Things That Make Me Happy! :)

(In no particular order...)
1. The Black Swan Pas de Deux
2. All my friends at dance
3. MY NEW FREED POINTE SHOES WHICH GOT HERE JUST IN TIME (BLESS YOU FEDEX GUY)!

4. Svetlana Zakharova

5. Roberto Bolle's...everything *dreamy look in eyes*

5. Having a "flexible day"

6. Bleeding through your pointe shoes and knowing that you did a good job

7. The whole ballet Swan Lake

8. Getting $5 Tickets to the ballet through Teen Tix

9. Going backstage at performances

10. Getting Karel Cruz and Carla Korbes autographs in the same week

11. When a teacher says you did something good

12. Learning performance pieces

13. HAIRSPRAY

14. Doing double and triple pirouettes en pointe in class

15. Doing pas de deux's

16. The rush you get when you step on stage and everything else goes away

17. When the little girls says you're their inspiration

18. When all the hard work pays off

19. Trying on costumes

20. Backstage at shows

21. Getting compliments on practically anything

22. BAND-AIDS AND TOE TAPE

23. When Hilarion gets thrown off the cliff in Giselle *wicked smile*

24. Doing stage makeup

25. That one "I was perfect..." moment

26. My first pair of pointe shoes

27. Dramatic ballets

28. Going to a professional performance and seeing a piece that your class did

29. Giselle's first dance as a willi

30. The first pas de deux music from the Kingdom of the Shades in La Bayadere

31. When your friends finally see you dance and are so easily impressed

32. Pancake tutus

33. The pas de deux music from Act II of Giselle

34. Seeing a professional performance and going to the studio and working your butt off so that someday you can look like them

35. Doing something you didn't think you could do

36. Empty studios+pointe shoes=variation time!

37. New leotards

38. Walking around in the lobby after shows and having random people you've never even met tell you that you were amazing

39. Ouch pouches

40. That one awesome picture of you that gets on all the flyers

41. Getting the part

42. Acceptance letters

43. Watching Black Swan from backstage and hyperventilating

44. The crazy passion for what you do

45. Dance offs!

46. Galas :) Who else is excited?

47. "How can you do that?!" "I'm a dancer..."

48. discountdance.com

49. The entrance of the shades from La Bayadere

50. Knowing you did the best you could and beyond....and that it looked awesome

Yes, my pointe shoes arrived! I'm so relieved! Kudos to the FedEx guy. :) Now I have to wait until Tuesday to use them. :( I can't wait that long! So tell me guys...what makes you happy? :D

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