Recap:

This weekend's Charm City Tribal bellydance show went off wonderfully! The house was sold out, the emceeing was fantastic, the CCT/Lilam ladies did an excellent job at organizing things, many of us did our first solos, and everything pretty much looked awesome.

Here is a link to everyone's dances: 2011 Bellydance Extravaganza. My solo is under the cut, for those of you who didn't get the friendslist sneak peek:

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I do believe that from here on out, I'm going to use "Sihaya" as a dance name. I've been hemming and hawwing about this for awhile now, and the more I think about it, the more I think that the me onstage is a persona. My public face. So I think I'm going to make an official switch soon.

Other than that, things I have been thinking about:

-- Jewelry. Update sometime next week. Wirework, some PMC, some resin.

-- I need to lose winter weight IMMEDIATELY.

-- Major decisions are about to be made at home. Jason is seriously considering taking a new job. I would even say he is leaning TOWARDS a new job, since his current job seems to be a "one step forward, two steps back" sort of thing any time he thinks he's making forward momentum. The job he's considering would be a blessing, financially, but possibly a setback in other ways. So it's in the air while he decides what's most important to him right now. If he does take the new job, there's a possibility for us to move closer to DC eventually, and I'm not very happy about that. But we'll see.

-- ALL YOUR CHOCOLATE ARE BELONG TO ME.

-- My state Senator, Bobby Zirkin, is awesome. He voted for marriage equality in MD and sent me a nice little letter about how he voted on all the proposed amendments to the bill. He's pretty great, and I'm thinking of volunteering on his next campaign.

-- IS IT SPRING YET? YOU GUYS, I NEED IT TO BE SPRING.