Two and a Half Minutes on Channel 2

Blogging is one thing. 

I sit at my computer, any hour of the day/night, wearing whatever I want, saying whatever I want, and taking as much time as I need to say it.   Then I read through my draft and edit where needed.  If I think of something funny to insert later, maybe I do, maybe I don’t.  I have that option.

A live TV segment is another thing.

Putting yourself in front of a camera for two and a half minutes for thousands of people to watch, listen, critique, from their wide-screen HD television set that shows every blemish, every wrinkle, every bead of sweat collecting under the armpits.

As I sat in the lobby, waiting for Mary Nickles to greet me and start our segment, I played out in my mind how everything should go, but that picture-perfect possibility kept getting pushed out by a vision of me standing next to Mary, being star-struck, knees buckling, forgetting to breathe, and resulting in a 5′10″ body crumbling to the floor.  Before I knew it, I was standing next to Mary, had said a few words (consisting mostly of the word “exactly”), and the cameras were off of me and on to Ron Bird, the news anchor at the desk (who apparently was just as unsuspecting as me, since they caught him lounging in his anchor chair).

Mary was gracious, calm, and professional.  And thank goodness for the camera man who shot the breeze with me before the segment, sharing all the “worst case scenarios” he had experienced in his 30+ years of experience in television.  I realized at that time that anything I could have done/said during my 2 and a half minutes couldn’t have topped that.  So I felt better.

Here is the link to the segment if you happened to be working during the time it aired.

And here is what I treated myself to after my time at the Channel 2 Main Street Studio…. and once I regained strength in my legs.

Photo from Mini’s Cupcakes

Thanks again, Channel 2, for spotlighting me and  Today’s Mama.

P.S. Count how many times I said “exactly” and … you should win some sort of prize…

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