#things you remember

[ayamari-no-goshi]

Old Memories from Dance Classes

I saw a post earlier about Miles Morales doing ballet and having trouble adjusting to his new strength as Spider-Man, and it just reminded me of memories that needed to be shared. 

In a past life, I used to dance competitively. I am classically trained so ballet, tap, and jazz. Also did lyrical and open which are fusion styles. Did it for 12-13 years. My specialty was leaping which is a little uncommon. This is where our story begins. 

During solo practice, my teacher would sometimes have me warm up with 2lbs weights on the ankles, more for endurance practice then anything else. I hated doing this - not because it was all that difficult, but because I couldn’t land properly afterwards.

So, I’d be jumping after removing these weights and be higher in the air than average from the weight change. I can’t tell you how many times that I’d be preparing to land, and there’s no ground. And you don’t really know what to do. 

It’s just like a brief moment of ‘Where’s the floor? Am I floating? How do I get out of this? Seriously, where’s the floor?’ Because per my training, I should have landed already. Normally, it wasn’t a problem, but stumbling would happen. 

Just silly things you remember. Just to point out how much jumping I did, my last solo had at least 26 different choreographed leaps and jumps. That is a lot for a less than 3 minute performance for the competition circuit. 

[krumpkin]

Another quote that makes you think 🤔

[page-mistress]

Search for randomly remembered things from my childhood

Sometimes I remember random stuff from my childhood, but I can’t remember what they were called so I wind up obsessively searching for them, going by what I can remember and looking for results that trigger anything.

My most recent success was one I’d been trying to find on and off since getting out of high school. all I remembered was that it involved aliens in a Earth beauty contest, this alien guy with a vegetable head with a voice I recently realized sounded familiar, and the day being saved by someone’s assistant marrying the alien, who felt that she was the only attractive member of our species. The whole story was being told to this bartender, and to prove he wasn’t making it up, the teller gave him this video postcard she sent him from their honeymoon.

It bothered me for years. I only came in at the end of it, so that was pretty much all I had to go on. From what I remembered of the video quality, it was likely made in the 80s, but I didn’t know if it was a movie or a show or what. And of course, my search results all involved actual beauty pageants, since I couldn’t remember what the fake one was called and assumed it must have been called “Miss Universe” cause why else would aliens be offended at not being included?

My most recent obsession over this brought up the Beauty Contest trope page on TVTropes, and I figured “well, I’ve looked everywhere else, why not?” And I went to the live action TV examples, having decided at this point that it likely was from some sort of anthology series.

...and there it was, a summary of the very tale I’d been looking for. It turned out there were a couple things I remembered wrong, like the fact the alien had a cabbage head and not a corn head (likely where my difficulty in finding it came from), but it was real. I wasn’t imagining it. It was from the last episode of Amazing Stories, and was called “Miss Stardust“, and the alien guy was voiced by Weird Al, which given how often I’ve seen him in cartoons over the years, and especially recently, explained why only now why the alien’s voice seemed familiar when I recalled it. Heck, it turned out that another episode had the story of an illusionist who found a real magic deck of cards, but decided to retire after he accidentally damaged some in frustration, only for the cards to spell out goodbye to the audience at his final show.

It’s such a fracking relief when I finally find these things.

...if anyone happens to know the name of a picture book that told the story of the Princess and the Pea, but with rabbits instead of people, please tell me. That one’s been bugging me for even longer.

[queen-ofthe-damned]

There are things you remember, and there are things you can't forget

Which do you think are more memorable?

[trudymade]

I totally just remembered

One season (like 15 years ago) I spent 3 days a week teaching a tiny lady named Shilpi how to drive my big SUV so she could get her driver's license. Forgive me if I spelled her name wrong. It has been a while! She always wanted to pay me and when I refused she would take money and candy bars out of her purse and throw them in my glove box and furiously run from my car when I would drop her back at the place I collected her.

[beautyqueenofconeyisland-blog]