SeaHeart

I just typed a very long, slightly melancholic explanation...but then was like EH, LET US MAKE IT SHORT AND SWEET, SHALL WE. So...

I'm so, so sorry to do this (How about let's chalk this up to third time's the charm?), but the Fable Tribe update won't be today--we're postponing it until Thursday during the day. And yes, come pixies with swords, hell or some VERY high water, the update is going to be that day. :D

*most determined and immovable smile in the universe* XD

<3

To those new on the Ye Olde Friends List, I'm an avid hula hooper (called "hoopers!"), and have been hooping for two years now. I'd always wanted to learn (I've been belly dancing since I was fifteen, and some of the hip movements are similar, and I thought hooping was such a beautiful art), so one day I was like I HAVE PUT THIS OFF FOR YEARS, and said "FUCK IT," bought myself some rubber tubing, made my own hoops and taught myself. :P THIS EXPLAINS A LOT ABOUT ME.

For having been doing it for two years, I'm still kind of crap at the more complicated tricks...add to that that I can't hoop over the winter (there's no place indoors around here where I can haul out my hoops and have at it), so I get rusty, and every spring, I have to re-learn what I learned last fall...so it's slow going. But, to be honest, it doesn't really matter to me how many tricks I know. I get such fucking joy from hooping, which is really the only thing that matters~ :) <3

Hooping, just like belly dance, is a completely spiritual action for me. When I'm spinning the hoop around me, there's this knowledge that the world is spinning, that life is spinning, that everything is a circle and never-ending. I really, really missed it over the winter, and I'm so grateful to be able to pick up the hoops and dive right back into it. <3

I hooped quite a bit today, trying to un-rust some of my tricks. Some of them were super easy to fall back into, but some of the newer ones that I JUST mastered last fall are now MISERABLE FAILURES. :P We'll see if they come back quickly. A somewhat easier trick, the Corkscrew was my EPIC ACHIEVEMENT of last year (IT IS HARDER THAN IT LOOKS), but it's been coming back rustily, which I am like THAT WAS HARD WON, C'MON, BODY, PLEASE REMEMBER, whereas the "Teacher, Teacher!" (sticking one arm up when hooping around your neck and shoulders, then down, like you're raising your hand in class) trick, which is much harder, came back in one try. :P Of course.

Jenn came out just as the sun was setting and snapped some pictures of me~ <33333 So I thought I'd share a few! :) One of these days, maybe when I get the Corkscrew back, I'll get a video of me dancing, and you can see all of the CRAZY EXPRESSIONS I MAKE when I'm hooping. XD



( Like a record, baby~ )