Brave New CanCan

Monday Mingle And XSRE

cancan — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:08:27 +0000

I wanted to show off my duds in the Monday Mingle over at MomTrends!

I’m a little late but I’m still workin it!

Here we have me in my GOLD JEANS I have been threatening to buy for a while! I found them at XSRE in Paramus, NJ, while I was at a casting call! I find out about the call before the holidays, but if you like the picture you can go “Like” it on FB and I will have a chance to win a gift card. For Funsies.

The whole outfit is from XSRE. People said perhaps the neon orange top wouldn’t work with the gold jeans…but I say…does anything really “work” with gold jeans? Its me who has to WERK!

Go over to Monday Mingle and check out the other stylin’ folks!

Brave New Red Beret

cancan — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:13:51 +0000

My friend Michelle had a magical experience with an afro wig which transformed her outlook. She now blogs at http://beforeandafro.com/

I always thought berets were for snobs who took their artistic sides way too seriously. Then I randomly got one in the mail, played solo dress-up, did a solo fashion shoot, and boom. Game changed.

The Red Beret can only bring good things.

It is so on.

Thanks to the good people at Dorfman Pacific for the best beret in the world. It comes in 12 colors.

This post is participating in the Monday Mingle.

Edited to add: And it got a shout out in Before and Afro.

How to Blog About Working On A Piece: Advice For New Bloggers

cancan — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 02:54:47 +0000

Brave New CanCan…with Stache.

In which I give a nonblogging friend advice on Google Chat.

….

Dancer Friend: Right. I have to blog about working with my boss on this new piece throughout the week.

Could I get your help?

me: i guess but i don’t know how i can help?

just make a “Workin on the Piece” log

haha

Dancer Friend: Ew

me: today i worked on my boss’s piece

i worked on it so good

first we got ready by doing this

then we did this

Dancer Friend: Stop. That’s totes gross

me: then that

and then it was time to rest the piece.

just fill in the deets!

Dancer Friend:Throwing up

me: lol

look, you want to be a blogger or not?

Dancer Friend:: Haha! Ugh. I crack me up.

me: i amuse myself muchly!

i’m the funniest person i know.

Dancer Friend: Oh

me: yeah..so…

theresnothingicanreallysayyayyyayyay.

Dancer Friend: Yeah..so……….

The CanCan Diaries: My Journal at Age 14

cancan — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:34:11 +0000

I found a notebook whilst visiting my parents full of school-assignment journal entries for my 9th grade English class. I remember taking these very seriously.

January 11, 1995 (CanCan, aged 14)

Today was like no other day, but then I”m looking at it as no two days are exactly alike, and they aren’t, ya know?

[Note from CanCan in the present: Holy crap I want to punch myself.]

Well, today was multi-cultural day. That was pretty boring. Not too bad, though.

In Group today I brought Josh. I learned about how Shadrac, Meshac, and Abednego stood “The Test Of The Campus.” Documi: You have past the test. (“Documi” is the seal of approval.)

[GROUP refers to a teen oriented church group thingy. Josh was the first of two high school boyfriends named Josh. He never actually asked me out.]

After Group I talked to Jeremy for about two seconds, and then I went outside and Morgan & Molly & Charlotte Ann jumped on top of me and beat me up in the grass just because I was giving them wet willies. Me and Morgan bumped heads and my lip got scratched and my pants got dirty but no real harm done. What a good way to release built up tension and stress than to wrestle with a friend.

[I actually still subscribe to this philosophy. Jeremy was an older boy who was also an unofficial boyfriend.]

I’m getting very sleepy so I’ll go to bed in a few lines. I remember when I used to go to bed at 8:00 every night until about 4th or 5th grade. I just wish I could do that now. I would be very energetic.

Smiley face with eyelashes.