random thoughts – Day 1,404 – (Saturday) – food and dance

The cold continues, which made for a perfect day to stay inside and do not a lot of anything. The day’s domestic accomplishments included unloading the dishwasher, from which the dishes have been kind of cloudy recently. The tinsel trees from Christmas were finally brought down to the basement. Movies were watched.

Lazy? Probably, although it was also “saving my energy.” There were evening dinner plans with dancer friends at Athenian Corner. One of them knew one of the dancers performing tonight. The hard part today was waiting for it to be time to go. The time spent avoiding going out into the cold left time to review the restaurant menu online and also to potentially talk myself out of it for no good reason other than being, well, lazy. Luckily that didn’t happen, and at the designated time I was at the restaurant.

On Saturday nights, Athenian Corner has live music and belly dancers and they always have good food. There were eight at our table. The dancers were lively and the band sounded great. I’m always amazed at dancers who perform with live music because I’m terrified of it. There is enough stress interacting with an audience, never mind the musicians. 

Dancing with a tray of lit candles.

One of the dancers tonight danced with a tray on her head which held several lit candles. There were turns and elevation changes and at one point she was on the floor and I was holding my breath. The tray stayed parallel to the floor the whole time. It was amazing. Nothing fell, unlike the time I danced with one fake candle and it launched off my head.

It was a fun night, being out with other grownups, dining and watching the dancers. The cold outside was forgotten for a while.