Well, I haven't been working on HipScraps, and I haven't been working..but I have been bicycling! Just a block or two each time, but sometimes I pull the children behind me in their little cart that hooks on to my bike, and that makes it harder. I haven't been going to belly dance class on Mondays, even though nothing had really been stopping me from going. One day it was that I had JUST pressed play on Serenity when I realized the time; I wanted to watch the movie and so did my guy. Another day it was that I had mown the lawn and was dead beat, and would have had jelly-legs and been useless. This Monday, I did mow again, but only a small bit, and rushed inside to shower - I'd be late but would still have made it for half a class. Then my dad called with car trouble, so I waited by the phone for him to call me back, my hair dripping and in completely not ready for dance class clothes until it was too late to go - and then he managed to get home on his own. Poo. I have been going to Saturday class, though, so I refuse to beat myself up. And daily bicycle rides are helping to keep me active in between times.
Before I started going to dance class, I weighed in at 245 lbs. It's the heaviest I have ever been in my life, and I am honestly disgusted by myself for letting me get this way. Since I began taking classes, I have not weighed myself because my scale had no battery, and I was afraid that it would show no change. It's been a few months now, and people have told me that I am visibly shrinking, so I decided to bite the bullet and put in a fresh battery. I hopped on the scale and...245.8. No change. But i see the change now, and I feel it, so I have decided the scale is big giant poop-head and is a meanie who wants to see me fail. I put it in my dad's room, since I hardly go in there.
They say muscle weighs more than fat, and that often when you start making changes like I have, that the muscle builds up and causes your weight to plateau, before the fat really starts to melt away and reveal the healthy person in side. Well, I'm going to trust 'they'.
I have been playing a Beats Antique album in the car a lot lately, and only two tracks in particular. I've bee sort of choreographing to it in my head. Torso movements only, but I think maybe I ought to write it down. I'm hearing the base rhythm, the underlying rhythm, and some 'absent' beats in one track that could make it more fun to dance to than it is already. i shouldn't be doing anything of the sort, though, really, because I'm still an absolute beginner. But sometimes it seems like I know exactly what a certain portion of the song wants...bleh. I'm probably just being overenthusiastic.
Anyway - I'll try to keep the blog active, and I plan to tidy up my work area tomorrow, so maybe I will find something to do while I'm digging through it all. In fact...oooh, I just had an idea..I have cut all the pieces for Miss Suzy's vest, but after placing a couple of the pieces against her in person at class the other day, I know it needs to be shortened. This normally wouldn't be an issue, if I'd done it before cutting the fabric - if I'd checked the pattern and then cut, I could have folded the pattern then cut the pieces and they would be seamless. This fabric is a print - its a black and white version of this blog's border, in fact. I can't shorten in now without disrupting that print's pattern, because the shortening can't just be done from the bottom - it has to come out of the middle. But, but but but! What if I fold the pattern to lose more than the right size, cut out the chunk I don't want from the middle, then sew in a nice black band in there! I t would look fully intentional, and I could find some great way to embellish r bead it maybe, to really give it oomph. It could work. Gotta double-check how much I need to lose though, before I cut.
La-dee-da! Something to work on! yayy!
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