5 minutes of fame

So when Svetlana was telling everyone their parts there still wasn't anyone to play the evil queen in the show Once Upon a Tutu that I'm doing in September. Since I had a blast in Snow White being a vulture back in 2008 I volunteered to be the evil queen...playing evil is sooooo much fun, but there's a twist to it. Instead of it being the evil queen from Snow White that goes into the cauldron and comes out ugly, it's Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty that goes in and comes out beautiful but more evil. So I'm Maleficent before she goes into the cauldron and an incredible jazz teacher is 'me' when she comes out. I finally get to be evil on stage and Svetlana says that the part is perfect for me. I plan to go all out with this part, including the make up ;) So Maleficent before the cauldron will be red hair and black and green makeup while after she comes out, she has black short hair and black and purple makeup so there's a distinct difference in the transformation. So I get to have fun with eye makeup!! Here's what's it'll look like ;)

Country Ballerina ;)

Did a small ballet/country photo shoot with Mommy today...thanks Mommy!!!!!!! :) Here are some of the pictures :)

Not ready...obviously!

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We had fun!!!!!!!! :) Thanks Mommy ;)

Gunpowder & Satin

The other day Daddy and I were shooting out in front of the garage towards the big dirt hill in our front yard. We were hitting the usual targets of water bottles and aluminum cans and I must say I was pretty proud of myself. I shot the .22 pump action most of the time and was able to chase a can across the hill and hit it with pretty much all 20 bullets. Then I practiced with the pistol and had a fabulous idea. What would my pointe shoes do if they were shot? So I emptied the pistol into the hill and went and got a pair of old, dead shoes and put them on the hill. I loaded up the pump .22 and unloaded it on them. It was soooooo much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I felt that it was a form of therapy being able to take out my anger in that way on my shoes, might as well cause them some pain since they cause me pain everyday of my life!! My mother was horrified that I would do that to my shoes but now they've taken up permanent residence on my shelf ;)

We had fun, if you couldn't tell ;)

My shoe, full of holes :) I also, unintentionally, shot the ribbons a couple times

Car issue #I don't know

So Tuesday nightish I'm heading to PCOM for my TAing job with a stretching and traction class and I notice smoke coming from under the hood of my car. I pray really hard that I make it to school and right as I pull into the parking lot my oil light comes on. I'm thinking 'this isn't good' and grab 1 of the 2 quarts of oil I have in the back of my car and set it on my seat to put in after class. 4 hrs later I'm done with class and I come out and I check my oil and the dip stick is dry...no oil on it at all. I add the quart and call my dad but he doesn't answer so I call Mommy and she told me to find the nearest gas station. I'm in the process of driving when my dad calls me and we chat about my car doing this odd thing. I get to a Shell and get 3 more quarts of oil and put them in. I check the dip stick again and its still dry. Thankfully there was a shift change of cashiers in the market because I went back in and bought 10 quarts of oil, the guy looked at me like I had 2 heads. He probably thought I was putting it in the wrong place since a normal car takes about 4 to 5 quarts and I got 10. So dad and I decided that i was going to play hop-scotch until I got home, so I drove about 5 minutes and stopped again and checked the oil...pretty much nothing on the dip stick so I added 3 more quarts. I drove another 10 mins and stopped...same thing. So now Daddy asks me to start the car and look to see if I can see where it's leaking. By this time my engine is covered literally everywhere with oil but there's one spot that I can see that's dripping. I move around the front of my car and i can see a steady stream of oil about as thick as a pen spouting from somewhere inside that I can't see. I tell him what i see and he meets me at my next stop and follows me home. So, the normal drive home takes me an hour...it took me 2 1/2 hours, 7 stops and 22 quarts of oil to get home and it was 12:22 when I parked my car at home. It turned out to be that my oil sensor had a crack in it and was thinking there wasn't oil so it stayed 'on' the whole time. Daddy was able to fix it yesterday and we both made it home safe. The next day Mommy and I went to the fair because I was dancing there with San Diego Ballet and we could pretty much follow my oil trail home coming up Lake Wohlford Grade. So if anyone sees large oil puddles on the grade, that's me!!

My oil trail on the driveway before backing into the
rocks on the side of the house...
and that's pretty much how it looked the whole way

A tribute to the King of Pop

So Miss Ann, my very first ballet teacher, asked me to dance with her in her summer recital entitled Legends & Superstars. I said of course and started thinking about a legend or a superstar that I would either like to depict of dance to one of their songs. I've always liked Michael Jackson's music and after picking one of my favorite songs and making sure it wasn't already being used, I started choreographing to it. I've never heard of anyone doing a pointe dance to a Michael song so this will be a first :) A friend of mine who did competition for a long time told me that I should add one of his key trademarks into my costume. Apparently he most always had a rhinestoned glove on his right hand so she had the idea of me rhinestoning my right pointe shoe and see who caught on about it. Well now all you who read my blog will know, but don't tell anyone ;) So on Saturday, June 9th, I'll be dancing to Michael Jackson's Bad with a rhinestoned pointe shoe and attempting to moonwalk in them. Michael, I hope I don't make you roll over in your grave after this...for those of you who would like to, please come watch, it should be good ;)

Pointe shoe and hat :)

Ballerina!!!

Whoop whoop!!! I'm officially a ballerina now, a payed ballerina!! San Diego Ballet contracted me this year for their season :) I'm soooooo happy!! 17 years of work is finally starting to pay off and it feels/tastes amazing. I'll try and be better about letting y'all know when my shows are. I know we're doing a new ballet this season, it's the story of Don Juan, can't wait for that one :)

Beach :)

Well I took Andrew to the West Coast for the first time on Sunday and he loved it!! I took him to La Jolla Cove and the tide pools first.

Looking out over the ocean

He was very proud that he didn't get wet, till after dinner

We found a nice outcrop to sit on and enjoy the view

After that we went walked some more and found a nice big grassy area and did some pas de deux lifts. By the third lift we had about 15 people watching us, it was pretty funny :) Here some of what we did...

We did just a normal arabesque press lift...

...and then a lift from Swan Lake which requires a lot of trust

And then we did some ballet poses or just random stuff...

classic arabesque

dying swan from Swan Lake

something pretty :)

Assemble' off the rock

being weird

I don't know what this is...a contemporary handstand

After a fun filled day I took him to Ruby's on the Pier. I had never been there but my aunt told me I should take him there, so I did. It was sooooo good!! It's an old style 1950's burger joint and their shakes are AMAZING!!!! Then we had a nice walk along the beach in which we both got a little wet. I told him though if he got too wet I was going to strap him to the roof till he dried off ;) I showed him how to catch sand crabs, he just thought that was weird and we got to see 2 California Grey Whales swimming just off shore...that was cool!!!

Black Forest shake & Orange 50/50 shake...both were really really good!!