Friday, September 23, 2011

Possible Dance Songs

I love to dance. Around my house where no one can see me. Because I'm all alone, that means I have no clue what's popular in the clubs. Here's your chance to help me out. Take a look at my list and make suggestions to add or take away. Keep in mind that this is for the M&M conference, so we have a wide range of age groups and a variety of tastes. I gotta try to keep it pretty clean. If you have request, please let me know why it should be added or why it should be taken away. Oh, and heaven help the poor DJ who will be weaving these songs together!


Dances with instructions (for the uncoordinated--like me!)

Electric Slide
Cupid shuffle
Cha cha slide
Ymca
Macarena
(No. I'm not doing the Chicken dance. Sorry.)


50s/60s
The Twist
Dancing in the Street
Shout
Land of 1000 Dances
Mustang Sally

70s
We are Family
Last Dance—Donna Summer
YMCA
Get Down tonight or That’s the Way (I Like it)
Brick  House
Shake your Groove Thing            
ABC
Dancing Queen
It’s Raining Men

80s
Venus
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Bust a Move
My Prerogative
Nasty
Call Me
Hey Micky
Celebration
Conga
Walk this Way
I’m so Excited
Push it
You Spin me Round (Like a Record)
Love Shack
Into the Groove

90s
Vogue
Groove is in the Heart
Unbelievable
Good Vibrations
Jump Around
Jump
Gonna Make you Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
Like a Prayer
Baby Got Back

Today
Fly like a G-6
Independent Women
I Gotta Feelin
Single Ladies
Bad Romance
Low
Yeah!
So What
Tik Tok
Pokerface
Til the World Ends or I Wanna Go from Britney
Empire State of Mind

Friends in Low Places—token country song (I know, I know. “I feel no shame, I was born and raised in the Boondocks” but that’s not the kind of dancing we’re going to be doing here)

Friday, September 16, 2011

Again, Let me Reiterate, I'm not Dead Yet!

So about that whole New Year's Resolution to have a blog post every week....

Well, I'm in the last two weeks before Moonlight & Magnolias, and this is my last run-through as conference co-chair. I'll be revisiting that commitment and hopefully doing a better job. Honestly, the kids alone provide me with PLENTY of material. I have a story jotted down on the back of an envelope somewhere to remind me to write a post about how my 9-year-old was throwing around the word "simpatico."

In the meantime, here are a few of my greatest hits from Petit Fours and Hot Tamales and The Healthy Writer:

Her Majesty's Christmas List
Getting my OM on
My First Day of School All Over Again
I Got Ripped
Adventures in Attempted Productivity
Er, Don't Take my Breath Away?
Just a Space Cadet from the Writer's Block
Back to School....Already?