Butter for my Bread (say it fast... its rhythmic)

Much has happened in the past day or so... I'll try to be brief, but I know that's not my forte.

I slept in pretty late Tuesday, thanks to an exorbitantly long and late phone conversation with a certain unavailable, cute, feisty photographer (... who I am very happy being just friends with :p ). Then I proceeded to waste much of the day on my new acquisition Guitar Hero III. I know, I know... I've fallen victim to GH, but it's so much easier to jam with that than it is to find a group to play real music with.

I was inside so long yesterday that I felt a little sick when I left for Inga's, but I still had a good lesson/work out there (except for killer cramp I got in my side). Again the girl I work with said she was going to come, and again she did not. So far she's developing a flaky reputation with me. We shall see if she still want to practice some after our classes tomorrow. BUT, back to Inga's, my bota fogos are not as wrong as I thought the were. Last week she was leaving out the & (pelvic action) on purpose to emphasize the peeling of the foot. This week she came up to Aksel and I specificly and told us we should be putting the & in. So, I was still not rolling through the foot enough, so it's good that I focused on that for a week, but it was a relief to know that I wasn't way off. I feel like I got a lot of good work on my whisks last night too, really getting the pelvic action well. Hard to describe in words as I'm not at that level of understanding yet, but I could probably show it. I always end up partnering with the weird old ladies that are there. It's not fair, Aksel always seems to get some young girl who knows what she's doing. Last night I was with an older woman who kept making eyes at me the whole time. It was really awkward. The more she started to get into the samba action, the more loose she got, and more she was looking at me like a dirty little old woman. She wasn't that old though... reminded me of a librarian, but not the sexy librarian of fantasy. More like the mean librarian in elementary school who always shushes you.Overall it was a good lesson.

Afterwards I met Nick and Nicky at their place and we went to Sushi Blues for HALF PRICE SUSHI!!!! We didn't get as early as we should have, so we had to wait a while to get a table. Not really because there were a lot of people there, but the ones that were weren't leaving. They just sat around watching the Olympics. We got a table though and I pigged out! I ate three rolls all by myself! A rainbow roll, a santana maki, and an across the street carmen roll. I finished them all! We sat and watched the Gymnastics for a while too. I'm sure all those girls are way too young, but one is pretty hot, and she kept making mistakes. It was a bad day for her, but she can take solace in the fact that she's the hottest on the team (UPDATE - I checked and she's almost 21, so I can totally check her out and say she's hot). Really fun time, but it was midnight by the time we were done, so we had to scoot to get Nicky home so she could get up in time for work.

Then I woke up this morning in kind of a gloomy mood; it's a gloomy day. I watched some Olympic swimming and sat around in a haze of gloom. That all dissipated when I met up with Matt for lunch. We talked about everything ranging from the Olympics to Guitar Hero to what our old drummer's up to now and the conflict with Georgia and Russia. I felt in a much better mood after lunch, and I drove out to Jerry's Art-a-rama and got some canvases. They guy gave me like 50% discount since they didn't have the size I wanted.

So I might paint a little today, or maybe I'll play Guitar Hero for a bit, but I'm really looking forward to tonight when I'm going to watch Tropic Thunder! We'll see if it's worth the protesting...