Ice dancing

Posted in moment on 01/03/2010 04:25 pm by karen

Cop, approaching me: “I’m going to put my hands under your armpits and lift you up…”

Me: “Huh? Why?”

Cop, with his hands under my arms: “One! Two! Three!”

Me, getting heavy so he can’t lift me up: “What are you doing?!”

Cop: “You jump and I’ll catch you up over my head. It’ll be fun. One… two…”

Me: “No! I don’t want to!”

Cop, disappointed: “Why not? It’s like ice dancing. What’s the worst thing that can happen?”

Me, nodding toward a 7 foot tall bookshelf made of 95% glass and 5% metal: “I don’t want to fall on that. We’re not trained to do this!”

Cop, setting up to throw: “If anything goes wrong, I’ll throw you toward the bed. One… two.. three!”

Me, up in the air over his head, having made the jump: {screaming sound}

Cop, putting me down: “See? Like ice dancing.”

 

14 Comments

  1. Oh my. I’m so glad my hubby doesn’t have the password to my computer. If he saw this he’d so want to try it. Mensa Boy is forever saying “Here, I’ll carry ya. It’ll be fun!”

    hmph

  2. Just like ice dancing! Watch out when the olympics roll around…he might get inspired to try some fancy twisty stuff! :-)

    The thought of being lifted and thrown freaks me out no end, cause I’m 5’9″ and afraid of hitting the ceiling…for some reason I think you are a tinysmall person though.

    I read it twice already – this story is ridiculously cute!

  3. Karen, you know I LOVED this story/dialog… god, The Cop rocks. I love how his problem solving skills are similar to my own- just toss her towards the bed, what’s the worst that can happen?

  4. Did he just watch some video clip of ice dancing or something? It just reminds me of a night I had well over ten years ago, back when I was still wild & crazy. I won’t bother to tell you that story cause it’s not as good as yours, but the moral of it is: if you can’t do it sober, you probably can’t do it drunk either!

  5. Karen: They’re right — it really is kind of fun :-)

    KMB: I’m almost 5’4″. I thought of the ceiling fan — he did, too, though, so I didn’t end up with my head in the fan. Ceiling fans stop when you put a head in them, though. Don’t ask how I know that.

    Liz: Ha! Yes, “What’s the worst that can happen” is definitely your style!

    Linda: He doesn’t watch videos, so the ice dancing thing was random. We did handstands after ice dancing, too. Gee, thanks for mentioning alcohol — he’s going to read your comment and want to try some of this stuff after a few beers now… ;-)

  6. That made me laugh so hard! I can just picture it!

  7. this cracks me up on so many levels! I even read it to my hubby last night cracking up.

  8. hi Karen
    ha ha. how sweet. so are you supposed to curl up your legs while he swirls you around and dumps you in the bed?
    hugs
    Arturo

  9. Hi Karen! Sorry to have missed you. I was out for one of my twice-yearly visits to Scottsdale and attended two of John’s classes. Mysore is doing really well at your studio.

  10. I can’t believe you weren’t immediately excited to fly up into the air, like ice dancing. Who doesn’t love pretending to ice dance?

  11. Karen, can you please post something? You’re interfering with my slacker time.

  12. really. jesus. Stop coming over and asking me all kinds of questions when you’re just sitting on you butt over here. Or maybe you’ve gotten an Iyengar book and are trying to figure out sequencing? Or maybe you really ARE making pants for that flasher dog of yours?

  13. LOL! I *do* have an Iyengar book… :-)

    Actually, today I am busy dehydrating turnip slices. The Cop just noted, with some disgust, that our house “smells like Russia.”

    Board of Directors in town this week. Performance evaluation time. My life is not my own, sadly. The only respite is the occasional opportunity to dehydrate some vegetables or get flashed by the dog. Now I’m going to clean the house. Not a lot of post-worthy material.

  14. i see acro partner stuff in your future! and not just basic airplane-y moves, either. you’ll be doing two-highs in no time!

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