Success

Usually Comes To Those Who Are Too Busy To Be Looking For It.
~ Henry David Thoreau

I have so many things planned for the upcoming year, and there is so much ahead of me I don't know how it's all going to work. Keep your fingers crossed I can figure it out somehow!


- Recitals. Our Christmas recital is coming up in December so I'm crazy busy trying to get that together. Also, our annual recital is in May, so as soon as I get done with Christmas I have to jump immediately into choreography for the annual recital and start teaching it in January. The annual recital date is tentatively May 21st.


- Fundraising. One of my dance students has been battling cancer for a few years now, and I would like to set up some sort of Dance-A-Thon to raise money for Kids Cancer Awareness. I'll have to Google it and see what I can come up with.


- Education. What to do, what to do? I've been battling with this for three years now. It's not that I don't want to go to college... but I honestly have no desire to sit in a classroom and listen to a professor drone on and on in a monotonous voice about some crap I don't care about. Put me in a room where I can learn about choreography, stage lighting, technique... then I'm interested. Thus, I decided to look into majoring in Dance at KSU... and I got in! And if I go back to school, I'm more than likely going to join the KSU Dance Team. I've already emailed the coach and she knows my home studio, so I hopefully have a foot in the door. Now that I've been accepted, I just have to decide if I want to go. Several factors come into play with this because I don't want it to interfere with my job or my kids, so I guess it's a matter of how much of my core requirements are available online.


- Dance Masters Teacher Training. It's for a week next summer in New York, and even if I have to sell my kidney on the black market, I'll be there. My mentor pretty much told me that this is what I'm looking for if I want to "major" in dance. I can take my exams and be certified in four days... at KSU, this will take me four years. The only bonus to this is that if I decide to go to KSU, my DM classes count toward college credit.


- Our "I Do, Take Two". Granted, this could probably wait, but it's really important to Tyler and to me. We  got cheated out of our dream wedding. Period, the End. My family is so unstable that we couldn't count on them for anything, therefore we had to settle for something a little less than what we wanted. Not that we didn't love our wedding, but it was very formal and wasn't at all what we had envisioned. Now we have the chance to do it again, the way we have always dreamed about. Luckily, I have a husband who loves me enough to go through "wedding planning" a second time.