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I went to the 5th poi class out of 8 last night. It was so much fun (as always)!! I actually missed the 3rd class a couple weeks ago because the weather was getting kind of icky and I didn't want to drive into Minneapolis if the roads were going to be icy. I'm kind of sad that I missed it, but oh well. What's really funny is that every Thursday evening, after I get home from work, I feel so exhausted and just want to stay home for the night, but then I force myself to put on my shoes and coat again, and pick up my poi and go into the city, and then I ALWAYS have a TON of fun! I have to always remind myself that even if I don't feel like going right away, I'm going to have an awesome time with my poi and all my new friends. I really love it.

I don't know what I'm going to do when the classes end... I'm going to have to really force myself to keep practicing and playing on my own. I really do want to keep getting better and learning new things, and it's such a great fun workout! I think one of these days I'm going to have to go to one of the Spin Jams they always have going on around the area.

I signed up for the poi class with Minneapolis Community Education! I think it will be fun and I hope to get the hang of some moves that I've been having difficulty with on my own. Anyone wanna join me? Just $44 for 8 weeks of classes, starting at the end of this month. Act fast!

Current Mood: chipper

I must be psychic, or else I have a really good natural sense of airmail shipping time.

MY COLOR-CHANGING POI ARRIVED TODAY! Hooray! As mentioned in an earlier entry, I had them shipped to Jon's work, and when I got home today there was the backage on the shelf next to the key-hanger by the back door! I had to bounce a few times. Then I ran downstairs to say hi to Jon and open the package and try them out. OMGwtf they are so pretty!! LOL kthxbye!!!11oneone Wow, I'm starting to annoy myself!

Seriously, though, they are gorgeous. They go through EVERY color of the rainbow and the color change is very smooth and subtle. It would be irresistible to just sit and stare at them forEVAR if I was stoned. I gave them a few spins and Indy attempted to bop them a few times, so I took them outside to see them in the dark - BEATUTIFUL. I am very very pleased. ^_^

And speaking of poi, I found out thru the TC Burners mailing list (and then again from a kind friend who forwarded me the message just in case ^_^) that there is going to be an 8-week poi spinning class starting at the end of this month. While I've been doing pretty well figuring out quite a bit on my own, I think it would be really fun to sign up and get some hands-on help with my 5-beat weave. It's $55, but I think that's a pretty good price for 8 weeks! I'll have to look a little more into it.

Current Mood: bouncy

Hey everybody reading this! Are you interested in taking up a new hobby that is super fun and super good for you? (yeah, it's so fun it's not even like exercise, but your body doesn't realize that as it's pumping its heart and burning those calories and building that muscle!)

Well you can get a 5.8% discount when you shop at Home of Poi by clicking this link! It has comprehensive information about poi, staff and twirling, including animated lessons, discussion forums, building instructions, articles and a shop. AND, you are getting this discount because I am such a good customer there.

The more of you who take advantage of this offer, the more points I get on my account, and the more I will want to buy - and the more I buy, the bigger discounts I can offer to YOU! It's great! We all win! Go buy stuff at Home of Poi. ^_^

Current Mood: chipper

I just remembered that I ordered some illuminated poi from Home of Poi earlier this week. Sometimes having a bad memory like mine is fun - super surprises happen all the time! So at any rate, I'm having them shipped to Jon's office because I'm already having the Denise needles shipped here, and I'm not really supposed to get personal deliveries at work at all. I didn't want to have the poi shipped to the house because I don't think the package would fit in the mailbox and I don't want it sitting out on the porch in the snow all afternoon or something... or even stuck between the doors, if it would fit, just doesn't make me comfortable.

They are not only illuminated, they cycle through all the colors of the rainbow, not just one steady color. ^_^ Twee! Pretty excited.

Current Mood: bouncy

Somebody wanna buy me these? I want them to use when learning new moves. My streamer poi have tennis balls inside them and kind of hurt when I make a mistake that results in my body or head getting whacked.

Holy cow, I just surprised myself so much that I found myself standing here with a big toothy grin!! I was just whacking myself in the head and back with my poi, as I am wont to do most days, and suddenly I just got it and I was doing a 3-beat weave!! I have gotten too lazy about always doing a 2-beat weave with my right arm under my left, and I thought it would be a good idea to push myself to switch it up, so once I got left-under-right going smoothly enough, I tried the 3-beat weave again and instead of tying my arms up in cord and whacking myself in the hip, it just started to flow! I was so surprised at how smoothly it just happened that I accidentally whacked myself in the hip! lol

So now once I get that smooth enough, I'm going to try a 5-beat weave. I can also do a butterfly, a mexican wave, a windmill, a reverse wave (2- and 3-beat) and a corkscrew... Not a lot yet, but I'm pleased with the progress. It's going better than I even expected! I feel like I'm getting more accustomed to the way the poi move in relation to the way I move my hands, arms, and wrists. And I feel like I'm getting a little better control of said body parts, which is a HUGE accomplishment for a clumsy girl like me.

