The Calm of Being Home

Because of various scheduling reasons, I had a second lesson this afternoon rather than earlier in the week. There is something about getting back from that and then realizing that I don’t have to go back out for any reason. Even though I only left the house for the lesson, there is still a sense of calm I get from knowing I can be done for the day.

Maybe the winter just turns up the introvert in me to 11. I said before that it just feels wrong to go out when it is cold and dark. Of course, I’ve done it for every year since I started taking lessons so I’m not entirely sure why it feels so different now. It just does.

We did get some snow last night. Only about an inch which doesn’t sound like much except when you have a rather long driveway that goes uphill. Then it is a lot of snow to be moved. The leaf blower was less effective with the heavier amount but it still helped. The good news is that I met my exercise goal and step count because of the time spent clearing the driveway.

Would not recommend a dance lesson after shoveling like that though. At least at my age. I can push a lot of the snow but it still makes demands on my shoulders which I feel when trying to hold my frame for dances like Waltz and Fox Trot which just so happened to be the ones we were working on today. 

Got signed up for a coaching lesson next week. At first, I was kind of ignoring it just because I’ve done a lot of coaching recently and so I wasn’t going to push for it. But there was one slot left and it is during the day and we can work with the coach to start choreography on our next routine so I signed up. That will give me three lessons next week as we continue to work back towards where I was before the calf decided to act up. 

There is an in studio event coming up in a few short weeks. Not that crazy about this one although there are ones that are worse. Just something a little odd about getting out the fancy clothes in the middle of a Saturday afternoon. Still it will give us an opportunity to run through most of the dances we do and get some feedback – something that didn’t happen at the last Showcase.

Also have a couple of other appointments in a few weeks so the next two weeks will have busy days but mostly free nights. Just what I want right now.