Reopening this diary

After watching all of Jaye's vlogs I was initially insprired to start vlogging as well. Then I realised I'm terrible in front of the camera and around cameras in general but I did want to keep track of what I was doing at this point in my life.

Who is Jaye? Jaye is the boss at Crossover Dance Studios, one of the dance studios in the city of Sydney. You can check out his vlogs here. I think They're a good geographic representation of where I spend most of my time outside of work and being at home.

I spend a lot of my time dancing either in the Crossover studio, or around the former Entertainment centre and sometimes when there isn't a studio free at one of the neighbouring studios. Recently, after a training session with Vincent I realised that the Powerhouse museum is also not a bad place for practice either.

Vincent is a locking teacher in Sydney. He's taught at a lot of studios, he's very happy and warm, and he is an incredible dancer and teacher. He's inspiring, encouraging and I respect him a lot.

I've decided to make it easier on myself there's a number of topics I'll tend to focus on including the following:

• dance progress: dance is the one area where I can always learn something and improve something. I guess it's the main motivating force in my life
• favourite teachers: This will mostly be about the dancers that I learn from, week to week. I guess if I also learn other important life lessons I'll talk about them too. It might be good to try a new teacher every week? I'm not sure
• pet peeves/airing of grievances: I usually tweet these, but I guess if I can articulate why I'm angry about something I can either fix it quickly or get over it a little faster
• who i caught up with/saw that day beyond the usual: Life is busy and I have a fairly set routine. I work full time, I take a certain set of dance classes regularly. I'm married so I'll see my husband almost everyday. On the odd occasion where I bump into someone I haven't seen in a while I'll make an effort to mention them
• xo gossip girl: maybe? could be a bad idea. But I love crossover (aka xo) and I love gossip so it might be fun to combine the two, who knows
• this week in kpop: kpop is life (currently) so I will probably talk about kpop a fair bit
• questions about life
• things that went wrong this week in my life: probably going to be all work related and hence confidential but ANYWAY self explanatory
• popularity contests: inherently we are all creatures that worry a lot about how much other people like us. In the past, if you didn't fit into your tribe you'd probably die. These days you can survive even if people don't really like you, but it's still fun to have pissing contests
• world tragedy: sometimes shit happens on a world wide scale and you can't help but think about it
• daily happiness: I want to collect little moments everyday that made me happy, but i don't think i'll post them each time it happens. I'll probably tweet these as well and collate the best ones at the end of the week

Why restart blogging instead of vlogging? A number of reasons. I've always been slightly more practiced at expressing my words through text rather than through speech. I'm hoping to one day transition but to start with I thought it would be easier to just start doing something I already knew how to do.

Until next time! It's 2am. What am I doing with my life.