overdue.

Sleep should be happening, but my mind is really busy tonight with thoughts of conference and pageants and frustrations.  Sleep will happen eventually, but what I wish I could do right now is go dance.

Cliched as it may be, a partially dark room, and a gorgeous piece of music, and the freedom to just move is such a phenomenal way to relieve stress and work through the various problems and situations that arise.  Someday I'm going to have to stop dancing - sad, but true - and I will miss it.  For now, however, I'm insanely lucky.

My dance partner is a saint.  Anytime someone asks who I'm dancing with, and I say Mike McShinsky, I add, "Yeah - I know... I SCORED".

So Michael, thanks for dancing with me.  I'm a bit of a trial to dance with because I'm a workaholic who has insane hours, so practicing can get complicated, but I feel so privileged to dance with you.  We've competed once, and performed at the teen pageant last night, and things are still really rough, but I cannot wait to see where our hard work takes us.

And Mayo - we will make you proud. Promise!