How fast one can lose motivation and zest for life when one is feelign compromised.
OK, so I've self-diagnosed myself with an ear infection. I know why babies cry all night when they have one of these. I've medicated myself with ibuprofin and am using those OTC ear drops for pain. I'm mustering enough energy to get the bare minimum done.
We had a nice weekend away, despite sharing a hotel room with six other people with varying degrees of snorting and coughing away. My oldest believes in using Vicks Vapor Rub on her feet at bed, slathered in it, covered in socks. If only I had done that to the other coughers in the family, it might have been quiet.
The dance competition scene has left me ... tired. My younger daughter dances at one of the highest competition grades and got three overall scores from three different judges, placing her 3rd, 6th, and 9th overall of 12 dancers. The mathematical forumla they use to average these makes NO sense to me, and she didn't place in the top half because they didn't use the same markings (subjective numbers) in addition to the ranking.
The older dancer is in one competition grade under, and is scored individually in five dances: she ended up with 2-4ths, 1-5th, and 1-1st. She was pleasantly surprised by the last one afte rher hiatus during the summer.
So now the real preparation begins for the Irish Dance Mid-America Championships. This means dance four days a week, and Sunday for four hours. And my daughter have both decided to dance four-hand figures because they'll probably be in the same group. That is an additional class, though only one hour. Realizing the schedule, just makes me further tired.
The weather here is making me depressed. Cold and raining. Bah, I'm not in good shape. Back to bed for me.
Sick
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Jerry
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I had a horrid earache right after my dh had surgery, and I was shocked it was not an infection. Was pretty terrible - couldn't hear out of my ear for a while (joked I was having sympathy deafness with dh, since he lost one-side hearing with the surgery). Anyway, I remember it was not fun!
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