Oh, The Glamourous Life!

Dear Constant Reader,

I spent some time on improvements to The Faerie Queene. One involved picking the brains of some amazingly talented friends. I’d call that a successful start. The other was picking some items up from the fabricator, which was a fail. Not a total fail, but I should have stuck to my guns and not let someone I thought knew better persuade me to go in a slightly different direction. Also, always do the math. Math doesn’t lie. I can fix the problem by *sigh* throwing more money at it.

I submitted one class proposal to BurlyCon, did my Challenge, and read a couple of chapters of Goddess of Love (Lili goes on a belated honeymoon).

Dear Constant Reader,

I spent a little time practicing one of my magic tricks for The Faerie Queene.

In the evening Scratch and I went to B.A.B.E. for the first session of Burlesque Your Way. I’m always so delighted to teach this class and see what fabulous things the students come up with. We have a great mix this time: 3 students who took the Mystery Box class (one of whom has also taken Your Way before), one of The Expositionettes, 2 brand-new Intro grads, and Pearl, our apprentice. I can’t wait to see how things evolve from this first class.

After getting home from class and mucking around on the computer, doing some iTunes management, I was going to just go to bed. Scratch reminded me I hadn’t done my Challenge and I crankily dragged my ass off to do that. That’s 6 days in a row. I seemed to remember that you need to do something for 3 weeks to make it a habit.

And then I fell asleep reading Goddess of Love

Dear Constant Reader,

I have absolutely nothing interesting to report. B.A.B.E. admin, Challenge, book. That’s it.

Dear Constant Reader,

Sunday is BeauTease rehearsal day. We all did our Challenge together, which still sucks, but at least we all shared the suckage. I did a little B.A.B.E. admin and ran The Faerie Queene. So rusty. I’m overthinking parts of it and I’ve got to just practice, practice, practice.

Dear Constant Reader,

Not much today. I did do my Challenge (and went to the gym; does that count?) and I did read a couple of chapters of Goddess of Love, but much of the day was consumed with my taxes, the most time-consuming portion of which was for B.A.B.E.

Dear Constant Reader,

I did the usual Friday things — posted a Friday Tip and send a newsletter to B.A.B.E. students. I also did the BeauTease Challenge and read couple of chapters of Goddess of Love.

I spent some time working on improvements to The Faerie Queene. They both rely on other people, so this was just getting things rolling.

Dear Constant Reader,

Today was relatively quiet. Did some B.A.B.E. work and read a couple of chapters of Goddess of Love.

I also spent half an hour working on the Challenge we discussed at rehearsal on Wednesday. It sucked. The goal is to do it every day and one assumes it will eventually suck less. Maybe I’ll even get better someday.

Dear Constant Reader,

Wednesday is BeauTease rehearsal day. We decided to set a challenge for ourselves. We’ll see how we do in a month. I’ll tell you what it was at that time.

I spent much of the time with Brigitte running through Pearl’s Spotify, trying to find music for my nascent act. We did find a contender, but I’m still looking. Also I scraped more silicon off the tub and measured the ends for curtains.

On the B.A.B.E. admin front, I made sure the party favors were all set for this weekend’s Burly-Q Parties and paired up all the newly-cleaned loaner gloves and put them away.

I closed out the evening with my now customary reading.

Dear Constant Reader,

I was going to give myself a pass for the day because I had some (minor) dental work done and even a small amount of novocaine renders me feeling cruddy for hours. However, I wrote a blog post before the appointment.

Later in the evening I was feeling better and practiced some slight of hand for The Faerie Queene.

I only managed to read one chapter of Goddess of Love (the Montreal years) before falling asleep.