Confessions of a Twirly Girl: September 2013

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Minions!

I wanted to post about Minions earlier this week but I just have a lot going on. Stuff I have talked about in the past. Stuff I can't talk about publicly. I really do need a clone of myself, though.

Anyway, I'm still feeling kinda blah but I thought a Minion post might help cheer me up.

First off, I am somewhat quietly obsessed with Minions. You know Minions, they are the cute little worker bees from Despicable Me. I adore them. I want to have them. So, for my birthday, my friend Yolanda made me Minion cupcakes. I believe there were a dozen or so, and our group had dessert at the restaurant, so I was sent home with a box full of Minion cupcakes. I have no business eating a dozen Minion cupcakes. So my Minions went on adventures!

I have been keeping a photo album of Minions on Facebook. Since not everyone is my Facebook friend, I wanted to share some of the funnier photos here.

Bert at the pool with me on my actual birthday

Creeper Dwayne at my birthday dinner (on my actual birthday)

Dan ate Stuart at the dinner a couple of nights before my birthday

Dave was birthday dinner dessert

Dean at Happy Hour

Dean at Twirly Girls

Dwayne at birthday night dinner with me

Jose/Josefiend at the drag show

Jose watching porn with Robert at the drag show

MINIONS!

Sam is in the front. Bill is behind him. Ted is facing backwards. He's always in trouble.

Simon is in the freezer.

Steve got ate by me

Todd at Pole Expo in Vegas

Todd at the Bad Kitty booth

Todd getting a spray tan (shellac) before Vegas

Todd at the Rhinestones and RazorBlades booth...they made him a necklace!!!

Todd loves dirty girls!

Todd on the stove

Todd the pool shark

Todd loves to watch

Todd got a new home in Vegas

Where the eff is Todd?!

Whoops. Sorry, Bert.

Whooops. Sorry, Dean.


Zeus begs to eat Sam

Zeus wants toe at Dave too

Years ago, I started taking photos of an awesomely creepy tree in Clayton and made a Facebook fan page. Claycord.com ran my story and I was attacked by a few people for having too much time on my hands. Ironic that by bothering to read the story and respond, they also must have too much time on their hands. Anyway, I am learning that sometimes you need to be able to smile at silly things. I'm sure Yolanda had no idea that making me these cupcakes would still be bringing me so much joy a month after my birthday (Sam, Bill, Ted and Simon are still in my house and ready for photos). So, thank you to Yolanda for making me these Minions and I hope everyone enjoyed their adventures as much as I did!

Monday, September 23, 2013

Let It Ride...

In August, some of the Twirly Girls were extras in a new National Geographic show about motorcycles called Let It Ride. That episode aired last week and I was actually quite happy with the result!

Having been part of the "reality show" process before, I understand that you don't have any control over what airs. Even if you are careful in your words, you never know what will actually air. In the last show I was on, the producers literally took words that weren't in a sentence and pieced them together to say something that was never said. It was a little irritating.

On this show, we said silly things and those silly things made it on air. Bel talking about her snakeskin paint job. Me needing padding for my butt. Kate desiring streamers on her bike. (Unfortunately, my request for pole trailer went unfulfilled.) If you'd like to watch some of the episode, click HERE and watch the video titled "girly makeover." Congrats to Bel for getting a lot of air time climbing the poles of Pleasanton. Some of our best lines were played over the credits. Unfortunately, those don't appear to be online. Perhaps Hulu or other websites have the episode in its entirety.

I have been watching Let It Ride this season, waiting for our episode. Even though I don't ride motorcycles, I actually have enjoyed the show and love that it is about a local company.

Through Twitter, I have invited Zach Ness and the boys to come to Twirly Girls and take a spin on the pole. Hopefully we can get them over there to take a class with us. If they come, you know I will update you!

In the meantime, enjoy some still shots from the show:

Friday, September 20, 2013

Pole Expo 2013

There were so many great things about Pole Expo, I almost couldn't contain them in one blog.

Being able to see the Yosemite fire from the plane (sad but still very interesting).

Having almost my entire Boys, Girls and Twirls class in Vegas with me.

Patrick and Sean Michael competing in the Pole Classic.

Meeting Timber Brown.

Fun workshops even though my foot was still injured.

Twirly Girls winning the Bring the Pole Gang contest.

Vegas in general. Duh.

Really, I couldn't even list every cool thing that happened on this trip.

So I thought it would make a photo journal of some of my fun stuff instead!

I literally took a thousand photos so it was hard to just choose a few but I don't want to bore you with an hour long slide show. So, in no particular order (mostly because I'm lazy and that would require organizing them on my computer), here are some of the highlights of my trip to Vegas for Pole Expo!