Cassidyc6 wrote:

Hey, all!  Sorry I missed the birthday celebrations for Vmmmom and Tenn......hope you both enjoyed your special day, ladies!!  April.....congrats on the 3 new additions to your family!!  Happy Anniversary to KOS and her hubby!!  CEK.....hope you and Mickey are having a blast!!  Welcome Trisha.....can't believe we are still getting new members after more than a year!!  Glad to have you aboard!!

I'm sure I'm missed some other things.....sorry!!  Hope to catch up, soon!!  Yesterday was the last day of summer school, I am off for two weeks, yay!!  Having a backyard bash for my youngest tomorrow.....a little send-off as she leaves for college on Thursday!!  Super busy, as is always the case lately!!  Looking forward to a little down time after we come home from driving her to school!  Hubby and I could use a break, lol!!  Please know that even if I am unable to post, I am always thinking of my sistas!!  Much Love to All!!! xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

 
Hey, Cassidy!  We are always thinking of you too!  Glad you have a couple weeks off now.

Sounds like life is both exciting and busy!!!!  Have fun in the last days before delivering your baby to college!  She'll come home amazingly independent after the first term. 

How is your mom?  Hope she is ok.

Just wanted to say *hi*!  Glad all is well....

(((Hugs)))

Luv and tango,

You out there??

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

I haven't looked at the weather but the blast furnace is on full force outside here, it would seem!! Heading out to the airport for a dinner date with hubby at a basque restaurant out that way (about 30 miles east). Gunner reports 109 at her house which is further east still--and my "point the finger into the wind" test reveals well over 100 here. Where's the cool ocean breeze??!!! We promise to be good if it will just return!!! LOL

Hope everyone is having a nice lazy crazy day of summer.....staying cool!

xxxxx ooooo

WHOA!!!!!!!!!  That is hot.  You don't have too much humidty do you? Still, that is way too hot.  Please try and stay cool Ladies.  Do you have good AC?

OH..........BTW  HI JET....just started the convo without saying hi. LOL
 

april6263 wrote:

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

View, unobstructed wrote:

 I assume that MichelleK is Michelle Kwan ?...and then there is our tangodancer leaving a comment!!! WOO HOO! You go, girl!!

Tango....assume you arrived home safely and hope that you are recovering from jet lag. Couple more days will turn you around. I always find the 4th day to be the absolute WORST!!

Really out of here now....for the moment!

GO TANGO!!!!

Yes, I am home, ladies!   It was a nice vacation.  I just wish the return trip didn't spoil all the R&R for a few days. 24+ hours due to a flight delay (in the U.S. on United, the Germans on 2 Lufthansa flights were scrupulously on time) and no vacancies at the hotels we tried on our drive home from the airport.  

When I manage to get some pictures posted, I'll post the link here so you can see them, but don't hold your breath, because I still haven't posted last year's pictures.

Of course, I have to dive right back into work.   New employee to replace the one I had to fire last May starts Monday.   Fortunately, I don't have any serious travel this fall until the weekend before Thanksgiving when I have a conference in San Diego.  I'll stop on the way home and hubby will join me in Denver to spend Thanksgiving with our son.   We return on Black Friday because he'll have to go back to work, and then the following Tuesday, it's off to Sway 4.0.   

I am still on Cloud 9 with the experience that I anticipate for Sway.   6 days of multiple hours of classes, many taught by Maks, Val & Tony, 5 private lessons (PPCs that at least one of them will be with M/V/T), all the Sway shows with Meet & Greets and the after party.  Hubby will be flying in for the Sat. night show.   Still not sure exactly how that will work because I'll be busy with classes and matinee and won't be free to pick him up.

I've already started my diet (need to lose at least 35 lbs.).   I'll get back to my swimming 3 days a week on Monday.   And I'm going to try and find a personal trainer at our local gym where I swim to work on some specifics. I want to work on core strength and arms.  I'm already determined not to do anything that might endanger feet/ankles/knees.  I can dance with a bad arm, not a sprain in a foot or ankle.  

I worked out but didn't seriously diet before my previous dance experiences.   I wasn't so worried about generic dance teacher 30 years younger than me.  Now, if I'm going to be standing there with people probably a lot younger and more fit than me, facing the "big 3," I'm going to get serious.   

Who would have thought when I read Cassidy's account here of Sway 1.0 that I would be heading off a year later to Sway 4.0, that Alex and Eugene would know me by name, that Maks and Tony would recognize me (not sure about Val), that a whole bunch of other people (members of the cast, studio managers, Merv) also recognize me although they may not be sure exactly who I am?   I am in dance heaven, and I don't intend to leave until they kick me out.

I am convinced that the pre-Sway dance seminars/lessons are only for DWM students.  I have not seen them mentioned anywhere else.   Not even in e-mails from the studios, because I'm sure there are a lot of fans who sign up who have never/will never go there.   In fact, I am on the e-mail lists of all the studios, even though I'll probably never get to them all.   One of my instructors in May told me that they were doing a DWM trip to Italy and one to Brazil maybe next year.  I never heard of that in any other place or saw any mention of it, but now there have been 2 or 3 recent pictures of the group that is in Italy now (Serge is with them).    So I think these opportunities are only for their students (and I guess 16 hours of lessons in the past year makes me one of them).   In any event, I think you'd have to be crazy to sign up for multiple hours of lessons each day for several days if you (a) had no ballroom experience (b) had no clue what you were getting in to.  It's hard work.   And both my teachers at Soho told me that the out-of-towners/fans/Swayers who come to take a lesson are almost always true beginners.  

I don't know if I mentioned this in my previous Sway post either.   The night before I left on my vacation, I e-mailed Alex (I was certain of his e-mail), what I thought was Eugene's e-mail (based on how the others are set up), as well as the Soho studio general e-mail telling them my situation about being out of the country when pre-sale happened.   Of course, as you know, Eugene called me and we set everything up, and he subsequently sent me a confirmation e-mail from the sway e-mail address.  However, he also copied Alex on it, and Alex replied to me, too, telling me how happy he was I'd be joining them again and that it would be the best Sway ever.   

So thanks for the welcome home.   Congratulations on all the new babies!  I'm so sorry for all of you who are now or still dealing with health issues (your own or your family's), and I wish everyone a speedy recovery.  I'll try to be better about posting!   

 

april6263 wrote:

Booky wrote:

april6263 wrote:

Hey guys  we finally got out of the hospital and this round of treatment went well so far  annnnnnddddd.....my second neice got here!!!!!!.......LOL....and even though she is younger by a few days she is definitely not smaller.....LOL.....she weighed in at 9 Lbs 7 oz and was 20" long......LOL......and we got a surprise last night the third one that wasn't due for 3 1/2 more weeks decided to put in an early appearance and got here too!!!...LOL.....she weighed in at 6lbs 10 oz and was 21 1/2" long......LOL......so we now have 3 new baby girls in less than a week....LOL....all babies and all mama's doing fine

haven't been able to check in for a few days how is everything going for everyone?????  it is really raining here......I sooooo hope Cek isn't getting rained on too badly at Disney.  gonna go catch up on what I've missed in the last several days  

Yayyyy!!!  Congrats on the latest additions to your family, April!  And I'm happy that all went well with your daughter's chemo treatments.  Many blessings to you and your family.
 

thanks Booky   they all live in the same city about 3 1/2 hours from us so we haven't seen them in person yet but we have seen pics and they are all adorable  I see some joint birthday parties in our future....LOL

 
What joy, April! Congrats, Auntie!!