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Hi everyone! Thank you so much for continuing to make this Chicagoland Ballroom Dance blog the best it can be! While I don't dance anymore, I do keep the links active on this blog. The best news is, I'm still blogging! Please follow my new adventures at This Single Serving Life ! You can also join me on Facebook as Single Serving Life and on Twitter @singleservelife ! I can't wait to continue to share life's journeys with you! Keep dancing my friends, Happy Dancing, Happy... Read Full Story

Who said "If you can't find it...create it?" I don't know, and I don't feel like using my friend Google to find out if that's a real quote or not. Well it's real, cuz if no one else said it... I just did. Hi out there in Ballroom land! I miss you! God, I miss dancing like I'd miss my right arm! But... onward I trudge into the new and exciting! I know what you're thinking.... Well if she's writing she must be dancing...she said she'd come back once she started dancing again! Well... yes I... Read Full Story

I have to rather unceremoniously close this blog. I will leave everything up for anyone to read as I whole heartedly believe in EVERY WORD WRITTEN and know that the stories within still so serve their purpose. It's not that I don't love you, love dance, or anything in between. I just need my life to not be focused on Ballroom 100% of the time. If I wrote about anything other than my dancing and the way I was feeling with it I felt as though I would be betraying the path I had set out with... Read Full Story

Have you ever sat at your personal computer after work and just went ..... ? That was me last week. Not only did I go ..... but I didn't even get to sit at my computer once I got home from the office. The very thought of turning it on was dreadful. I just needed a break from technology. My job, I am a remote corporate trainer, consists of my sitting at a computer all day, I actually have to work in and plan opportunities to leave my cube, and some weeks it's very intense and busy and mentally... Read Full Story

Hi Kids! I haven't abandoned you! I moved back into my apartment on April 1st! I cannot tell you what it feels like to have a home. I don't think you really know what it's like until you don't have one. It's wonderful! I'm nearly organized, and doing a very good job at maintaining it. The kittens are happy as clams. The drama is ALMOST over! I'll get to that in a second... First let me tell you about my move... I probably had the most number of people involved of any really small move ever... Read Full Story

I do... you do too. Music too while we're at it thank you. Monday was pretty ok as far as days go, I got all my daily goals accomplished and then a few more. So that was good, I was still very tired from the weekend so I had to head to bed early. Tuesday was all about focusing on having my dance lesson. I made it through work, and got up to the studio as fast as I could! Unfortunately my current favorite jazz shoes had been left behind. My dance shoes usually live in the car so I never... Read Full Story

Hi all! This weekend was very hectic, but mostly fun which is nice. It was one of those weekends where you get to Monday and you think Good Lord, I need a weekend to recover from my weekend! First up was Saturday's Fred Astiare Regional Competition at the Crowne Plaza O'Hare. I was running so late! I didn't arrive until around 11:30am, the Pro/Am portion of the day had begun at 10. (Here's the thing about waking up late, as I get back into working out, that will be much harder to do as I... Read Full Story

Hi All! With everything that's been happening personally I feel that I have not payed due attention to the Global Community. No doubt you all have heard about the Earthquake/Tsunami tragedy in Japan, and now Burma and Thailand. This is just the latest in a string of man made and natural disasters that are pummeling the globe. In an effort to help those less fortunate than ourselves. I am donating all proceeds made at my online shop Ballroom Is Life to the American Red Cross to help with... Read Full Story

Whew... one major hurdle covered! Today I was able to finalize my move in date and ensure that I am in the hotel until my move in date.... so for the time being I can rest easy. Oh goodness do I feel a million times better! I was very tired today though, the not sleeping took it's toll for sure. However I had a lesson to get to tonight, and there was no way I was going to miss it. Dancing has proven time and again in the past to make me feel on top of the world even when I'm at my lowest. So... Read Full Story

Well I can't say that today was any better than yesterday.  In fact in many ways it was unfortunately worse. I'm in near full panic mode... or I was at least for a good portion of the day. I even had a meeting with my manager, where I actually started crying. Yep, me, who tries to not cry at all if I can help it and definately not in public boo hooed in a meeting at my place of work. It was mid afternoon as I attempted to continue to focus on my work and use it as a distraction from my... Read Full Story