Hooray!
(Oh, and

frino babe, here are a couple more sites you can look at if you are still curious (and damn my memory if I already gave you these): Do More Poi and Home of Poi (click on "Lessons" on each one and you can kinda see a breakdown of what's going on)

Current Mood: excited

What a week this has been! I got my poi in the mail yesterday, and today I got my white lift-off bike basket (and OH is it super cute!!!) and my dingy little bike bell. It's not the kind that goes Brrrrrring, but the kind that has a little hammer on a spring and has a really loud, clear DINGGGGG! I fell in love with these things when Jon took me to Lake Calhoun to rent a recumbant bike to ride around the lake while he rollerbladed. The bike I rented had a dingy bell and I just went nuts for the thing. Love that bright little "Dingggggg!" noise! (Of course, it annoyed the HELL out of Jon when I kept DINGing at him, and he threatened to just leave me there alone if I kept doing it.) but now I have one of my own and I can DING to my heart's content!

The basket is SUPER cute, too! I ran down to the garage with it right away to make sure it fit my bike, even though it SAID it should fit most bikes anyway. It fit, of course, but I think I was really just excited to see it on there and be happy about that. It is a nice little rig - no "installation" is really necessary. It has 2 hooks that go over the front middle part of my handlebars, and then a little rounded brace kind of thing that rests against the part where my handlebars go into... what's that thing called? It's the vertical piece that splits off into a Y shape so that it can attach to the front wheel..... ANYway, the basket has a hinged handle on it, so I can just lift it on and off the handlebar really easily, even when it's full of crap. I'm SUPER excited about it!

The poi are really nice - they are just basic tennis-ball ones with kind of nicer loop handles and really long nylon streamers that are orange with little yellow "flame" bits on the sides of the streamers. I like the streamers a lot - they really do give me a much better idea of how straight my spinning is, and whether my poi are traveling in the correct directions. I'm quite pleased. (^_^) I still think this will be a very good way for me to develop my large motor skills, which we all know are really not that good, since I am a clumsy girl.

On an unrelated note, I won a set of 6 crochet hooks on Ebay for a really good price 2 nights ago, but still haven't gotten any shipping information from the seller. She has not sold much yet, so maybe she doesn't know that people appreciate that, but I did email her tonight asking for a tracking number and/or an ETA. Hopefully I'll get those hooks by Thursday so I can go to "Stitch 'N Bitch" with

onewomanshow at Crafty Planet, and maybe get some help getting started on the cute top i found a pattern for...

*edit* Oops! I just noticed that Stitch 'N Bitch is every 2nd and 4th TUESDAY, not Tuesday and Thursday. I guess I'll have to wait.

I just ordered a pair of beginner's poi. I had been playing around with spinning long socks that had smaller socks balled up inside the ends (DON'T LAUGH!), and it's really not that hard, even for a clumsy girl like me! So I did some poking around on Home of Poi, and found some not-too-expensive but still decent cloth ones so I can start trying to get more serious about this. I went with a pair that have tails, so I can keep better track of where I am twisting my hands in the wrong directions or making mistakes, and they will also look more neat when I am doing it right!

For those of you who are wondering, the poi I am referring to is not the gooey purple starchy Hawaiian food made from smashed taro root. "Poi" is also the Maori (natives of New Zealand) word for "ball (on a cord)." They are twirled and spun in the hands, often lit on fire for an amazing performance.

Last year at Burning Man, I was very impressed with

nicotinequeen's poi spinning (she even used fire!) I told her that I wished I could learn how to do it, but that I felt I was too clumsy and uncoordinated. She told me that anyone could do it, that she had only started doing it AFTER the previous year's Burning Man, and that it could actually help build coordination. I always remembered that, and even looked at the Home of Poi website a few times since then, but I never really bothered trying it with a beginner's set or even socks like I am doing right now. However, now that I have actually tried a few basic moves, I am seeing just how quickly I am able to learn, and how this could really help me get in better touch with my body and become at least a little more coordinated. (Plus, it's actually a nice little cardio workout! I never realized how it can get your heart pumping!)

So today I am being brave, I am doing something new and physically challenging, which is typically outside my comfort level. And right after I ordered the poi, I noticed that they are being shipped out of New Zealand! This might take a few weeks.... ;)

Current Mood: determined

OK, I got the job. Cool cool. I am surprisingly bored about the good news. I don't know. I guess I kinda figured I had it in the bag from the start, and from what my agent tells me, they were absolutely impressed by me on Monday, and the other 3 candidates for the position didn't really stand a chance. Hehe - my head is getting so big. Maybe I'm just underwhelmed because I'm on my moon. Meh. Craving Triscuits and Easy Cheez with a Spanish Olive on top.

Thanks for the well-wishes

nicotinequeen! ;) We need to get together sometime. Maybe you can attempt to teach me some stuff on poi. I feel like I can accomplish anything right now!

Current Mood: relieved

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Entries tagged with poi

I love poi ^_^

Fun! Poi Classes

Yippee! Colors!

Sweet Discounts!

Light up rainbow color poi

Fluffy Pink Poi

Zip-POI-di-doo-dah!

Bike Basket - CHECK! Dingy little bell - CHECK! (and poi, too ^_^)

Oh boy - Poi!

Got it