Daily Archives: Thu, Jun 21, 2012

I Broke My Wrist

My best friend treated me to a weekend trip to New Mexico to cross some things off my bucket list as an early birthday gift and I brought home a lovely souvenir from Ruidoso New Mexico.

There’s no story to tell. I slipped and fell. It had been raining and the pavement was wet, and there was some funky stairs that should have had better markings to sow the edges of the steps. When I got to the ER, the doc knew exactly where I’d taken the fall because he had fallen at the same place.

Other than that it was a great trip. Which I can’t tell you about because I’m typing with one finger/handf.. Getting better at it. I’m learning to love left handed words. Those words that only use letters feom the left side of the keyboard.

ASlas there ARE not enough of thm.

I’m not going to correct the typing for the lazst bit so you dear readers can get a taste of how FUN my typing ids right now! *SIGH*

New Mexico

I saw

Carlsbad Caverns
Guadalupe Mounyains National Prk
Lots of desert
Ate at some very good restraunts
met some cool people
met some hunky park rangers oh my!
Roswell –geeked out serious schlock fest @ the UFO stuff
Roswell — saw a Rembrandt and a O’Keefe that I’d never seen before
White Sands — geeked out on nature and sweet talked a ranger into giving me a Junior Park ranger patch!
generally had a blast
Ate more good food
Went to two bars in El Paso, used my brand new conversation starter to make new friends

Whew!

Random thoughts

I’m on some serious drugs…pain relievers Oxycodone/Acetamnophin which keep me from screaming in pain but kinda mess witnh my whole cognative functiopns.
I’m unemployed and uninsurred. I have no idea how I’m going to pay for this. There is a Financial assistance dept at Baylor that I’m supposed to call tomorrow. And tell me again why universal coverage is a BAD idea?
Surgery is scheduled for Wed.
I shold get 100% 0f the function back which ids good cazuse I kinda need both hands to dance and type.
Gonna see how mucxh a voice typing program wcosts cause typing with onew hand sucks.
Do you kow how hard it is to shower with only 1 hand?
Did i mentioni got good drugs? 🙂
Got lots of pics I’ll load to Flickr
There is whole lot of nuthin. i MEAN A lot OF NOTHING AND MILES AND MILES OF IT IN New Mexico
Hmmmmm…
Dance is on hold while I’m stoned and can’t drive. AShem. Taking legal perscriptshuns for pain.
Should be back in the studio a couple days after surgery.

okay that’s enough for now, Hope you,ve had a few laughs. Hey if my broken wrist can bring joy to my dearest reader’s then all is not for naught.

ok, I coNfess. I didn’t slip and fall at a restaurant.

I was abducted by aliens. EWhen they probed me, they got a little carried away and didn/t put everything back together just right.

See ya on the ~~dance floor~~ uhmmm… doctor’s office.

unless the aliens come back to get me.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in 4-million-year-old cave (cbsnews.com)
Wildfires in Colorado, New Mexico Force… – ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
Hundreds flee Colorado and New Mexico mountain wildfires (thisislondon.co.uk)
Hundreds evacuated as US wildfires grow (newsinfo.inquirer.net)

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Easy Line Dances for Company Picnics, Weddings, Family Reunions, and Parties of all Kinds

Jun 21

Posted by Tony New (TxCowboyDancer)

New Post on Squidoo

What got me thinking of this topic was my most recent “gig” where I taught dances to a group of non-dancers. By “non-dancers” what I really mean is non-dance-nuts like myself.

Until recently, all of my dance teaching has been to fellow enthusiasts like myself. Fellow dance nuts in other words!

Which means that the dances I’ve been teaching wouldn’t work for this “new” type of student. So I did a little bit research and came up with five dances which are good for social settings like proms, parties, weddings etc.

And, since any bit of research I do now is a Squidoo article just begging to be written, I did just that: I wrote an article. Here is an excerpt from the introduction:

Dances for Anytime You Want People Who “Don’t Dance” to Get On the Floor and DANCE!

We have all been there: sitting at a party or social gathering with an empty dance floor, a DJ, and a group of people who we barely know, who have a huge range of musical tastes and an even wider range of dance skills. And nobody is dancing with anybody.

Then a miracle happens and the DJ fires up a line dance song and suddenly the floor fills up with dancers having fun. Line dancing…breaking the ice and filling dance floors since time immemorial!

Here are five, sure-fire, easy, well-known, line dances designed for the beginner dancer and/or the “non-dancer” that will get the party started and get folks “off their seats” and “on their feets!”

[Read the rest of the article…]

See ya on the dance floor!