Guess who had her first Afro Cuban performance?
Si.
Moi.
Talaga!
Yay!
Plus I got to share the moment with loved ones :)
Next one up is Calgary Expo Latino.
Quite a happy opportunity for me, especially considering just even earlier this year I would've never guessed I'd be able to perform such a beautiful and soulful dance form.
For a little while I thought the performance wasn't going to happen because out of nowhere, it started raining really hard. And then HAILING. In August. I was walking to my car and getting pelted in the head with hail for the first time (I know, eerie that it hasn't happened before in my Canadian life). This was just about an hour before the performance was scheduled.
But sure enough Alberta-style, the weather quickly switched back to clear and sunny and the Latin Festival was back in full swing.
I finally managed to tire myself out this weekend. Apparently the price of my ticket to Planet Tired consists of consecutive weeknights of four hours of sleep and at least three hours of sweaty activity each night. Even though I finally managed to get a decent amount of sleep last night I'm still deliciously sluggish on this double-practice Sunday. I even had a nap just now while trying to catch up on laundry. Ahhhh. So. Good. To. Take. It. Slow. I've been bouncing around even more than usual lately: working overtime but still able to dance doubletime or swing kettlebells in the evening. No tiredness until yesterday. Yup, I still definitely 'blame' veggie power.
I'm trying to round up enough energy to cook my lunches for the rest of the week. I'm thinking low fat vegan Pad Thai but in rice form since it's too much effort at the moment to get out of my condo and buy noodles. It's nice to at least have the base ingredients handy in my kitchen (insert moment of pride here). Hopefully almond butter is a sufficient substitute for peanut butter!
Mind Farts
-i don't think steel cut oats are friends with my intestines. or maybe i don't cook them well enough. either way, i'm staying away from now on! a breakfast that takes more than 10 mins to make won't work for me anyhoo
-amazing local vegetarian discoveries: fake ginger beef on rice at La Pagode and fake lemongrass chicken on vermicelli at Veggie Garden
-oh, and Costco sells a yummy rice-based Gardenburger as well - who knew?!
-met my new financial adviser this weekend. the Ethiopian accent is pretty, precise and sharp. the rolling of the R's and the pointy T's? scrrrrrumptious to listen to
-grew some balls and agreed to see the Conjuring with my sister (only because Rotten Tomatoes said it was going to be worth it). spent half the movie staring down at my lap and still got freaked out. sheesh - it's so much worse when it's based on a true story!
-got to see a famous Cuban salsa star and his band perform here in good ol' Edmonton (the very same one I got to meet in Cuba back in November). it was sweaty and amazing, as predicted, just like a mini slice of being at Casa de la Musica in Havana again
Moi.
Talaga!
Yay!
Plus I got to share the moment with loved ones :)
Next one up is Calgary Expo Latino.
Quite a happy opportunity for me, especially considering just even earlier this year I would've never guessed I'd be able to perform such a beautiful and soulful dance form.
For a little while I thought the performance wasn't going to happen because out of nowhere, it started raining really hard. And then HAILING. In August. I was walking to my car and getting pelted in the head with hail for the first time (I know, eerie that it hasn't happened before in my Canadian life). This was just about an hour before the performance was scheduled.
But sure enough Alberta-style, the weather quickly switched back to clear and sunny and the Latin Festival was back in full swing.
I finally managed to tire myself out this weekend. Apparently the price of my ticket to Planet Tired consists of consecutive weeknights of four hours of sleep and at least three hours of sweaty activity each night. Even though I finally managed to get a decent amount of sleep last night I'm still deliciously sluggish on this double-practice Sunday. I even had a nap just now while trying to catch up on laundry. Ahhhh. So. Good. To. Take. It. Slow. I've been bouncing around even more than usual lately: working overtime but still able to dance doubletime or swing kettlebells in the evening. No tiredness until yesterday. Yup, I still definitely 'blame' veggie power.
I'm trying to round up enough energy to cook my lunches for the rest of the week. I'm thinking low fat vegan Pad Thai but in rice form since it's too much effort at the moment to get out of my condo and buy noodles. It's nice to at least have the base ingredients handy in my kitchen (insert moment of pride here). Hopefully almond butter is a sufficient substitute for peanut butter!
Mind Farts
-i don't think steel cut oats are friends with my intestines. or maybe i don't cook them well enough. either way, i'm staying away from now on! a breakfast that takes more than 10 mins to make won't work for me anyhoo
-amazing local vegetarian discoveries: fake ginger beef on rice at La Pagode and fake lemongrass chicken on vermicelli at Veggie Garden
-oh, and Costco sells a yummy rice-based Gardenburger as well - who knew?!
-met my new financial adviser this weekend. the Ethiopian accent is pretty, precise and sharp. the rolling of the R's and the pointy T's? scrrrrrumptious to listen to
-grew some balls and agreed to see the Conjuring with my sister (only because Rotten Tomatoes said it was going to be worth it). spent half the movie staring down at my lap and still got freaked out. sheesh - it's so much worse when it's based on a true story!
-got to see a famous Cuban salsa star and his band perform here in good ol' Edmonton (the very same one I got to meet in Cuba back in November). it was sweaty and amazing, as predicted, just like a mini slice of being at Casa de la Musica in Havana again
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