Thoughts

Weekends always leave me refreshed and ready to tackle the next week. It will be crazy at work, what with us getting out final payments to docs, but each Monday despite being sleepy first thing in the morning I tend to have a "bring it" kind of attitude at the office.

The paper clip movie definitely got me thinking yesterday. Something pops up that serves to remind me of my own issues from time to time. Also, sometimes its easy to get caught up in the noise and forget about what really should matter in one's life. In 2006 I want to continue to focus on doing that, just in a more organized and relaxed way than I did in 2005. I tend to have a lot of thoughts in my head or goals I want to tackle RIGHT NOW, and that's just not feasible.

Exercise

I finally checked out the Jazz/Bellydance fusion DVD from Suhaila Salimpour. I did enjoy it and may consider buying it. A few comments on the experience:

-This is supposed to be a beginner workout? I found both the bellydance and jazz to be things beginners may have a hard time picking up.
-A ballet background would be helpful too. She references a lot of ballet moves (aka in French), though does them in parallel, like as you would in jazz (jazz is based on ballet, turned parallel or in ala Fosse).
-There were 2 fast routines. Not bad (and I didn't have problems picking them up).
-Such neat stuff! It showed that I need a lot of work on layering bellydance moves while moving around the floor (I don't seem to have problems layering diff moves in the body if I'm in one place - dancing around, that's another story!)

Here's the URL:
http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?movieid=70020604&mqso=60186664&trkid=129129