February, 2016 | Sunny Spirit

SpazDance: The Beginning

Many of you heard that tonight I just meandered around Target while I sipped my latte. I was chill, and it was a a good way to decompress. Toward the end, I stopped by the pharmacy to see if they had an old prescription. The cream for the redness in my face was on file, and they could prep it in 20 minutes.

So in all of my enjoyment of walking around with a latte, I decided to get another. If you weren’t aware of the math, one latte has two shots of espresso. By the time I got home, I was still in a calm state and focused, so I got some work done. Cool.

SpazDance About an hour after I got home, I went to Dancer’s Studio for their weekly dance party, which is now 90 minutes. When I had four shots of espresso, I was calm, and it was good, but dancing excites me:
Hello stimulation! Hello four shots of caffeine sitting on the back burner!

As always when I dance, I had fun!
I danced every single song. Period. In my spazzy umph, I made up moves…. and they worked!

When I dance, I dance to have fun and to make my partner smile, Which I did every dance!

So for the rest of tax season, forget going out, socializing. Forget finding a nice lady friend.
I don’t have time, anyways.

The period of my fabled dance breaks will begin once again!

Dancing begins at 1:20. It’s awesome if you’ve never seen it.

A special thanks goes out to Troy for being a good DJ, as always, to Christine and a million other ladies for being incredible follows, and especially to Christine Hardcastle: I had two private lessons per week with Christine back in the day. I asked her to make me a good lead. Christine had a method making my madness move magnificently, and she did exactly what I asked.
Nowadays, I’m able to lead ladies incredibly well. Even those who are newer to dancing end up doing incredible things when led right.

Point is, I love dancing and will do it more!

Why the Lid Up Is (sometimes) Good

It’s an age old male/female issue.

I’ll start by saying that I automatically lower the lid. It’s not a big deal. My mom trained everyone.

Before I get to my main point, I don’t like double standards. If I have to put the lid down, then so should you. You want me to close it either because you don’t want to look before you sit and you’ve fallen in, you don’t want to go through the work of lowering the lid, or you don’t want to see how nasty the toilet is.

Since the first two are just from refusal to learn or laziness, respectively, in going to assume it’s because women are ladies and want everything to be prim and proper.

That’s fine. If you want the bathroom to look nicer, then lower the top lid too. I don’t want to look in the toilet bowl unless I’m using it. So on your high value of aesthetics, close the lid! It’s a double standard that bugs me. My toilet is cleaned everyday someone comes over. Yours isn’t.

Point is, women are gross and have double sstandard. This double standard has always bugged me. I’m saying it now. Women, you’re wrong.

The Main Point

Aside from my tirade, I’ll assert that there is an appropriate situation to leave the lid up.

I do it only for the benefit of women. That sounds contra-women’s intuition, I know, but let me explain.

In public restrooms, I try to always remember to leave the lid up.

Public toilets, for whatever reason, have an opening between the left and right side of the sitting lid. I leave it up because I know some little kid (or let’s face it, some man-child) is going to think, “Wow! An opening just for me,” and will think he can aim. Let’s face it, he can’t. So he ends up messing up the seat.

So I leave the seat up in public, unisex restrooms so ladies don’t have to sit on lids that, unbeknownst to them, is caked with dry urine (hover much?).

Yeah, I leave the lid up (sometimes) because I’m considerate. Your welcome.

Prefect Late Night Snack

Maybe it’s my perpetually yearning sweet tooth.

Maybe it’s bad habit formed as a child from often having “ice cream before bed.”

Maybe late at night, my tummy has a grumble that makes Winnie the Pooh’s seem mute.

Whatever the reason, I love to have a snack late at night.

I’ve tried fruit, but I need the base to settle m my stomach.

Mikky does fine, but there’s still the sweet tooth.

The best thing, obviously, is a hot fudge sundae with Oreos some since delicious s’mores flavor of the day custard.

But being a man of health, longevity, and other awesome traits, I need a healthier solution!

IMG_20160210_233213587~2 — Bad pic but w/e

Therefore, for there last couple weeks, I’ve been having a chocolate protein shake at the end of the night.

It’s healthy, delicious, and fulfills my food cravings.

So BOOM!

A healthy tax season or going well thus far!

Tasty Salad Plus

I love to have a tasty salad (plus other toppings) that I can just grab in the fridge as I run out the door (yes, after I put some fresh toppings on our, etc.).

But what makes a salad great is its toppings. So I take

a fresh red pepper and have it ready to go.

Chop it up in slices, then cut those in half, and they’re about 4″ – perfect to add some flavor variety to your salad. They go well with many dressings, including french or even dabs of bbq sauce.

This is not the mostenvironmentally friendly thing I do (very small containers would work well, like large pill capsules), buy I put groups of five or six mini sliced of pepper into a small bag.

Then I put the small bags into a larger freezer bag and put it in my freezer. Whenever I want a salad with Red peppers,I just grab a bag of peppers from the freezer, a bowl of salad from the fridge, and run out the door.

If it’s summer, the peppers will actually keep the rest of the salad at a good temperature.