It Must Be a Sunday Thing

Clearly, I have issues updating this during the week.  Hmm, I wonder why.  I always hope to have Sunday be a day for me, but for the last two Sundays this has not been the case.  I have decided that it's much easier to resign myself to the fact that the next nine months or so will be sort of like being in college again.  Between lesson planning and BTSA and the extra meetings that are required of us, I will not have much time for anything else.  Fortunately, my online Masters is going to be finished in about a month.  This will be a weight off my shoulders as well as a raise in pay.  Of course, then I have the pleasure of continuing to pay off the loan, but at least the annoying work will be finished.  Knowing that this is the last month of it is truly what keeps me going.

I am being observed by our principal on Tuesday, and naturally I just now realized that I wanted to include a couple of other things in my lesson plan that I'm giving her tomorrow.  So much for being in bed at 9.

However, I'm almost there.  As soon as I finish here and I staple the stuff together, I can get in bed.

I would like this to be a week of not eating as much junk food.  Perhaps if I sleep more that will be easier to accomplish.  I've been going a little crazy with the sugar lately, and I do not want this to backfire on me.  Feeling icky is not a stress that I need to add to my life.  Anyone and everyone who knows me knows that I have enough stress and things to worry about.

I am looking forward to a normal week.  Normal, of course, does not mean super easy, but at least it is simply work and ballet (with no rehearsal!) and then home to do more work for BTSA or my online class or something.  The only thing added to this week is tutoring, but since this makes me some extra money I can't complain too much.

I would love to wake up tomorrow, and every morning this week, and not have a feeling of dread.  I think the solution, or at least one solution, to all of these problems is sleep.

And with that, I think I will head toward bed.  It is calling my name....

The Show

The show went quite well.  Thanks to a lot of hard work and the power of prayer, I think it was one of the best, possibly THE best, show I've done.  I hit all my hard steps dead on, felt calm throughout, and was at peace.  It was pretty incredible.

It was bittersweet in many ways.  I will not be doing the next two shows that finish off 2010, and neither is Mindy.  Sammy is gone in Santa Barbara.  I have no plans yet for the shows next year, but will take things as they come.

And now, after sleeping until noon today, it is already Sunday night and another work week looms ahead.  This one is filled with two different church meetings, two different school meetings (back to back on Monday) Back to School Night, my first BTSA meeting, and a doctor appointment.  Thankfully this next weekend is shaping up to be relaxing and not filled with too many events.  However, I must remember to not focus on the weekends so much but instead work on living in the moment and enjoying what life throws at me.

That's hard to do when you already know what life is going to throw at you and that you usually don't have time to deal with them.

Breathe.  It's all good.  :)

Sun and Sand and...Pointe Shoes?

Yes.  Sun and sand and pointe shoes.  Mindy and I did a photoshoot for the 2011 Nouveau Chamber Ballet calendar today.  The theme for this calendar is sports, and we were beach volleyball players.  Actually, we were beach volleyball players wearing leotards and bike shorts and pointe shoes and we took the pictures at a park.  But there really wasn't any difference between us and real beach volleyball players.  :)

The shoot was fun.  I do believe we burst out laughing after every shot.  It was nice to do it together because we work so well together and play off each other.  I think we got some good ones.  Theresa and Christine both liked them. Hopefully I'm not too critical of myself once I see them.

I also got sunburned.  I suppose that's appropriate though given the sport we were portraying.

It was also very interesting to be balancing on pointe on a small piece of plywood buried in the sand.

In work-related news, I graded Algebra 2's first formal quiz this weekend.

Yes.  I was discouraged.  I reworked the calendar so that we can spend a couple of days reviewing.  It's very much needed.  It's needed in Geometry also, so I reworked that calendar too.  I thought I was getting through to the Alg 2 kids more than I obviously did.  It's frustrating, and discouraging.  I so badly want them to get it and to like it.  But, it's only been two weeks.  Actually, only 9 days.  I need to give it time and keep at it.

Show on Saturday!