The return of the list

I want to end my procrastination streak concerning, namely, the house, so I give you...a to-do list:

1)   wash a load of laundry
2)   fold and put away yesterday's laundry
3)   do yoga
4)   clean the bathroom
5)   clean the kitchen THANK YOU, mana_trini for doing this! You are the bestest wubs in the world!
6)   finish packing the books and odds and ends on the living room bookshelf 
7)   practice belly dance choreography for at least 30 minutes with one of my DVDs*
8)   Go to belly dance class On my way out the door now...
9)   watch the finale of Nouvelle Star
10) wax my dreads <--This will have to wait until tomorrow evening

Ugh, that's a lot, and I didn't even mention writing or the floors.... *doesn't want to think about the floors!* Looks like I better get busy.

____________________
* I'm terribly saddened to say that the wonderful plan I had to keep me motivated and exercising this summer when my classes will be on hiatus has sadly been punctured, robbing me of that external drive I so sorely need to keep me achieving. So what was the plan? My belly dance teacher is leaving this year, and to my knowledge, there is no other qualified teacher to take over the classes. Rather than let the class lapse (and deprive me of an activity), I had secretly decided to work really hard over the summer in order to lead the class next year and planned to come forward if no one was found to do it. I'm not a teacher and I'm not an advanced dancer, but I am more experienced than the other ladies. However, last week, while waiting on the teacher, another of the students told me she had the same idea and she plans on taking over the class. I'm not sad about not being the teacher, but I'm gutted that my motivation to keep working and perfecting dances has just vanished. *poof* 

ETA: Seeing the number of times I used a variant of "sad" in that paragraph, I guess I am a bit...um, sad about the whole thing. :P

It's been awhile since I've baaaa-ed

gakked from jodi_davis

"You know how sometimes people on your friend's list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? Since when???"

And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you *should* already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy mine below, erase my answers putting yours in their place then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration! One-word answers seldom help anyone out."

1. First Name: Miquela (M-short i-kay-la)

2. Age: 32, but only for a quarter more of a year

3. Location: Pamandzi, Mayotte

4. Occupation: As in the bringing home the bacon kind? Nope...

5. Partner: Julien

6. Kids: No

7. Brothers/Sisters: 1 younger brother, an older sister and a younger sister

8. Pets: Maxwell Soot, the quintessential aloof cat; Tiboy, the Dumbest Cat Ever; N'djema, aka "The Three-Legged Terror," thinks-she's-the-boss-of-everything cat

9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life:

a. Trying to be a published author *keeps Jodi's answer, but adds "but not very hard" just after "trying"*

b. Going to be moving house next month which means...

c. I need to get a job that pays. *sighs*

10) Where and for what did you go to school for? High school in NM, uni in TX -- to become a teacher. 

11) Parents? Undoubtedly, surely, supposedly, apparently...unless...unless I was just hatched. *does not discount the possibility*

12) Who are some of your closest friends? N, who is going to abandon me soon, and online buds, only one of whom I've ever met face to face. *waves at frigg*