yesterday sequins and beads, today soap suds and elbow grease

Such a great time at the Middle East last night--super audience plus music I love equals loads of fun for me!  Had a great time staying out dancing the night away, people were full of compliments which definitely added to my evening's euphoria.  I even got home to find a email from another dancer in the audience saying how much she enjoyed my set, and an invitation to dance in someone's upcoming hafli, so I'm quite full of myself at the moment ;-)  The only two drawbacks to the evening were that one, the music was so loud that there was some distortion going on, and two, I apparently really did not guard my expression when watching another dancer do some very questionable things on a table during her drum solo.  Oops!  Hopefully she was too busy to notice.

Today I am spending very unglamourously cleaning the house, but it has to be done.  I will crank the music and have a beer when I am done.  Ceremony is a possibility later.

Oh, kinadancer--here's the Saad donkey video with Dina.  The song is Bahebak ya Hmar, which means I Love You Donkey.  It is teh awesome.

sign of a belly dance household

When you wash the bathmats, the dryer lint filter is full of glitter :-)

Most of the house is clean now.  I washed the bedroom rug, the sheets, the bathroom rugs; swept and mopped all the floors; hu-du-du'd the carpets (that's an Eddie Izzard reference, for those who are saying huh?); cleaned the bathroom literally from ceiling to floor (how the heck does dirt get all over the shower walls?); dusted stuff; and generally cleaned everything except the kitchen, because that is the point at which I ran out of steam.  I'm glad the house is clean though.  I would invite people over more often if I could keep up with it.  Might do another belly dance video thingy on Sept. 15.

Not making it to Ceremony after all; M is not feeling up to it.  But as I am not dancing again on a Sunday (and thus will have more energy on a Monday) until the end of the month, we sincerely hope to attend in the next few weeks.