it’s been so long since i’ve written. i feel sort of guilty, but not really. i see some friends doing the NoJoMo and i sort of feel bad. there’s all sorts of stuff happening, having tons of fun and living life, the issue just becomes having enough time to get it all recorded =)
of course, i started all this, and now i have to go to a meeting. i will continue when i get back and post when it’s done. wooo hoooo =)
okay, meeting is over and my head just feels marginally like exploding =) it’s for a summer program and it’s horrible that we have to plan things so far in advance, but also pretty cool. hopefully i will be able to do some cool new stuff this year with all that. here’s hoping.
so, what the last month and a half has been like for me? it’s been awesome!
about ten days after my last entry, i went to sacramento to dance with an awesome set of ladies. we got invited to unmata’s blood moon regale and it was awesome! they do a fire show on friday nights, and i had contacted the leader of unmata to possibly set up some workshop and when she wrote me back, she invited us down to perform! i had posted this on the message board for the fire troupe and never really got a response, so i sent some personal emails and started organizing the gig. we rehearsed, we reworked pieces, i anguished that people who didn’t volunteer didn’t like me (only briefly), my wonderful dance sister got us great rates on a hotel, we made plans, i printed maps, we even went on a scouting trip down to the area. finally, by october 20, we were ready to go =) there were going to be a total of 12 or 13 of us, some staying most of the weekend, some heading back directly, and some heading back the next day.
we got there with relatively little incident. one of our members is having a rough time, so we were there for her and listened a lot on the way down. i am glad we could be there for her, she’s going through a rough time. we got checked into the hotel, and in pretty short order, all of us were there and in our rooms. i was rooming in the mini suite with the craziest and most wonderful lady ever. it took us no time to get settled in and we explored a little bit, chilled, and before you know it, it was time to get ready for the show…..
the show was AMAZING! everyone at this show was doing fire, but i think the thing we realized is that everyone else were dancers who used fire as a prop, we were fire spinners who used dancing as a prop. not sure if that makes sense, you might have had to have been there, but it made perfect sense of the time! i am so thankful that i received the training in safety that i did from our folks! some of those safety folks didn’t really seem to know or understand what they were doing and some of the performers were kind of scary. even though we might not have been the greatest dancers, i still think we brought something unique and interesting to their fire show. i have never been more proud or felt more accomplished in my life, because this one, *I* did. i arranged it, and it was a huge success. i was a little freaked out about having to eat right before the show which all the other little skinnies wanted to do, but i dealt well with it and only felt marginally like melting down =) we did find an awesomely cool little brew pub within walking distance of the hotel though, so that was good =) note to self: fringe and fire don’t mix well =)
after the show, we decided to go back to the room, and our room ended up being the gathering spot. that was cool, there was tons of booze, we even picked up a stray brand new army officer somewhere, and were all up way too late, to the tune of after 4am, and then crashed for some much needed rest. the next day was all about shopping and being pampered. we had scoped out this awesome little vintage store on our way down and wanted to hit that again. we spent hours there, everyone managed to find something they liked and then some of our party left while others stayed longer and we shopped some more. we found this cool little bistro on the street and stopped there for lunch. the food was amazing….so much so that we pretty much ate the next three meals there!
my stress for the night happened later when we were going to the next show, the dancing one. i had done my homework and printed a bunch of directions up for the places we needed to be. the issue became that i didn’t label any of my directions, so when the time came to go to the show, i took us to the wrong place! i felt really stupid after having had some catty thoughts about other people, the universe gave me back a big ‘ole raspberry =) we had already valet’d the car, so we decided to cab it to the venue. what followed was the most harrowing e-ticket cab ride i have ever experienced in my life, but it was fun and i felt so ALIVE!
their show was amazing. i can’t believe these folks work on this all year and just get an idea for a piece they have to do, and no one sees the finished product until days before the show. it looked so well put together, it was really impressive. i might post some video if/when it happens.
sunday was brunch, tired but satisfied, and the end to an amazing weekend. i love my fire family. there’s so much i am leaving out, the little details, but i am currently feeling like ADD girl and can’t seem to stay focused on this, so i think i better end it. i will leave myself with some images from the weekend, in words:
- cute army officers can be smart too…..hooray for napolean dynamite quotes
- hot grrls rule and knock my socks off….and hot takes many forms
- i have the greatest friends in the world….we are truly a family…we annoy each other but there is an underlying caring that cannot be replaced
- being a freak in a brew pub turns lots of heads when you jingle by
- hooray for lacy purple underwear
- boooo for crusty purple eyeliner that requires a layer of skin to be removed with it
- i love fire more now than i ever have
=)
that’s about it.
peace.
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