I'm Too Fat to Dance

There are so, so many reasons that I shouldn't be dancing. Shall we list them?


1. I have plantar fasciitis in both feet. I've had surgery on both feet, one of which was only a few months ago. My feet hurt with every step I take. After I dance, I can hardly walk in the morning.
2. I'm pregnant. It makes me even more exhausted than it usually does!
3. I haven't seriously been a ballroom dancer in YEARS. Why do I keep thinking I can do this? I'm thirty! I'm old now!
4. I'm too darned fat. And being pregnant is only about 1/10 of it. The rest of it is ALL me, and ALL earned. Urg. Those poor kids. Trying to learn how to wiggle their hips when they can't even SEE mine! (not that my hips are small and cute and narrow, mind, but because there's not much differentiation between them and my waist!)


So yes, today was the first day of Ballroom Club at my school. I had about sixty kids there. We met in the cafeteria, and I gave them their contracts and their shoe orders, and we talked about the fact that they are going to have to get over the junior high "Yikes! Girls!" thing and touch each other. Then my old friend Torin came to help me demonstrate all 13 dances to the kids. We did this last year too. I was fat last year too, (though not as fat as this year) but I wasn't pregnant, and I hadn't had my surgery yet. So what the crap was I thinking? I am SO FRIGGIN' TIRED! All told it took about thirty minutes to get through them all. I had a few breaks, when I frantically handed to microphone over to kids from ballroom team last year and begged them to talk while Torin and I caught our breath!

Anyway, after the demo I taught them the basic cha-cha step, ending with letting them dance it a few times with a partner and then with music. Most of them did pretty good. So that's good. And now I'm so tired I could die. My feet ache and i know tomorrow morning is going to be bad when I get out of bed. Why, why, WHY do I do this? The kids love it so much and are so excited, and I had to turn away DROVES of girls who wanted to sign up after it was full. So I keep doing it. Thank goodness Aundi is going to come help me sometimes! How will I do this when I'm six months pregnant??? Well at least it will all be over after Christmas break.