Day 14

Daily Practice
30 mins
I took it easy today.  My throat still feels irritated, so I just warmed up to the practice CD.  I'm going to stick to the basics this weekend, and not work too much on songs so I can get my voice back to a healthy spot.

Healthy Meal 26

Chicken salad from Carve- topped with pico de gallo, black bean salsa, corn, and honey mustard.









Dance Class 8

Another Jazz/Funk class with Chio.  It wasn't my best performance, but I hung in there.  I'm just so tired.  :(

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It's almost the halfway point of this competition, and there's still SO MUCH to do.  I don't feel ready for all of the things I need to pull off by the end of this month.  When I get overwhelmed, I usually just shut down and retreat, but I'm trying a different approach.  I'm just going to keep going-- attacking everything head on.  So first my music binder:

Before

After

I finally organized my sheet music into a binder that I will take with me on auditions.  Apparently it's really unprofessional to pull out a stack of tattered papers from your gym bag and hand them to the accompanist.  :)

Yes, it's alphabetized!

 
I also went to Colony Music and wandered around in a daze for over an hour-- there are so many genres, and songs, and artists-- I didn't know where to start.  All the auditions ask for a pop/rock song, and I only have ballads, so I bought The 16-Bar Pop/Rock Audition book.  I'll try to focus on one or two of those this week in my private lesson and coaching session.
 

This was just one aisle of about 6!

Still no words of inspiration.  Feeling drained and uninspired, but 'this too shall pass'.