Another thing that is adding to the exhaustion of the past week has been belly dancing. We had a big show last night approximately 2.5 hours away. We had rehearsal Monday night, choreography drills on Tuesday night (which I couldn't make because I had a dentist appointment), rehearsal Wednesday night, and rehearsal yesterday morning before getting ready for the show. After rehearsal yesterday, I ran home to play with the dogs a little bit (since I haven't really been home this past week) and pack my dance bag. Once my dance bag was packed up, I headed over to my instructor's house; we piled into her van and made the trek to the show.
Once we made it to the location, we had time to watch some of the other performers, shop at the dance booths, drool over things that were fabulous but we too expensive and then get read for the performance. We wore new costumes yesterday (my troupe actually hired Mom to make the leotards that we wore for this performance and for several upcoming performances) and we got lots of compliments from how we looked. =)
We also got a lot of compliments after our performance. People said that our moves were very different from the other troupes that had performed, our choreography was clean/together, and we had joy radiating off of the stage. As a performer, that is something that I really like to hear. We worked really hard and for people to truly enjoy our performance was a good thing.
Since we didn't go onstage until just before eight o'clock at night and went out to dinner as a group after we had taken group photos, I didn't get home until 1:30 AM. When I got home, I had to take a shower to wash off all of the glitter and make-up (getting at the shower at 1:30 AM was definitely a slightly odd thing to be doing). Then, since I hadn't really been at home all day (all week really), of course the dogs wanted to play. I was still full of adrenaline from performing so I was up until about 3 AM. I didn't wake up until between 10:30 - 11 this morning.
Last night was the first night in a long time that I didn't toss and turn or wake up several times throughout the night. I slept like I was dead last night. When the dogs woke me up this morning, I was slightly disoriented (most likely because who knows the last time I slept that good) and have felt like I needed a nap all day. I haven't given into the temptation of taking a nap because I know that I need to go to bed at a decent time so I can get out of bed to go to work in the morning.
I also know that I do have a busy week ahead. We are going to be starting to work on some new choreography at the studio, I have a staff meeting, I need to start working with my sword again because I will dancing a solo again in less than a month, and who knows what else this week has in store for me. =)
Apparently I have overcome some of my writer's block. Hopefully I have said something instead of just rambling. Oh, well. If I have rambled, I apologize and I will try to do better next week.... =)
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