Yawn...

It has been another long week and another exhausting weekend. I had a very busy week at work (filled with some long meetings), had a late night on Friday (I'm the one who now oversees our Date Night for parents), and then had to be up early yesterday for two dance performances. We had an early call to get ready to dance on a parade float and we then performed at the county fair in the afternoon. At the fair performance, I danced all through all of the songs except one (it was a fellow dancer's solo) and I danced my sword solo again.

The stage that we danced on for the fair was so hot that we burned the bottoms of our feet and some of us also got splinters in our feet as well. I guess now might be the time to seriously look into getting some dance slippers for performances such as these for "just in case." Performances like this one is just to be used as a dancing experience. Yesterday was also a good example of something my dance instructor tells us - - the more you dance, the number of mistakes you make increases exponentially. It's been quite some time since I've made that many errors during a performance, but I kept dancing and was able to keep a smile on my face the whole time and those are the things that are the most important. We have some other performances coming up in the next month (3 in the next month to be exact) so I will have the opportunity to redeem myself. =)

Something that I was able to accomplish today makes me pretty impressed with myself... My laptop was running really slow so I decided it would probably be a good idea to get a portable hard drive to back up the data/photos from my laptop and place them on my other computer. Up until today, I wanted to chuck the hard drive against the wall because I couldn't make it work - - today I was able to make it work and I was able to back up the information that I wanted to. Yay, me! =) I am glad that I kept with it and was able to figure it out. Hopefully removing some of this data off of my laptop will make it a little happier.

Other than fighting with my portable hard drive today, I talked with my Mom and I attempted to talk to my nephew but he didn't want to talk with me over the phone. I don't necessarily blame him since he doesn't know me. Sure, there are things he knows about me and he knows that I've bought things for him but he doesn't know who his Aunt is. That makes me kind of sad. I know that he can't really know me when I live so far away but that was something that I wish I could remedy. Oh, well. Maybe one day I'll be able to live closer to family and my Nephew will get to know his Auntie.

One thing I do have to look forward to is in about 6 weeks my Mom will be coming out for a weeklong visit! Mom and I are always able to talk up a storm so I'm sure that week will be a whirlwind of long conversations, fabric buying, belly dancing and just plain fun and adventures. I'm sure the week she's here will fly by but I am really looking forward to her visiting (plus I am taking a week off of work!).

Since I have tomorrow as a vacation day from work, maybe I will attempt to do a little bit of work around my apartment because I'm sure the six weeks leading up to Mom's visit are going to be gone in the blink of an eye (especially with how busy I'm going to be with work and dance between then and now). Goodnight, all! =)