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Stamana

To go along with my last blog, I'd been having issues with stamana at dance and show choir practice. Since I work at a gym, my mother told me to get on the tredmill after work and run for about ten or fifteen minutes. Lately between dance and show choir, I haven't worked for about a month. This has caused issues for my stamana because I don't really have time to go in and run. Luckily, lately, I've been practicing so much that my stamana has been getting better.
The biggest issue with my stamana is that my heart starts over working, almost like I'm having an anxiety attack. I have to stop, sometimes I put my hand on my knees, and take deep breaths. I'd been worried that I might've had a heart problem (because my family has had issues with bad hearts in the past, and I've had other health issues) but my mom said it's probably just low satmana.
I didn't believe her at first, but just recently, I've been feeling A LOT better when I'm at dance and show choir practices. It's only when we start dancing hardcore without really warming up and easing our way into it. Thank goodness for my mom and all she knows about the human body!
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injuries, sicknesses, and bad joints

We had our first dance compeition yesterday, and did really well! Our lyrical and tap dances got silvers, our jazz and large group contemporaty got golds, we got a judge's choice award for "best energy" for jazz, and got 5th place overall in large group, 4th with tap, 2nd with lyrical and 1st with jazz overall in the teen category. It was a very successful dance competition if I do say so myself!

Unfortunately, on many different parts there was tears and drama, more than usual for a dance competition. It started out with tap, which we were all really excited about, and did really well with. Then we had jazz, where I messed up really bad (later to be told that I did amazing, and they only noticed me come out of a turning sequence and beat before everyone else...it was actually much worse than that) and my friend who had pneumonia and athsma couldn't breathe halfway through the dance. I was so angry at myself for messing up so bad that I stormed off stage and a second later my friend Rachel ran after me telling me we had to find Eileen's inhaler, I immediately forgot my issues and ran down to our changing room (which was actually a bathroom/locker room) to find her inhaler or mother, whichever we found first. We got her her medicine and sat her down, and let her calm down. After ten minutes she her normal, funny, sarcastic, and perky self.

Then came along lyrical, where me, my friend (who has extremely bad knees) and two other girls do a trick to the ground where we land on our knees. I told my friend Jenna (the one with the bad knees) to wear her knee pads because she was going to hurt it. Of course, she did not listen to me, and did the trick with only a little prewrap and brace. After the dance we supported her down the stairs, where at the bottom she sank to the ground and started crying. I ran to the cooler that had ice packs and got one for her. My mom found us and got her mom to comfort her. I sat there with her until her mom came and tried to make her feel better, laugh, or just take her mind off the pain. Next time, I will force the knee pad on her whether she wants it or not.

An hour later we performed our large group number which kind of turned out to be a little bit of a disaster, but besides that went pretty well. As we were walking offstage, one of the girls cut her toe open on a piece of metal. I attended to it (it was NASTY) I grabbed the band-aids and helped her clean it out. Luckily, it was our last dance, so we were done with the bodys getting hurt.

Unfortunately, for me, later that day I started to feel pain in my hip flexers (the muscles in front of your hips). I was sitting in the car as it started hurting more and more. Today I feel really sore, and I'm wondering why, because I stretched well, and I never feel that much pain from my hip flexers. I DO have bad hip joints (along with my shoulders...the joints catch pretty bad when I use them in certain ways) so I'm a little worried about that, but hopefully it'll just pass!

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This Girl Is Like Ten

I saw this on my newsfeed on facebook, and I think this girl is absolutely amazing, and crazy, and I can't hope to do half the stuff she does, and she's like half my age.
So prepare to be amazed.

Texting

On Tuesday, as you all are fully aware, we had a snow day. My dad had been bribing me and my sister with new phones and texting if we cleaned the whole house. We were orginally going to get them on Friday (today) if we kept the house clean and did all the chores he asked us to do. But lucky enough for us, we had the snow day, and my show choir practice got cancelled. We were getting our land line disconnected the next day. It was like destiny. (Wow I'm a loser!) Anyway, the novelty of texting has worn off, and I'm now getting paranoid, but it's okay, because I'm no longer out of the loop.

Anway, I'm happy so we're all happy si, si?
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My Bruises

Over the past two years I've really improved as a dancer. My dance teachers have noticed my ability to do tricks and turns and have had me do them in our dances. This is awesome for me, because I've been praciting and stretching and working on my technique to become the best dancer I can be. My dance techer, Rachel, has put me in the front of our competing dances when we do turns, has had me do tricks, and has me to hard floor work. I feel really good about how far I've come as a dancer. Concidentailly, I've gotten bruises all over my body. I have bruises on my elbows, knees, legs, feet, and wrists. These don't really bother me, minus the fact that outside of dance class, I have absolutely no grace. I run into corners, trip upstairs, fall down (who knows what else I am capable of?) Today I have managed to hit my bruise on my elbow three times (because I sit with my arms on my desk in class) I have wacked my knee on my desk twice (moving around).

