Shall We Dance?

So, minor breakdown today... For some reason I was on this music video kick today, I watched "Love Sex Magic" with Ciara and JT. Then I watched "Bad Girl, Good Girl" by Miss A (awesome Korean group, if you've never heard it, youtube it), and then finished it off with a few songs by PCD. This led me to miss dancing immensely!!! While I have only taken 2 formal dance class in college, I have always been drawn to dance. As a musician (or former musician, I guess) I have always been drawn to music and when I hear a good beat I can't help but want to get up and bust a move! I've always wanted to take dance, and regret that my mom made me quit tap in elementary because she was tired of hearing me practice (who does that?). I love just about any kind of dance, but my absolute favorite right now is merengue! It has a great beat and is super easy to learn. I don't get to go out much as I would like since I hate going out alone, plus it's prolly not the safest thing in the world for a female going out in the middle night alone :(

The downside of going out when friends are in town is that my boyfriend seems to hate dancing. This is always a tough situation to be in because I don't want to seem like I am disrespecting him by dancing with other guys right in his face, but when I hear the music it makes me feel like I'm slowly dying inside to sit on the sidelines and do nothing. I don't know exactly when this happened, but it did. Music is in my body and soul, and dance is it's escape route to the outside world when I can't control it anymore. Maybe one day I'll convince him to love dance as much as I do, or at least get him to take classes with me so that he won't be as self-conscious and he'll know a few moves to bust out on the dance floor. Until then, we we'll be a living incarnation of N.E.R.D's song, "She Wants to Move".

So feelings all these different emotions swirling today kind of set me off in a whirlwind of depression today, but the bright side is that I started looking into a few dance classes that I can take. Maybe a daily dose of Zumba or getting back into Friday night Latin Night downtown can cure me of this funk I've been in.