A perfect song for Good Friday! How are your tap dancing skills?
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10 Signs You’re Borderline Obsessed With Your Crush:
I’m guilty of all 10 of these at some point or another…. but then again I’m not obsessive…. I’m a girl. We are wired that way, right? heh.
By HowAboutWe, on Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:47pm PDT
By Chiara Atik for HowAboutWe.com
1) You find yourself casually clicking over to his or her Facebook page or Twitter account, and then before you know it, you’re at their very first entry and there’s nothing more to read. Because you clicked through the entire thing.
2) You’re happy to talk to anyone about your crush. Like anyone. Like that co-worker you randomly ran an errand with. Like your Grandma’s sister at a Family Reunion. Like the ONE person who happens to be on Gchat when you get a cryptic text that you immediately need help decoding.
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3) You make plans with any mutual acquaintances you may have, in the hope that maybe, just maybe, your crush will come up in casual conversation. And if they don’t, you will bring them up. And sometimes you suffer through long evenings with people you don’t even like that much, just so at the end you can casually let your crush know that you “hung out with [MUTUAL FRIEND] the other night.”
4) You can’t help but thoroughly research anyone who tweets to your crush, or writes on their wall.
5) You give your crush their own separate ringtone, and whenever you hear any tune that is even remotely similar to it, your heart skips a beat.
6) You wouldn’t say you have unrealistic expectations about this relationship, but when pressed, you admit you’ve thought about where you’ll retire, and what activities you’ll do with your eventual grandchildren.
Related: 5 Things Women Say That Make Men Crazy
7) The most played song on your iPod is the one that played at the bar on your first date.
8) You absolutely refuse to make any plans for the weekend UNTIL you’ve made plans with your crush. And if you don’t hear from him or her, you still keep the weekend open, just in case they call.
9) It’s so weird, but, you can relate almost any conversation to one you were just having with your crush! You’re constantly telling your friends what your crush thinks about, oh, anything.
10) In between dates, you find yourself renting movies he/she mentioned, reading their favorite book, idly wikipedia’ing any anecdote they mentioned, and looking up flights to where he/she said they’d most like to go on vacation.
Weekend Recap:
It’s time for a nostaligic look back on my weekend… now if I could only remember what I did… oh yeah:
FRIDAY: Amazing
I had 4 events I said I would go to…. but I didn’t have that much time. So I had to make choices.
- Corey’s 30th B-Day at Famous Dave’s
- Pick up my custom art from Aric Shapiro at The Salvagery Artist Collective
- Hangout with my boss and friends for drinks at the Stonehouse
- Go to AWOLnation and hangout with radio friends
So priorities…. MUSIC and ART….check. I cancelled on Corey to go hangout with my boss. Then my boss cancelled, so 2 out of 4 events down the hole.
So I went to go visit Aric at the Salvagery to pick up my art. He was leaving the next day for the Playa to build The Temple for Burning Man. It’s amazing to me that people would donate a month of their time to build The Temple, just to watch it blow up. Just amazing.
I met a whole gaggle of crazy New Zealanders… shouting and drinking PBR…(I think its the official drink of Reno). Overall it was a great time.
Flashforward to home, getting ready, shower and a shave (Hey I keep it classy)
Then off to go see AWOLnation. I love living downtown because there is always something unexpected going on. I went outside and there was fireworks shooting off the Silver Legacy. I’m assuming for Hot August Nights… it was a good start to the night.
I met up with new friends at KRZQ as well as members of KDOT. In Reno radio you can’t really afford to make enemies. We are all in this crazy little city trying to survive in the broadcasting industry.
AWOLnation was good, but all their songs relatively sound the same. The thing I love the most is I am finally feeling like I’m well rooted in Reno as well as radio.
I can BS with the big boys about music, industry news, and just plain tell dirty jokes. I love it. It’s been a 5 years in Reno, but I feel like I’m really making it my home.
After the concert the afterparty was at Tonic. I watched Chris Payne spin the night away as well as some cool guy who looked and danced like Andre 3000.
(Always a highlight)
The night was filled with normal drinking/dancing debachuery.
Twas Fun.
Saturday: Awkward
I woke up in a rush to get to the station. I looked like a hot mess, I didn’t wash off the makeup from the last night, my hair was crusted in hairspray…. it was ugly.
But regardless I had a good airshift from 10am-3pm. Nothing caught on fire… so I was happy.
