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October 30, 2006
Happy Birthday
Today my mother would have been 60.
Even though she died over 4 years ago, I still have moments when I forget that she is gone for a split second and it hurts like it did four years ago.
Happy Birthday Mom. Wherever you are, I know that you are dancing.
Posted by amanda at 09:51 AM | Comments (0)
October 09, 2006
6 weeks and counting...
I finally bought my plane ticket to Portland to attend the Western US Region Oireachtas.
This is the first year that I qualify for it and I am frakking excited and a bit freaked at the same time. This is my first 'majors' as they are called in the Irish Dancing world.
I know that I will not recall, but I really don't want to make a complete ass of myself. I want to look like I actually belong in Preliminary Champions.
At the St Ambrose Feis a couple weeks ago I accomplished what I set out to do at my second prelim competition - I didn't get dead last. I got 14th out of 16 competitors. From the three judges I got 13th, 14th, 15th place overall. One judge even gave me an 11th in my set round, which was my best round (even though the musician fraked up and didn't play two beats towards the end of the dance, causing me to end two beats after her - it was obviously he mistake though.)
In two weeks is the Phoenix Feis. There are only 3 people in my competition - quite a change from 13 and 16 in my first two. At least I should get a trophy. With only 3 people I am totally cool with getting last, unless one of the other dancers really suck balls.
The past two weeks I have been working on my stamina, doing crazy amounts of cardio at the gym. The first week I went 4 times and last week I went 3 times. I hope to keep that up and average about 4 times a week doing 45min to an hour of cardio on the elliptical. It's a lot easier to get myself to the gym when I just stop on the way home from work.
I also have some personal trainer sessions that I should probably schedule.
So, my goals for my first Oireachtas is to have fun and make it through my two rounds without making a complete ass of myself.
Posted by amanda at 10:36 AM | Comments (0)