LOVE every single one of these dancers and the way they move -- can't get enough! Love choreographing for them! Xo
Contemporary Dance 2011 -- Intermediate Contemporary/ Modern class LOVE every single one of these dancers and the way they move -- can't get enough! Love choreographing for them! Xo
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My "after Thanksgiving" weekend collage. Lots of good deals for Black Friday (weekend) -- no need to wake up at the crack of dawn. My brother's friend got punched at Victoria's Secret over a pair of yoga pants. Yoga pants..the things you sleep, workout, and dance in. Really?
Now, back on my Green Organics Cleanse -- a great investment! Feel healthy & get rid of all that toxic waste build up in your system! Try it here: GO Extreme Cleanse. How was your weekend?! Hey all! I may have eaten my body weight in food this weekend. :-O My stomach and heart were so full this week/weekend. I am so thankful for the best family, friends, and boyfriend. I am living such an extraordinary, full life and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Thankful for: health, family, friends, love, warmth, food, blessings, God, education, senses, and everything that comes with being me, being alive & kicking! My "week" started out on Wednesday -- I packed up my stuff and headed to Delaware to my aunts. My cousin Tanya was meting me & Shole there with Abby and Jesse. I have to say I have the more beautiful, cute, adorable, funny, God daughter in the whole world. I am obsessed with every inch of her from her toes to her laugh. We stopped at Starbucks to get our holiday drinks (Peppermint Mocha for me!) and headed to my aunts. We literally sat around all morning/afternoon playing with her and her little brother Jesse. LOOK AT HER ->> Please tell me that is not the cutest face you ever did see! Anyway, after spending the afternoon with family, the boyfriend came to pick me up and we went shopping at the Concord Mall. He bought the most amazing smelling cologne, John Varvatos. YUM! Girls, if you're thinking of a great scent for your man -- this is it! It smells so professional, but edgy. I cannot stop smelling him! After that, we went to the Christmas tree store to pick up a few things to decorate his apartment with. When we got back to the apartment, we opened a bottle of wine, baked cookies, and put up his Christmas tree. I know it's the "biggest drinking night of the year", but really who wants to be hungover in front of family at Thanksgiving?? I LOVE holidays -- I don't want to remember them being sick. BLAH. So the next day, we did brunch with his parents then headed to Medford to do Thanksgiving dinner with my family. It was a relaxing Thanksgiving this year. SInce Abby and Jesse weren't there, there wasn't any little kids to hover over -- so we sat there talking about school and life and then ate until we had to be rolled out. RoLl OuTt! Other than being super full, my dilemma this weekend was finding a dress for one of my very best girlfriends wedding next weekend! I looked ALL over -- 3 malls! Until I finally found a simple, plain, strapless, sea foam/mermaid color, floor length dress that I can add gold accesories to to "warm" it up for a Boston wedding! Eeee! What did YOU do this week/ weekend? What are you thankFULL for?! Sleeping At Last ~ Sleeping At Last is an all around piece of real living art. The lyrics paired with the music -- so honest. I haven't fallen this in love with an artist since William Fitzsimmons. Ryan began by releasing an EP every month for a whole year -- his collection, Yearbook, is now complete. I can't pick a favorite yet! I've already danced to Snow & Birdcage Religion. You can check him out on Twitter here. Enjoy! Right now, Resolve. is on repeat! what was flawless canvas white what was kindness in our eyes is now a blemished masterpiece an astigmatism life but lets cut right to the chase when the best of us was on display before we tip the scale from confidence to doubt i would hold you now if only i knew how ------------------------------ let's stay the course and let the tension makes us new i don't know if its virtue no, i don't know if it's just dumb luck would it matter if it was? what if we welcome change, and if we open up just enough to let it begin? to let it begin and the doors will open wide ..for you Have any of you ever seen Changeling?!? I think that movie gave me the WORST anxiety ever -- and it's a true story! I can't take it and I firmly feel that there needs to be an age limit to death. No one under a certain age should be aloud to pass on, it's just terrible!
