Many Hands Make Light Work

My cousin, Maren, and I are trying out a new housekeeping method. Once a week we help eachother clean, organize and/or maintain our houses for an hour or so. So, one week I'll go to her house and the next she'll come to mine. Last week we worked on Maren's living room. We sorted, organized, dusted, and vacuumed. When we were done, the room was immaculate. The next room in her house we'll work on is Hannah's bedroom and the bathroom. Tomorrow she'll be coming to my place to help me. I think I'm going to work on getting the spare bedroom set up. All the rooms in my house are so small that I need 2 of them for all my things (clothes!! mainly) So I'll be setting up shelves and a clothing rack to store extra clothes. I'm also going to get a mirror hung so I can practice dance in there too. I'm excited for Maren's help! I'll keep you posted on how the exchange goes.

PS - Carrie - did your "hiding stuff your kids don't use anymore" method work? Any new household pointers you can give?

Jazz Games!!

My boyfriend, Chris, has season tickets to the Utah Jazz and has for a couple years now. Last week we got some extra tickets and were able to take 'Baby Kate' to the game. As we got settled into our seats, I soon realized we had about 10 roudy 15 year old boys in front of us. I thought, 'Oh boy, I hope that these guys aren't too crazy and too distracting to enjoy the game.' Well, they were teasing and joking and moving around in their seats and fighting over the freebes that get thrown into the crowds. Everytime something was about to be hurled in our direction, little Kate would stand with her hands up to catch them. Unfortunately nothing came too close....until...at the end of the game a wadded up Jazz t-shirt comes flying towards her and lands right in our row in front of the empty seats next to her. As soon as her tiny hands went to grab it, about 6 of the young men dove for it and practically took her out. I was thinking - 'dang, they should have just let the little girl have it!' I was a little bothered. Katherine sat down after her defeat and said in her cute voice, 'whoa, that was scary.' At this point the boys were still fighting and wrestling over the shirt. Once the shirt had been won by one the the boys, they untied it, looked at it, passed it around and basked in their victory. A few moments later we noticed a couple of them looking back at us and talking. They kept looking and talking until it was passed from one boy to the next boy to the next boy till it was handed to Katherine. It was soooo sweet I wanted to cry. I said 'Oh Katherine, those boys gave you the shirt! That is sooo sweet!' I mouthed to them, 'Thank you so much!' Katherine just smiled and gave them them thumbs up. Chris told me later that he could hear the one boy telling his buddy, 'C'mon, just give it to the little girl...just give it to her.' I was so happy to see that that young dude did the right thing and did a good deed. Katherine was so excited. She said she was going to wear it to bed that night. It was a little treasure, in my mind and I think in Kate's mind too.

I love blogs!!

So I keep checking for updates on my sister's blog but haven't seen any since August. So tonight, while chatting with her on the phone I asked her to start blogging again. I love her stories to no end and miss hearing them. Her defense was that her computer has been broken and finally when it got fixed she lost her camera cable to upload photos. I assured her that pics are great but it's the stories that we love so much.

Anyhow let's get to the point. She asked if I have been blogging and of course, I have not either. I told her, I have nothing interesting to write about. She didn't believe that. As I started thinking , I realized I have tons of fun stuff to write about.

So as most know, I work in the mortgage industry. I've been in it for 6 years. Well, this time of the year (especially this year as you can probably imagine) has been extremely slow. For the past week I have had very little to keep me busy. I probably have had less than a hours worth of work a day. So at the first of last week I spent most of my time on Facebook or shopping online (rather looking at things to buy that I don't need or want) or reading celebrity gossip. Ugh!!! This is enough to drive anyone crazy! By mid week, I realized that shopping and reading celebrity gossip is the most useless, unfullfilling thing I could do and that it made me feel worse. So I started researching different workouts, I started reading the news and paying bills online...I started feeling slightly more productive...well, there's only so much of that a person can do too.

Let's just say that my life for 9 hours a day has been dang depressing. So friends and family, I have found my sanity. It comes in my dancing. Monday nights I teach a salsa class to about 20 beginners. It is a blast. I get to joke, laugh, dance, teach and have fun. I love to see the students 'get it' after struggling for a bit. I love making them laugh. I love their comments. It's great.
My poor boyfriend can attest that after work I am not much fun to be around, but after dance, I'm a whole new person. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have that creative outlet. That's all for now...

New to Blogging

I just love reading all my loved ones' blogs so I thought it was about time to start my own. I'm not sure where to begin or what to write about so....any suggestions are welcome. :)

I thought I'd open with a candid jam out picture. After all, my blog is entitled 'Dancing Days' after my love for dance and also after the famous Led Zeppelin song.