You know those silly ideas that you have as a child of who you want to be and what you want to do when you grow up? I've had lots of those. Though I was an odd child, I had a 5-year and 10-year plan when I started middle school. Since then I have acheived all of my "dreams" except two.

I have traveled Europe. I have had my words and my photography published in various media from books to creative loafing to a german publication about art. I have won medals for my music. I have graduated with honors and acquired a double major and minor in a highly acredited university. But there are two things that I wanted "to be when I grew up" that I had yet to accomplish....a ballerina on stage and a princess :)

This past weekend I got to do both with House of Deville. In the 5th grade I took ballet on flats and I loved it, but I had to give it up so that I could work afterschool and I never got to take pointe. When Lilith Deville asked if I would be a princess ballerina for the show I said hells yeah!!! I quickly taught myself how to go up on pointe for the first time, spin, step, dance and choreography while looking as graceful as possible, and I'm not exactly known for my grace :p So there, I guess I can strike these off the list lol!

The show went great...considering the stage was exactly half the size we had practiced for and some drunk ass sat on one of the props and split it in two just before the second act!! The hubs is the propmaster and was able to fix this as it was an essential element in the show (it had to explode and collapse on cue, and thus needed to be upright to begin with). We were all very upset about this, as one of the sides of the prop collapsed before it was time...but we played it off and all was well and in the end the crowd went nuts so it was well worth it.

The weekend itself was highly unorganized and we ended up being rushed, which I hate, but it's part of it all so I've learned to take it in stride. mia on the otherhand is still new to this and she is still sensitive to the rushing hustle that goes into any live performance...she's a good girl though and was the picture of everything that makes me proud of her. I know that all of that was hard for her to process and I appreciated her hanging in and being so good throughout the whole ordeal because it showed me how much she was willing to go through for me. I told her as much, as much as I could while rushing here and there. In the end, though, I was happy to end the night with mia tucked into my arms.

Getting back into the work week has been a drain. But I informed mia that she and I will be taking off of work tomorrow to spend the day in D/s bliss and I for one am looking forward to it.