Current Mood : In motion...
Another restful day – we really
didn’t do much. I hit all my usual websites and prowled around, took a nice
photo of Scaris Cleo (I’m slowly
starting to think she’s the most beautiful Cleo ever !), the usual nice, quiet
day. Got a little bored as night rolled into the later hours, and I started
just poking around YouTube randomly. Wasn’t in much of a mood to sew, even my
beloved 80s music and George Carlin recordings just weren’t reaching me. Ended
up looking for swing music, an older, rarely researched passion of mine.
That, of course, led to
swing dancing videos, and my, how swing has changed ! If you think it’s all
still 40s jitterbug to jazz, watch this
or this ! The second link in
particular shows how it may have gotten a bit hotter and sexier, but it’s less
skin showing than the average classical Tango competition. And I rather like the
modern music, too. It’s a lot more likely you’d see this at a club, not ‘String
of Pearls’. Still, at its base, it’s innocent and fun, and the dancers are not
only actually dancing with each other, the guy is doing far more than just
piloting the girl around ! He is fully as expressive as she is, and that got me
thinking. I think that’s what’s been a bit off with me lately.
Nothing’s really wrong, but
I’ve known I’m not quite in balance lately. I thought it was because I hadn’t
been sewing much, but I’ve cleared away some new hurdles and even received some
praise, so I knew that wasn’t it, but didn’t know what ‘it’ was. I think now I
do. I haven’t been expressing myself physically lately, not for a long time. Not
that I’ve been over-physical in any part of my life, but I don’t dance around
like I used to, and I don’t skate anymore. Part of it is winter and a small
apartment, part of it is fear. When you down as many pills as I do every day,
it’s hard to not worry about your health perhaps a bit overmuch. But I’ve even
neglected Wii Fit for a long time,
and love or hate yoga, it is an expression – and I haven’t been forming mine
in months. I can’t remember the last time
I danced around the kitchen like nothing mattered. Now that the weather’s
getting nice and outside is opening up, I need that expression again.
There. I feel better. Now
then – isn’t Cleo gorgeous ? Wow. Her hair's a bit cattywumpus in the back, but I can even that out later. Otherwise, she's just...wow. If this is what Mattel can do, I'm kind of sad they haven't been, even with Barbie.
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