So when Fox 35 news morning show called me last week and asked me if I would like to be on their morning show I said yes. Ok I should back up… First I was like “what I’m woo hoo umm yippee, is this a joke?!?!???!!!!” Then I was like yes please! The funny thing is that normally I would think about it all weekend and silently rehearse all the things I want to say in my head like we have classes and we are awesome and we make pottery and we have summer clay camp and date night and paint your own pottery and we do the potters wheel and umm and ummm yeah. Instead My adorable nephew was born on Friday and then with all the wacky weather my son went into respiratory distress and had to visit the hospital! After all that craziness died down on Sunday night I was so tired I crashed only to wake up at 6 am to get ready for the show.

Now for those of you who don’t know me very well you don’t know how impressive a 6 am wake up for me is. I was impressed by my inability to turn the alarm off and go back to sleep for 10 more minutes. So I was up super duper crazy early! I visited the studio and packed all my pottery stuff up and set off for Lake Mary.

When i got to the studio which you can see from I-4 I was greeted and taken back past several newsie looking rooms including a really cool room with one guy and like 20 tv screens all playing something different. They took me back to Studio B which consisted of big boxed light things facing a table with a curtain behind it and a bunch of tv production like stuff everywhere. Everyone was so nice and told me their plans. I kept asking what would be best for the camera and if what I was doing looked good and hoping not to annoy them. They were very nice and told me it was good. I finally got set up, mic’ed up and waited to go on air. I still wasn’t nervous which to me was very weird since I really thought I should be.

So, I’m in the room with the very nice camera person waiting when he says your almost up. I just want to say that almost to me is like 5 minutes or 3/4 of the way. This camera man and I have completely different ideas about the word almost because 2 seconds later two beautiful, tiny women come bursting out from under the curtain behind me with huge smiles and loads of makeup on. I’m still not nervous (I promise).

It was so shocking and these ladies were so much larger than life. I feel like we were all asleep before they came into the room. They just started talking to me like I was their best friend it took me a few moment to switch gears. I have never been in a situation like this! I have to say that i felt like…the princess of pottery! It was so cool. And then it was over. And just like they burst out from behind the curtains they ran out of the room holding their hands as far from their beautiful clothes and hair as they could. And I was like whoa, I was just on TV.

You would think the story is ober but theres more. I packed all my stuff into my wagon and started heading out. I was outside the door and saying goodby to the very nice security guard when I heard a strange plastic clicking sound. Now normally whatever, but the bucket full of water I was carrying suddenly became very light. Then I looked down. I have to interject here that I was outside the front door standing on the custom made mat with Fox’s logo on it. I was also standing right behind and uphill of the Air Force marching band equipment. My bucket was full…emphases on was. I watched as the bottom shattered and all the dirty clay water flowed down the gentle slope towards the band instruments. In a few years this will be a funny story, and I’m sure your probably thinking this is funny now (I’m almost thinking this is funny now),In fact everyone I’ve told this story to has chuckled at me. It’s not that I am clumsy or anything, I’m just goofy so the bucket breaking is just another little not h on my goofy belt. I suppose having a decent segment that I didn’t do anything goofy during was just too smooth and something had to happen to even it all out? So I’m apologizing all over myself while pulling towels out of my wagon and trying like crazy to mop the clay water up. A few air force band members noticed and moved their trumpets out of the way which was a very good thing! Then one of the very nice men who helped me set up brought out a mop and mop bucket. I was so embarrassed and now starting to fear for following segments (in my mind I was just crowned pottery princess!!!!). So finially after much apologizing and thanking it was cleaned up, my car was paced up and I called my mom, my husband and Amanda (the most awesome employee ever) who all assured me that it was fine that muddy water on the ground was probably not going to get me decrowned. So Fox 35 first THANK YOU!!!! And IM SO SORRY for the muddy water. Oh and I’m getting a Tiara tomorrow!!!!!!! (this is a rough draft revisions to follow along with possible spelling and grammar corrections but seriously what do u expect from the princess of pottery?)