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.

Self-Serving and Completely Random

October 8, 2013

Full disclosure: this post does not relate to the prescribed schedule put forth by the editor, nor does it really have any point to it at all.

I hate laundry. And washing dishes. And putting clean sheets on the bed. I did all of these things tonight begrudingly because it's MY JOB. I was one of those worker bees who was just going through the motions with no joy or conviction, which ironically, I had been lamenting that exact kind of person earlier in the day.

[remove old pillowcases]

[get new pillowcases]

[wrestle pillows into new pillowcases]

[rustle remaining fabric looking for fitted sheet]

[unfurl fitted sheet]

[turn fitted sheet 3 times because can't figure out which way fitted sheet fits on bed]

[tuck corners of fitted sheet around mattress]

Kate: What the f$%^ is that?

[reach hand under newly stretched sheet to remove large lump in middle of bed]

Kate: SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Yes, I literally squealed. Right after putting the girls to bed. Didn't care.

The lump? One of my lost things. The super kick-ass, totally plain, yet yay-black-and-white-stripes, made-my boobs-look-awesome shirt.

That's been missing for A YEAR.

Yeah, the shirt that I lost on this great trip to Chicago where The G and I demonstrated we have no idea how to take a picture together, but my pants match the art in the background, so it's okay.

The trip where I also took my favorite photos ever and found these cute shoes at Old Navy which APPARENTLY DIDN'T EXIST AT ANY OTHER OLD NAVY IN THE WORLD.