no cake at ALL today. my, what self-control you have, miss smith. i did have a scoop of baskin robbins ice cream tonight, but it was sugar free and low fat. as usual, when push comes to shove, i don\u2019t get the superfat delicious ice cream and then am filled with regret later. but of course i\u2019d have been filled with regret if i HAD gotten the much more delicious, high fat ice cream, so really, i just can\u2019t win and maybe someday i\u2019ll just accept whatever decision i make in life.<\/p>\n
i\u2019m very tired. busy day working, then vigorous rehearsal, when we finally got around to dancing at about eight o\u2019clock. we did more work on the can of beans song; we dance the polka, and then the men have to LIFT us in the air. i get lifted three times in a row, by the same guy. i\u2019m happy that my randomly chosen partner is caleb, who is clearly the most sturdy and strong guy of the group. erica\u2019s partner is a guy who is so thin that his legs look like actual cartoon character stick legs; i\u2019m not sure how they support the rest of his body weight. he makes my dad look like a big fat cow, and if you know my dad, you\u2019ll realize this guy is seriously skinny.<\/p>\n
i apologized to caleb in advance for having to pick me up three times, but he said it would be no problem. “my second girlfriend,” he said, “weighed twice as much as you, and i picked her up all the time.” but did you have to throw her? i asked. “no, but i would have liked to, but that\u2019s another story,” he said, and then we polked away. i wondered what girlfriend he\u2019s up to now, and if she, too, weighs twice as much as me, and if he picks her up, also. i didn\u2019t get a chance to ask him, because we were much too busy with the continuous dancing and throwing.<\/p>\n
my ribs are going to be kind of bruised tomorrow, i think, from the many rehearsals of the picking up and throwing.<\/p>\n
when we do the lifting, i feel like i\u2019m a good four feet higher in the air than any of the other women. perhaps it\u2019s my imagination, but i don\u2019t think it is. it\u2019s kind of fun, being way up there, and who knows how high i\u2019ll get once we\u2019re out in the open air of new salem. far, far up in the sky i\u2019ll be. <\/p>\n
they spent a lot of time practicing a move near the end of the dance, whereby they pick up one girl (the youngest and smallest of us), and turn her upside down and she lands on her feet. it was pretty iffy there for a while, and i was thankful that nobody wanted to turn me upside down, but it might work. or they might drop her on her head, which would be very, very bad. she seemed to be quite calm about the whole thing, really. <\/p>\n
anyway, the dancing was a lot of fun, and we\u2019re going to dance more tomorrow night – we\u2019re going to finish the can of beans, and we\u2019re going to learn a can-can. a rousing way to end the week.<\/p>\n
whew. <\/p>\n
my personal goal for tomorrow is not to lose anything. i had some kind of bites on my arms, and B. (Beaumont) gave me some great anti-itch special cream, and i\u2019ve already lost it. it made me very crazy for a while, because he JUST GAVE IT TO ME, and i thought it was in my purse. maybe somebody stole it during rehearsal. no, i\u2019m sure that didn\u2019t happen. maybe i accidentally threw it away? maybe it fell in my car somewhere. i\u2019m always losing lip liners in my car; they\u2019re always the first things to fall out of my purse. i keep buying more of them, and now i have plenty of lip liners, plus there\u2019s always at least one lurking somewhere under a seat in the car.<\/p>\n
i also lost an earring, actually two different earrings today, but i found them. i noticed that i\u2019d somehow managed to put the TV remote in the bag that i carry around with me; is it any wonder that i lose things all the time, if i\u2019m also randomly putting things that should only be AT HOME into a bag and carrying it about? i somehow managed to get the remote home safely, thank goodness. I can\u2019t tell you where it might be at this particular moment, but i know it\u2019s in the house somewhere, plus i haven\u2019t been watching TV lately anyway, so it\u2019s not that important.<\/p>\n
the itch cream, however, that\u2019s a different story. i got home and thought maybe i\u2019d have another tube of it somewhere. i found a veritable pharmacy in my bathroom drawer. a cornucopia of drugs of all descriptions. i have many, many kinds of pills of all colors, and i bet that if i have some kind of pain, i could self-medicate myself with no problem. except for the itching; i have plenty of pills, but no creams. face cream. hand cream. eye cream. lots of creams like that, too many in fact, but no anti-itch cream.<\/p>\n
i\u2019d go out right now and look in the car again, except i was going to be ASLEEP twenty minutes ago, so i need to do that now. and maybe the itching will cure itself overnight anyway.<\/p>\n
ok then,<\/p>\n
grace who should have been asleep DAYS ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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