| May. 30th, 2006 @ 08:14 pm Mem Day and the First competition back |
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Current Location: Home
Current Music: Mike's Guild Wars game in the background
Got our picnic table and finished the backyard setup (thank you much to Ruth and Opus for that) and had a ball with a small cookout yesterday, complete with smores made over the firepit at the center of the table - I love that table! It's perfect in the space and can condense nicely to fit our hammock too when we feel like hanging out back there and swinging, woohoo! I can't wait until the planting is fully done and the rest of the decor out there is set up, it truly will be a great hideaway in our own backyard. The 80th birthday party in LI that we went to was wonderful of course, we had a blast with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) phantom_cheesy's family - I swear I haven't laughed that hard in ages - and we did it despite my sister-in-law's best efforts to make herself miserable and make sure everyone around knew she was miserable - you know, the people there love her, but she could try to actually engage in the talking and fun too, instead of hiding in a magazine on the couches right by everyone and not conversing at all.
In other fun news at least - we're going to be entering our first ballroom competition since we returned to lessons at the end of the month. It'll be in Manhattan Thurs-Sun Jun 29th - July 2 - though I think our competing is almost all on Friday, and maybe a little bit on Saturday right now. The competition website is here for anyone who might be able to and wants to come see us - we'd love people to come and watch and cheer us on and watch much better dancers compete too :) Now the unfortunate part of the competition is that we won't get to compete our best events. All of the smooth dances are on the Thursday of the competition and we can't get off from work to make it down for that day, so we'll only be dancing rhythm and maybe one standard dance. This means I really need to work hard on pumping out a rhythm costume though, as I don't really have one right now. Anyone want to help me? I've got lots of ideas, and I can do the stoning, but the sewing with lycra/spandex I'm not so much experienced at.
Sigh - so we'll see how this goes, this is mostly going to be a tester to see what we really want to focus on, what we need to work harder on, and what kind of schedule we'll need to keep after this comp and before the fall season - I think we're going to hope to do 3-4 comps a year if we can, or 2-3 bigger ones with more events in each. Expect the nervous posts to come soon as the comp gets closer! |
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