kids have officially moved away. So, I was told to pack my things and that is that. I'm home relaxing before I have to go to my second school. Yesterday my second school lessons went amazing!!! Everything was great. We'll see what today brings.
Tonight I'm off to belly dance class and student troupe. Next week we have our first performance. I'm in 3 group dances now, and my friend and I are doing a duet. I'm nervous about the duet. My friend knows it and I don't. Great, I need to practice! The funny thing is that we created it, but I can't seem to remember it! Oh well...

Please Vote No!

Normally, as I rule I could care less about politics. I don't understand them, and I don't really care. However, this election I can not just sit by when there is an issue that I feel very strongly about.
One candidate is asking the people of New York to vote for English as our official language. I cannot and will not support this. My job yes, is to teach people English, but not at the cost of them losing their own language. The constitution of the United States of America does not have English as the official language for good reason. This country is a mix of people, cultures and languages. Without all this we would be pretty dull. Forcing English on us is not fair. They are asking us to forgot that there are other languages out there and that the people who come here with that knowledge of another language are not as valued as the ones who know English. I just can't understand that. Knowing more than one language is such an amazing attribute. I can not conceive of saying that the U.S., which is such a blend of people, could declare one language better than the other. I find this campaign an injustice to the people of this nation.
Normally as I said, I don't care a hoot about politics, however this is a hot button for me. Please don't let this happen!