Dirty Dancing Workshop

Contact Improv with an Erotic Twist!

Saturday, December 13th, 7:30-9:00pm

Erotic Artist Priestess Anness teaches the mechanics and fun of Dirty Dancing.
Learn how to share body weight to lean in really close without falling over. Feel stable and light on your feet at the same time. Lean back with solid support and get as close as you can to fucking in public, without getting arrested.
The workshop is designed for couples, but if you're feeling really ambitious and want to bring your whole poly-amorous network, we can do some group manuevers too!


How it works:

Anness uses techniques of contact improv dancing, swing dancing, and erotic dancing. She makes the dance vocabulary very accessible so that anyone who enjoys dancing can learn from it.

The workshop will be like a dance class with brief demonstrations followed by practicing where Anness will guide and instruct while the participants are trying their hand at dirty dancing. This will go on for about an hour, after which we will have free dancing for 30 minutes.

Wear club-appropriate attire. Trust me, it will help you get in the mood.



Price is $10 for members/$15 for non. Pay at the door.

Breathless is located at 318 Lisgar (second floor). (www.breathlessottawa.com)

RSVP please: anness@priestessanness.com (though showing up the night of will still technically work)

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Hey,

So I've been posting a lot about my Sweetie lately (okay, since August. But still).

I am now going to post a little about me (and, admittedly, vast ammounts of materialism. Just deal with that, if you will. ;-)

So. The original plan for yesterday (had there been no bus-strike) was to have Seanchaidh over for an evening of fun and chatter.
Sadly, bus-strike made that impossible (or at least impossible without the addition of vast and unneccessary (and potentially unavailable) ammounts of cab-fare).

So here's me thinking: Dammit! That's two social evenings ruined -- in a ROW, no less -- due to this damn city! :-P

So, imagine my delight when I get a call, around 1pm, from Miz Arndis, asking me to drop by her place (just a quick trudge-through-the-deep-snow away ;-) for an afternoon of chatter and tea.

I brought my Spiffy New Shoes to show off (and, er, practice walking in - although I was mostly sitting on a kitchen chair), and she gave me my birthday+xmas present!

Which is, in fact, the subject of this post. :-D


She and Tchang got me a box of massage-bar ingredients! :-D

So I have a big bag of Shea butter, and big bag of (delicious-smelling!) Cocoa butter, and a big bottle of "Wild Heart" essential-oil blend (anise, cinamon, cloves, and some other stuff -- it's definitely essential oil: I put some on as a perfume and it did, indeed, leave a little (painless) chemical burn on the very surface of my skin. Definitely something to be diluted with other oils.

Anyway. What this means is that I can make Bath Stuff for my family's DIY xmas presents this year -- I was already planning on doing Body Scrub Mix (sort of like those layered jars of cookie-ingedients that come with a note saying "add the following Wet Stuff, mix and bake"?), but I wasn't sure what to do for the guys.
So I think the two of them (and possibly my sister) will be getting Wild Heart scented massage bars/butters made from the above plus some coconut oil and a little bit of something liquid (like maybe a teaspoon of soybean oil or something).


To that end, today will be spent (after dishes) doing kitchen experiments involving scrubs and butters (and making macadamia-nut chocolates, too, I think).

EDIT: Dishes are done. First experimental massage bar (possibly to be tested on CSI_Tokyo this evening) is cooling in my fridge. Which I hope is the right way to do it. ;-) (E.G.: I'm hoping the stuff doesn't separate on me -- though, if it does, it will be easier to re-melt into its component parts. ;-)

I need to give my cookie-sheet a good scrub, and then I'll make (more) pumpkin-seed candy and a batch of macadamia-nut as well. :-)

Body-scrub mix first, though, I think. :-)
/EDIT


Must badger temp agencies again. :-)


- TTFN,
- Amazon.

Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Massage bar is slippery, easily-meltable goodness.
Probably didn't need the liquid oil to be added though (the coconut oil has a low enough melting point to work that out on its own).

Now I just need to figure out how to mold them without having to break them to get them out of the mold. (I'm thinking muffin-cup liners, at the moment -- used to have a silicone (or "silicone") muffin-tray, but it smelled of burning plastic when I tried to bake something in it, so I used it for cold-mold stuff, up until I moved (at which point I decided I didn't have much real use for it, and got rid of it).

Hm.

Thinky-think.

In other news: I have re-made the pumkin seed chocolat-candy bark. I used some of the old stuff (chopped into little chunks and mixed in after the fact), so it didn't go to waste. It's chilling in the fridge right now.

