Happy Rainy Tuesday! Don’t you just love this Chicago weather? When I was a kid, we’d be up to our knees in snow by now. Last night I fell asleep to a thunderstorm – and it hasn’t really stopped raining since! My kitchen floor is full of muddy pawprints from the dogs; who can keep…
DetailsFacebook is AMAZING…I’m still in awe of how quickly information is shared. And I’m still in awe of how much better everyone is at using it than I am! It’s time for me to enter 2013 the “right” way, though…drum roll please…. Presenting The Dance With Janet Facebook Fan Page! I’m moving towards using this…
DetailsBREAKING NEWS…NEWSFLASH…aka WHAT HAPPENED LAST SATURDAY ANYWAY?? For those of you who were at the Customer Appreciation Party at Cadillac Ranch this past Saturday, you were treated to quite a surprise, weren’t you? At 11 pm, the Cadillac Ranch Dance Team performed their debut dance, Catch My Breath (sung by Kelly Clarkson), in the dark, with glow…
DetailsYesterday I noticed the name on the soap I was using to wash my hands – Calming Hand Soap. Really? That’s how to get or stay calm? Use this SOAP? That’ll save me a lot of money on shrinks, I figured…good thing it’s purple soap. I’m sure to use it, and sure to be calmed.…
DetailsChocolate, cookies, and peppermint flavored egg nog..sigh, what a holiday season! Trouble is I now have to lie flat on the bed to zip up my jeans. Guess I’ll be back to Zumba Sue’s class after all! Or pole dancing class…or any kind of dancing class! (You knew that was coming.) Here’s hoping everyone’s celebrations were just as…
DetailsFor some of you, that may be an eye roller – after all, did we really break from work for the last two weeks? – but for me, I am sincere. Even though life didn’t stop over the holidays – FAR from it – I had two weeks off from classes, and I feel rejuvenated! …
DetailsCan you believe it? Only yesterday it was January 1st, 2012, and we had the whole year ahead of us – with 359 days till Christmas – surely a lifetime! Those 50 minute class periods of American History took FOUR lifetimes to pass by, so a year must certainly take forever. But here we are:…
DetailsIt’s here, in full force…The Christmas Rush…here for another 2 weeks. I’m hanging onto my cowboy hat; are you? Only yesterday I received this email from a friend. It froze me in my tracks, and it’s worth sharing…and pondering. *** Who Started Christmas? This morning I heard a story on the radio of a woman who was…
DetailsAnother week has begun and the heat is increasing regarding holiday preparations. Is your sister-in-law done shopping already, and she’s peacefully eating bon bons by the fire as she sweetly gazes at the wrapped presents beneath the tree? What a nauseating thought. The more I ponder that picture, the more like a failure I feel…
DetailsGood Morning; it’s another FANTASTIC day to be alive! As we prepare for the weekend, I encourage you yet again to pace yourselves and not let the season’s “busyness” get to you and overwhelm you. Yes, I am telling this to myself too…I can get very “freaked out” at this time of year, and you’d…
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