Hi,
My name is Insaneworks and I'm a music addict. And I'm also a danceholic.
I was listening to some random music, as I always do. Every day. I have about 28 500 songs in my computer and I just hit the random button on my Winamp and let the music take me where it wants to take me.
I stumbled upon to this tune.
I love the songs easygoing and laid-back feeling. As all the 8-count music could be danced as Lindy hop, this one particularly suits extremely well to rock step, triple step, walk walk, triple step. The rhythm is like: pa-pa, pa-pa-da, pa-pa, pa-pa-da. See the insane dance teacher explain you the variations of the basic Lindy hop step.
We have cats. At the moment three. Latest arrival, Jörö (untalkative, sulky, grumpy), has been for about one year with us. He is a rescue cat, as are the two other cats. And several cats before these. Jörö spent almost the first three moths under our bed at daytime and meowing in the balcony at nights. He was terrified of us. Still is if something unexpected happens. But then again he likes our other two cats very much. And Jörö loves humans scratching and stroking him very very very much.
And for some reason, whenever I start dancing because the music that is at that moment playing tells me to, Jörö joins me. I'm not saying that he takes any dance steps. He just runs near me, accompanies me wherever I move, follows intensely what I'm doing with my feet and if he dares or gets a change, places himself behind my heels.
So there I am with my own invented dance moves and steps. And the surprise element called Jörö. Step slide, triple step, cat step, jump, triple step, cat step, tumble down, hurt you knee step, bleed, step step.
I thought I just invented a new phrase, but apparently catstep already means something. Well, that is a perfectly good meaning to a word, but that's not what I meant. With the words cat step I mean the kind of steps that one has to take when suddenly encountering a cat that in this case seems to have no self preservation instinct. One has to take several quicksteps enhanced with few right timed Pilates moves seasoned with drunken boxing. What ever is necessary to do so that the cat isn't hurt whilst trying to maintain ones own balance or at least try not falling so hard that in the end one eventually becomes cat food on the floor.
That is the cat step. Learn it and master it.
Because as you are falling and before hitting your head to the sharp table corner, you do not want your last thought to be: "Oh shit, I forgot to ski.*"
*skiing = In a cat household, never lift your feet from the floor when walking. Drag your feet so that either your sole or at least your toes never leave the floor. Ski like you had skis on. This way your feet are like the cowcatchers in front of an old steam locomotive. Plus you can clean the floor at the same time with your socks. Yes. Only socks are worn inside the house, socks and shoes outside.