One Week.

      What a crazy week.  I had no clue that so many feelings could happen in a matter of days. Feeling happy, upset, exhausted, in physical pain, excited, and overall SUPER ahhhhmazing!!!  

The highlight of the week for me has been America's Suitehearts/The Mime Dance.  It is the choreography I am most proud of.  I cannot believe that what I saw to the music in my head translated perfectly to the dancers.  I have been given so much love for this combo that I am encouraged and inspired enough for this entire year and dance season.  It is truly going to be a year for the record books at The Dance Warehouse.  We have so many new people and the old people are back with a good attitude and everyone is ready to work!  

Today is going to be a day for the record books in my life!  Last day of Bootcamp so I get to stretch the dancer's technique!  Today we are doing a traditional ballet warm up and then working on turns, leaps, and tricks.  Amazing!  Cannot wait for this :)  Then...all the dancers will perform all the combos they worked on throughout the week.  I cannot wait to see the Mime dance over and over again!!!!  (I am videoing it today and will upload it to a new blog with a blog devoted entirely to the dance!)  

Then Jordan, Allison, Mama, and I are jumping in the car and headed to Atlanta for the concert of my life!!!!  THE CAB :)  I am beyond excited.  The concert will also have it's own personal blog.  Haha.  We are staying in Atlanta and having a beautiful day in the city before heading back to the real world of SC.  

PS- I bought a new perfume.  I am the type of person that gets one scent and sticks with it until there is a change in my life.  Middle school: one scent. High School: one scent. NOW: a new scent!!!!! SOOOOOOOO excited about Tous in Heaven.  I even love the name.  I also got a really great purse/suitcase.  LOVE is spending money to reward yourself for a great week at work!!!

LOVE YOU GUYS THAT READ THIS!

Big love.

Caro.

Exhaustion.

i am relatively certain that i have not been this tired in at least a year.  holy moley.  super hyper + 5 hours of dance = caro is one tired girl.  i crashed right around 7:30.  dead.  like couldn't move, at all.  cannot believe i am still awake but for some reason, right at 11 every night i start waking up...

very weird.

so, i haven't been on here in a while but we finally have wireless again so now i will be able to post much, much more.  anyways...

day 1 of bootcamp: the juniors KILLED the shrek musical theatre combo!  i mean, it was great.  they had so much fun and were soooo into it :)  the seniors were not quite as pumped, but they will be feeling the combo for the next two days!  the juniors are doing a combo from HSM3, the prom song.  the seniors piece is going to be amazing.  art. a story. love. anger.  it's going to be beautifully chaotic and schizophrenic.  MIMES.  that's all i have to say.  PUMPED.  for real.  

i am very excited because:

1) i just bought a bracelet that says "DAZZLE" and that is just what i plan to do.  so excited to have a reminder :)

2) mime dance tomorrow...hello DUH.

3) THE CAB THURSDAYYYYYY!!!!!!  ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

4) found a beautiful Ed Hardy scarf that i want to make mine.  i don't have any silk scarves that i rotate between.  i want some.  i saw a beautiful blue one with an ocean theme with koy fish.  i am not a big fan of Ed Hardy but when i find pieces that are not so gaudy and look good, i buy them.  it will be mine.  i will probably wear it to see the cab.  just saying.  gotta look good.

there hasn't been anything really great to talk about the last few days, nothing in the personal journal....

i definitely want to write forever and ever but i am losing steam fast and i do not want to fall asleep on you lovely people.

big love.

caro.

Teaching dance!

...totally makes my life better :)  i adore it and i get to do it all next week and then the entire school year!!!  my first team that is all my own........gonna be amazing!!!!

more to come.

big love.

-caro.

All it takes is two words...

    ...to make my day.  Make my week.  Quite possibly make my year, if i wasn't going to see you in concert in less than two weeks.  Today, something amazing happened to me.  Alex DeLeon, @symphnysldr, the lead singer of my favorite band and one of my biggest musical inspirations responded to me on Twitter.  Greatest. Moment. Ever.  

