September 27, 2007
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Hip-hip-hooray! I just went to a belly-dance class, and I think the teacher is going to be okay. I’d never heard of her but she has quite a following in this neck of the woods. She said she’s been teaching for 30 years. She taught us a veil trick that I’ve only seen my teacher (ex) do. And what’s funny is that it’s the one thing she didn’t teach me. I didn’t press it because I gathered it was kind of a signature move and since she didn’t do much veil I left it alone. Now I’ve got it.
I had such a good time in class because, as it turned out, I moved better than the teacher. I don’t know if she was on antidepressants or if she’s just very mellow or what but her facial expression never changed and she moved very carefully with little range in motion. I could have done a much better job. All this time I’ve been teaching my friend every Tues I’ve been glad no money was changing hands because I didn’t know if I was good enough to be teaching. Now I do.
Flylady certainly sends a lot of emails. I’m ignoring them tonight because I feel like I have already accomplished lots. Like today I cleaned out a bunch of clothes and donated them. That’s huge for me because I don’t part with clothes. But Flylady has a deal where you weigh the clothes and then go to some site and put down how many pounds you parted with. I think it’s a precursor to the weight-loss program they have. It reminded me of Nanowrimo and how every day I’d go report how many words I’d written. You could see the blue bar fill in with each additional word count. Just the idea of that made me want to go through my closet. Really what happened was that the oldest called and she was cleaning her closet out, too, so we took our clothes to a resale shop where they bought hers back and donated mine.
Actually, I’m kind of curious about what I’m supposed to be doing tomorrow. Today they told me to go to my freezer and take out something for dinner. Last night I got an email that told me to go to bed. I don’t know why this appeals to me so much but it does. And my bedroom looks bigger now because I did like I was told and got everything out of there that didn’t belong. Who knew I was so receptive to direction.
Comments (8)
FlyLady is good. I like how she said that you can do anything in 15 minute increments. Congrats on the clothes thing because I remember that you change up you closet with the seasons. Perhaps this helps.
This is a fascinating thing… I need to know more. I’m trying to get teachers/parents to do similar things via text-message with ADHD boys. We’re having some luck…
Wonderful. I thinh you should teach belly dancing and charge a fee.
We all knew you were good enough to teach belly dancing..how come you didn’t?? I’m really surprised at the FlyLady thing working for you..I’d have guessed that you wouldn’t really appreciate all the directional stuff…who knew indeed…marilyn
This FlyLady business sounds a little to military to me. Drop and give me 50!
– But seriously, I’m glad that it’s helping you to have more space to think about what you want to think about . . .
The class sounded great. Oh now you know I want to check this out instead of painting my toenails.
There’s teacher stuff there!
i’m glad you’re learning something new all the time! but we all knew you would be a great teacher!