I ache from my bones outward. But, its a good ache! Today got up at 7am (having gone to bed around 2am) and started making hoops. Hoops hoops hoops hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops! Hoops to sell.

I went to Cleethorpes to do a hooping workshop during the May Day Celebrations and the Continental Market. Me and my friend Paula pitched up and away we went! It was mental.

My first actual customer (amongst the people just trying it out) was a little 10 year old girl. She gave me a shy smile and with some encouragement from her family and a much more daring young girl that was with her, she picked up a hoop and nailed it first time. Her carer bought her a hoop and off she smiled!

I've been her social worker for a year and I don't think she's ever said more than two words to me. Why should she? She doesn't trust social workers, unless of course they're armed with a hula hoop.

As the humid (but later sunny), busy day went on more and more people came over. Adults and children a like. I sold 3 hoops and secured my first block booking for my hoop class. (All my class details are on line now including a payment option!) I'm even getting paid for being at the celebrations which is a complete surprise! So very, very tired, very achey but £125 better off. :o) I used everything I'd learned in the Hoop Girl training, particularly around reluctant learners. The best bit though was when I heard someone say, "Did you see her just jump up and in to that hoop? It looked so effortless." Better still I'm sure it was someone who I really wish never existed. Eventually I found myself surrounded by children, some were only kneehigh to a grasshopper and just had no clue but my god they were cute!

Now.... What do I do now? Make lots of kids hoops for tommorow to exploit the holiday makers and watch my energy levels deplete? Or, so I relax and replenish, missing out on a possible opportunity to make money.... I have so little energy left. I've worked SO hard this week. I also don't have an assistant for tomorrow who I SO relied on today.

The dance studio for my classes is all booked for personal practice and classes beginning in June! BUt better than that... I have a bottle of wine, a spinach and ricotta canneloni, a planned bath and a trashy chat magazine. :o)

I cried about Edel today. I looked in the mirror and dried my hair and listened to The Fray on the radio and I cried. Cried my little heart out.