Miss24k said:
I know what you're saying, I was exhausted. I don't know how long Sassy's comp was but mine started at 8am and I finished at 9:30pm.
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All the ups and downs that you'll go through are worth it and you forget all about it once you stand out there and you see people smiling at you.
I hear ya girl! My day sort of never really started or ended from the previous day.
Fri
6 pm - got to the hotel, met everyone, brought all our crap up to the room.
7 pm - trainer says I can go out w/ everyone to the restaurant but all I can eat is a potato (still carbing up).
9 pm - have finally gotten everyone to the restaurant, got lost going up & down the 72 floor elevator, going on 2 hrs w/ no food and starting to carb crash. Toss back a glass of wine. Ask the waiter about potatos, discover they only have pureed stuff. Can't do pureed, don't trust them that there isn't some other shit in there that will make me sick or screw up my carb up. Go ballistic. Shadow walks me back to the hotel so I can eat my own f'n potato.
10 pm - eat the f'n potato, talk w/ the trainer, start practicing my posing. Call the front desk about the refrigerator we were supposed to get but it doesn't show up yet.
11 pm - no response from the front desk w/ the fridge. Call again.
11:30 pm - guy brings the fridge., says will be cold in 20 min after plugging in. Continue posing.
12:30. Realize the fridge aint' cold yet. Call the front desk about it. THey say they'll call Engineering.
1:30 - Fridge not replaced yet. Call again.
2 pm - Fridge gets replaced. FUCKING FINALLY. Throw the food in the fridge. Continue posing.
2:30 pm - Trainer shows up to check on how I look, brings Toney Freeman (one of the guest posers) for his comments. I pose with my eyes closed. They leave. I crash.
5:30 am - Trainer calls to go find a buffet to get eggs & pancakes.
6 am - standing at the buffet counter where they tell us they aren't open yet. I almost start crying cuz my stomach hurts so much from lack of food.
6:15 - we eat - 1/2 c scrambled eggs, 2 pancakes, no syrup, no water, etc. $12.95 buffet.
7 am - head to the room for makeup.
7:30 am - haul ass to the stage area for pre-show competitor meeting.
9 am - Still sitting there waiting for someone to tell us something abotu the show, while watching them cart in trophy after trophy after trophy. Finally I just say - eh just give me the big trophy and let me go drink.
9:30 am - sneak out of the non-meeting to finish makeup.
10 am - show starts
11:30 - have been pumping up for the last 45 min waiting for my category to get called out.
1 pm - pre-judge done.
2 pm - Trainer & other clients drive to a steak place in midtown for lunch. Have been starving since 12:30 and startign to feel sick & carb crashed again. And again,. the place doesn't have potatos. I go ballistic, charge out of the restaurant & start looking frantically for a cab. Trainer drives me home & I eat my own potatos again.
3-6 pm - hang out in the room w/ Bunny, Ulter, my trainer, anyone else who comes wandering thru
7 pm - show starts again.
8:30-ish - Sassy goes out and does the Pink Panther routine w/ a gigantic stupid smile on her face. Loved every minute of it.
9:30 pm - Sassy gets: master's 1st place, open 2nd place, last trophy of the nite, Best Female Poser! Walks off stage w/ a shit eating grin & a 5 ft trophy. Never had so much fun in my life!
11 pm - have chowed on some peanut butter, a Stallone pudding thing or two, 5 oz of chicken and looking for my RUM & DIET COKE!
12 pm - can't handle more than 1 rum & diet coke, now sucking down diet cokes at some club listening to 5 yr old trance music.
3:30 am - club closes, heading back home
9 am - drag out of bed & looking for the breakfast buffet
11 am - have hit the breakfast buffet - 4 cups of coffee, eggs, bacon, sausage, french toast & 2 donuts later, I'm full.
12:30 - back at the gym for a professional photo shoot my trainer arranged. FUN AS SHIT!
5 pm- At the Mexican restaurant pounding chips & salsa.
7 pm - full. Never want to see another chip as long as I live. Or at least until tomorrow....
9 pm - at home trying to find my stuff to get ready for work tomorrow.
Monday
4:30 am - wake up out of habit to go to the gym. Roll over & go back to sleep.
9 am - drag ass to work
9 am - 5 pm - look at my pix

6 pm - back in the gym lifting, 30 min cardio
9 pm - staring at the tv. Still cant' find all my shit in my luggage but o well.
Yea, it was a long weekend. But I'm still stupid happy and now just waiting to see how my photos came out and figuring out my next moves. And wishing I didnt' have to come back to work, for like, another month....