Around the House

I am doling out these blog posts rather rapidly, aren't I? I don't suppose that happens when a person has absolutely nothing to do. But today my post will be of a bunch of pictures, and not me rambling on and making you all fall asleep over your keyboards.

A Sore Throat and Happy Feet

Only my determination to stay up until midnight and watch movies and Full House could be the culprit of my sore throat. And so I float off to the realm of madness that you really only enter when school has become particularly difficult, and when you start to catch a cold. And I can say right now that being slightly delirious and tired isn't very fun. But is it my fault the Figure Skating competitions stretch to 11 p.m.? :)

I suppose one of the few things tethering me to sanity right now is ballet. Whenever I come home from classes, my feet are so exhausted but they're just happy because they like to dance. I can't think of any other way of putting it. But what makes me laugh is when people watch ballet and say they can easily do it. And then I smile and remember the aches and pains I went through with breaking in a new pair of Pointe shoes. Ah! Thank you for being broken in now, little shoes of satin!

Sleeping Beauty

There's always going to be something special about seeing your first professional ballet.

True, I have seen a few local versions of The Nutcracker, but Pacific Northwest Ballet is something else entirely. Such colors! Such dancing! And all the excitement from last night that trickled into today has completely exhausted me, but The Sleeping Beauty was just beautiful.
Wouldn't it be something to dance on that stage?
I've been dancing since I was five years old, so if you're wondering what that giant blue shoe-like thing is behind the title of this blog, its a porcelain ballet slipper. :)

But I'm so tired! We got home at 12 a.m. last night and I stayed up until one a.m. watching the opening ceremony for the Olympics, which we had recorded since we were going to be gone all evening. So I just thought I'd listen to some Priscilla Ahn and add another entry to this little blog. :)

Rain...Rain...Rain....

Well, I'm starting a blog. And I don't really know why. To give you little stories of how I've spent the beginning of 2010 trying to make life delightful and exciting? To blather on about how much I like my friends, my writing, my ballet classes? I'm not sure. But right now it gives me something to do.

A little bit about myself: I love writing. Dancing is one of the few things on the planet that really, really makes me happy. I'm kind of a geek when it comes to my favorite movies, and my favorite songs. I'm awkward and small and I like taking pictures with my new camera. And I most definitely love every aspect of the weather up here (call me crazy).

Right now it's grey and misty outside, and not very appealing, but I'll still like it anyway. The first thing along my "Keys to Happiness List" for today is "Don't complain and simply accept the fact that it's raining outside, which is a good excuse to make hot chocolate and have little attempts at making origami cranes." Which is exactly what I did: And I think "FAIL" should be slapped all over it. :)

A few years ago I bought some origami paper at this Asian food market we visit, and I'm not sure why I did, so I figured that now would be the time to put it to use. So I googled "how to make an origami crane", watched a video, and in the end my crane kind of looked like... well, I'll leave that to you to decide. :D