Friday, September 28, 2007
Sunday, September 16, 2007
relay for LIFE
we spent the better part of our Saturday at the Relay for Life festivities in Big Rapids with my Dad
we had lots of fun...there was lots of food, lots of face painting, lots of walking and lots of balloon animals (and helicopters! because, for some reason, porter's helicopters kept crashing and the kind students in the michigan college of optometry tent - where we camped out for the day - took pity on him and kept making him a new one!)
we had lots of fun...there was lots of food, lots of face painting, lots of walking and lots of balloon animals (and helicopters! because, for some reason, porter's helicopters kept crashing and the kind students in the michigan college of optometry tent - where we camped out for the day - took pity on him and kept making him a new one!)
Friday, September 14, 2007
dancing feet
well, after my audition rejection (which came 'officially' via email yesterday), I decided I wasn't going to just sit and mope...
so, after a wonderful dance studio experience with the girls on Monday (MUCH improved over the first dance studio - let's just say I paid quite a bit of "stupid tax" for that one) I decided I would join an adult beginning dance class...and not just one, but two! So on Wednesday nights for almost 2 hours, I will be learning to tap dance and taking a jazz dance class!
the tap class has just 5 people in it, all of which are new to tap - 3 teenagers and 2 adults...I had a great time, despite the fact that I didn't have my tap shoes yet and got a splinter in my big toe on one 'shuffle' step. I was happy with how quickly I could pick up what I was suppose to be doing, but like my hands, my right foot is much better than my left!
then came the jazz class. I stretched and moved muscles I didn't know I had. We spent the first 20 minutes or so, maybe more, stretching. holy moly. i hurt. and then came the dancing, which i loved and was a great workout. there are 4 adults in that class and a dozen or so teenagers and i was very happy that i could keep up with them, and even got some of the moves down better than some of them, and the teacher even had to tell THEM to stop whining! made me feel good.
in addition to the dancing i've been working hard to make it to the community center (where we just started a family membership) to workout on the days i take porter to pre-school (which is right next door). we get 'free' babysitting with our membership, so i'm able to take molly to the play room and then hit the gym. i went last week for some time on the treadmill and elliptical machine (which kicked my butt) and then went back yesterday for my weight training machine orientation and more treadmill time. it was easier this week and my fitness orientation girl (shari) was a delight and will be keeping tabs on me, so no excuse not to show up! i'm really sore today with all this increased activity, but feeling great at the same time.
after working out, i get to take molly to her swim class, which is an absolute blast, cause that kid has been a water baby since she was born. the instructor says that at the end of class we put them in lifejackets and go down the waterslide! i'm sure she'll love it.
so, after a wonderful dance studio experience with the girls on Monday (MUCH improved over the first dance studio - let's just say I paid quite a bit of "stupid tax" for that one) I decided I would join an adult beginning dance class...and not just one, but two! So on Wednesday nights for almost 2 hours, I will be learning to tap dance and taking a jazz dance class!
the tap class has just 5 people in it, all of which are new to tap - 3 teenagers and 2 adults...I had a great time, despite the fact that I didn't have my tap shoes yet and got a splinter in my big toe on one 'shuffle' step. I was happy with how quickly I could pick up what I was suppose to be doing, but like my hands, my right foot is much better than my left!
then came the jazz class. I stretched and moved muscles I didn't know I had. We spent the first 20 minutes or so, maybe more, stretching. holy moly. i hurt. and then came the dancing, which i loved and was a great workout. there are 4 adults in that class and a dozen or so teenagers and i was very happy that i could keep up with them, and even got some of the moves down better than some of them, and the teacher even had to tell THEM to stop whining! made me feel good.
in addition to the dancing i've been working hard to make it to the community center (where we just started a family membership) to workout on the days i take porter to pre-school (which is right next door). we get 'free' babysitting with our membership, so i'm able to take molly to the play room and then hit the gym. i went last week for some time on the treadmill and elliptical machine (which kicked my butt) and then went back yesterday for my weight training machine orientation and more treadmill time. it was easier this week and my fitness orientation girl (shari) was a delight and will be keeping tabs on me, so no excuse not to show up! i'm really sore today with all this increased activity, but feeling great at the same time.
after working out, i get to take molly to her swim class, which is an absolute blast, cause that kid has been a water baby since she was born. the instructor says that at the end of class we put them in lifejackets and go down the waterslide! i'm sure she'll love it.
Monday, September 10, 2007
well, i gave it the old college try...
unfortunately, all the other people giving it that college try were IN college or YOUNGER - and at least 75 pounds lighter...
i auditioned for the part of Lucy in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"...
ah well. I'm sick, old, and apparently do not have what they were looking for.
i auditioned for the part of Lucy in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"...
ah well. I'm sick, old, and apparently do not have what they were looking for.
Saturday, September 08, 2007
i hate wallpaper
HOURS of peeling off the top later...then steaming....then scraping...then cleaning up the millions of little sticky pieces that are now getting stuck to the slate tile....
and still left to go...half the wall, then using chemicals to remove the remainder of the adhesive...then applying spackle...then priming...then i might actually be able to PAINT.
ugh.
and still left to go...half the wall, then using chemicals to remove the remainder of the adhesive...then applying spackle...then priming...then i might actually be able to PAINT.
ugh.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
what a way to start our stay in midland!
in today's paper - a HALF-PAGE sized picture...
Lillian Baker, 7, foreground, and Katie Gleason, 9, participate in a ballet class at JW School of Dance on Wednesday evening. Jackie Wontorcik, who owns the school but rents the space, said her new landlord hired workers to buff off the porch paint that previously coated the maple floor and to put on four coats of "gymnasium polyurethane." The floor was finished in August, Wontorcik said. "It brought tears to my eyes," she said. "If you were a dancer you would just know."
Daily News/KEVIN BENEDICT
Lillian Baker, 7, foreground, and Katie Gleason, 9, participate in a ballet class at JW School of Dance on Wednesday evening. Jackie Wontorcik, who owns the school but rents the space, said her new landlord hired workers to buff off the porch paint that previously coated the maple floor and to put on four coats of "gymnasium polyurethane." The floor was finished in August, Wontorcik said. "It brought tears to my eyes," she said. "If you were a dancer you would just know."
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
first daya school
one second grader, one kindergartener (who could barely contain herself) and a Spiderman-obsessed pre-schooler (spiderman backpack, lunch box, folders and t-shirt!)
and let us not forget little molly....
and here's everybody ready to go...
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