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Friday Dance Party

This is another edition of Friday Dance Party here on Acorns On Glen.  This is the time where we give thanks for making it through another week and then we dance to celebrate.  Are you still alive and kicking?  Was your week an easy one or a tough one?  Whatever kind of week you had, just be happy that you are here now.  Realize that so many people are not as lucky as we are.  The news is full of crazy stories of war, natural disasters and disease.  We need to be thankful for our lives and pray for those that aren’t as lucky as we are.  Be thankful you, your family and your friends are here.  Be thankful we are safe, warm and have food on our tables.  Just give thanks at how lucky you truly are!  Did you do that?

Good, now let’s dance.

I was memory traveling this week back to Iowa in the late 1970s.  Trying to decide if days were better then or better now.  I thought it was only fitting to pick a song from the same era to use as our dance number this week.  Disco was so popular in those days.  I will admit, I had the disco moves in those days and nothing lifts my spirits more than hearing an old disco song on the radio.  To be more current, hearing a string of old disco songs on my XM/Sirius satellite radio tuned into the ‘Disco’ channel.  I don’t really know which one is better–an old-time radio or a new satellite radio?  All I know is that I love to hear any disco music on the radio.  So here’s the Queen of Disco, Donna Summer, and one of her top disco hits….’On The Radio’.  Slip into your wrap dress or your leisure suit and dance hard.  Dance to celebrate that we made it to the end of another week.  You deserve it.  Were you a disco diva in the day?

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Friday Dance Party



This is another edition of Friday Dance Party here on Acorns On Glen.  So do you know the drill yet?  We appreciate LIFE and then we DANCE.  Life should be celebrated and what a better way to do it than by dancing.  Whether it is a hard dance, a slow dance or you are just swaying to the music, dancing makes you feel good.  So let’s start by taking a moment to celebrate that we’ve made it through another week and we are here.  Here in the moment.  We are alive!  Be proud that you survived and think of all the good things you did this week.  Good things for your family, your Company, your friends.  I hope there were also some good things that you did for yourself.  Congratulations!  You’ve made it through.  Did you give thanks?

Good, now let’s dance……

Winter is acting a lot like Effie White in this clip from Broadway, 1982.  Isn’t Winter singing the same lyrics to us?  “And I am telling you, I’m not going!  There’s no way I’m living without you.  I’m not living without you.  I don’t want to be free.  I’m staying and you, you’re going to love me”.  This week we were reminded that Winter is still here with a few snowstorms visiting that left a few inches of snow on the ground each time.  Winter loves us and doesn’t want to move on to another place.  However, I am determined to tell Winter that it is time to go and we’ll see her again towards the end of 2011.  She’ll be fine.  She will survive.  I know that I can live without you!  So maybe this clip isn’t really a true dance number, but it fits the situation here in Connecticut with Winter.  Go ahead and move to it.   Better yet, grab a hairbrush, stand in front of your computer and let your inner Broadway diva shine through.  You won’t win a Tony Award  like Jennifer Holliday did for this part, but maybe you will get an even better reward….Spring!  Let it rip.  Belt this song out loud and clear and dance your rear end off!!  Do you ever dance in front of your computer when you read and listen to Friday Dance Party (don’t be shy now)? 

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Friday Dance Party

This is another edition of Friday Dance Party here on Acorns On Glen.  Why do we do this every Friday?  I think we all need time to celebrate another week of LIVING through reflection and dancing.  Let’s start by giving thanks that we have survived another week.  We’ve gotten through work, taking care of our families, checking up on friends.  We’ve even gotten through the “Spring ahead” time change.  We were a little fuzzy after the time change, but we survived it.  However, the best thing to celebrate–we are alive and kicking.  This week we need to be especially grateful about this fact given the tragic events our poor friends in Japan have been enduring.  Be strong, Japan!!  So take a minute to reflect about your great life and getting through the challenges that faced you this week.  Also say a prayer for the people of Japan.  You are truly lucky, especially after the devastating events we’ve witnessed this week.  Did you do that?

Good….now let’s dance.

It needs to get warm here.  I don’t think my hands or feet have been warm since mid-December.  We’ve had some sun, but will it last?  Earlier this week, I wrote about Spring and how it needs to get here…NOW!  I am sick of snow, of clouds, of gray sky…..OK, I am sick to death of Winter.  Spring needs to take charge now and send Winter packing!  I need some full-time sun to warm me.  So how can I get warm until the sun decides to show up for the long haul?  Well, we can start by going to a place that has a weather forecast for the next few days in the low 80’s.  So I’m going to ask my Baby to smile at me and we’re going to RIO…..DE JANEIRO!  Yes, Rio.  So turn up your speakers and join my Baby, Peter Allen, some Rockettes, a camel and me on an imaginary trip to Rio De Janeiro.  At least the dancing will help warm me up until Spring decides to become the boss.  Samba, anyone?  Enjoy the video show and remember to shake it hard…you’ve earned it!!  Do you have any ways that you celebrate life on a regular basis that you would like to share?