I Lost My Voice

I haven't had much of a voice the last two days so I haven't had many conversations lately so my dad suggested that I catch up on my blog.  I guess it's almost been a month since my last post.

I went home for Thanksgiving this year.  I hadn't done that since I moved to Utah so about eleven years.  It just never made a lot of sense to pay for a flight to spend a couple of days and then fly back only to repeat it a few weeks later for Christmas.  I have a good chunk of family here so it's not like I was alone for the holiday.  This year, I used some miles for a free flight and was going to spend five days at home.  My flight out was cancelled due to winds in San Francisco and I was rescheduled on the next available flight which was 24 hours later.  I didn't know what to do with my extra day.  I got to see all of my siblings, their spouses and childrens, plus a few cousins, aunts, and uncles.  Thanksgiving day was good, we ate food and enjoyed the company.  I went to Wal-Mart for some Black Friday shopping with the siblings, we picked up a few good items but weren't willing to put our lives on the line for anything else.  We took some family pictures on Friday.  It was all well and good until we all started throwing up on Saturday.  I was the last to go and Mom never did get sick.  I bounced back pretty quickly, I had to, I was flying back to Utah the next day.  None of us went to church due to the sickies and Mom staying up taking care of the baby and the sickies.  My flight back was delayed three hours.  It was a good thing that I had already decided to call in sick for work on Monday as I didn't get to my house until 1:30 Monday morning.  I emailed my sub plans to my co-workers and slept as long as I could.

As much as I bounced back fairly quickly out of necessity, I have been pretty tired since then.  I've been going to bed before midnight most nights (shocking, I know) over the last two weeks and some nights before eleven (didn't think that was possible, huh?).  I think that and the fact that it's so dry here is what led to me losing my voice.  It's quite sad.  We had a ward activity up in Heber and my roommate and I were going to spend the night with everyone else, but with my feeling poorly and it being cold, we opted to stay for karaoke (that didn't help the voice situation either) and then head home for the night.  I slept in until 10 the next morning and felt justified in our decision.  My voice comes and goes, but I was really sad because today was the Sacrament meeting where we get to sing all the Christmas songs and I could only half-sing half of the songs before I'd start getting wheezy and need a drink.  I'm feeling just fine, just a little hoarse.  It's a good thing I'm not teaching tomorrow...I'm going to my "Park City" group, but we're staying in town for this one and touring the local alternative high school.

In other news...I've made progress in doing hard things.  No, I won't share what these hard things were, but I'm impressed with myself that I actually did them.  Go me!