Girl on Fire

Work was a little bit better this week; there were still some unexpected twists and turns but I'm beginning to think that is just an inevitability.  I did have several meetings and some drama with the sports program (my sports coordinator had a couple of days off so I attempted to help cover....  for those of you who don't know me, I'm the last person you'd want involved with a sports program; I know zilch about sports) but it wasn't one of those overly stressful weeks.  One of the nice things was being able to leave for two hours in the middle of one day but it wasn't nice to have to go to the dentist during those two hours for dental work.

Even though I had to leave the building for dental work, it reiterated that I need to start making it a priority to leave the building at least every so often during the work day.  I know I've said it before and I always seem to find a reason to stay in the building but I need to start finding the occasional reason to leave - even if it's just to run an errand or something.  I have tried heading home but find that I run in, run out and then am ready to walk out the door again - I don't necessarily want to sit down when I get home because my fear is I won't then want to head back to work.  We'll see how well that works out for me...

Today we had a big dance performance for an outdoor street festival.  It was a fun performance but it took a lot out of me.  We had a 45 minute show (that I danced for all but 2.5 minutes of because it was someone else's dance solo and out of the time that I danced, 6 minutes was my sword solo) in the heat/sun and the parking lot we danced in had a slope to it so it made the performance even more exhausting.  During my sword solo the energy of the crowd was AMAZING!  I wore a costume that my Mom made for me out of flame fabric and people commented that I was a dance version of "girl on fire."  I definitely need to remember the feeling of today's performance in order to prepare for upcoming performances.  I have been doubting myself some lately in terms of dance so it was good to have a performance like the one today.  Was it perfect?  No.  But I am glad it went so well.

I need to find a way to take how I felt as "girl on fire" during my performance today into work.  Because I've been so insanely busy, I feel as if I have lost my "spark" in regards to the day to day at work.  Actually, I think I have lost my "spark" not only at work but just in my everyday happenings.  I need to find a way to get that fire started again.  I know that you can start a fire with just a small ember so I guess that's where I need to start.  I'm not sure how I'm going to do that but it's given me something to think about...

Well my dear readers, this Gypsy is exhausted after her day of being on fire so I think I'm going to bring this to a close and head to bed.  I hope that you have opportunities this week to experience that spark of fire that I did today.  =)