    I never realized how powerful a response from someone i look up to (and view as untouchable) could be.  I want to be that for someone one day.  I kind of needed a kick start to a new lifestyle, one in which a better...no the BEST version of myself is prevalent.  I will now let my creativity guide me.  I will no longer let being afraid be a valid excuse.  Like this stupid, poorly done zebra print manicure.  Who cares that it doesn't look like i expected it to?  SO WHAT???  I did it and now i know not to do it again, especially for The Cab in ATL.  Time to learn from mistakes.  Time to break out and break free.  Time to let laughter reign.  It's time to be me.  No one else.  I feel like i say this to myself all the time.  But i also said a lot of things would never happen to me.  I would never have the dream career that i love.  I would never be on stage in front of millions of people.  I would never lose a bunch of weight.  I would never have a great relationship.  I would never have fun in any situation.  I would never meet The Cab.  Alex DeLeon would never reply to me on Twitter...

   Well, if that one can happen, then why can't all of them?  And ones that i have yet to dream of.  Who knows what i am keeping myself from?????  

    Well, i fully intend to find out.  And soon.  

Saturday, July 18th, is officially the beginning of Super Caro.  Everybody look out.  I am coming for you!

Big Love.

Caro.

Just another day in paradise...

   So, i am super pumped that i get to go home to my own bed tomorrow :)  i have such a great time on vacation, even though i haven't been able to get online very much.  a lot has been happening over the past week...

1) i got a good tan.  *goal numero uno for this vacation has been accomplished.  sweet!!!

2) my obsession over the cab has only grown.  *this band is AMAZING.  i listen to them every single day.  i am listening to them as i type.  they are inspirational ANDDDD regular guys.  i want to meet them...stat.  also, i want to make music.  this week i have decided that i want to start mastering the piano again.  maybe even learn how to do something on that guitar i got for my 12th birthday and then just moved it around my room.  i want to make music, for myself.  i have an amazing outlet for creativity with my choreography but now i feel like i need another one since i am no longer just choreographing what i want...i am more in demand (definitely a good thing!!!) but i need a place to get out the frustrations from the dancing.  haha.  i am such a complicated creature.

3) LIFE GOAL NO. 674= accomplished!!!!  *ever since i saw my first pair of manolo's on sex and the city i knew one day...if i was a very good girl, i would have a pair of italian designer shoes.  and they wouldn't be plain, black shoes that i could wear everyday.  NO.  they would be so fabulous that i would have to CREATE special occasions to wear them, making them THAT much more special.  well, yesterday this goal was nailed down.  i got a pair of $545 shoes.  yep.  (they were heavily discounted but i will not be disclosing all the details on the internets.  i have to keep some dignity about myself. haha.)  they are gold, alligator skin stilletos.  they have a beautiful fleur de lis embellishment on each heel.  i have never loved a pair of shoes more.  i am pretty sure they are actually considered art, not shoes.  i. am. in. love.

4) i met a cute canadian.  *my hope was that the canadians i would meet first would be taylor kitsch and ryan reynolds.  oh well.  i met a canadian named mike who got 1st runner up in a knock out, blow down hip hop battle.  he is quite short and a very talented dancer.  maybe these two traits can balance each other out.  maybe.  i mean he is from canadia...(yes, i call it canadia.  i do this because it makes people laugh.  until people stop laughing at this, i will continue to say it.  simple fact=i am a sucker for a laugh.  it's like a natural high.  i LOVE when people laugh with/at/around/because of/in relation to me.)  

5) i teach dance to some amazing girls.  *today has validated one thing for me.  i have the support of some great girls and their mothers.  being on a team one year and then helping run it the next sounded like a very slippery slope to me but it has turned out amazing.  i love the girls i teach and cannot wait to make them some kick butt dancers.  i love hanging out with them.  i love laughing with them.  i love the memories we are making.  i cherish the times i get to have with them.  i am so lucky that they let me use them as canvases.  

6) i am tired of holding back.  *why should i settle for being anything less than the absolute BEST version of myself that can exist?  creative side will now be the dominant side.  the end.

Big love.

Caro.