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Bellydancing adventures
I spent all afternoon yesterday at the DC Convention Center with my bellydance friends. Our company had been invited to perform at the Travel Expo's Global Beats stage. We were to go on twice. Our set consisted of a couple solos, an ATS (American Tribal Style) piece, and a few group peices. There were four of us in my group and we did a piece ( Read more... ) -
Giving up on Hands Free Mama
I read/skimmed Chapter 2: Make Purposeful Connection. It was about telling her kids and husband that she was going to pay more attention to them, and starting a back and forth journal with her daughter. Also talking to her kids when she is driving. There are too many words in this book, and they're getting too sappy for me.
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Hands Free Mama
This book is a self help book, while the other two were more life autobiographies. And self help books demand something of you. I have read/skimmed many and never ever do the exercises they suggest. I think them through for ten seconds and then turn the page. Well, I'm going to do some of these writing prompts in this book.
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Happiness Books
I'm on a mini new year's knowledge quest for happiness. I first read The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin, which was very earnest. What I came away with is that happy is a verb. It's a frame of mind and action that you choose. You choose to act happy. Also you should try to be a good person and help people. It's been a couple weeks since I ( Read more... ) -
Observing and Learning from a Master Teacher
Since it's been ages since my last post, here is a quick recap of Warcat's life: two daughters, 2 and 6, living in DC, 6 year old in public school, ESL teacher but taking the year off because my part time position was discontinued. Hobbies: bellydance, books, cooking, sewing. Married, husband currently working at home ( Read more... ) -
New Year's Resolutions
January is almost over and I have finally settled on my resolutions for this year. Just two of them ( Read more... ) -
dance dance
Had my last fall performance class today. Although in many ways my class (the whole however many weeks) was not satisfactory, I still learned some things from my teacher. Technique wise, not much. But she has been bellydancing since the age of 11, and dancing as a professional from when was 17. She studied with a lot of famous teachers here and ( Read more... ) -
Husband working....
K has been working a new shift for the past two weeks, thanks to the government shutdown. He works 3-11m pm every day except Wednesdays and Thursdays. I've been a little whiny about this lately, but a visit to my aunts snapped me back into shape. When we told them about K's new schedule, K said it was hard for me, and my aunt scoffed- my ( Read more... ) -
Dancing
I've been having so much fun dancing this week. Last weekend was my belly dance studio's big recital, and everyone danced in all three shows. I spent the whole weekend at the theatre. One of my best friends has just started taking belly dance too, and she was in the beginner 2 class performance, so it was extra special to get to hang out with ( Read more... ) -
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I just looked back at an old private entry in here, and am reminded of the need to be humble ( Read more... )