Other than the movie, I had a very relaxing weekend! How was your weekend? Xo ~S Hey all! So I finally had some "extra" time to myself this week! So I decided to bake a few things while my boyfriend worked on his latest project in the kitchen. It was his grandmom's birthday this weekend and every family get together they have she always has to result to eating ice cream for dessert because of her gluten allergy. I always felt so bad! So I decided to make a gluten free dessert. I found an excellent recipe on Tenley Molzahn's website. She is from The Bachelor and recently just found out about her gluten allergy. She always posts yummy recipes! I decided to make the #glutenfree pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! Mmm :-) INGREDIENTS: - 3/4 cup canned pumpkin - 1/4 cup butter, softened - 1 tsp. vanilla - 1 egg - 1 #glutenfree chocolate chip cookie mix (I used Betty Crocker) - 1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon - Chocolate Chips (I added extra chips!) - Powdered sugar to top it off! DIRECTIONS: - In large bowl mix in your wet ingredients and add pumpkin into that mix - In another bowl, mix the cinnamon & cookie mix together - Stir in cookie mix and cinnamon until dough is soft and “doughy” - Stir in extra chocolate chips - Drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls - Bake for 10 to 12 minutes at 350 degrees (make sure to look at your cookie mix box to make sure the temperature amount is correct) ...I kept it in there for 10 min, just enough to make them golden brown - Let cool, then sprikle with powdered sugar - Enjoy!! :-) Xo Now, off to watch Boardwalk Empire and relax/rehydrate for the night
P.S. Su Yuen Riesling ...to die for! YUM xo In my "free time", I always try to find homemade remedies to try out. Whether it be skin care, hair care, digestive health, heart heath, metabolism health, etc. I am always on the prowl to try something out. I even went as far as to take a shot of apple cider vinegar in the morning one day to promote energy. I can assure you, it didn't -- and everything tasted gross for the rest of the day. So don't try that. Well last night was my "off" night, my boyfriend and I went on a stroll through Target to pick up a few things. I am adamant on not buying any face wash that has harsh chemicals in it. Salicylic acid is the worst for your skin!!! So I bought my usual recommended face wash and grabbed a few things from the food dept to make my own masque! My skin becomes extremely dry in the winter, but I still get my occasional break out here and there. I knew that I needed something to treat both, so I tried a little experiment, hehe :-) I gathered the following ingredients: 2 tbsp honey 1 tbsp lemon juice "dash" of tumeric powder "squirt" of Freeman's Superfruits "Detoxifying Clay Mask" Honey is used as a moisturizer for your skin. It also helps keep the masque in place -- since the other ingredients are more liquidy. The lemon juice is a brightener -- be sure to only use a little because if not you will definitely dry out your skin! Lemon juice is good for oily skin, dab on your face with a cotton ball at night and rinse before going to bed! The tumeric powder, I've heard, helps open up your poors and is also good for those dark spots! Freeman's Superfruits Detoxifying Clay Mask is my go-to antioxident masque! I only used a little of this to help the masque set & to open up the poors a bit. I kept it on for about 20 minutes. I even made my boyfriend try it out too (but shh! he'll kill me for saying this). I then rinsed the masque off with warm water and patted my face dry with a towel. My skin felt soooo smooth! The boy couldn't stop feeling his face either! ;-) And today, when I woke up to run errands, I felt vibrant. My skin was glowing. This masque is a definite YES in my book! If you have oily skin, I would modify this a bit. The honey will definitely not hurt you, but maybe adding a bit more lemon juice will be best for you! For severely dry skin, only add a dash of the lemon juice! My next homemade regimen will be trying out the benefits of Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil! I found out today that I'm really okay. I'm normal again. I found out by listening to a song. It made me weep. I sat there, looping the song on repeat, and listened to the words. I cried. And I like that. I was afraid that I lost that part of me. That side of me that was an emotional mess. Since I put most of my emotions into my dances, I was feeling sort of in a rut. A creative rut. I blame it on my boyfriend. He makes my everyday better -- but sometimes I need that alone time. And since I'm not hurting emotionally, I need that one song or one dance to just lose myself in. I feel it. So I sat here today and listened to the words of... holding someone down, night being their only friend, kissing someone so hard they loose their breath, and all still, the tears fall. I think back to when I first said the words "I love you" and how much I meant them. Now, knowing what I know...I wish love knew, at that time. I remember the hurt, the aching, tasting the salt of my tears, and the feeling of my world crashing down around me. But I also felt so strong, so in love. Not always in the drivers seat, but always in the back of someone elses' mind. I like that a song can bring me back to that place because I feel more alive than I did yesterday. I'm able to really feel. I need that.
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