She said, "Hey.....you got weasels on your face."
Beware the run on sentences. Skip if you want I WILL NOT CARE.
Soooo, went home this weekend, and lots of silliness and good times ensued. The first thing I did when we got there (no one was home actually, OH WHAT A WARM WELCOME THANKS GUYS) was get a drink of water, and noticed something that made me more homesick for my siblings than I have been in a long time.
So, Mom's got a whiteboard on the fridge for grocery lists, and the first thing written on it, in Daniel's (he's sixteen...OMG HE IS SIXTEEN *weeps*) handwriting, is
BUTTER DISH
I love it. So very random. Then under that Andrew had written
ONE MILLION DOLLARS AND A LAZER
And then Jessi had circled the word butter and drawn an arrow to the bottom of the board, where she wrote out the part of "Amish Paradise" about churning butter.
So, I took dnace dance at Encore Dance Studio for my whole life while I lived in Ennis, and I was the student assistant, which my sister became once I left. When Jessica graduated from high school last year, Kathy Cousin, owner, teacher, sage, and second mother to all, moved back to California. It is one of the most tragic things that has ever happened to us. I mean it. That show...Jessi leaving and Kathy moving and yeah. It was like my whole childhood WAS SUDDENLY OVER AND IRRETRIEVABLE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE EVER I AM STILL SCARRED.
Anyway, J is a dance major, and the recital for the studio (someone took it over) was this weekend, and she danced in it. She....was just amazing. She did pointe and her technique in ONE SCHOOL YEAR of actually studying it (Kathy doesn't teach pointe, really; she can't do it because of her knees. Jessica auditioned and made Ballet II as a freshie despite the fact that she is ENTIRELY SELF TAUGHT OMG I LOVE HER) just BLOWS MY MIND. I thought this year I would be able to watch her and not cry.
Ha.
Though I admit, it was nothing like last year when she had choreographed an AMAZING DANCE to the Kelly Clarkson song Breakaway and EVERYONE IN THE AUDITORIUM WHO KNEW HER sobbed their eyes out. She's kind of a big deal. Siriusly.
So now I shall give you some of the highlights of this year's show, because I am a dance DWEEB and I loved it and I missed it like crazy last night.
A JAM SAM! Jennifer actually had some kids dance to a Czech song (WEE kids. SO ICKLE!) and they were in little krojs, and my mom and grandmother and I started singing the words really quietly as soon as it started (and no I do not speak Czech but yes I know some random words, and all the words to that song. NAZDRAVI!!!!!). And the recording was a really nice one of a man with a DEEEEEEP voice singing. And then I noticed the kids were singing too. And words cannot describe how cute that was, but OH MAN! SO FUNNY. Little girls singing a language they don't speak and trying to dance. Presh.
Then there was some other EVEN ICKLER...icklier?....anyway.
Tiny kids, and their song was super sappy about changing the world with their own hands, and they had the token little girl who just covers her face with her hands and cries quietly for the whole dance.
YOU know. That girl.
And there was one line about comforting or supporting you, and the girls hugged each other (ZOMG CUUUUUUUUUUTE OVERLOAD SO CHEAP BUT SO PRECIOUS) and so her hugging partner was all nervous as to whether to actually approach her or not. And so for seriously 30 seconds or so the rest of the dance is going on and everyone is watching this one girl in ZOMG SUSPENSE! wondering if she will try to hug or not and she did and it was SOOOO SWEET.
Then there was I Just Can't Wait To Be King, and I thought of Phil and Lala. AND THAT WAS AWESOME.
And there was one precious song, which Tiffany danced to. Tiffany is a senior this year, and she dances like I did. With complete abandon, only you can tell there is maybe is some coordination missing there. The difference is that I am actually quite shy, and so she has a STAGE PRESENCE that draws you to her. So amazingly precious. I hadn't heard, the song it's called I'm A Brass Band and the singer is listing off all the kinds of instruments she is now that she's in love
I'm the bells of St. Peter's in Rome
I'm even tissue paper on a comb
(paraphrased)
And my mom and I laughed! And we also laughed at the song Popular from Wicked, when she says it as "populer" (as one does), and then randomly says "LAR" to fix the rhyme. LKSFJLFJOIJEFLKSDJ!
And then today I saw my grandparents and it was their anniversary, and we talked about roof colors (you should only use WHITE and SHEET METAL in Texas, just for the record....and not that anyone does) and that led into how my grandfather was in Hiroshima right after the bomb was dropped (he was a major in Army AS A LINGUIST ZOMG HE IS SO COOL) and bought black market pictures....because it was illegal to have pictures of that. And he has pictures of people who were hurt and...I'm assuming they're naked, though he avoided actually saying though words and now suddenly I'm wondering if it was dead bodies and he said you can tell where the black on the kimono was because that part of their skin is all blistery and really bad, and you can tell where the kimono was white because that part is not blistered. I THOUGHT THAT WAS CRAZY.
