Well, as I am sitting here in sunny Florida, on vacation now, I am looking back over the last 24 hours and the craziness that took place...
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I was in Jacksonville for an international barbershop convention and contest (IC&C), but never got to compete. I had the worst case of food poisoning I have ever experienced! After having had a horrible early morning where the bathroom was my best friend, I seemed to be doing a bit better after having been up for a few hours after breakfast time. I managed to get through physical and vocal warm-ups with the chorus and then had an hour and a half to get make-up done and get into costume. That's when I got hit...Not feeling particularly well, I rushed into the washroom yet again and within a few seconds of being in there started to feel extremely light-headed. Being the smart person that I am, I got myself down to the ground in case of any fainting spells and the next thing I knew, I was staring up at my roommates trying to get the bathroom door open because I was sprawled out on the floor blocking entry! Apparently, they had heard a THUMP! and came rushing to the door calling my name with no replies coming back. Talk about a great way to worry people...yeesh! (No worries, it seems that the sound was not my head smacking anything. It seems that my elbow took the brunt of the fall because it is really tender and I have no bumps on my head...talk about lucky!) So needless to say that I ended up in bed getting some much-needed rest and missing the whole competition. Thank goodness I didn't fly out here only to compete. That would have been a ton of money for nothing! Now I am going to enjoy the rest of my time out here visiting the family. It's just too bad that the only time they have ever been able to see what I do, I wasn't even on stage. At least they saw the rest of the chorus before we drove 5 hours to get back "home".
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Check out the results from the competition at www.harmonyinc.org and check out my chorus at www.montrealcityvoices.com.
2 comments:
Did you figure out what you ate that gave you the food poisoning? What a horrible experience....I hope you are feeling better now. Let me know when you are back in town- I have your Avon order! ;-)
I had something I always eat: a chicken caesar salad. So much for thinking I was making a smart choice ("I'll have that so that I am not stuffed and will feel good for competition"). Boy was I wrong!
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