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I haven't posted here in soooooooo long, but I feel like I'm getting myself back again, and I'm able to do the things I truly love and enjoy again, so I find myself on WDC every day lately  Some of the collateral beauty from the quarantine is slowing down, retreating from the rat race and finally doing some work on myself, like introspection and 12-step recovery type of work, along with physical self-care, and taking the pressure off and telling my unrelenting standards to go kick rocks. All of that has helped me immensely. I've been struggling with mental health difficulties since my early 20's, and misdiagnosing me and medicating me for something I didn't have not only did not help, but it actually did damage in my brain, metabolism, memory, etc. I've been working hard to combat that damage and it's paying off. That's one major reason why I tend to lurk in the shadows here on WDC and not participate for years. I wasn't myself. I was stuck in a dark room in the recesses of my mind with no way to get out. But I finally feel like myself again, oddly enough due to the forced quiet and slower lifestyle during this pandemic. I'm just glad to be "back," in EVERY sense of the word. And if anyone is struggling and needs to talk, message me! We'll get through this together  |
So I'm pretty excited about a lifelong dream coming true: I've been a tap dancer since I was 4 (amongst other styles of dance but tap is my favorite). I haven't taken lessons in the last decade because of going to college, etc. But I never lost it and I pull my shoes out about once a year and jam in the kitchen. Anywho, lifelong dream since I was a kid was that I'd have a dance studio. Now I am not technically opening up my own studio, but what I found was a facility that rents their theatre rooms and dance rooms to other entities, such as dance studios, theatre groups, even a church. My plan was really just to rent a studio room for a couple hours and I would find some advanced tap dancers who wanted to have a jam session with me. Well, this facility is going to rent me one of their two dance rooms and the admin lady even encouraged me to give 2 lessons a week, to children, because she said once a week won't be enough in the parents' opinion. So my humble "jam session" with fellow tap dancers idea has turned into me actually starting my own dance school (renting the rooms from the facility I found) and giving regular lessons twice a week! I really want to teach adults but the audience is really the kiddos, so I'm going to try to hold both, an adult class and a children's class, twice a week, so I'll be teaching 4 classes total. Now besides my schooling and the work I already do, I now have to register my dba, create a website and flyers, and most importantly, start choreographing! I am so freaking on top of the world right now it's not even funny. I just want to tap dance, like, 24/7.   |
106 trinkets collected and counting. The StoryMaster   you've created an army of monsters! I'm sure that was your master plan all along...muahahaha |
I'm in Portland, OR. Mom and I were walking down the street and we happened upon a dry cleaner's with a sign that read:
"IF YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED AND NEED AN OUTFIT CLEAN FOR AN INTERVIEW, WE WILL CLEAN IT FOR FREE"
I have to say, living in the Bay Area, CA all my life, I've never seen that before. Maybe they're there, but I haven't seen them, and there certainly aren't enough... |
I'm in Portland, OR! Never been here before, and it's so beautiful. I'm from the Bay Area, CA, but I have a lot of family in the Seattle/Tacoma area and my niece and nephew are graduating high school on Thursday so my mom and I drove up for that. Had to stop in Portland because the drive is so long. We're going to explore the city a little bit this morning and afternoon until continuing on to my aunt's house.  |
Which words in the English language make you cringe when you hear or read them? For me, it's "gushed" as in referring to someone talk enthusiastically about something. Ugh. That word sounds so gross for some reason! I just wanted to know if I'm the only freak who feels this way about certain words or if it's a common thing out there...  |
I'm usually not very quick on the uptake, but here's one of my more witty moments: at work Saturday night, waiting at the bar for an order with my coworker Marcos, and another coworker comes up and asks me if I have change for a dollar and I said no. She then asks Marcos and he said no too, then she complained to me how Marcos had no change, and I said, "Yeah, and he doesn't have any cents either." (Pun intended) Then as Marcos grinned sheepishly I turned to him and shouted, "Burn!" and walked away. 
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I finally broke my hiatus right now with writing a poem! It's been over 6 months, at least! It may not be a masterpiece but at least I'm back on track Check it out if you'd like and if you feel so inclined, leave a review.
Thanks in advance! |
| Just started reading A Song of Ice and Fire series, beginning with A Game of Thrones. Holy moly! Why did it take me this long? I'm only in the beginning chapters of the book and HAVEN'T watched the show so please, no spoilers! |
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is in Portland, OR, I think. Shame you won't be there long enough to catch up.
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