Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
This is the strangest Christmas special ever aired, enjoy!
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frustrated
Saturday my team went to the Eastview Invitational to compete with everyone else and had an awesome time. They completed a huge task, beating two teams in jazz and they did great in kick. However, I am so tired of the way people look at my team. Most of the competitions are held at huge suburban schools with teams similar to a large bitchy army. They give our girls rude glances, get nervous when they're in line with them in the bathrooms and act surprised when they do well.
That's nothing new but what happened Saturday reached a new long. One of our girls brought her on and off girlfriend along, she wanted her to see what she does and meet the team. The team is totally cool with her and she got along with the alternates really well. The only issue is that this girl identifies as male, which my girls don't really think much of since she looks so masculine to begin with. A few dad's of the hosting school cornered me asking about the "boy" they've seen running around.
When I explained the situation they told me I was wrong and they were sending a few moms in to our dressing room to check it out. They caused a scene, left my girls asking questions that I didn't want to answer because why would I want to single this girl out even more? It's bad enough to have a "search party of concerned parents" after you.
I can't get over how rude these people were to me, to my team and the stigma surrounding city schools. Why would a coach bring a boy along to spend the day in the girls dressing rooms? That wouldn't happen, they would arrange with the school for their male dancer to be placed near the team and work it out somehow.
I'm happy both girls involved didn't seem to care about the chaos, at the same time I'm so upset they deal with this so often. It makes me want to protect them more when we leave our school and enter a place less accustomed to gender/sexuality differences.
Tis the Season
It's been so cold and snowy lately, two things I despise after the holidays are over but right now I can't help but fall in love with it... the snow, not the cold. For example, last week it hit me how much I love being downtown when it snows at night. After work, yes I finally grabbed some hours, I was greeted by gorgeous snowflakes and everything felt quiet. That day I was stuck parking on the top floor the garage, or as my fabulous co-worker calls it, "straight-up seven," and the view was perfect. There's nothing better than light snow, it blankets everything, twinkles better than christmas lights and reminds me to slow down. Like breathing in yoga, I never slow down during the day but at that moment I remembered to and I'm so glad I did.
In that spirit here are some things I love about Christmas decorating and "crazy claudia" who went too far.
Loves-
Christmas parties with friends
my college roommates
cooking and baking for my favorite people
white christmas lights
patina's yearly ornament collection
a full tree, real or fake
"holiday" drinks
excuses to dress up
sledding, ice skating, being outside and actin a fool
planning theme parties
claymation and cartoon specials
A note of dislikes-
Dear good people of the parkway,
I loved the "Let There Be Peace" block-long sign, however, you have got to get it together this year! I encourage you to remember you live in a medium traffic zone and your house is on display. Let's try to put those twinkling lights up well, if done at all. This is directed to you house with the yearly tossed (this is very much a literal description) single strand of lights on one very, very large tree.
A theme can be a great way to decorate but there is such a thing as overkill. There is no need for Rudolph to chill with Mary and Joseph while the angels talk trash with the elvs about Santa to a wasted snowman who is convinced he's jollier than thou. Please refer to the old school mannequin house, they had consistency regardless of how creepy the nativity scene looked during the day. Gingerbread home, it is true that I have a spot in my holiday heart for you but I can no longer handle Santa on the roof overlooking baby Jesus, lets pick one and go from there.
Now lights, I prefer white however multi-colored is perfectly fine. If you're going for a single color effect I'd suggest sticking to white. It's time to branch out and try something new, blueberry muffin house. Last year's replacement lights in purple among the yearly blue resembled pie filling more than Chanukah.
Those not on the parkway should also keep these guidelines in mind. This includes you next door neighbor. You are Jamaican me crazy with that swinging carrousel with windsock rudolph, santa and elf. Where did you find this mass produced item and why of all decoration possibilities did you choose this to be the addition to last years festive lighting?
Now for christmas tree collector ...
Back to Blogging
It's been awhile since I've written and unfortunately, I'll have more and more time to keep this blog up and running. My fun p.r. gig is now on a project-to-project basis and I'm back to searching for something a little more permanent. I really can't do anything that's not going to lead to a job with benefits and a steady salary.
On the up side this gives me more time to focus on the dance team, our upcoming dance show and maybe, finally, catch up on laundry... there may or may not be clothes in a very large hamper that haven't been touched since I graduated from college.
Since hearing the awesome news of my unpredictable vacay, I've had some interesting things happen.
5. I became obsessed with making a veggie-version of Tom Yum
4. I was asked on a date via facebook message
3. My 9th grade band director hit on me in the school copy room, then asked why I looked so familiar. After explaining the connection, he looked almost horrified and walked away mid-sentence.... I always knew he was a creep
2. I lost the ability to check my text/voice messages and lost the internet connection I always steal from and later figured out how to get them all back.
1. I woke up to find a very large paint chip in my hair. This did not match any of the walls in my house or the dance studio I've been spending all of my time in. I really have no idea how this paint chip found it's way to my hair but here is the photographic evidence.
hit the wall
Does anyone else get majorly tired between 2:00-4:30? It's a daily thing and no amount caffeine, handstands, jumping jacks, loud dance music or food can cure. We have a couch in our office and it looks soo comfortable. It's nap time.
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