I love my family the end.
Soooo, went home this weekend, and lots of silliness and good times ensued. The first thing I did when we got there (no one was home actually, OH WHAT A WARM WELCOME THANKS GUYS) was get a drink of water, and noticed something that made me more homesick for my siblings than I have been in a long time.
So, Mom's got a whiteboard on the fridge for grocery lists, and the first thing written on it, in Daniel's (he's sixteen...OMG HE IS SIXTEEN *weeps*) handwriting, is
BUTTER DISH
I love it. So very random. Then under that Andrew had written
ONE MILLION DOLLARS AND A LAZER
And then Jessi had circled the word butter and drawn an arrow to the bottom of the board, where she wrote out the part of "Amish Paradise" about churning butter.
So, I took dnace dance at Encore Dance Studio for my whole life while I lived in Ennis, and I was the student assistant, which my sister became once I left. When Jessica graduated from high school last year, Kathy Cousin, owner, teacher, sage, and second mother to all, moved back to California. It is one of the most tragic things that has ever happened to us. I mean it. That show...Jessi leaving and Kathy moving and yeah. It was like my whole childhood WAS SUDDENLY OVER AND IRRETRIEVABLE FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE EVER I AM STILL SCARRED.
Anyway, J is a dance major, and the recital for the studio (someone took it over) was this weekend, and she danced in it. She....was just amazing. She did pointe and her technique in ONE SCHOOL YEAR of actually studying it (Kathy doesn't teach pointe, really; she can't do it because of her knees. Jessica auditioned and made Ballet II as a freshie despite the fact that she is ENTIRELY SELF TAUGHT OMG I LOVE HER) just BLOWS MY MIND. I thought this year I would be able to watch her and not cry.
Ha.
Though I admit, it was nothing like last year when she had choreographed an AMAZING DANCE to the Kelly Clarkson song Breakaway and EVERYONE IN THE AUDITORIUM WHO KNEW HER sobbed their eyes out. She's kind of a big deal. Siriusly.
So now I shall give you some of the highlights of this year's show, because I am a dance DWEEB and I loved it and I missed it like crazy last night.
A JAM SAM! Jennifer actually had some kids dance to a Czech song (WEE kids. SO ICKLE!) and they were in little krojs, and my mom and grandmother and I started singing the words really quietly as soon as it started (and no I do not speak Czech but yes I know some random words, and all the words to that song. NAZDRAVI!!!!!). And the recording was a really nice one of a man with a DEEEEEEP voice singing. And then I noticed the kids were singing too. And words cannot describe how cute that was, but OH MAN! SO FUNNY. Little girls singing a language they don't speak and trying to dance. Presh.
Then there was some other EVEN ICKLER...icklier?....anyway.
Tiny kids, and their song was super sappy about changing the world with their own hands, and they had the token little girl who just covers her face with her hands and cries quietly for the whole dance.
YOU know. That girl.
And there was one line about comforting or supporting you, and the girls hugged each other (ZOMG CUUUUUUUUUUTE OVERLOAD SO CHEAP BUT SO PRECIOUS) and so her hugging partner was all nervous as to whether to actually approach her or not. And so for seriously 30 seconds or so the rest of the dance is going on and everyone is watching this one girl in ZOMG SUSPENSE! wondering if she will try to hug or not and she did and it was SOOOO SWEET.
Then there was I Just Can't Wait To Be King, and I thought of Phil and Lala. AND THAT WAS AWESOME.
And there was one precious song, which Tiffany danced to. Tiffany is a senior this year, and she dances like I did. With complete abandon, only you can tell there is maybe is some coordination missing there. The difference is that I am actually quite shy, and so she has a STAGE PRESENCE that draws you to her. So amazingly precious. I hadn't heard, the song it's called I'm A Brass Band and the singer is listing off all the kinds of instruments she is now that she's in love
I'm the bells of St. Peter's in Rome
I'm even tissue paper on a comb
(paraphrased)
And my mom and I laughed! And we also laughed at the song Popular from Wicked, when she says it as "populer" (as one does), and then randomly says "LAR" to fix the rhyme. LKSFJLFJOIJEFLKSDJ!
And then today I saw my grandparents and it was their anniversary, and we talked about roof colors (you should only use WHITE and SHEET METAL in Texas, just for the record....and not that anyone does) and that led into how my grandfather was in Hiroshima right after the bomb was dropped (he was a major in Army AS A LINGUIST ZOMG HE IS SO COOL) and bought black market pictures....because it was illegal to have pictures of that. And he has pictures of people who were hurt and...I'm assuming they're naked, though he avoided actually saying though words and now suddenly I'm wondering if it was dead bodies and he said you can tell where the black on the kimono was because that part of their skin is all blistery and really bad, and you can tell where the kimono was white because that part is not blistered. I THOUGHT THAT WAS CRAZY.
I love my family the end.