Anyways, I will post pictures of my bruises and we can all laugh at my pain together (I laugh at it too, so don't feel bad laughing at me)

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Animals A-Z

So, I was sitting here trying to think of soemthing intresting to talk about, when I started thinking of Omaha, (where my Grandpa is currently undergoing surgery :'( he has blood clots in his legs!!) and I was thinking of all the things I LOVE about it! And BAM! It's was the zoo! So I thought I'd talk about all the cute animals that I love (and maybe hate) that start with every letter of the alphabet. I'll look up some intresting facts about them too so we can keep it pretty intresting too!

Here we goooooo!:)

Armadillo! This one's so cute! Did you know that "armadillo" is actually Spanish, meaning "little armored one." (Aww!) They also sleep about sixteen hours a day! Beluga Whale! Since beluga whales live in northern waters, their white color helps them blend in with icebergs as camoflauge from predators:)
Camel! Actually, camels don't store water in their humps, they store it in their blood, which allows them to go several days without water. Their hump is actually a resivoir of fatty tissue. Duck! (I just copied and pasted this one, I think it's so cute!!) "Did you know ducks are very social animals and suffer if they don't have companionship. If ducks have been raised alone they start to believe that they are part of the flock that is around them. This means that if a duck is raised by a human they start to believe that they to are human."Elephant! (My personal favorite!) Even though they are the biggest mammal on land, they have excellent balance. They usually sleep standing up, and sleep between 4-5 hours a night.
Flamingo! The average lifespan for flamingos is 20-30 years. They also have few netural preditors.Giraffes! (Another personal favorite!) Baby giraffes are approximately six feet tall and 150 pounds.
Hippopotamus! (I took this as a direct quote again...) "The hippo’s yawn is not a sign of sleepiness or boredom but is actually a threat gesture, displaying long, thick, razor-sharp canine teeth, or tusks, with which it is capable of biting a small boat in half." Scary huh? Ibis! (I've actually never heard of this animal, the name just sounded cool!) It is native to Africa and Asia, and migrated to Australlia and Southeastern America.
Jaguar! "Jaguar" means "a beast that kills its prey with a single bound." Kangaroo! There are over forty speices of kangaroos. Llama! (Another personal favorite...yet another direct quote). "Llamas are very easy to train and learn new skills readily. Llamas have excellent survival skills and their thick coats help them to thrive in extreme climates." Meerkat. Meerkats are naturally immune to scorpion and snake poison. Nene (yeah, I've never heard of it either). It's actually the Hawaiian Goose, but they eat: leaves, seeds, berries and flowers of grasses, herbs and shrubs. Ostrich! Since ostriches can't fly (scientists believe this is because their wings can't support their weight) they result to using their legs. They are actually one of the fastest animals on Earth. Penguin! (This one's for my sister...another direct quote...) They eat fish and krill. They don't drink water, but eat snow. They have a gland in their nose that takes the salt out of the ocean water. They swallow ocean water when they catch fish. Quahog! (A type of clam?) Also known as cherrystone, littleneck and hard-shell clam. They have a dingy white shell about 3 to 5 inches long. Rooster! Today nearly 6.5 billion chickens are raised each year in the United States alone. Seahorse! (YAY!) Seahorses differ in color, some are orange, red, yellow, green and even grey.
Zebra stripes and spots, are two patterns that seahorses come in. Turtles! They live on every contient except Antarctica. North America contains a large variety of turtle species, but Europe contains only two species of turtle and three species of tortoise. Uromastyx spinipes! (I don't know what they are either...let's find out!) Also known as the Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard. (There's actually not a lot of cool facts about them...darn) Velvet Swimming Crab! It gets its name from the fine velvety texture of its carapace. The rear legs are flattened for swimming, but it is more typically found hiding in crevices. Wolf! There are 4-36 wolves in a pack and their territories can range from 130-13,000 km. You can tell wolves are friendly ,when they roll over and show their bellies. When they want to play, they put their paws down and wag their tail. When they want to fight, they show their fangs and start growling. When they want to stop they put their ears back and lay down. Xenopus! They are also known as African Clawed Frogs are one of the world’s most unusual amphibians. Unlike most of the world’s other amphibians, these aquatic animals are equipped with claws. They use these claws to tear apart large pieces of food. Yellow-tailed black cockatoo! is native to the south-east Australia and is the largest of the cockatoos and of Australian parrots. Zebra! Zoologists believe that the black and white stripes in zebras serve the purpose of camouflage. The color blind predators get confused between the stripes and the grass blades. Another reason is the personal identification, as the pattern of stripes in one zebra cannot exactly match the pattern of another one.