Riot and Frolic

a mostly ballroom dance, but also a bunch of other stuff, blog

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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

List of Last Week’s Labors of Love

– Four loaves of various types of bread. Maybe a loaf that had too many scoops of flour.  The ladies are very distracting sometimes.

– A mended $5 IKEA pillow.  It didn't need mending until I got it home from IKEA and decided to rip off the "do not remove" tag, instead of being a patient grown-up and using scissors.  I used clashing aqua-colored embroidery thread on the green pillow and love it even more now.

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– A pan of weird cookie/brownie/oatmealy things.

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– A chalkboard made out of an old window frame.

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– A swanky chandelier from a piece of junk.  More on this once my darling husband gets a chance to hang it and I find out it works or not.
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– An interesting trip to the library with a strange and amusing bag of books to bring home.
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– A not-interesing trip to Goodwill (in the fruitfulness factor), but a nice look at the (finally) budding trees and a fun time with the ladies.

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– A real Cake that might never have it's picture taken before its all eaten.  (Did I use the "it's/its" correctly or not?  I feel dumb.)

– One day of judging lovely people ballroom dancing.

Oy.

Two guys and a…  [Name that reference for a free mint.]

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