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WHAT Lessons???">You’re Taking WHAT Lessons???

November 2, 2009 in Bellydance by Julia | 1 comment

Last time it was Dee’s fault — she arranged for the fusing/flameworking work­shop that made me real­ize I could play with fire in a care­fully arranged home stu­dio. This time it’s Andrea’s fault. She found that Nazeem Allayl Stu­dio offered a Sat­ur­day morn­ing walk-in work­out class at their Perime­ter stu­dio, halfway between her place and mine, and con­vinced me to go with her so nei­ther of us would feel too old or too fat by ourselves.

We were both relieved that first morn­ing to find that she was not the largest, nor was I the old­est, woman there. So we went back the next week. And the next. By then I had found that this was actu­ally do-able, damn good exer­cise plus a whole lot of fun!

When the next six-week class ses­sion came around, I decided what the hell, let’s try a chore­og­ra­phy class as well and learn an actual dance — an actual BELLYDANCE. Yep. BELLYDANCE. Tra­di­tional Raqs Sharki, Mid­dle East­ern folk­dance, is done by women of all ages, shapes, and sizes as part of their own cul­ture, and Nazeem Allayl Stu­dio encour­ages that in their pro­gram, so why not?

So I took one chore­og­ra­phy class, then another, then another. Last week I started a fourth chore­og­ra­phy com­bi­na­tions class on Turk­ish style; tomor­row my basic tech­nique drill class starts so I can learn to do the moves pre­cisely and properly.

I started doing bel­ly­dance for exer­cise, but as I told Scha­dia after class last week, “I want to dance, not just sweat.” For me, most forms of exer­cise are B-O-R-I-N-G and tedious and I won’t stick with them. Bel­ly­dance accom­mo­dates where I am now and gives me lots of room to grow as a fit and healthy per­son — exer­cise I can and hope­fully will stay with as long as I can move.

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Respond and Rework

May 9, 2009 in Cat Comments, Lampworking & Glass, Miscellaneous by Julia | No comments

I got this from Kandice See­ber, who got it from the BeadedLily’s Sketch­book blog — sounds like a fun meme!

THE RULES:

Respond and rework. Answer the ques­tions on your own blog; replace one ques­tion that you dis­like with a ques­tion of your own inven­tion; add one more ques­tion of your own.

THE QUESTIONS:

What is your cur­rent obsession?
Once I fin­ish up my grades, I’ll get back to work­ing on borosil­i­cate glass leaf pen­dants, try­ing to work out some nice shapes & colors.


Which item from your closet are you wear­ing most lately?
Jeans, jeans, and more jeans, with the occa­sional cargo pants thrown in there.


What was the last thing you bought?
A cou­ple of mag­a­zines this after­noon dur­ing our reg­u­lar Sat­ur­day trip to Borders.


What are you lis­ten­ing to right now?
Noth­ing except the ambi­ent noise around here. Some­times silence is the best!


What are you reading?
Anna Quindlen’s Rise and Shine


What 4 words would you use to describe yourself?
Intro­verted, cre­ative, sar­donic, strong-willed


What is your cur­rent guilty pleasure?
I don’t really have guilty plea­sures, but maybe it’s read­ing “chick-lit” and romance novels.


What would you do if the inter­net was irrepara­bly dam­aged and you had to find another way to connect?
I would like to think I’d write let­ters, but I’d prob­a­bly just stay uncon­nected. I’m not a phone per­son so that’s out.


Where would you go if you could travel any­where right now?
Prob­a­bly New Zealand, since that’s the place I most want to visit.


If you could grant some­one else one wish, what would it be?
I’d give my father a cure for his heart dis­ease and pul­monary fibrosis.


What flower are you most anx­ious to see bloom this spring?
Actu­ally, I’ll be just as happy when every­thing quits bloom­ing since the pollen has made me utterly mis­er­able this spring.


What are you most happy doing?
Hang­ing out with my hus­band, or melt­ing glass, or both together.


