Riot and Frolic

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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

List of Last Week’s Labors of Love

– so proud of all the dancers I know that participated in Dance Fest this weekend.  Tons of improvement from last year AND some of them even had the balls to dance out of category THE RIGHT WAY (dancing Bronze figures in Silver level heats; dancing Silver in Gold heats).  And IT WAS AWESOME.  

 

SO.

 

AWESOME.

 

– I got to judge a local competitions all day, drink coffee, hang out with adults, and eat a really superb box lunch (I'm not kidding; it was tasty).  While I have been told I'm judgemental, I was hired to do just that for a whole day AND I did what I wanted (I like that, I will mark them, I'm taking my shoes off, etc.) for 8 hours.  In other words, IT WAS A VACATION.

– shaving is exhausting.  I think that is something that both sexes can agree upon. 

– made crackers from this recipe.  There are Fine (yes, Soucie and Martin have heard this before), but I suggest rolling them super thin.

– by the way, apparently, I do not know what 1/8" looks like.

– got free tickets to Nickelodeon Universe from my favorite couple and took the girls on all the kiddie rides.  They were thrilled (scanning their bar code bracelets was exciting every. time.) and slept for 3 hours during naptime so THANK YOU.

What kind of crackers do you like?  What staple do you always make instead of buy?  What do think of indoor theme parks?

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4 responses to “List of Last Week’s Labors of Love”

  1. Sadie Avatar
    Sadie

    Dear Kate,
    Making the crackers!! Been looking for cheap snack foods for us post-college kids. Love you!

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  2. warren Avatar
    warren

    My favs are saltines…I guess because my dad and I used to eat tons of them with peanut butter…holy cow do I love saltines!

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  3. Riot and Frolic Avatar
    Riot and Frolic

    SADIE,
    I’m trying all the cracker recipes right now, but obviously they’re all variations on a theme. Yeah, flour and water and oil are pretty easy and cheap, right? YAY.

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  4. Riot and Frolic Avatar
    Riot and Frolic

    Dude, Saltines with ANYTHING are delicious. Good when you’re sick, good with Nutella, good with PB, good with soup, good with brown sugar and butter broiled on top, etc.

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