R Beach Debacle 12/11/09

 

As many of you know this has been a crazy four weeks for me. For those of you who do not know. I have been in and out of the emergency room twice and hospitalized three days. The scary thing is they really have not given me a definitive answer or diagnosis. I will be seeing another doctor in January. I am hoping another doctor will provide some answers. 

As for now I am doing just okay. I do not feel up to speed and I am walking on eggshells praying that horrible pain and the awful symptoms do not return. I am still on antibiotics, but I am off all the narcotic drugs the doctors put me on. Anymore of that and I would be headed to rehab! I have not been a happy camper. I feel my voice has suffered because of it. For me not being able to sing or at least practice and exercise my voice is torture. I was not able to do either. I understand completely what Gary Coole must have been going through and my heart goes out to him. He has made a miraculous recovery. 

On top of all the above yesterday both judges called hours before the contest and bailed out! I had no notice and was unable to secure a single judge for either Wednesday night at the Ramada Inn or Thursday at R Beach. I had stated to everyone this evening I would not be judging but doing more of a personal critique to help everyone along. At this point in the contest what you need is to learn how to improve individually. 

Now to explain my little debacle of the night and I must apologize to Carla Paull. Carla was kind enough to inform me her friend Donna would be happy to judge the contest to help me out. What I didn’t realize at the time was, Donna was Tina Boomer. I knew Donna as Tina. I thought Carla had brought a new friend with her. I told Carla that would really help me out without realizing who she was speaking about. 

Later that evening Tina, (Donna), came up to me and started talking about the judging. Then it hit me, she would be judging. As you know the integrity of this contest is of the utmost importance to me. I would not have said yes to Carla had I known it was Tina that would be the judge. Not because I thought she wouldn’t do a good job, but because Tina knows a lot of you and is a personal friend to at least two of the contestants. I like Tina very much. She is a lot of fun and makes me laugh, and great comic relief, but as you know the judges can’t know ANY of the contestants and I in truth did not realize Donna was Tina. My head has been spinning since I got ill and it never occurred to me. Okay, I’m blonde. 

When I realized my mistake I did not want to embarrass anyone so I just gave Tina the forms and let her judge. I knew I would have to pry my huge foot out of my mouth tonight. I am asking everyone to forgive me. 

Sooooo, I will not be using Tina’s judging sheets but rather giving the new contestants their scores and sending each of you your personal critiques.  I hope this clears things up. If you are still confused email me at dizert@gmail.com and we can talk. 

Again, let me state it is totally my fault and I want to apologize to Carla and Tina (Donna) for me being such a dunderhead! I guess I’m not perfect….DAMN!

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