Firstly: Base coat...Check. Hang on...Gotta put on the first coat of color. (I'm feeling like maybe a nice mint green is going to be the winner tonight?)
Also super quick fun fact about me: I can't type lengthy things that require real thought when I have music playing from my iTunes library in my computer. I just had to switch to my iPod because for some reason I get so distracted when it's coming from the same place into which I'm supposed to be pouring my thoughts. Don't know...C'est la vie!
Okay, good deal. Feeling good about this nail painting go-around already. Now do NOT touch your nails, Michaela. Type until you think they're dry and then keep typing for two more minutes.
Sheesh. What a process.
ANYWAY, today was a big ballet day for me. Two of my very favorite ballet teachers were teaching today and I had two work-study classes left to use (ever...for the time being, at least) at Broadway Dance Center so I figured what better way to put them to use? (Please see Figure A below for a look at what the thought of $18 dance classes as opposed to $5 ones did to my face though. It wasn't pretty...)
Ballet class #1 with Jack Herzog was fantastic as usual. No matter how I'm dancing on any particular day I always leave his class feeling accomplished and happy. He's such a sweet man and gives a wonderful and challenging class, yet it's still an enjoyable 90 minutes. And today it was also a HOT 90 minutes. HOLY COW. Usually in ballet I can make it to about ronde-de-jambes at the barre before I really start sweating, but starting your daily sweat upon leaving your apartment in the morning really doesn't help your case, so you know you're going to be sweating buckets by the time the first side of pliés is finished. Five minutes into class. It ALSO didn't help that I had a nice, lengthy walk along Riverside Park before class, but the sun was out and the water was calling my name once again! I had no choice! But yes, class was really good actually...pirouettes were pretty much happening, so that's always a good thing! Grande allegro at the end of class was a fun one as well...It moved a lot and for once I wasn't lagging behind the music, which I know I tend to do during grande allegro, so class was seen through to the end as a success, I believe! And then I changed my shorts so I could go outside the studio for a bit and this was what happened when I took off the previously monochromatic grey bloomers:
Be right back...time for coat two!
Oh yes, this is a much better attempt than last night's. No comparison!
After ballet #1 I cooled down and enjoyed the afternoon jolt of caffeine at a Starbucks around the corner and did some reading. Pleasure reading! How nice is it to have that as a thing in life again?! My current book choice is "The Cranes Dance" by Meg Howrey. I highly recommend it to all who like ballet. If you don't you may not like it, but it's fiction and it's got a lot of humor and a lot of drama, so I still highly recommend it. Take it or leave it! Here's the thing about Starbucks though, especially in the city...Like, I totally understand that space is tight and there are far more people than square footage for retailers, but it's close to impossible to find seating. But I guess that's how you make friends! (Sharing tables and whatnot.) It's not the end of the world...It's just really tricky to find seating sometimes so it's always easy to complain about! Then back to BDC I went for ballet #2, but mostly I went back earlier than necessary because I had to charge my phone and the only outlet I could see was by the seat over there that was taken very quickly by that guy when those two people finally left, after about 5 fake-out departures. But again, not the end of the world. I had to start warming up again anyway.
Class #2, taught by the amazing Matthew Powell, was good as well, though it was definitely different; within the hour before class started I went to fill up my water bottle and on my way back down the hallway my left ankle starting having shooting pains every time I put pressure on it. This happens frequently so don't freak out or anything...Something was just out of place enough so that my body decided it needed let me know to take it a little easier. And I really had no choice because every time I went to plié or relevé I could feel it so I'd have to modify some things. I'm really only saying this because it's a prime example of how real it is that every time you step into the studio it's is a brand new experience. Three hours earlier I had not one kink in my body. This time around it took almost all of class to get that ankle cooperating with me again. Ahhh, but that's what keeps you aware and present and thinking! (But if it's an injury? Yeah, you may not want to think through that one so much as maybe thinking about getting on the RICE routine or whatever you need to do to get yourself better!)
Wait, let me check the nails...Yep, top coat ready. Hold one, please!
Well daggonit, I'd say we've done it! NOW...The Final Test. Can she make it until the top coat dries or will she lose it right at the end? We shall see! (Though I'm feeling good about it tonight, seeing as last night I think I had a fingerprint or two on a few of them by about halfway through painting the second coat of color. What can I say? Beauty's tough! ;))
And that was my day! Lots of ballet, lots of feeling good about the ballet that was done, and lots of sweat that really tuckered me out. I think that's why there are a few less smilies in this post. (As in I don't think I've used one yet? Weird! But honestly I think if I used more than one or two I'd be giving you reason to make inaccurate emotional inferences, because my heart is happy but my face is sleeeeeeepy. I think I've typed half of this with my eyes closed. Haha!) And friends, this nail painting/blogging tag-team thing is great! And I believe is really working out well! It's still too soon to tell and I will NOT give in and touch those minty nails yet, but methinks we've made it!
Well, I guess that means one thing. Nope, maybe three things.
1. It's the weekend! Happy, happy weekend to all! :)
2. I have painted nails sans chips and fingerprints!
3. I didn't do these earlier and now I have painted nails sans chips and fingerprints, so I guess now I'm waiting until tomorrow? ;)
(I know, I KNOWWWW...So gross. FIRST THING TOMORROW.)
By George, we've done it! Mission complete and crisis averted! Friends, we make a great team! My nails and I thank you sincerely! :)
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