Riot and Frolic

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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.

Polish It Up

"Polish" as is…

Awesome Polish flag

Not…

Polish wood

polishing wood (twss)

My bestie just bought a house and I'm giving her a little housewarming present.  

Since we're both Polish, I went all traditional and baked her some salt-encrusted bread and prettied up a broom for her.  

bread, salt, and broom

freshly painted broom and salty bread

Because tradition is classy.  And cheap.

Besides representing all that is holy and Polish (and therefore, awesome), the gifts have meaning:

Salt- keeping life flavorful 

Bread- that you never go hungry

Broom- to sweep away your troubles

Brooms have a whole bunch of freaky traditions and superstitions to go along with them, like:

  • don't take it with you when you move
  • don't sweep any thing out without FIRST sweeping something in (what?)
  • don't sweep at night (well, obviously)
  • also give an apron to a new bride to bring prosperity 

The last one is actually how the dollar dance started.  The newlywed lady would don an apron and
sweep everyone off the floor.  Then, a guest would offer money to dance with her, which she would put in the pocket of her apron.  

And then you'd break a plate and take a shot of vodka.

Or something.

Crazy Polish people.

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Represent!

Adam Fidusiewicz

Polish actor Adam Fidusiewicz
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