Journal 54 - 12 Countries Of Love

Journal 54

10-19-10

Got home at 4 AM. Right into the Shower. Whew!!

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Birthday Congratulations from 12 countries, and more than twice as many cities.

"You're loved all over the world." - Munky

I was SO touched!!!!!

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Lessons -- The usual mix of, "What is that?" 'Well, we haven't worked for 2 weeks, c'mon!' followed by, "Oooh… Good! Good girl!" once we start clearing up the, "They told you to do WHAT?!" [<-- In reference to technique, etc.] 'That's why I'm in Russia now!'

… I squeaked when Vitaly moved my hips when I wasn't expecting it. … He wasn't expecting the squeak… =o///o= I think it took him a good 5 minutes to stop laughing. XD

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Weekly meeting

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Roma was busy, and couldn't practice, and the meeting got over at a decent time, so I said, "Forget it [practice] - I'm going to take some time for ME, for once, and celebrate my birthday how I'm supposed to!!"

Grabbed Mulzoff and Meraz, and we had a nice little dinner at Hard Rock Café, with the three of us.

"If I were you, I'd be ordering everything I could!!" (Meraz, on saying I wasn't going to be allowed to pay today, so I should take advantage of it.)

Bought Mugs -- they finally had something I could buy! (Although, I couldn't use any of the balance on my card. =>_<= Franchise stuff, instead of being a "real" location.)

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Did go to practice for an hour, just to go over what I'd done with Vitaly in lessons earlier. SO full though. =>_<= Reminded me why I hate eating before dance.

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Hustle!!!!!

Timu - "When are we going to go out for dinner?"

Yura - "I've just bought some land in Moscow -- I'm going to build you a house, so you can stay here for always!"

Andrei was back! Brought me tons of chocolates, and two new CDs. (Unfortunately, some of the chocolates are chocolate covered cherries with cognac, and I can't eat that… I'm going to bring them to the teachers.)

Got to dance with Misha, too!

DJ who played the beautiful song I'd fallen in love with was there -- he not only remembered what song I was talking about, he played it for me all over again!!!!!!!

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Should have lessons tomorrow w/ Roma. Hooray!