Saturday, October 28, 2006

Happy Halloween!

Dead Of The Days!
Halloween Home Movie
From Our House To Yours!

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

T-Tapp Dream

OK, so I had the most vivid colorful complete with music dream the other night and have not been able to get the music out of my head. So I sat down and wrote down every thing..Including the words to the music the T-Tapp trainers were singing. I wish I could download the music to go along with the words so you could hear it how it happened in the dream. This is the second time I have had vivid dreams about T-Tapp but the first time was nothing like this!

Omen? Prediction? More likely a candidate for therapy :)

Here's the dream, as complete as I can remember:

I am in Florida at the T-Tapp Trainer/Trainer in Training Tampa event. T-tapp training takes place in this beautiful ballroom with brightly lit crystal chandeliers and hardwood floors. I am attending t-tapp training events and everything has gone very well. It's the final night and all the attendees have to attend a T-Tapp ceremony and individually perform T-Tapp skills and be reviewed by Teresa herself.

Then suddenly I find myself home with my husband (hey! it's a dream..remember!?) and I am looking at myself in a mirror brushing my hair. I'm confused as to why it is long, black and wavy. My husband is too. But, I put a bow in it and change into a red satin sleeveless hoop ball gown littered with tiny dark red flowers, trimmed with black lace, complete with plunging neckline.

I excitedly leave to make it to the T-Tapp ceremony in time, so walk to a bus stop. (what! no limo!) On the way, the tops of my thighs become like rubber and I struggle like walking through mud to get to the bus stop. My thighs recover and I make it to the Hilton and there is a long line of T-Tapp women waiting one by one to enter the ball room. No one else has a ball gown on and I try to pretend I dont feel silly.


I overhear chatter about cat crossovers being one of the movements each of us would perform for Teresa and everyone else for that matter. "Cat crossovers?", I think. "What the hell is a cat crossover?", I say to the ladies standing in front of me, "I don't remember learning that".

Looking at me funny, they try to show me but Homeland Security shows up and instructs us to stand in a straight line one by one. Homeland security is here because of some sort of disaster or threat. So we stand in line, one in front of the other, one by one and are not allowed to make any moves out of line. Nobody knows what is going on. I am still worried about cat crossovers and the line slowly moves forward.


The ballroom is lit with soft low chandeliers and tables are set up around the outside perimeter making for a large dance floor on the right side of the room. A full orchestra on the opposite side of the dance floor begins to play. The tables are draped with tablecloths and to my absolute horror, made up of the same exact satin print as my dress. I pretend not to be humiliated.

No one speaks but our curiosity grows as to why homeland security is screening each and everyone of us. For our own protection they say. I slowly move toward the front of the dance floor. All eyes are on me and my tablecloth printed dress and suddenly the music stops. The dance room floor lights up.

All eyes turn to the dance floor and with a sudden burst, the orchestra begins a lively song and out through double doors one by one come all the T-Tapp Trainers. Dressed in sleeveless hoop ballroom gowns printed with soft pastel gingham tablecloth prints, white lace and plunging neckines, they begin a routine of song and dance. It's a T-Tapp choreographed routine set to a T-Tapp Rap. It's spectacular!



A fast beat pulsates the room to the tapp and rap...and with nearly perfect form the T-Tapp trainers sing and dance: And... it goes...to the T-Tapp beat now...


I am the Poetress..jagged rhythm soothing breeze neuro-kinetic flow
Weaving images disguised as prose. up. down. fast. slow.
Neuro Kinetic flow

Neuro Kinetic flow

Up down fast slow

Neuro Kinetic flow

I am the I am.


I am the Dancer..moving motion jazzing space Nuero kinetic flow
Weaving images disguised as prose. up. down. fast. slow.
Neuro Kinetic flow

Neuro Kinetic flow

Up down fast slow

Neuro Kinetic flow

I am the I am

I am the Actress..being body crying soul Nuero kinetic flow
Weaving images disguised as prose. up. down. fast. slow.
Neuro kinetic flow
Neuro kinetic flow
Up down fast slow
Neuro kinetic flow
I am the I am


I am the Artist..reaching inward drawing form. Neuro kinetic flow
Weaving images disguised as prose. up. down. fast. slow.
Neuro kinetic flow
Neuro kinetic flow
Up down fast slow
Neuro kinetic flow
I am the I am


I am the Singer...singing vision building mind. Neuro kinetic flow
Weaving images disguised as prose. up. down. fast. slow.
Neuro kinetic flow
Neuro kinetic flow
Up down fast slow
Neuro kinetic flow
I am the I am
I am the Poetress
I am!
teehee.....

Thursday, October 19, 2006

The T-Tapp Tampa Retreat

What a great time I had at the Tampa retreat! Who would have thought that 100+ women brought together working out would be so supportive of one another?

I had such a good time! I made friends, I learned new things and I lost 12 3/4 inches. I worked out hard.

But boy was I sore when I got home! It took me over a week for my muscles to de-swell! Salt baths and alfalfa really helped in that area.

When I came home my husband didn't even recognize me! He was staring at me, but it wasn't until I waved at him that he realized that it was his own wife! He was simply floored at the change!

My husband got up this morning before me (now that never happens!) and as I was laying there I noticed that my belly was lying flat. Wow! So I get up to measure myself for the first time since I got home. I measured in the same places that the Trainers measured in and did not pull the tape snug at all :). I am so excited about this! Below my bust area is a full inch smaller, my waist is 1 1/2 inches smaller and my abdomen is a full 2 inches smaller! Both arms are 1/2 inch smaller too. No change in my legs and hips but those areas are my "skinny" areas anyway. That is a total of 18 1/4 inches lost!

Talk about motivating! Today I start full workouts again! I haven't done a "full" workout since I have been back because I have just been too sore!

In three weeks from today I will be 50. My goal is to get my waist down 3 more inches...Better get crackin!