Ready to crash

I think I've reached the breaking point. I haven't broken down yet, but I can feel it coming.

Eisteddfod is over (the hard part, anyway). I got 3 firsts, 2 seconds and 3 thirds out of 9 items. Two of the firsts were for speech and drama: my recitation and monologue. I scored 95 for both! I've never had a score that good before!

Recitation of Dulce Et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen) went extremely well. Only made one mistake - said 'walk' instead of 'pace', but managed to let it go and finish the poem well! Go me :)

I thought my monologue (from Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer) was quite average, but the adjudicator liked it. I was against Tara (who is one of those performers who gets really nervous but then steps onto the stage and does wonderfully) and I thought her monologue was brilliant - delivered with such conviction and beauty - and, if I'd been judging, she would've beaten me!

My students did fantastically well! 2 firsts, 4 thirds and a highly commended (I think, but don't quote me on that until I get copies of their adjudication sheets!) The Dardy kids did wonderfully, too. Their play (from my script!) was just great! I think they got ninety-something for it :) Ahh, my babies! I was so impressed.

Let's not talk about my singing. LOL. Some of it was good-ish. Some of it was extremely average! Ooohh, let's just not even go there! But I do thank my gorgeous friends for the amazing and humbling support they showed by sitting through a lot of long adjudication pauses between acts just to see me and cheer me on. I really think that I have the most beautiful bunch of close friends I could ask for.

And of course, my family. Gran and Grandad came down, Meg doted on me (and my students), Jan supported me as always, Lee played piano for me!, Mum and Dad (my two favourite people on the planet) were there.

And my sister Sam (my biggest fan) made it to see contemporary night which meant the world to me and more.

Finally, thanks to Bec, my lovely accompaniest, for all her hard work and for managing to still be lovely even though she's sooo busy she probably doesn't have time to look sideways at a fencepost.

Saw The Vasco Era at the Prince after the Eisteddfod. They were awesome! I still can't hear properly! I actually 'danced' (or whatever you call it in a pub) and it wore me out! The drummer was one of the most talented creatures I have ever, ever seen/heard. He must have the strongest arm muscles in the world to be able to play that fast for that long. How does he even breathe when he's doing that?!

So I'm ready to crash. But I know there are Arms to catch me.