Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Stressed

Our annual skating carnival is sneaking up on us VERY quickly and let's just say I'm not nearly ready for it to be here yet. 10 more days until carnival and SO SO SO much to do yet. I'm beginning to think that the carnival this year really isn't going to be very good, but I sure hope I'm totally wrong! Not all the routines are done because it's pretty hard to work on them when half the group is missing or the groups teacher is not there. I just get so frustrated on the ice some days. I'm just praying that everything gets done and that we are able to put on a great show for everyone!

Once carnival is over, most of my stress will be gone (hopefully). Maybe then I will actually be able to just relax in the evening and not have my brain working 120% thinking about carnival and skating stuff. And maybe I'll also have energy to do other things! I'm just always exhausted these days. It doesn't matter when I go to bed, I can hardly pull myself out of bed and make it through the day.
I need some advice on something... we have volunteer Program Assistants (PA's) that teach all the little groups in Canskate. I have never seen such a lack of dedication from PA's ever! It is brutal. When I was a PA, there was no way I could miss Canskate. If I wanted to do something or go somewhere on a Monday or Friday, I was only allowed to go after Canskate. I need advice on how to get better dedication from them next year. Some of them probably won't be back next year, so then we'll need to find even more. It's just frustrating when you only have 3 PA's show up for the session!

Sorry for so much rambling and complaining, but I just had to get it out. I'm just stressed, frustrated and moody these days. I feel sorry for the people around me some days! Please keep me and the rest of the skating club in your prayers. We could all use prayers these next 10 days.
Blessings my dear friends

6 comments:

Gina said...

Sorry you are having a tough time! My friends kids started skating last year (Calysta and Reed) and both years the carnival is when we were in Mexico! Kinda dissappointed as they are always so proud when they tell me about skating and Reed always just has sparkles in his eyes!
Cankskate sure does sound different from the days when I did it.
It's all gonna be good Janelle, don't worry...

Rachelle said...

Oh Janelle, I'm sorry that you're so stressed out right now. I know you're working your butt off and it ticks me off that other people aren't willing to pitch in and do their part. I wish I had some good advice, but I really don't know what to tell you, except that I do think things will turn out in the end. I've been a part of different productions before (not skating ones though) and it always feels like everything is falling apart right before show time.

Connie said...

will be thinking of you and prayong for you... :)

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Trev & Rebekah said...

Just be honest and tell them how frustrated you are.

Connie said...

still keeping you in mind... :)