Have I mentioned that I’m working four jobs starting in September?
Four.
Oh. Well, I am.
Clearly I’m a crazy person as the mayhem of four jobs just isn’t enough to cool my jets.
To be fair these are all part-time jobs, and more importantly, they’re jobs in my chosen field doing what I love to be doing. I may be supremely busy and making nothing more than mere pennies, but I’m very grateful and consider myself enormously lucky (most of the time) to have what I have.
Hey, nobody ever said making a living out of life in the theatre was going to be easy.
But it sure is fun.
Anyhow, that’s not the point. The point is that the blessing/curse of four jobs, a move from house to apartment, the responsibilities of marriage and maintaining a home, and the chaos of the seven different Google calendars needed to organize my activities evidently just isn’t enough.
Crazy, remember?
So to this endless list I am also adding two priorities all of my own. Two things that are just for me, because I love doing them. And though somehow working them in there may drive me off the deep end, they’re also a treat.
They are my two goals of fall.
1. I want to dance again.
I bet you didn’t know I can do the splits – left, right and center. Or that I danced in my college’s modern dance company and spent my wild and crazy college nights at the dance studio taking tap, jazz, ballet, and stretch and strengthen classes. Or that I own a full collection of leotards, dance tights, and dance shoes.
I’m not a natural born dancer, and I haven’t been dancing since diapers – far from it, in fact. And I certainly don’t claim to be a professional dancer by any means, but I can hold my own, and I’ve done my fair share of dancing, teaching and choreography for musicals. But most importantly, I love it. It makes me so incredibly happy. And you know what? I miss it. A lot. And though it may cost money that we don’t exactly have and take up valuable time that is in short supply, it is so worth it to me. So this fall I’m challenging myself to register for those dance classes and make it happen!
2. I want to love on the kitties.
Yes, kitty lovin’. As in, there are hundreds of cats across Cincinnati in shelters who are lonely, scared, abandoned, abused, and looking for their perfect family who could really use some love and affection. And then there’s me – a person who is unable to be that perfect family to a cat due to extenuating circumstance (but desperately wants to, make no mistake about that) who could really use some love and affection of her very own. It just works out.
When we lived in Michigan I spent my Monday afternoons volunteering at the local Lansing animal shelter. It was utterly therapeutic for me and the cats. They got the attention and affection they so obviously needed and deserved, and I was able to do something that I love, am hecka good at, and still participate in a good cause. Though the two Cincinnati area animal shelters are both really far away from where we live, and my time is in short supply, I think this is important for both my and the cats sanity and emotional health. And again, most importantly, I love it. It brings me the warm and fuzzies, make me a much nicer person to be around, and I can finally stop pestering Ted for a cat.
Win-win situation.
What are your goals of fall?
