The Excellent Day

Yay! Behind the back weave! I'm doing this poi performance at the fnf campout and was instructed by Jessi to practice practice practice. So I have been, and somehow, the performance incentive made me learn the btb weave. I've been trying that move for the past year and a half with no success! I found this really great instructional video at poiplay. This site has really gotten me inspired. If you're like me and stalled out after learning all the basic beginner moves, these videos are really fun to watch, and break things down into easily learnable steps. Next up I'm going to tackle antispin moves and isolations.

We forgot about Francisco's birthday until about 11pm the night before, but somehow managed to cobble together a birthday plan for yesterday. We went out for dinner at Millennium (vegan heaven, a little surprising that it was Francisco's choice, but very very pleasing), and then onward to the Velvet Cantina for drinks, where an excellent number of people managed to make it out on a Tuesday night. I'm glad F had a good bday, even if there were no surprises from me. So terrible. Ah well, I know he'd do the same for me :)

Oh yeah, and Zoe flew off for Italy yesterday too. Too many awesome things happening, help! She'll be organic farming, something I always meant to do in NZ but never got around to for...laziness reasons I guess. Mom says she's already having to speak Italian, out of necessity.

But enough about all that, it's Nikhila's wedding this weekend!!! When I first met her we were both in a bad state, and took walks together commiserating over breakup heartache, so it's extremely satisfying to see her getting married now. The present day is shiny and hopeful, and the past is dead, a humorous footnote in the glory of our current lives. Yay for Nikhila! May your future be full of satisfaction and love, with short bits of the interesting kind of challenges, and long bits of relaxation.