(Yes, that is my low standard of success)
Afterwards I was inspired to go to Tahoe. One of those random adventures…. apparently I couldn’t inspire anyone else to go with me.I really didn’t want to go to a beautiful lake and sit there by myself. (This has been a theme for me, learning how to be alone… its not working)
So I went to the pool and that was just not as satisfying. 
I met up with one of my neighbors, I thought he was going to bring all his friends, but it just ended up being me and him… which was fine… just different than I imagined.I like groups, gaggles of people, bringing people together, bbq’s and such.
So one on one is hard for me.
Then we agreed to get a bunch of people to show up together… I knew about 15 people that were going to be out and about downtown. I cancelled on another friend for a house party because I believed in a this new plan… downtown drinking and such. Sorry Drew 
So we agreed to meet at 9pm…. so at 10:30 we finally got together. I met up with my 2 friends at Imperial Bar. (It was 95 degrees in there, I was sweaty and gross) But I ran into 2 old friends back from my ballroom dancing days…. yeah!
After $2 Kamikaze shots at Imperial we decided to get some fresh airand head down to the Waterfall.
We enjoyed had some hookah, more drinks and ran into a couple of awkward situations.
For instance it was Reno High’s 10 year reunion so everyone had name tags on and we didn’t know anyone there!
We enjoyed some more hookah and this amazing drink called a Juicy! Ask West or Brandon (the bartenders) about it next time you are there.
We got tired of being in room full of people that we didn’t know, yet they all knew each other and decided to meander to Brew Bros.
That place is very hit or miss, its either the best night or your life or completely irritating.
(Turned out to be the second one).
I was surrounded by people having sex on the dancefloor… ok well just about having sex… but its always awkward being surrounded by people getting it on…
I was also hot and sticky and irritated. The band wasn’t that good and I got tired of being pushed around by the tongue jockeys. So we left and ate some food at Cafe Sedona.
{Isn’t the whole point of Reno is to be able to order chinese food at 2am?}
Apparently they only had breakfast food and I WAS PISSED. This night sucked. Good thing I was in good company with friends Corey, Shannon and David.
So I made it home…. grumpy, but grateful for good friends.
SUNDAY: Lazy
It was so nice sleeping in. Sunday is the only day that I get to sleep for ungodly amounts of time.
So after a 10 hour nap I woke up and ate some leftover chicken soup. It is my Sunday tradition to stay in bed and watch bad TV.
So I watched ‘Switched at Birth‘ on HULU. Wow that stuff is addictive… its got drama, love, a real american family… its an absolute trainwreck. LOVE IT!
I’m currently hanging out till 7pm, playing whatever the hell I feel like on Rock 104.5 .
After this… not sure.
I’ll probably go to my BFF’s house and see how that baby is a growing.
(She’s pregnant)
Maybe she’ll feed me…..
Pregnant ladies always have extra food laying around the house.
Over all the weekend was full of ups and downs, good friends, awkward situations and bad tv.
Thanks for reading 
~Layla
They Just Don’t Dance Like They Use To:
While modern dancing can be fantastic, they just don’t make em like they use to…
MA/Dance Movie:
Update: The meeting is tomorrow. Well today techincally as it is 12:18 in the morning. I have had a long hard week, its only Monday, or Tuesday. But there is hope. I have mapped out the frame work for my martial arts / dance music video. Plenty have said that i’m crazy, but I think it will be genius.
Do you know of any local film festivals I can enter the film into? I can’t wait to get started. The basic premis is that a man and woman wake up in a meadow. They become aware of their surroundings and are immediately threatened by each other. The circle around trying to scare each other away. It seems a battle is the only way they can resolve this issue. So it begins, a vicious Martial Arts battle. As they show off their moves they gain respect for each other.
Cut to a dance studio where they work their ‘issues’ out on the dance floor. Fancy footwork, frustration but ultimatley friendship insues. from then on they work on both martial arts and dance together. A final performance rewards them for their hard work and they walk happy into the sunrise.
“I don’t get it” you say. Well oh well. You’ll see it soon enough!
Cheers,
Layla
New Thought:
Maybe a Kittie Karate Dance Flick
I am seriously considering doing a martial arts/dance theme music video. I have the music and the general format I want to shoot it in. I need to finalize the actors and start coming up with choreography.
Must start remembering Tae Kwon Do Skills! Oh and I must regain my general lack of balance.
I need a location: Maybe Rancho San Rafael park, and an inside location, perferably not a dance studio as it has lots of mirrors. (hard to shoot)
Hmmm (*wheels are turning*)