The macadamia-nut stuff will have to wait until the pumpkin-seed is hard enough to cut up and store in a box (I've only got enough room in my fridge for one tray at a time). So I'll make, like, chocolate-chip cookies or something (most likely using the remains of the pumpkinseed-chocolate "chips". Possibly with a pumkin-spice base... We shall see. :-)


With that in mind, I pass on the following:

December 17th is the Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers.

In Ottawa, this will involve a (short) rally at the Human Rights Monument (on Elgin at... Lisgar, I think is) at 5pm. Followed by the March of the Red Umbrellas down Elgin street to the police station, where there will be speakers talking about violence and discrimination against sex workers in Ottawa. (I can just about guarantee you that Chris Bruckert will be speaking here).

After this, there's a reception (which actually starts at 5:30, if you're inclined to skip the march and just head over after the rally) at the Jack Purcel center with an open mic and people sharing stories. There will be hot drinks and (this is the connection with my cooking) free goodies as made by volunteers.


I am one of the volunteer bakers. (Not totally sure what-all I'll be bringing, but since I've got my Solstice shindig happening a few days later, I've got lots of baking to do anyway -- so I'll make ginger snaps and shortbread (and possibly shortbread bells with red sugar on them, because my Goddess of the Sun - who is also my Goddess of money, courage and sex (and, thus, sex-work/ers) - is associated (in my head, anyway) with bells (ankle bells, choral-bells, jingle-bells, all of it).


NOTE: If YOU would like to be a volunteer baker for the DtEVASW Reception, please contact HEATHER at: 613-238-5014 x233.


Anyway. I have some cooking to do.


My Sara is feeling much better today. Thank goodness. Last night was pretty rough for her. But she's feeling a lot better today and is optimistic about how this afternoon and tonight are going to go.
<*is SO relieved*>

Anyway. She's off to an internet cafe to see if she can find a ride-share (I actually just emailed her a short list of them, so that it's easier for her -- I logged on to craigslist just before she found someone who was able to give her dirrections to such a cafe, so I figured I may as well send her my little list, anyway. ;-)


Anywhoo. I gotta go. There's more Wonderful Cooking to be done (and can I just say that pumpkin seed butter is not only tastey, but surprisingly tastey? It's *really* good! :-)


That's it from me for the moment.


- TTFN,
- Amazon. :-)

Pumpkin Spice Cookies V.2.0! :-D

Pumpkin Spice Cookies V.2.0.:


1.25C oat flour
0.5C brown sugar (well-packed)
2 tbsp raw, hulled pumpkin seeds, crushed
1 tsp baking powder [EDIT: This may be a tad too much possible 0.75 tsp?]
0.5 tsp each: salt, cinamon
0.25 tsp cloves
0.125 tsp each: ginger, nutmeg
Pinch each: cardemom, alspice

0.5C veggie oil (or veggie shortening or margarine, etc)
2-3 tbsp mashed winter squash (ideally pumpkin, though I'm using butternut)
1.5 tbsp pumpkinseed butter
1 tsp vanilla

0.25C - 0.5C chocolate chips, chocolate chunks OR crushed up chocolate-pumpkinseed!butter candy (guess which one I used)


DIRECTIONS:

In one bowl, mix the dry ingredients with a fork.
In another bowl, mix the wet ingredients with a fork (or a hand mixer)

Blend (with a fork, or a mixer) the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients until smooth (for a given value of smooth)

Add the chocolate bits and mix until well integrated.

Drop by the spoonful onto a well-greased cookie-sheet. NOTE: Leave a good two inches between cookies, as they tend to spread out a lot.

Bake at 325F for 10-15 minutes (I went with fifteen).

Allow to cool (they're delicate cookies -- if you don't do this, they *will* fall apart all over you!), lift off the cookie sheet (carefully), serve and enjoy. :-)


In other news: A Silly Quiz:

The Life Experience Test

Overall, you have partaken in 85 out of 169 possible life experiences. Your average life experience score is therefore 50%. The average score is 51%, making your experiences more than 43% of the people who have taken this test. The average for your age group (26-35) is 53%. Broken down by category: Art: 13/17 (76%) Career & Work: 6/13 (46%) Civics & Technology: 4/7 (57%) Crime & Disarray: 0/11 (0%) Education: 11/18 (61%) Fashion: 8/10 (80%) Fitness, Health and Sports: 0/7 (0%) Life in General: 8/14 (57%) Relationships: 12/14 (86%) Religion & Politics: 2/4 (50%) Social: 11/22 (50%) Travel: 2/20 (10%) Vices: 8/12 (67%)

Take the test and see how YOU compare

The questions in some areas - esp religion - are REALLY limitted. It was a tad disappointing.