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I've been mulling over my dancing scene. Over the past half year, I've attended about 75 classes (25 weeks with 3 classes/week). Each class goes for about 1.5 hours, which totals about 5 hours/week. That amount of time translates into 125 hours over the half year period. Each week, I learn about 5 new dances--which means I learn 125 new dances in the period (25 times 5). Each class reviews and dances (minimally) about 5 dances/week for a total of 375 dances each half year (15 dances/week times 25 weeks). If I attend all 6 of the monthly dances, that translates into an additional 15 hours of dancing (6 dances events at 2.5 hours/dance event) and adds a total of 150 dances (25 dances/dance event by 6 events). Attending occasional workshops only adds to these figures.

Whew! So, I started doing some circuit training at the fitness center today. It felt good to move some of muscles and I felt great after doing the circuit. The circuit can be done in about 30 minutes and the machines get to all the various muscle groups. On most machines, I didn't use a lot of weight. I'm taking it easy to start. But, I think it's going to be a good balance with the dancing.

SD arrived today for his birthday break. His birthday is next week. The grandkid is celebrating her birthday nearly all month. MD 's will be held next week--a week from tomorrow. Tonight, we had a Chinese dinner feast in honor of SD's birthing day. Great food from a local take out place. SD ate his requisite three platefuls of food. He'll finish off what's left for tomorrow's breakfast.

We got quite a bit of rain last night and today. I slept poorly last night--or rather I stayed up really late. Doing what? I'm not sure--I played several rounds of Just Words.

Nothing specific planned for the morrow. MD asked me to take her shopping--she only did about half of her shopping yesterday before she had to call it quits.