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Our CD-Rom is busted, so my mom kindly took my brand new MP3 player and like, 50 CDs back to Pittsburgh with her and put music on it for me. She sent back in a care package with a card that had a lollipop condom sticker-ed on the back and the limited edition pastel Junior Mints. She is the coolest, ever. And how did I ever live without an MP3 player?
In other news, we had a lovely visit. Went shopping, bought Sketchers, had some really excellent meals. My did my birthday dinner at Zona, and Michael managed to orchestrate getting a giant, Betty Boop cake from our favorite Dominican bakery in the Bronx to Zona, in perfect condition may I add. It was a wonderful suprise and the cake- vanilla with chocolate sauce filling, and buttercream frosting in vanilla and cherry, was amazing. We explored City Island, this tiny adorable fishing village off of the Bronx. It still intrigues me what an expansive, diverse city this is! You would never believe you were still in NYC.
I left the salsa program. It was not an easy decision, because I really liked my instructor and genuinely wanted to see the venture go somewhere... but the truth was, it simply wasn't. And beyond that, the training schedule itself was getting a bit ridiculous and the group classes were progressing at a slow rate. I'm thankful for the training though- now I can do a social dance that I've always wanted to learn, pretty well if I do say so myself. Not to mention the auditions I can go to now, having expanded my abilities... Besides that, I would have never met J if I hadn't done it and she is one of my very best friends here. Plus she has a kickass, burgeoning group of her own that I'm honored to be part of. So, all in all, more good came from the whole thing than bad and that's the most you can ever ask for! I have to say though, it is a huge relief. It was simply getting to be too much, to be worried about class all of the time like that and know you were going to get a passive-aggressive, "stern" response if you had to miss a class- even though the material was that which you had already covered dozens of times before. So, yeah.
Since then, I auditioned for one company that I absolutely love. It's sort of Latin jazz with salsa and really well put together. I enjoyed the audition so much... I felt like I did really well on two of the sections: the jazz portion and partnering. I was shakey on the shines though... the one they taught was sort of a continuous loop that I wasn't quite hitting and I don't feel so confident improving them. But I was so glad I went and now I'm just waiting to hear back. I have a similar audition coming up this week. It would be awesome if this were the next big thing. I absolutely love the ballroom, but I don't want to give up my ballet/jazz and getting to combine them would just be ideal.
Today Michael and I took a long walk through Central Park. WE started up around 110th and worked our way down. Determined that the Shakespeare Gardens will indeed be beautiful for wedding pictures and got to go to the top of Belvedere Castle. It always disgusts us to see tourists who allow their children to climb on the Bethesda fountain though. Just fucking disrespectful. Go to one of the hundreds of playgrounds. And then, the tourists walking on my sacred Imagine mosaic to get pictures. Ugh. WTF? I wouldn't go to Hong Kong or Europe and climb all over their landmarks. The fact that Americans are perceived as being so rude may have some basis in truth but the fact is this: people from every other country that I've seen are JUST AS BAD. If not worse. They often tend to be rude, arrogant, disrespectful, and generally nasty.
But anyway, then we went and had a salad and stopped by Pinkberry. Michael had to work tonight so I've just been hanging out at home: listening to music, playing on teh web, talking to my mom, reading. I miss him so much when he's gone, but it is enjoyable to have the house to myself sometimes. Nice and quiet!
Tomorrow we both have the day off, for the first time in weeks. It's supposed to be another nice spring-ish day, so we're probably gonna walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, which I've deemed as one of my "must have" NYC experiences. Plus we're trying to get lots of exercise to get the extra winter pounds off, so this is a bonus. Oh, and I get to take lots of pictures. Which always wins.
In other news, we had a lovely visit. Went shopping, bought Sketchers, had some really excellent meals. My did my birthday dinner at Zona, and Michael managed to orchestrate getting a giant, Betty Boop cake from our favorite Dominican bakery in the Bronx to Zona, in perfect condition may I add. It was a wonderful suprise and the cake- vanilla with chocolate sauce filling, and buttercream frosting in vanilla and cherry, was amazing. We explored City Island, this tiny adorable fishing village off of the Bronx. It still intrigues me what an expansive, diverse city this is! You would never believe you were still in NYC.
I left the salsa program. It was not an easy decision, because I really liked my instructor and genuinely wanted to see the venture go somewhere... but the truth was, it simply wasn't. And beyond that, the training schedule itself was getting a bit ridiculous and the group classes were progressing at a slow rate. I'm thankful for the training though- now I can do a social dance that I've always wanted to learn, pretty well if I do say so myself. Not to mention the auditions I can go to now, having expanded my abilities... Besides that, I would have never met J if I hadn't done it and she is one of my very best friends here. Plus she has a kickass, burgeoning group of her own that I'm honored to be part of. So, all in all, more good came from the whole thing than bad and that's the most you can ever ask for! I have to say though, it is a huge relief. It was simply getting to be too much, to be worried about class all of the time like that and know you were going to get a passive-aggressive, "stern" response if you had to miss a class- even though the material was that which you had already covered dozens of times before. So, yeah.
Since then, I auditioned for one company that I absolutely love. It's sort of Latin jazz with salsa and really well put together. I enjoyed the audition so much... I felt like I did really well on two of the sections: the jazz portion and partnering. I was shakey on the shines though... the one they taught was sort of a continuous loop that I wasn't quite hitting and I don't feel so confident improving them. But I was so glad I went and now I'm just waiting to hear back. I have a similar audition coming up this week. It would be awesome if this were the next big thing. I absolutely love the ballroom, but I don't want to give up my ballet/jazz and getting to combine them would just be ideal.
Today Michael and I took a long walk through Central Park. WE started up around 110th and worked our way down. Determined that the Shakespeare Gardens will indeed be beautiful for wedding pictures and got to go to the top of Belvedere Castle. It always disgusts us to see tourists who allow their children to climb on the Bethesda fountain though. Just fucking disrespectful. Go to one of the hundreds of playgrounds. And then, the tourists walking on my sacred Imagine mosaic to get pictures. Ugh. WTF? I wouldn't go to Hong Kong or Europe and climb all over their landmarks. The fact that Americans are perceived as being so rude may have some basis in truth but the fact is this: people from every other country that I've seen are JUST AS BAD. If not worse. They often tend to be rude, arrogant, disrespectful, and generally nasty.
But anyway, then we went and had a salad and stopped by Pinkberry. Michael had to work tonight so I've just been hanging out at home: listening to music, playing on teh web, talking to my mom, reading. I miss him so much when he's gone, but it is enjoyable to have the house to myself sometimes. Nice and quiet!
Tomorrow we both have the day off, for the first time in weeks. It's supposed to be another nice spring-ish day, so we're probably gonna walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, which I've deemed as one of my "must have" NYC experiences. Plus we're trying to get lots of exercise to get the extra winter pounds off, so this is a bonus. Oh, and I get to take lots of pictures. Which always wins.