Riot and Frolic

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

about

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

July 17, 2011

– pizza! I haven't gotten to make pizza in a long time. I had been craving some homemade, weird-crust pizza for quite awhile and the weather cooperated early in the week with some temps in the 70s and low humidity. By the way, does anyone have a good pizza crust recipe?

– the prettiest cake I've ever seen at work for a co-worker's birthday.

– trip to the library. There weren't any Olivia books or movies, but V still left happy. I, on the other hand, had to run into some very forward people telling me about raising children.

– lots o' popsicles. They come with corny jokes!

– a trip to Costco. Major favorites? Huge bag of ground coffee, huge bag of salt and pepper pistachios (thanks, Mitten; I'm totally hooked; miss you!), and berries in bulk.

– visit to Great Gramma's house in the middle of a downpour where we had cameos from my Great Aunt and Uncle. Neat! "She's a nice lady," V says of her Great Gramma.

– transplanted basil that hasn't died yet! (Hey, Martin! maybe it's our turn for herbs!) Carnations! How did I ever hate carnations? They are awesome. Cheap, colorful, long-lasting.

– early morning breakfast with the girls. Not my choice of hour, but a good time nonetheless. See, doc? Sometimes I do take my f-ing vitamins! (Hahaha, there's an inappropriate story behind that.)