Green Dancing Queen

Yay for the weekend! Not that I work during the week, but at least during the weekend I have a sliiiiightly  higher chance of spending time with the bf!

So today I opted to forgo studying  in favour of venturing out to Organic Avenue. I had heard a lot of great things about their juices, smoothies and the store in general and was reminded about it via Dori’s blog, so I really wanted to check it out for myself.

It was a quaint little store hidden in the Lower East Side. Everything was raw, vegan and I wanted to try it all! They had raw powders, nut butters, bars, juices, smoothies, skin care products and even things for the home.

Although I wanted to try everything. Their products aren’t cheap.

So I decided on 1 juice, 1 smoothie and 1 bar.

I got the Young Love Juice which contains Cucumber, Celery and Spinach, which I had as part of my lunch. I felt so GREEN after I drank it.

And the Mint Chip Smoothie which contains Coconut mylk, agave, vanilla bean, peppermint extract, hemp seeds, sea salt and cacao nibs.

(I am drinking the mint chip smoothie as I type and it is SO GOOOD!!! Tastes like mint chip ice cream in smoothie form!)

And I also got a Lydia’s Organics Cacao Crunch Bar.

 
Obviously still have yet to do my nails! Soon!

I’m definitely a fan, and will be going back! Maybe not all the time, as their products are expensive, but every so often for a treat!

Dannnciiing Queen

I decided to take a dance class at the gym tonight.

Oh before I go on… So, I actually ended up joining Equinox. I never thought I would as it’s so “fancy” but I actually got a pretty sweet deal so I jumped at it! Also, with the amount of classes I’m going to take there I think it will be it will DEFINITLEY be worth it. 

Anyway,  I’ve taken dance classes at gyms before and they’re more like “dance” classes. Like you learn a few moves, maybe do a combination. It’s fun and you move around a lot but it’s nothing like taking an actual dance class at a studio. So I figured this dance class would be similar.

NOPE! It was a DANCE class. For realz.

Now, technically… well not even technically, I AM a dancer.
I danced for many many years. I mainly did ballet, but I dabbled in all forms: jazz, modern, tap, hip hop. I just haven’t danced for a while.

I am a ballerina at heart though. Me doing hip hop = hilarious. This class, the teacher said, was Jazz. I thought, okay, I can do jazz.

But wow! It was hard! He taught us a real combination! There were pirouettes, chaînés, jumps, kicks! And everyone in the class was sooo goooooood.

I was really surprised! Pleasantly surprised! This is great, I thought, I can take a real dance class… at my gym!

But then my next thought was, Oh. Crap. I haven’t taken a real dance class in forevvver! What have I gotten myself into!?

In the end, I managed to keep up for most of it. I guess you never really lose it.
I was really proud of myself for getting through the whole combination, getting all the steps down and eventually workin it Haha. It was just nice to be dancing again.

Also, I found it hilarious that the teacher, before he started teaching us the combination, told us to do the dance:

“Sexy. Like realllly sexy. Like not pretty sexy… stripper sexy”

Oh man. I love my gym

It will be really nice to keep going to this and hopefully I’ll get my dancing feet back and get better as the weeks go on!

I’m off to meet the bf for dinner!

Have a fabulous Friday night!