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Proud Mama
Oh, and by the way, my kickass daughter made it to the finals of the Jack and Jill All Star Division. THE ALL STAR DIVISION.
In case my all caps didn’t make it obvious enough, it is kind of a BIG DEAL!
To give you an idea, these are the Jack & Jill divisions:
- Open (where I competed)
- Advanced
- All Star
- Invitational
If any of you is interested, you can see her dancing in real time cause they are live-streaming the finals at 5:45 ET.
Live Stream
There she is, while we wait for our lunch
Going to ILHC. Finally!
I wrote this little post for the Swing Dynamite blog, which by the way, has been completely revamped.
Check it out!
Natalia the Gazelle with the Rhythm Blasters. ILHC 2010. Photograph by Toni Busch
Time to panic
Yikes!
8 days to go for the International Lindy Hop Championships
A week from today I’ll be half way to Washington, DC
And I don’t think I’m anywhere near being prepared for it.
Remember, my funny daughter decided to register me for both the Open Lindy Hop Jack & Jill and the Open Balboa Jack & Jill without telling me. Oh, yeah. She’s VERY funny. FYI, she’ll be competing in the Advanced division.
Granted, she posted this on Facebook late on Saturday night:
Not sleepy anymore so I decided to do a little late night embarrassing: At last Saturday Night Swing, I was sitting down, taking a little break, when I saw awesome swivels out of the corner of my eye, in my mind I said “whoa, who’s swiveling like a badass over there?!”, I looked, and realized that it was my mother. It was a very proud daughter moment :)
Lindy Hop & Zombies?
A dancer I admire
Remember my 30 Day Lindy Hop Challenge? Well, I’m on Day 23 now. And I think today’s post is worth sharing here!
So, without further ado, here it is:
I haven’t forgotten about you
Hello blogging friends (bloggiends?, Briends?, blogginses?).
I don’t know how it happened but my life got really busy all of a sudden. I am trying hard to keep up with your lives, up and downs, wins and loses, etc but it never seems to be enough.
I can’t hardly find have time to blog myself (or draw) either. I even missed the Sunday Noem Nook this past week.
The Balboa Noem
To Montreal I went
to dance some balboa
and see a few friends
I had a great time
danced many a song
chatted with dear friends
and a medal I won.
But in spite of the fun
– you’ll say, oh, so sappy,
I was very happy
to come home to my boys
EXTRA, EXTRA!
Because I *KNOW* you were *ALL* holding your breath waiting for the news. You can breath again now (Blue is not very becoming unless you perform with tubes or you are a Na’vi from Pandora).
[a little review for those of you just getting to my blog: On Monday, I auditioned for a yet-to-be-named-formerly-known-as-Rhythm-Blasters entry level Lindy Hop team and last night I auditioned for the Jam Crew, also a Lindy Hop team but of a much higher dance level]
So!
Just got of phone call from one of the coaches. ’tis what he said:
30 Day Challenge & Bootcamp auditions
I know I said I wouldn’t reblog here all the posts for the 30 Day Lindy Hop Challenge and yet it seems like I’m doing it every day. But so far, it seems like every day is about something that my non-dance readers would enjoy as well. So there.
Day 6: Your favorite group dance (Mob Dance)
As it turned out, I was gonna blog about the Summer Bootcamp audition anyway, and it ties nicely with today’s subject -as you’ll find out if you read my post over at the Swing Dynamite blog.
I may seem silly that I got so excited about the audition. I was part of the teams before. But for some reason, I thought ALL team members needed to audition again. You see, Swing Dynamite is going through a process of major changes in its teams. Some teams will be no more and some new teams will be created. So I got a little confused.
Summer Solstice Musings 