Well, Mytholder Dinner Night is not happening tonight. There are a few reasons:
1) Mytholder is winging his way to Japan!
2) Beau is out of town (Galway, again)
3) This is a big one, Homebody (Mytholder's flatmate) and I were going to have Mytholder Dinner Night anyway, but then he wanted to go see the Iron Man movie with Fotalad and I wanted to go to Musica Intima (a fancy canadian choir performing in Cork for one night only and I can have a free ticket) with Ozgrl.
I have planned the meal for tomorrow and have already made the dessert (mostly so that Beau could take some with him this morning and not feel too left out), but I'll see if I can wait until the actual day to blog about it.
In the mean time, I managed to not blog at all yesterday! It was due to all the comments I got on LJ. Ah comments, I love you well. *hint bloody hint*
Anyhoo, I've decided based on the comments to try and seperate my food posts from my regular posts, ie Tuesdays post had a huge bit with recipe for Impossible Pie and then had a big bit on other stuff. I'll be breaking them up into two seperate posts in the future. Shouldn't make much more effort for you or me, but makes it easier for those with a particular interest or disinterest in food stuff.
Yesterday Beau and I went to our "third" (actually 5th cause we attended 2 free ones in the Lifelong learning festival) swing class and the teacher taught the class the charleston (rock step, kick, step, kick, hitch, back, down). I learned this at one of the free classes and because there were so many people in the class and it was difficult to all see the teacher at once (she made us go in lines) she asked me to come up front with her to demonstrate.... ah, the sweet show pony joy! She asked another girl too, but I was the first one. When we were dancing it in couples Beau and I were also one of the 3 selected couples to be asked to go to the front too.
Having done so many types of dancing previously (mostly jazz ballet, but I've also learned classical ballet, character ballet, tap, hip-hop, some latin and of course "pole") learning new steps is easy for me. The teacher has actually said that I can switch to "improvers" (ie not beginners) if I want. I mainly need to work on style and also the whole following the lead thing, but it would actually probably be *easier* to do that in the improvers class where there is a better student to teacher ratio and there would be more experienced students and leads.
However, swing is something that you really need a partner for and I want Beau to be that partner. There's no point (apart from my own joy out of doing something fancy) for me to learn more complex and flashy steps if I can't do them with Beau. He is the lead and I *really* need to learn that.
Currently I am getting heaps out of the classes by dancing with Beau and learning and working on signalling. I really enjoy dancing with him and I'm only going to enjoy it more as we get better at dancing together. Our teacher also makes time to come and give me tips on style (ie, you need to kick lower) which is something that she doesn't have to do, esp in a beginners class where she has to spend a fair amount of time on the people having difficulties with timing.
Things are clicking for Beau and I and we've had fun tripping down the street "one, two, triple step, Doop, doop, doobedoop".
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