Tashrambler

So my hooping life is awesome.  I’ve been teaching classes since June, selling hoops, doing birthday parties and performing.  My hooping persona is The Hoopanista.

Around January, I started taking Burlesque classes at the Rose City School of Burlesque.  Yowza!  Talk about empowering!  I’ve developed a hooping burlesque persona called Chica Vroom.  She is not very good at taking off her top yet but loves to hoop and remove articles of clothing whilst hooping in front of an audience.  Next show is May 28th at Kelly’s Olympian.  That’s right, Kelly’s Olympian, the first time my band, Gravy, played outside of someone’s basement!

I’ll explore the hooping/burlesque/band path at a later time.  They happen to be merging at the moment and I suppose it’s a good time.  I need to focus on things other than boys.  hee hee.

Metro -
Silver bra, corset w/ zipper

Hawthorne Costume -
Silver make-up?

Fire Marshall
503-8223-3700

HoopCamp vacation request

Newsletter

NECC – GONE!

Gem Studio -
Hoop Fit Dance info

Workshops -
Village Ballroom

New playlists for classes
Vote!
Kinko’s – p/u class rosters
teach PCC class
p/u clothing rack for hoops @ target
swing by halloween store for after holiday costumes for LooLoo’s!
prepare for night hoop class
teach night hoop class
take down decorations

Holy shit! It’s been awhile, huh? Well in a nutshell:

• My last day at the TV station was June 18th
• I’m on my last week of severance
• I am on unemployment
• I have started my hooping career, with the blessing of the unemployment people

Like I said, “Holy Shit!”

Day 5/60+ hours.  tomorrow is all about the website and getting the hoop cart built. Saturday is house cleaning and meeting my girlfriend (the marketing genius) for marketing and promoting my hoop biz.  *sigh*  I still say I need a clone so I can run around with my friends, have sex with men who will never commit to me and drink myself silly without getting fat.

ask matt about hooping possibilities @ his school
farmer’s markets
sunday parkways
hoop camp!!
parks & rec
pcc

ask mom about rent $$
call portland public school district contacts (about renting school gyms)

wendy @ 1pm
TAXES!!!!!
May & Cathy’s party

michael’s:
large circle paper punch
thin cardboard
decoupage
paint brush
ribbons – large & small

target:
cotton balls
face stuff
hair clips
cat litter

Got word that I will be working in another department during the demise of my current department until the demise of the THAT department.  Estimated unemployment date?  Sometime mid-May. About the same time my hooping life will start kicking in…first with a hoop booth at the Alberta Art Hop and then 5 days in North Carolina for the Hoop Convergence and then I start teaching my hoopdance classes the following week.  Hmmmm.  Who needs time to regroup after a 22-year career is tossed away.  I was hired at my TV station on May 23, 1988.

Looked at a beautiful dance studio today.  Open, light, amazing energy, good vibes from the studio manager, great neighborhood.  Came home and crunched numbers. *GULP* Mama’s gonna need a part-time gig in order to follow her bliss.  I could break even if I had 10 students, maybe make a little money if I had 15 students.  However, I could not pay my mortgage, pay my bills AND eat if I only taught classes at this beautiful studio because the primo hours are spoken for.  dang!  So, anyone want to hire a mid-life career changing hoopanista M-Th 6 hours a day for about $16/hour?  Preferably cash?

Got a date from one department:  April 16th.  Less than a month away.  No savings, no job. Hmmmm. Doesn’t that seem like THE PERFECT TIME to start teaching hoopdance in JUNE?!!!**

I think I’ll have a couple more weeks in the other department but don’t have a date there yet.  I love the anticipation!**

**when I was in high school I invented a punctuation mark that indicated sarcasm. wish I could replicate it on this keyboard.