cold season

My daughter has a cold, and I feel like I have half of one. I've been taking Airborne like crazy. On top of that, weekends are a busy work time for me (retail job), so posting here and listing new jewelry pieces in my shop is slow going. Which is too bad, because I have a zillion pieces to list and no time to photograph.

Despite things being so hectic for me, I managed somehow to land my very first dance teaching job ever. Not only am I a flamenco student of the amazing Linda Machado of Flamenco!...The Studio, but I am now her replacement for one of her offsite classes, as Linda herself goes on to a full-time residency in a school.

Flamenco being a 'dance for the people' (meaning a dance for all ages, sizes, creeds and persuasions), this class is in a senior center, but don't think for a minute that these ladies can't keep up with the best of 'em. I hope to do Linda proud and really bring out the fiery flamenca that each student has inside her.

Who knew I'd be a dance teacher someday? I have no professional dance background. I've learned a few different forms of dance as a serious amateur, but I'm certainly not one of those people who learned to dance before walking - and I'm no delicate, wispy waif, either. So despite the ups and downs I've been having these past years, this is one aspect of my life that I look at and say..."cooooollll." It really is an honor for me to have been asked by Linda to do it, because she doesn't mess around, and doesn't put people in roles that she isn't completely sure they can fill.

Hmmm speaking of dance - I've got to PRACTICE for my own class. With what time? I've got a choice - laundry and ironing, or dance practice. Hmmmmm. Think, think, think. What would *you* do?