Eat Dance Live

I have to start off with a confession: I've never eaten a "real" reuben sandwich. In fact, when I was in high school, I would go with my sister and her boyfriend to their favourite little deli shop near our campus. Every time, I would want to gag at the smell of the reuben they always  ordered. I don't even actually knows what goes in one of those things... sauerkraut, rye bread? That's about it. So, for some reason that still escapes me, I started suddenly having vegan reuben cravings like mad earlier this week. Seriously, I was like a pregnant woman craving ice cream and pickles... I may have spent precious hours of prime thesis proposal writing time scouring Pinterest for options, like  Option #1 : or Option #2 : I looked, I considered, I conquered... I had to try my hand at this. The upside? Since I'd never had one before, there was little chance I'd be disappointed! I knew I wouldn't make a traditional reuben anyway. I wasn't a fan o...

For a change, I'll allow myself to boast and say (perhaps again) that I've always been fairly flexible. It might have been the years of dance or perhaps my obsessive childhood perseverance of trying to remember to stretch during commercials... whatever it is, something paid off.  I mentioned a while back that, for almost a year now, I've achieved my lifelong goal of easily being able to go into the splits . I also posted the basic stretching routine , which I do after every workout, that I think really contributed to where I am now. After reaching my splits goal and all sorts of other crazy stuff, I've decided to up the ante. As of today, here are some of my goals for the year ahead. Good thing I've started dancing a couple times a week again... Hopefully, that will both help and motivate me to get there. 1) The Standing Splits (not necessarily on pointe, but hey, why not dream big) 2) Laybacks like I used to be able to do... a la Rachel Brice...