• Post-Thanksgiving Meal

    So today I’m heading out to another friend’s house for an ‘orphans’ Thanksgiving’ meal. While I’m enjoying spending the time with my friends, part of me keeps looking outside at the beautiful weather and wishing I was riding… The food and meal yesterday was excellent. Great company and good conversation. I can’t get over how…

  • Happy Thanksgiving!

    Happy Thanksgiving! Hope everyone has time with friends and family and not with the nasty flu that is going around. I’m going over to a friend’s house for dinner with her family. I was going to try to head to my Mom’s house. Unfortunately, between air fare prices and lodging for a diabetic cat… it…

  • Dance Class

    Wednesday night is my regular dance class. However, Thanksgiving is taking the place of dance class tomorrow. Just for fun, I emailed my instructor to see if she would like to come over for a lesson. She agreed. Whenever she comes over, we have something like a cross between a girls’ night out and a…

  • Terms You Can’t Do Without

    Some interesting definitions from The Jargon Lexicon: bletcherous: /blech’@�r@s/, adj. Disgusting in design or function; esthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. “This keyboard is bletcherous!” (Perhaps the keys don’t work very well, or are misplaced.) See losing, cretinous, bagbiting, bogus, and random. The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing…

  • Recital!

    So the recital was last night! The good news is that the top held together and fit. Last thing you want to do is have your top fall apart when you are belly dancing! I spent most of the day getting ready for the trip to Chattanooga. I left the house at 3:00 to arrive…

  • Pre-Recital Stuff

    So far everything has been going well. I am not going to do any workouts tonight like I normally would. I’ve practised the choreography a few times, reviewed the steps and the music. I feel comfortable with everything. Here’s hoping tomorrow goes well! Related Images:

  • Free International Calls

    If you have friends overseas, here are some great resources for using a domestic dial-through number to make free international calls. Here’s how it works: dial the access number for the international dialtone (in this case, the number is based in Iowa), dial the international number at the dialtone, and then you’re connected to the…

  • Impending Recital

    It’s now barely four days until the recital. I feel like I know the steps well enough, but I don’t feel like I’m really dancing it. There is a fluidity when you watch other dancers. I don’t have the transitions between steps down to where they look flawless and easy. I still look like I’m…

  • Near to fainting…

    Microsoft has released a version of the Firefox browser. Yup, you heard me correctly. I read it, reread it, and still keep checking to see whether it’s April 1st. There is something innately wrong about Microsoft releasing a version of Firefox and calling it Microsoft Firefox 2007 Professional. It is just wrong. It has to…

  • Headaches

    It’s that time of year again. Whether it’s leaf mold or some other allergen or a weather front, it’s sinus headache time. Thursday night I woke up with a nasty headache: the type that sits behind your eyes and pounds. It was aggrevated by sleeping at a funky angle. The headache lingered into this morning…