Calling and flying (and the internal fight)

[cjsmith]

Fortunately Rob keeps his journal up to date so I can crib from him. Friday evening Rob flew us down to LA, and over the weekend we called a sparsely-attended dance. (Me, I did not do taxes today as Rob's second entry notes he did. In between all this goofing off on LJ, I'm trying to justify my paycheck. :-) )

This weekend I have two flight lessons scheduled. The weekend after that I have two flight lessons scheduled. See, I had been giving myself a major guilt trip for not flying since Christmas, so I went and made sure this stuff was on the calendar. It didn't work; I'm still on the guilt trip. And then somewhere in my brain a recording is saying over and over that I will never get back to the level of skill I once had. This same voice insinuates that I never did fly very well in the first place. Anyone have a super-pill for shutting up the voices inside one's head? Gosh darnit, I'm nothing if not stubborn. I'm going to try to regain that old skill and better. But wow, it's a heck of a fight.

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

I'll have the same situation in Denver next week...I'm supposed to call a Sunday morning C2 dance as an add-on to the Rainbeaus anniversary weekend. When Karen Fields added that, they figured there would be two squares worth, but as of last week, only 5 had signed up. They've all scattered to the coasts to dance with the big names!

Flying...maybe I'll take that up as a new hobby! :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, conflicting dance times can really make a difference.

Flying is even better than square dance calling as a way of shrinking one's wallet! ;-)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(grimace) yes... I keep wishing I could get back into it, until I price out rentals.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

No kidding. That's a big part of what slowed me down for so long. I'm spending HOW MUCH on something just for FUN?