This morning I went to a real, hardcore ballet class for the first time in over a decade. And like any self respecting Type A personality, I refused to take it easy and instead hurled myself into the class despite the fact that I no longer have the ballet-specific muscles or endurance to do that sort of hurling. Good news, I can still do a lot of things I didn't think I would be able to do. I can still jump like a fracking gazelle and spin in lots of circles without puking (though I did get a LOT dizzier than I used to) and decipher a combination that is spoken to me in French rather than fully demonstrated. That rocked. I felt sparkly and the other students in the "adult" class--would be more accurate to call it the college girl class, as few looked older than twenty--were very sweet and let me trail along behind them and watch when I got too confused.
It was great, and I am now filled with the burning desire to get back into performance worthy shape and try out for next year's Nutcracker. I can do it, I think. And my supportive husband is being very supportive, as usual, and said that he'd love for me to do that and would help watch the kids and would love to come see me dance and that meant so much to me because I never realized that he realized how much I miss dancing and oh la la la happy day!
So that's the good news.
The bad news, is that now I hurt everywhere. Ev-er-y-where. My toes, my back, my shoulders, even my thumb, and the place between the thumb and pointer finger. I will not be writing much more today. *ow* *wince* Or maybe even tomorrow. *ow* (Good thing I was very productive with the word count earlier in the week.)
So I thought it would be a good show and tell picture day! Let's look at the pretty foreign covers and I will be back with a real blog post next week. I promise. Mostly. Probably....
Unless I have an amazing writing week like I did this week in which case I will continue to draft because I'm loving this book and writing it is fun. (In related news, those of you with Publishers Marketplace will have seen my big news. For everyone else, I will save the big news until Monday. So come back Monday. Big news and more specifics than the Pub Marketplace memo.)
Now without further ado:
Juliet Immortal in Turkey:
Dead on the Delta in Germany
Juliet Immortal in France (just came out this week! Hope my French readers enjoy it.)
Juliet Immortal in Germany
Thank you very much.
I'm off to down a few ibuprofen and try to walk through the agony.
Happy weekend,
Stacey Jay
4 comments:
I love looking at the foreign editions for different covers and the ones for Juliet Immortal are so pretty! It's fun to hear you're getting back into ballet... although it kinds of sucks that your muscles are feeling the pain, lol.
I think I might have caught a tweet earlier today mentioning your big news vaguely so I'm excited to officially read the announcement soon! :)
We have to wait until Monday? You tease - that'll probably be Tuesday Australian time! ;-)
Congratulations in advance, then ;-)
YAY for the ballet class! I did that a few years ago and it took me a WEEK to recover from one class. But lord it's fun.
Looking forward to the big news.
Thanks Bloom! (Still sore today, but excited to go back to class.)
I tease, Tez. It's a part of me. Just try to to love me the only way you know how.
And yes, Bliss. I think it will take a week. *ow* As soon as I'm off deadline, I'm going to start going 2x per week. Maybe then I'll be able to move past the soreness.
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