monday update

[cassidyrose]

It was a busy weekend. I took S. to the Children's Museum and he had fun, especially after the field trip crowds cleared. Good gods it was crowded and loud when we first showed up. He was diffuse at first, as is typical, but after a while he got serious and focused and we spent nearly four hours there. Long but good day.

Saturday was rehearsal as usual for me. catzen, ptor, and S. did their usual walk around Berkeley while I danced and afterwards we all went to Cactus for lunch, as usual. We discovered that S. really likes the cabbage salsa--he ate a couple of small bowlfuls. It's good stuff.

On Sunday I headed back to Berkeley for our big Day of Dance. S. and ptor stayed home because it was a five hour event. It was a good day. We had a lot of number of students and many new people which is really great. We had the most students for the Bollywood class which I expected as that is quite popular and fairly accessible. People seemed to enjoy the classes and the day as a whole so I was pleased. We even got a random person in off the street--she'd seen our sawhorse sign on the sidewalk and dropped in. Yay! The Fly Girls did a mini-performance of some works in progress. The first dance we did we *just* finished so it was truly a work-in-progress. But that's OK--I think it is OK to show rough stuff in a setting like that. It is what it is. The second dance is one that four of us have performed many times but our new people hadn't--it was less rough and everyone enjoyed our tail-feathers. It was also nice because we had three new people performing with us for the first time and they did great. Two of them had never really performed dance before at all so it was a big day for them. I am so happy to have them and everyone in our group. We have seven dancers right now which is a high number for us and we may be adding another. Good stuff. While I was dancing S. and Peter did their big walk to Starbucks and did yardwork. S. refused to nap for daddy so, yeah, that was what that was. By last night we were all pretty burnt.

Today S. and I kept it quiet and just played in the house. It was cold and windy outside and I am not feeling great (not Swine flu). We did lots of puzzles and general hanging out. ptor had two interviews today so he was busy with all that. Tonight was a fundraiser for S.'s school at a funky local diner. They were donating 20% of all proceeds to the school for the night. In order to fulfill our fundraising hours for the year (it's a co-op school) we just had to go eat there and turn in our receipt to the fundraising committee. So we did. Fairly indifferent food. Not bad, just not outstanding. S. enjoyed his spaghetti and the cucumbers from my salad so he was happy.

That's all. School in the morning then maybe grocery shopping. ptor has more job stuff to do. We are really hoping something comes through for him soon.