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I have been Bellydancing and teaching for years. I love choreography and have created many dances, but I also love improvisation. I recently took some Persian dance classes and they were a lot of fun! There are so many styles of Middle Eastern Dance and I am just starting to scratch the surface. I have been a martial artist for many years, Kung Fu and Tie Chi. I am working on becoming a Tie Chi instructor. I have been a dancer since I was three and I hope to be till the end. One of the saddest thing in the world is not being able to dance!

I have been a member of the SCA on and off for a very long time. I took on the office of Seneschal for the Shire of Rivenwood Tower almost three years ago. We seem to be doing well. Lupercalia has come and gone again and it went very well. We are just starting to plan the 2008 Lupercalia and I will be making lunch this year as well as teaching a few classes. Glad I won't be Seneschal and doing all of this. We have many new members and I am happy to say one of them will take over for me at the end of the year. I am pretty happy about it. I understand now why they suggest only staying in office for two years. It would be one thing if it were a job but as it is just for for I think 3 years is about as far as I am willing to go.

I am a founding member of the Sun/Moon Bellydance Troop. I am the only main member now. I had one of my students dance with me at the Rainbows of the Dessert Show and it went well. Unfort. she has moved away, such is the life of a student. Sadly I danced at the Guild show on my own this year but it was fun. I also ended up dancing at the Cornstalk Festival. Boy that was great. I saw one of my old troop members and that was a lot of fun. I am looking forward to some more but I will have to see what the new year brings. I have many more pictures on www.sunmoonbellydance.com and hope to add more soon.

I love to read books, dance, play computer games, do graphics work on the computer, make web pages, photography, belly dance, SCA Dance, playing the drum and the harp, watch a bit of TV here and there and movies of course, Henna Tattoos, fabric dying and painting, costume and garb making, weaving, glass bead making. I just planted a few henna plants. Have to see how I do in Minnesota. We also just planted a new apple tree called Freedom. I can't wait for the Apples even though it will take a long time. I also planted asparagus and I don't know how long that will take to produce. I am excited to say I finally have peppers this year. I never really had any of an edible size but since we have removed the tree that shaded the garden things are going better. I was sad to see the tree go but it was too close to our house and our neighbors house. We wanted trees when we moved in but now that we have them I am not sure we would be so excited about them. It is hard to hire tree trimmers and they tend to grow over scary things like power lines. Still I do like trees! Wish I had a big place so I could have tons of them and room for a garden and house.

I like to work on my house but I don't get much time for it. I am hoping to have time to finish our bathroom tile soon. Tile work takes a lot of time and I have redone the counter and the wall around it but I have a lot more to go. We are also going to replace our paneling and false ceiling in the basement with wallboard. My kitten was getting up in the ceiling and watching me working on the computer and I have been worried that she will fall through. Right now we are working on tiling our entryway so we can put our new fish tank in and I don't want to move it once it is set up. Yah!! The tiling is done, the painting is done, a bunch of the trim work is done. A few touch ups and one more piece of trim to finish and I will be done. I even managed to find time to stain the front door. I don't think I could handle another project right now, but I am making good progress on the entryway. I did have a staining issue when one of the doors turned a really dark color so I have been having to sand it down. This is also done! Fun Fun???

I have three cats Scamper, Julian, and Arabella, one fish tank , a lovebird, and I used to have an 7/8 Arabian Horse named Elizon. He was 28 when he passed away. Until other parts of my life slow down and we can find a farm we can afford I don't think I will get another horse.

We have started having Arts and Sciences night and it has been fun. We have learned to make shoes, cheese, viking chain making, and garb. We had to cancel our first glass beading due to a blizzard. I held a bead making class and it went well. Many of the shire members learned how to make beads. Our next class is going to be ceramics. We are going to make favors for Lupercalia. I am thinking this will take up the next couple of sessions.

We took a trip to Disney World. Boy it is big. We were there seven days and still we didn't get through everything we wanted to. I did manage to get my picture taken with a belly dancer in Epcot in Morocco. I was pretty excited we took some extra time and were able to see Morocco. We went to all of the parks and used every possible form of transportation. I love the monorail. Wish we had one here!

I am happy to say I am on page 48 of my book and I have the start of another one as well. Not sure when I will finish but it is fun doing it. I have never gotten this far with a book before and I am excited to see how it turns out! I know some of what will occur but I am not sure how I will get there and exactly how it will end. I still have a long way to go.