"Sleeping to Dream"

I woke up today in my bed to the sounds of my good friend Alison in my kitchen making coffee... normally I'd panic that she's touching my appliances, but I was actually really happy that spread out throughout the 3 floors of my house were my closest friends all sleeping in!

It's probably lame to anyone younger than us, but our New Year's Eve was very enjoyable. We played board games... well us girls played board games as Scott quit at Candy Land cause it was clearly too complicated for him! We drank fancy drinks from the Magic Bullet and ate yummy food. We cracked open a bottle of champagne at midnight and then we watched "The Hangover" and slowly everyone fell asleep around the tv. At 2am the movie was over and we all separated to our sleeping quarters to go have some lovely dreams of the great year ahead.

Now everyone has gone home and I am left with a semi-clean house and lots of laundry... however, I am sitting on the couch and not worrying about any of it! I think in 2010 I'm going to take a lot more time to relax about those things that generally cause me anxiety and just enjoy my day as I choose. Hopefully come competition season I'll remember that... and if not I still have a garage full of Merlot!

I think I will take a nap in anticipation of Jordan Clark coming to my house later on today. She's coming to the studio with me tomorrow to do some choreography and she's generally my comic relief right in the New Year!

Maybe I should vouch to take more naps in 2010... I generally do my best work in my sleep and I can dream up fantastical ideas. Last night I came up with a brilliant Recital finale number!

Too bad when I sleep my costume order doesn't get done...

"Party Like It's 1999"

So it's a decade after Prince released this fantastic song! It's interesting to look back and think about what you were doing 10 years ago...

New Year's Eve of 1999 I was going into my last semester of OAC in high school and getting ready for University! It was also the New Years that I hosted my very first New Year's Eveparty at my house. It wasn't that great, as I remember running out of alcohol very early on in the evening, and my mother coming home early, but it was still a party!

Now ten years later I am hosting my 2nd ever New Year's Eve party! This time way more laid back and only with my closest friends drinking wine around my fire place and watching crappy movies on tv! I have all the food and drinks ready and now I am sitting here waiting in my Free City track pants as my friends are on their way. I couldn't think of a better way to spend my last evening of 2009!

Inspired by my friend Alison I am going to set some goals for 2010... not like lose weight, or whatever, but 3 realistic goals that I can ask my friends and family to help me with!

1. Stop spending so much money on clothes - it's obvious to people who are close to me that I have a serious issue with this, however, MasterCard doesn't seem to agree! I will stop spending money on frivolous items that I can't find space for in my 3 closets and instead spend money/time doing things with people that are important to me. Ie. go to the movies with my mom, or have lunch with Shelby before we teach.

2. I will think before I speak to avoid hurting people's feelings - this one will be tough for me but I'm determined to try! I have a lack of verbal filter when it comes to people I love, and I'm sure I hurt their feelings more then I intend to. So I will make a point of not saying what I really want to say in some cases, and spare their feelings.

3. Learn to cook more things - I know how to cook, it's just out of absolute laziness that I don't more often. I also seem to cook the familiar/likeable things most often, probably out of ease and satisfaction that it will be good. So this year I want to actually go buy ingredients that the cookbook recommends and make meals with them!

I think 3 goals is plenty to think about and work on so I will stop there!

Gotta go check on my baked brie with figs and apples now... already working on goal #3! Oh wait it's still 2009 so I guess that doesn't count???

Tonight I toast to all the great things that happened to me in the past year, and the not-so great things that I learned great things from!

2010 is going to be epic - I just know it!

"Bad Romance"

It's almost the end of the day... but I'm keeping to my word and blogging!

I would have done it earlier, but I sat at the US/Canada border tonight in traffic for almost 2 hours coming home from Buffalo. I would have blogged from my fance iPhone blogging app, but I refuse to pay those US roaming fees with Rogers!

It was my third trip to shop in the US in the past two weeks... which I'm pretty sure nominates me for Shopaholics Anonymous. I don't always go looking for things for myself, but it usually ends up that I come out of every store with something that I absolutely must have. I bought several costumes for Competitive routines today, so that qualifies writing the entire trip off on my taxes!

However, on an extremely great note I discovered a new authentic Mexican restaurant right by the Outlets on Niagara Falls Blvd... La Galera! Not exciting enough for you... it is within 5 minutes of the competition site we will be going to in April. That means DF post-competition dinner at La Galera - Chimichangas for everyone!

Now in keeping with the theme of naming all my blogs after songs, this one just seemed fitting today, as I heard Lady Gaga sing this song 47 times on the radio in an 8 hour span.

Damn you US border... I have now memorized all the words!