meagan's Journal

Nov 2006
4:40 AM EST

Well, it's been quite a while since I posted last! What's happened since then? I turned 28 on November 5th and had a great weekend of fun (friends, family, cake,drinks,shisha,cheesy nightclub,what more could a girl ask for?) The day after my birthday I re-comitted to a crazy-healthy lifestyle (which has been going pretty well so far! Since I'm not planning on doing any fitness competitions anytime soon (too many other things to focus on right now like all my dance-related things... more about that later), I'm trying to keep some other goals in mind to keep with my healthy eating and working-out going strong (looking hot in a bikini when I go away to Dom. Rep. in Jan., TropiCaliente's big Latin/Brazilian dance show scheduled for March 24th, and of course life in general and liking how I look and feel!) I've been eating between 1200 - 1500 calories a day lately and staying away from junk which is feeling great. I've also been doing 5 days of 45 - 60 minutes of hard cardio + weights (3 day split) Weekends are my big problems though - I tend to ruin a lot of my hard work over the weekend when I crave fun foods! I'm going to try not to do that this weekend! I've made quite a few dance goals over the past little while. I've been working on learning new techniques in bellydance to keep things fresh and challenging (Suhaila-style glute-squeezes, etc. and Tribal-Fusion from Audra). I got accepted to perform at the Toronto Bellydance Conference in April and I have a really special crazy choreography I'll be working on with 3 other bellydance choreographers for that. My folk troupe also go into the lottery stage so that's exciting! I also booked my Latin group (TropiCaliente) in at Harbourfront's Lakeside Terrace for our first big show of our own for March 24th. Lots to do for this including finding a few new dancers, lots of rehearsals, costume-making, and choreographing! Since I've been looking at lots of Latin dance lately and listening to salsa music (which I've been away from for ages), it really has re-inspired me to get back into that whole scene! I'm going to try to fix up my own Salsa technique, choreograph a lot, get out to a club at least once a week, and get my group dancing at salsa events again, and maybe even convince Wala'a to get back into it with me. I was deeply into the salsa scene when it was just fun, now there are so many new styles and it's a lot more competitive and serious! For years I've kind of been on the outskirts of all the showiness that's been going on at Latin CLubs and congresses, but I think I'll throw myself right back into it all! I downloaded a lot of old salsa music that really brings me back to a really fun time in my life (when I was about 18 and going out to all the Latin clubs every night here in TO and teaching every night and performing) It's really amazing to me what music can make you remember or feel! I love it. I'll try to update a little more frequently here from now on!

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Username: meagan

Gender / Age: Female, 46

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Interests: fitness, working out, bellydance, Latin & Brazilian dance

Favorite Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Eyed Peas, Gwen Stefani, 50 Cent, Kanye West, MIA, and of course Arabic and Latin music!

Favorite Movies: Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Dirty Dancing, pretty much any dance movie! Oh, and Pumping Iron.

Favorite Television: Young & The Restless, South Park. So You Think You Can Dance.

Favorite Books: I have so many faves, currently I'm reading Joshi's Holistic Life Plan and it's right up my alley!

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