currently, i am waiting for the cupcakes i am making for my birthday to rise. they are going to be chocolate with cream cheese icing. since i share a birthday with three of my coworkers it was just that much easier to justify bringing cupcakes to work.if i were to bring them for only myself, it may have seemed "elementary school"ish, but since there are other people involved, it becomes a thoughtful gesture... i hope?
anyways, i figured i would kill some time by writing a long over due post... so, this post is dedicated to two of my favourite people in the world: my brother, duncan, and my best friend, michelle. not only are they two of the funniest, caring and honest people i know but they are also two of the most passionate, driven and accomplished people i know.
obviously, duncan plays baseketball at the university of saskatchewan. i am sure you are all beyond sick of hearing me talk about how proud i am that he is completing his engineering degree while playing a million hours of basketball a week, but sorry, i am going to say it one more time: i know i could not do what duncan has done over the past four years both athletically and intellectually and i am amazingly proud of him. this is duncan's last year playing for u of s and this weekend he scored his 1000th CIS career point. approximately 30 of those points were accumulated two years ago when his team won their national title. check out this preview for the documentary that they made about the boys and their journey earning the national title.
if you don't know who duncan is, he is number 30 and dunking in the majority of the clips. not only is it pretty damn cool that they won nationals, it is even cooler that someone found their story inspirational enough to make a documentary about it. duncan has already ordered us our copy...
secondly, i want to share a clip of michelle doing a recent performance with florance and the machine on x factor. when we were younger and people asked us what we wanted to do when we grew up, like most teenage girls who danced extracurricularly, michelle said she wanted to be a professional dancer. unlike most teenage girls who dance, michelle has achieved her dream. some may say that she got "lucky" but i know for a fact that isn't the case. she spent the summer after we graduated high school working two, sometimes three jobs, saving all the money she could manage in order to move to LA. after 9 months working jobs here in calgary and dancing in various projects in vancouver and toronto, she finally had the experience and money that she needed to pursue her dream. she is booking some of the most sought after dancing gigs in LA... it makes me so proud to see my friend who, at one time was so shy it was painful, living her dream. she deserves it.
michelle is the main dance in the trio that starts out on the left. not only is she a beautiful dancer but she is also a beautiful person. no one deserves success more than she does. i think what i admire most about her is that amidst all her success she is still the same amazingly down to earth person that she has always been - something that is incredibly difficult to maintain living in LA. check out the audition reel that gets her the majority of her gigs below...
well, my timer is going and i definitely cannot afford to burn my cupcakes. i hope they inspired you like they inspire me.
