Myspace

After all this pressure from my friends to join myspace.com, I finally gave in and set up my profile page. Like I need another thing online to maintain. Myspace is similar to Blogger but way funnier because it seems to be a place for bands to promote themselves and for people to meet. In this site, people are all about sexy photos of themselves and making music automatically play when their profile loads. Both things I find very annoying. Just because other people do it, doesn't make it a good idea. You can also keep a blog, but since I have a hard time keeping up with this one, I think I'll not take advantage of that. So what will I do with this site? Pick on or keep track of my friends.

Of the two options, blogs or MySpace, I think I prefer blogs. I have a few that I follow because of the the content. I can keep track of friends who use their blog as a way to inform people of their doings, rather than a way to meet people. I read many craft blogs for inspiration. And I follow my friend Rami's photo blog because I like to watch him grow as a photographer.

Salsa Mama

I'm learning salsa dancing. This is something I've wanted to do since the summer but never got around to taking any classes. But when my friend from Santa Fe offered to take me out if I learned it, I suddenly had an incentive. Now I have been learning for 2 weeks and I have been to 5 classes offered at 3 different places. I finally got to see how hot salsa is live and in person and now I want to be good at it so bad! So I have been taking any class I can find to try to learn it as quickly as possible. Because, you see, I have a deadline now. I fly out to Santa Fe on February 18 so I have until then to get good.

But there is more to this: anyone who knows me knows that I love to dance. I love to get out on any dance floor and shake my booty. Usually, though, I never have anyone to go out dancing with me. But now I have been able to go out dancing 3 nights in a row! I can see how this can get addicting. Also, these last few classes there was definate improvement and I was able to turn and keep in step with the guy. My timing is so good in fact that I know when the guy is turning me at a wrong time.

More importantly, I've danced with so many men. I could see how this could be a great way to pick someone up. Much better than having someone grinding all up on me.

What I finally picked up because of the incentive is quickly becoming a favorite pastime of mine. And since all of my friends moved away, this is a great way for me to get out on a Friday, or Saturday, or even Thursday night.

New Year's Wedding

I made this cluch for my friend Meghan's wedding. It's the second clutch I made and though it has some flaws, it is way better than the first one I made. The first one was lopsided, had a zipper, and because I didn't use any interfacing for support and the clutch was really floppy. For this one, I measured better so it isn't as lopsided, I use interfacing, but it wasn't enough and the purse still didn't have the support it needed . And since I used a magnetec button this time, stuff kept falling out. I need to use cardboard or something for the support on the inside. Hopefully, the next clutch for the next wedding will work way better.

The wedding was fabulous. I got my hair done up (the first time since 9th grade). It was pretty but there was so much hairspray in my hair that it held even after a night of dancing. I danced with this 5 year-old, Emma Sophia. We had fun, but she wore me out! Later Meghan's mom told me that I was a "dancing slut" (in a good way) because I will dance with anyone (true).

I seriously think it was a best wedding ever. I could be biased since it was the first wedding I have ever been in, but the everyone there was alot of fun. The food was great. There was brie AND cheesecake! And it was New Years. They got a deal with the Holiday Inn close by so people can stay there rather than drive home after a wedding and New Years. So right now I am living it up like a rock star in a king size bed until 4pm when I have to check out.