think happy | 52/52

I'm so glad it's Sunday now, I've not stopped all week. Welcome to the real world Carys! But seriously, it feels good just to be able to sit down and do my own thing after so many exams.

You may also have noticed that this is the last Think Happy! I've been doing this for a year now, and I'm going to stop these Sunday posts. In return, I feel I'll be able to post more freely about other topics, so hopefully that means more posts! Yay!


1. Last night I went to a joint birthday party two of my friends hosted, and I had an amazing time, except the blisters! Ouch, you shouldn't dance in heels for three hours, I don't envy you uni/college lot who party multiple times a week!

On the other hand, we got a lot of dancing done!

Storm, me and Imi

2. I also really enjoyed dance classes yesterday.

Slightly blurry photo of me in my crazy colours! Normally I wear a black skirt, but I went for red for a change!

In pointe, I decided to film some of the work we did, and watching back the footage has given me more of an idea of what to do to improve. I'll be doing this more often!

3. I figured out the most perfect in-pointe-shoe padding for my feet at the minute! Will be writing about that this week, I found a couple of new tricks that completely take the pain of pointe away for me.

4. I've been working on my splits, although only in dance classes. Monday night consisted of street dance, but I can't remember if we did splits then or not. I think we did. On Tuesday night at contemporary, Becky got out the crash mats again, so everyone could practise their forwards roles. I'm not doing one in our dance, so I just sat by the mirrors stretching out my back and stretching my splits, which felt so fulfilling. Last but not least, in ballet yesterday Kerstin had us doing some splits stretches, and I didn't have to do as many as usual to get my splits, which I was so proud of!

5. Best til last.........

I GOT A CLEAN DOUBLE PIROUETTE ON MY BAD SIDE! Wooo!!!

To make it seem even better, I wasn't exactly trying either, I was attempting a single but ending up just carrying on, and who was I to stop it? Unfortunately, my camera was being a little shit and decided not to record this, or my wonderful pirouette/piqué turns across the room, which more than annoyed me! But at least people saw me do it, and my camera recorded my courus!

Think Happy...13/52...

It's the end of another week, so time for another post! How was your week? I hope it was very good and wasn't too flooded (UK).

Let's just jump in and start :)

1. Sherlock!! Ohmyfudginggod it was soooo good! (Haven't yet watched tonight's so shhhh, no spoilers!)

2. On both Tuesday and Saturday I went to Hannah's house for a makeup day and photoshoot and we got some amazing results from both days! See this post for more :)

3. Cats day on Thursday! We ate blue sweets (which I soon found out I was more or less allergic too xD ) and had 6 hours of pretending to be cats and rehearsing our songs and dances. I don't know whether to be insulted or honoured that our Director, Ethan, moved me from my harmony-group to the boys' (Harry and Shane) harmony-group, and we sing the lowest vocals. Of course, I've forgotten all of my new harmonies so I've just reverted to singing my old harmonies and switching to the main-melody for one of the verses, because I can't hit the right notes for the harmony I need, whatever I do. But I figure that as long as I'm singing one of the existing harmonies and not just make up a random one on the spot then I should be fine and it will all balance out!

I don't think the artificial colouring agrees with me - I ended up with huge rashes up each of my arms on Friday!

4. Cats rehearsals today! We had two new cast members with us today - Tia who plays Bombalurina and Charlotte who plays Grizabella. Charlotte has been away in South America for a long time, so today was the first time most of us have seen her!

We also got my second solo choreographed and found a really easy but beautiful lift for me and Shane to do at the end of it! We then started work on The Aweful Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles.

5. Parties! I went to three this week. New Year's Eve at my aunt Sally's house, New Year's at my aunt Lisa's house and a surprise party for a family friend yesterday night. He's joining the RAF as an Officer, so we all went along to wish him luck!

This is the new Glitterberry J20, and it's glittery! Ohmygosh I love it! Kind of tastes like Vimto :)

6. New Year! I don't think I need to say anything else, really. I started one of those projects where you take a photo of yourself everyday, I can't wait to see the end result!

That's it for today, I hope you all had a good week! Best wishes to everyone, especially those in the floods, and good luck back at work and school! Bye :)