Pop it Lock it Polka Dot it

Exercise! A great thing! But, hellish and boring and totally, totally exhausting. The gym poses a problem for the everyday singleton - it's a place to meet attractive men, but also a place to be seen by attractive men looking bright purple and sweating like a pig on heat. This is why I do not attend the gym.

What I do enjoy however, is dancing. I dont mean club-type dancing which I really really hate, but dance routines. And a place I am unlikely to bump into attractive men, is my living room. Actually my brothers do have some quite attractive friends, but my brothers are never in. This is why today, Ray and I did some dancing.

Predictably, it began with a film. Footloose. Kevin Bacon liberates small town America with his big city attitude and funny little car. All pretty basic - town council has banned music and dancing, Kevin rebels against the system and takes the youth of the town with him. Eventually the town council relents and the youth celebrate with a Senior Prom, at which they have a bit of a dance-off and you suspect they've all been secretly practicing for this moment their entire lives. Kevin gets the girl and they boogie the night away. Sarah Jessica Parker is in it also and (one for the game) the man who plays the baddie in Beethoven 2nd.

Anywho, the point is that this film got us dancing. Everyone knows the classics, you know, the Macarena and Saturday Night and 5,6,7,8, and that's fine. But better, is the Hoedown Throwdown from the Hannah Montana Movie. Excellent.

Pop it lock it polka dot it

Countrify and hip hop it

Put your hawk in the sky, move side to side

Jump to the left, stick it, glide.

Zig zag across the floor, shuffle in diagonal

When the drum hits, hands on your hips, one footed 180 twist.

Zig zag, step slide, lean it left, clap (three times)

Shake it out head to toe, throw it all together that's how we roll.

After a lot of practice, using a YouTube video specially designed for the learning of this dance (which was already on my Favourites, I'm sorry to say) we threw it all together. That's how we roll. It's not quite right yet, but we have 3 weeks to perfect it before we plan to reveal it at Ray's 21st birthday party. We also plan to learn the dance from the end of High School Musical, Soulja Boy and maybe a bit of improvised Audrey Hepburn style movement as well. Think Funny Face, but probably much less elegant.

Ray has the dentist tomorrow. As does my dad, because today one of his teeth broke in half while he was eating pate.