Ladies and Gentleman, Put Your Hands Together For.....

It's done! Whew! Did it! I got my glittery butt on stage (although a very small stage, it's still a stage) last night at the Mediterranean Cruise Cafe and did some stuff with my arms and hips in conclusion to the lovely Miss Leslie Kennedy's performance course. I can happily report that I made it out alive. Here's a brief re-telling of the evening in an attempt to give you a sense of really "being there" with me:

4:17pm - left work early and am now flipping out but controlling it by making lists and planning out every minute working backwards:
6:15 - leave
6:00 - finish make-up
5:42 - flip out
5:30 - start make-up
5:27 - get a drink of water
5:25 - non-frizzy hair will be done
5:10 - run around packing bag while drying hair
5:00 - start hair
4:59 - finish watching Judge Judy

4:22pm - make note to self to look up the Clean Water Lake amendment thingy

4:23pm - didn't map out 4:24 - 4:59 so I'm wandering aimlessly

4:41pm - finished the dishes...what? Yes, this is what happens when I wander aimlessly

5:49pm - WHAT AM I GOING TO WEAR??!!! I mean afterwords, when I'm done

5:59pm - I HAVE NO ARM BANDS!!!! I have enough glitter to make up for it

6:25pm - arrive 35 minutes early to the restaurant but yet am the third one there - whew, not alone in my neurosis

As I was walking back to put my stuff in the closet aka dressing room, which was pointed out to me by one of the bar regulars, the bar regular said "Erin's here. I showed her where to put her stuff." I figured she meant Erin Nelson who has probably danced there before so I didn't correct her because it's no bad thing to be mistaken for Erin (sorry Erin). Then I thought that the bar regular probably now thinks Erin put on a few pounds...geez, sorry Erin.

The long walk down the plank began at 7:30pm. While we've been in class together for eight weeks, we all became pretty close within those 2 proceeding hours; we were all terrified. That's why we all took the class to begin with. One dancer is incredibly good and to watch her you wouldn't know that she was ready to puke just minutes before.

I got up there and once I was there, I felt much better. I tried approaching it like the wine show; welcome to my show, you are now in my show. It was over much faster than I thought it would be, although I kept shaking for some time afterwords.

It feels great to have that first time over with. Now I'm ready to do it again tonight. Oh! AND the hockey game was on which we won! How much better can it get than that? It can't I tell you.

P.S. Notice how there's no mention of warming up? Yeah, I'm paying for that this morning.