If you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it

I've spontaneously traveled to NYC on my own, my sister got married, I survived my first week on duty as a Hall Director, and today I was told what type of personality I have thanks to the fabulous Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. While these things were all exciting and I have many stories I could share about them, I think I'm going to tell you a story that shows just how capable we really are of some things when we put our minds to it.

I will be attending the NEACURH conference this weekend in Oneonta. As exciting as that is, it gets better. At this conference I will have to perform a 20 second segment of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" music video in front of many, many people. Fortunately I am not alone in this, nonetheless it certainly has me biting my nails. For those of you that know me, I love to dance. However, my 'dancing' is not what you would call good, club dancing. Bumping and grinding certainly has never been my style and booty popping is sure to dislocate all sorts of things if I ever attempted it. So what I do is a little different- it's fun...it's comical, but most of all it usually ends up in some form of the fist pump, shopping cart, or car wash. I dance for fun. Believe me, if my dancing moves landed me a man or even a free drink I would for sure question that guy's sanity. I mean, I guess if he was a goofball like me it'd be alright, but for the most part if you see me dancing I guarentee you will be questioning whether I'm worried about what I look like or not. The answer- I'm not. I just like to have fun. Plain and simple.

Now, I tell you all of this because to my surprise, at 'rehearsal' tonight, I didn't do terrible. I mean sure tomorrow night could be a little bit different when there are a bunch of people staring at me in my little black tank top and black shorts, but I handled my business tonight and I'm proud to say I didn't hurt anyone or anything in the process of learning the moves. This has not sparked some kind of interest in seeing how else I can bend my body and what moves I can do, but it certainly has made me realize that if I put my mind to something I really can do it! At one point, I was teaching everyone part of the dance...which should never happen, but it did! It was a lot of fun and even though it could all go terribly wrong tomorrow, I'm just glad I was able to say I learned part of the dance.

Myers-Briggs tells me I'm an extravert and there's no doubt about that, but we will find out just how 'out there' I am tomorrow when I will be on stage pretending to be Beyonce or as some may know her, Sasha Fierce.

I will leave you with the music video to remind you just how out of control it is and you can be the judge of how well I will be doing tomorrow night..