Care to share some wisdom?
Two things:


  1. Life’s not fair, so get over it.
  2. If you’re in a hole, stop digging.


If I walked into your work space today what would you want to show me? What would you want to hide?
I’d want to turn on my torch and show you how I make my beads and pen­dants. I wouldn’t really want to hide any­thing in the work­space, but I might close some of the other doors in the house!


What makes you laugh out loud?
The ICan­HasCheezburger and IHasA­Hot­Dog web­sites. They also make me go “Awwwww!”


How many pets do you have, and what kind?
Three cats, plus the 80 or so I work with as a <a href=“http://goodmews.org>Good Mews volunteer.


Link back to me if you do this meme yourself!


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What Type is My Blog?

December 23, 2008 in Miscellaneous by Julia | 3 comments

Accord­ing to Typealyzer, the Art of the Fire­bird blog is Myers-Briggs type ESTP, which they define as:

ESTP — The Doers

ESTP What Type is My Blog?

The active and play-ful type. They are espe­cially attuned to peo­ple and things around them and often full of energy, talk­ing, jok­ing and engag­ing in phys­i­cal out-door activities.

The Doers are hap­pi­est with action-filled work which craves their full atten­tion and focus. They might be very impul­sive and more keen on start­ing some­thing new than fol­low­ing it through. They might have a prob­lem with sit­ting still or remain­ing inac­tive for any period of time.

Hmmm. In real­ity my MBT is ISTJ; that’s how I’ve tested over & over with many vari­a­tions of the test. Per­haps I could explain the dif­fer­ence in that I do, in fact, tend to blog about things I do more than about things I pon­der. I also am a bit more open about my feel­ings on the blog than I may be IRL because it’s some­times eas­ier for me to write things than say them aloud.

Thanks to Cindy Gim­brone for the discovery!

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Tagged!

October 26, 2008 in Miscellaneous by Julia | 1 comment

Okay, just when I was start­ing to feel a bit left out, I’ve been tagged by my friend Marcy Lam­ber­son of Stu­dio Marcy, who makes totally adorable sculp­tural beads.

The rules for this tag­ging are:

  1. Link to your tag­ger and list these rules on your blog.
  2. Share 7 facts about your­self on your blog, some ran­dom, some weird.
  3. Tag 7 peo­ple at the end of your post by includ­ing links to their blogs.
  4. Let them know they have been tagged by leav­ing a com­ment on their blogs.

So, seven ran­dom and/or weird fac­toids about me:

  1. I often drive faster than the speed limit, but I’ve never got­ten a ticket for it.
  2. Most peo­ple think I’m about ten years younger than I really am.
  3. I can’t stand hav­ing cold feet.
  4. I very much like beards on men, but only if they are well-groomed (like DH’s, unlike the ex’s :-) ).
  5. When I eat tomato sauce, it makes the inside of my nose and sinuses feel tickle-y.
  6. I am aller­gic to Toys ‘r’ Us and Bed Bath & Beyond.? Seri­ously.? If I go into one of those stores, my sinuses close up and my eyes get all puffy and swollen.
  7. I love writ­ing with funky col­ored pens.

Seven fel­low blog­gers that I am tag­ging (try­ing not to tag those who have already been tagged!):

  1. Lau­rie
  2. Robin
  3. Usagi­Weaver
  4. Mike
    Damn, this is get­ting tough! Melissa has beaten me to everyone!
  5. Gwa­cie
  6. Lydia
  7. Judith

Now to go fin­ish leav­ing those comments…






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    Best of the (Three) Weeks Ending 8/17/2008

    August 17, 2008 in Arty Stuff, Best of the Week, Lampworking & Glass, Miscellaneous by Julia | 2 comments

    Okay, I admit it. I’ve been a slacker for a cou­ple of weeks. My bad! First it was exams for sum­mer term, then a week off when I was a total slug, then a week of meet­ing and advise­ment hell. So I am way, way behind on BotW, because peo­ple HAVE been post­ing good stuff!

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