Wild Weekend!!

Have you ever had one of those weekends where it ended with you being completely exhausted but then you look over the weekend and realize that you actually spent a large majority of it sleeping?? Maybe I overslept and am just feeling groggy...kind of like when you take a nap in the middle of the day and wake up even more tired than you were when you decided to take your nap.

This weekend was...interesting. My roomies and I are pretty lame when it comes to being college students, like I've stated before, our typical Friday night involves eating carbs and watching movies, sometimes we decide to be a little adventurous and will pop open a bottle of wine. Outsiders don't really appreciate our spontaneity and can't understand why we don't actually act our age and frequent downtown on the weekends like normal college seniors. Once winter quarter started, we all promised to make an attempt at living just a little recklessly. I've got to say...two weeks in and I'm pretty proud of us. This weekend we got dressed up and hit the town, then we dusted off our cowboy boots to try something new out.

I'm an avid linedancer...if you don't know this about me...than you're probably a stranger. For the past 4 years, I've been going to the Grad for country night. I am by no means a pro-linedancer, but I appreciate and rise to the challenges that a good old fashioned boot-scoot-n-boogie presents. I went and kicked my heels up this weekend, but the other day I experienced something very new.
COW BRANDING....it's exactly what it sounds like but even worse! On Saturday, I accompanied one of my room mates to her family's annual Cow Branding. Believe it or not, this turned out to be a huge party with lots of food, lots of drank and lots of country. I LOVED IT!! The part I liked the least was the actual branding, which was accompanied with ear cropping and straight up cow-neutering. It was an interesting experience. After the branding, we moved the party over to a banquet hall where we added swing dancing to the equation. Now I love linedancing, but I think I'm going to cheat on linedancing with swing dancing whenever the opportunity presents itself! OH MY LORDY WAS IT FUN!! The spins and dips and flips...I felt like I had died and gone to BRY-HEAVEN. In the morning I thought I had just dreamt the entire thing up, but my stiff legs and sore arms allowed me to happily categorize it as reality.

If you haven't gone swing-dancing, you haven't lived!!! If you're one of those people who are under some delusion that rump-shakin at the club is real dancing, I challenge you to find a place to swing dance...and do it!! Or at least come linedancing with me, because that's a blast too :)


Completely off topic, but I'm gonna end with this. When I was at Yoga on Friday, the instructor said a few words of advice that sunk in a little.

"Sometimes the one thing you are trying to resist is the one thing you need to embrace"

I'm pretty sure she was referring to the pain we were all feeling whilst holding the "chair pose" for what felt like an eternity, but I sat in my imaginary chair contemplating that phrase, then kept contemplating that phrase throughout the rest of the session. Pretty thought provoking right?