Take Two for Tuesday

Now that I have two beginner ballet/ballet 1 classes to embarrass myself in - I have two times the opportunity to really humiliate myself. 

You would think one beginner ballet class and ballet fundamentals (i.e. people that don't know a plie from french fry) would be enough - but NOOOOO!! I need to be an overachiever and increase the likelihood that I will either be maimed by some super skinny amazon chick or crippled due to my own ineptitude :) - what's that saying: Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity: And I'm not sure about the universe - I think that's Einstein....

So I'm in class on Tuesday night and there are at least three unfamiliar faces, but that's ok because they are wearing ballerina clothing - aka that hideous ass flesh tone tight - barf! There are 8 of us in class and again - the men are missing, but I'm cool with that. The men are in the other classes for sure. MDB has been rockin the black tights - I think from day one...I'll definitely report if she loses her fashion sense, though :^)

Anyway, MDB does a repeat of Monday nights class (kinda) but starts throwing in cat references like:

Keep your back leg (in arabesque?) straight - like a cat's tail when it gets mad. That must be somebody else's cat...when Baby (my silver gray, green eyed maine coon) gets mad - he disappears to shit on something!!

Side Bar: I just KNOW MDB ISN'T SUGGESTING I CRAP AT THE BARRE! 

Menty: There will be no shitting at the barre - even if that's what she meant.

She was also making references to cat paws - but I missed that whole connection - I think Side Bar and Menty were going and I missed the association. But I'm sure she wasn't talking about holding onto the barre - because that's more like DEATH GRIP! 

So she whips out the alternating of the front foot, back foot thing again for most of the combos -which NOW I can get a little bit better because I've seen it once before. But what I don't see is that scary piece of notebook paper, so when MDB starts forgetting barre combinations - I SHUT THE HELL UP - hoping she will forget some of the harder stuff. Well, I need to kick ethereal ass because she remembered most of it anyway.

I did OK, but again at the end of class someone suggested I take the jazz class and MDB encouraged me again (ACK!). She's so cute - she said she didn't want to lose me - LOL! I did not just invest in 2 classes a week (now 3) for the last four months to drop it for Jazz class.  I may never get on pointe, but MDB is going to have to WORK ME A LOT HARDER to make me drop ballet class. Unless she really does start working with Mr. Heinz - he's great to look at, but his class is HARD AS HELL.  And it's about time I visit the devil for some humiliation and embarrassment too.