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.

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  • Jif

    I'm actually not going to talk about peanut butter.  This is surprising because besides any frozen concoctions (popsicles, Frappuccinos, frozen grapes), my favorite food is peanut butter.   Nope, I'm talking fast-action recipe today.  Monday (wait, it's Tuesday; but let's say it's effectively a Monday because of the holiday) is apparently my recipe day.  I…

  • Recipe for Greatness

    I'm going to try posting this by email in an attempt to check off another item on one of my to-do lists. Thanks, Typepad, for adding to the long list of activities I try to postpone. (But really, thanks, your set-up is great.) AND to follow through on my promise from yesterday, I'm going to…

  • The Cake was Delicious

    This is what's left of the Cake, 36 hours after baking it.  It might be half a pan.  Probably not. Cake recipe here: yum. I had a fun morning.   A) The sun is shining. B) V knows how to do somersaults. C) I had laundry to do.   Combine… Awesome.   Quote of the morning? Gordon:…

  • And we shall call it Cake

      38 Helplessness Blues This song has nothing to do with the following post.  It is just awesome.  I am afraid to buy the whole album because I'm pretty sure I would listen to nothing else but it for the entire summer and all other music would lose its luster until the new Mumford &…

  • Homemade Everything

    A couple months ago, I decided that I would not buy anything that wasn't necessary and I'd try to make anything that could realistically be made.  New nail polish (I wear the same four colors all the time and end up buying replicas of the same four colors I already have) was off "the list,"…

  • Coffee

    Yes.  Coffee.  You are delicious. Let me tell you some stories about coffee.   – I have a strong memory of the sound of my dad stirring his coffee in the morning.  Groggy from sleep, I would shift into consciousness hearing the clicking of his spoon against a mug.  Anytime I hear that sound, I…