I’ve always been pretty comfortable with my body.  Yes, I’m chubbier then I want to be. I’m paler than I’d like.  I wish my hair was less…eh unruly. etc. etc. etc.  But just cuz there are things I don’t like, doesn’t mean I’m not OK in my own skin.  For a long while I’ve wanted to take a burlesque class.  I googled some studios in Chicago but I never really went that extra step and signed up for a class until a few weeks ago. 

I had my first class this past week at Studio L’Amour  –my teacher, Frenchy Kiss, was charming and I immediately liked her.  I want to go drink martini’s with her and talk about shoes and underwear.  I can easily say I will probably fall in love with burlesque class.  It was fun. flirty. hard. tiring. some weird places in my body ached….but

I probably could have done it all night. all day. repeat.

I’m not really envisioning myself changing careers but hey, a class is just a class and it was darn fun. And I haven’t a clue why I didn’t do it earlier.  Actually I’ve noticed lately that I’m doing a lot of things I always wanted to do, but never did for a variety of reasons…and when I do finally give things a go – it turns out great!  I’m not sure if things turn out great because I’m ready to tackle whatever it is, or because it always would have turned out get – I don’t think there is a way for me to answer that question unfortunately.  But the upside is at least I’m going for it and maybe now I’ll be ready to tackle of few others things on my ‘wanna do list’ …

In the dance studio there is a picture of the Hoff and the video below is why….

btw: this is the owner of Studio L’Amour, she teaches the more advanced classes!