Disappointed.... in The start of something?

We didn’t make it a hatrick.....

My quartet competed in our regional competition yesterday. I knew we weren’t ready. You may remember I didn’t want to do it....
We had new competition this year and this quartet is going to a national comp next month and have been having lots of coaching. We’ve had none.

So after winning the gold medal for the last two years, this year we lost by two percentage points.

I was devastated. It was so hard to sit in that auditorium and clap and smile as they announced this years gold medalists....
Harder still because two of the girls in that quartet that won are involved in the administration of the region’s barbershop society so although not judging, you’d think there’s a bit of conflict of interest there....
We were prettier than them… blah… now I’m being petty… but these girls have a photo of four OTHER girls on their facebook quartet page… probably because they know they’re difficult to look at too.
One of the girls is very large and has just sustained an ankle injury… she’s too large for crutches so she was getting around on a scooter. We think they got the sympathy vote…
I’m really pissed.. I was so upset leaving that place yesterday..
Bass girl and Bari girl ended up coming over and we had a couple of drinks and some pizza and watched a movie.. that was nice..
As much as they can irritate me we do rally together in hard times and I do love those girls. It’s like any family I guess.

I was so down even after they left though and then hubby came home and went on a rant about how son is doing nothing with his life and what am I going to do about it. Honestly, I’m sick of that conversation. I just wanted some soothing.... I know he didn’t understand how upset I was and a day later the sting of it isn’t as bad but I wish he could have just let up for one night.

So today hubby is working in the morning so I’ve done my 24k. He’s coming home and we’re going out to lunch at TGIF’s, then he’s going back to work so that should be nice… I’ll be able to gather my thoughts and regroup for the coming week.

One more week and one day till I’m on leave and hubby and I still have no idea where we’re going. We WILL be in Canada at some point. Of that I’m 95% certain… I mean he has to really see his daughter and grand kids but I’m not looking forward to that at all....

And I’ve probably said it too much but in my last entry there’s a clip of my quartet if you want to take a look....