So somehow a marketing firm in New York found my blog (I'm still trying to figure that one out) and thought it was good (trying to figure that out too), and sent me some products to do a Back to School review on for the morning news. Really, wow! That was kinda out of the blue. Not really my style. But, I've never done anything like that before so it seemed fun and different.
I wasn't going to tell anyone but my husband so that I wouldn't be as nervous. If I didn't think people I knew where watching me (you're all asleep still at that time right?) I could just pretend I was only talking to the few people in the room and try and forget the big boxey thing with the lens. I finally broke down and told both sets of parents the night before, and my step mom gave me the best advice: "wear lipstick". I would have forgotten that too, even though I carry about five in my purse all time. So I showed up there dark and early this morning ~ the sun still wasn't up when I left their building. Put my lipstick on in the car and tried not to get nervous while waiting for breaking news to throw things off a bit. It went a lot different than I thought it was going to. The presentation order was different and they didn't have me go over the last product and they didn't want me to "read" from the script that was sent to me. It was supposed to be more like a conversation so I was trying hard to remember all the product talking points.
At least my teaching training helped a bit. I only said "umh" four times (yeah, I went back and counted), and I didn't do the dreaded "and umh" over and over. I guess it could have gone a lot worse. Anyway if you are interested... here's my television debut.
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=16945095&nid=165
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