But it was the perfect opportunity to share that time with a rottweiler in my lap, cat at the edge of the couch and my teammate in this life's journey in the chair next to me ringing in the new year by watching Despicable Me and laughing our butts off! Mark surprised me with it after a trip to the store to get groceries. If you have not seen this movie - GO WATCH IT. It will warm your heart and make you laugh for 90 minutes straight. It will remind you how important love and happiness is in life and if you're like me, you'll want your own team of minions -- ohhh wait, I've already got that. ;) I'm grateful.
With each new year, brings new beginnings. This weekend gave me the opportunity to think about that. I've never been one to make resolutions, but I would like to work on some things. I'm sure at some point or another, we all contemplate our life purpose and what is the meaning of life..yadi yadda stuff. I've always said the meaning of life is to be happy, although I often felt dark on the inside...and often used an array of excuses to stay unmotived. I'm working hard to improve all that and 2012 is going to be even better and discover all that I am meant to be.
I have read time and time again that to find your trueself, look no further than when you were a child - when you were pure and did not worry about judgement and before you had experiences that molded your thinking or made you insecure or were forced to conformed to society's way of being.
When I was a kid, the two things I liked the most was drawing and figure skating. I figured long ago that drawing and creating art is just a hobby to me, and that's the way I like it. I was an athlete.I was a powerhouse and strong figure skater. I was competitive and wanted to win. I felt alive while competing and performing. For some reason I let that fade away in me and had felt for nothing for years. I was an unmotivated person.....until I discovered the art of pole dancing for fitness. I took classes in Ottawa for about a year before moving to Thunder Bay. I was addicted. It reminded me of figure skating - the spinning, the strength required...the dance itself. It is a sport. It was something I got excited about for the first time in what felt like ages. When we got to Thunder Bay, there was no such studio....so I hadn't done any pole for months and lost a lot of strength and started to get unmotivated again. But look what I got for Christmas :)
My Very own X-Pole Sport. Thank you Ian for sending Christmas money and thank you Mark for encouraging me to finally get it! It was long time coming and I'm so friggin excited!! I want to get strong again. I am inspired to dance. I want to become to athlete that is in my blood, that I am meant to be.
PS. I also now know that Thunder Bay's first pole studio is opening up at the Centre of Change in a very short period of time!! Sign up people!! This is so exciting.
There's so much more I want to share about the new year to come --- so stay tuned!
In the mean time, please enjoy two of my favourite pole videos -- one from my favourite Pole dancer Oona and the other of a male pole dancer who is entering the scene. Both will blow your mind. If I can become a small bit as good as them, I will feel accomplished. ENJOY!
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