A Tale of Two Childs

I have had a LOT of firsts the past few weeks. First time on the radio, first time in a recording studio, first time on the news and first time on a promotional video... and it has been a blast!

The picture of me and a microphone me in the studio for the Radio interview. I am representing my company on the Winterfest Committee for Ogden City and they asked me to come and do a Community Calendar segment for FM 100 and 103.5 and talk about my companies involvement. We sponsored the Home Depot kids corner where they made little tool kits and the Polar Bear Swim. I was nervous but so excited. I think my favorite advice was to "act like it is a normal conversation"... I think I may have known that. Thanks to Amy- the PR person, and Kevin the organizer for asking me to come!

Then we were asked to record one of our songs from the Halloween show I was in for a promotional video. We recorded in a studio at the Salt Lake Art Institute. They cut out the last half of our song, cause turns out, my high notes were flat... a little ouch to the ego, but I never claimed to be a soprano, and an exciting opportunity. Though they ran extremely late! I got home at 12a that morning.

THEN, we got called to provide some costumes for Friday Morning shots with 2 News and Casey in the morning (the same Casey that Chunga and Mister blew up all those years ago on 107.5 the end... glad his career has gone well for him), I had a cheesy grin the entire time. (that is the picture of me at the top- the first one is Kevin with Me, Casey, Kevin with Ogden City and Pete, then Me, Amy the PR rep and Emily from ABC 4, and then just me and Emily in the Kiss Costume) Following that, I was on ABC 4 with Emily. I was a Jolly Rancher, and a guy I work with, Pete, was a Hershey Kiss, they made him ski behind a horse, I just had to talk and grin cheesily, two things I do BEST, so I got off easy!! It was a blast!





Today, we finished filming for the song we sang on Monday in the studio, and it was a wrap. Everything ran smoothly- we got there and were interviewed, then we filmed the opening part of our first song from the show (the cauldron song) and they sent us home.

This was a week of many Media firsts for me, and I loved every minute of it.

In addition, we ran the second annual polar bear swim on Saturday, we had 92 participants, (92 crazy people willing to jump into 38 degree water) and I need an adapter to play music on our PA system, but I just put the microphone to my phone and it worked! Each participant got a free souvenir, then people had the chance to dive for prizes, we gave out hot chocolate and mugs and candy.

It has been a hugely CHAOTIC week, especially while trying to maintain my health challenge, but I had a great time. It is now Saturday night, time to relax and enjoy time with Handsome Caleb.

On Wednesday I weighed in for the Gold's Gym 2011 Fitness Challenge. I would have posted pictures to accompany the event and make this more interesting, however, since the pictures they take are in your skibbies, I did not want to make the blog post horrifying.

It started on Monday the 19th, and ends April the 11th. 82 Days. I have decided to exercise to burn 700 calories, 6 days a week, and decrease my caloric intake to 1600 calories. I have also eliminated sweets from my diet for those 82 days. Phew, 5 days down. It has been a challenge.. Saturday morning after 4 straight days of my 700 calories burned workouts, My body had about had it with me, but I am pleased to say that my Sabbath "day of rest" has suited me lovely, and I am excited to return early Monday morning.

Once the competition is over, I will begin easily back to sugars, but I will introduce a new concept "moderation" which I have had issues with since I started working at the Hershey Distribution center!

If you win the competition you get a free gym membership for a year, that in itself would be worth it. Wish my luck as I set off to make a HUGE change!

So we were asked if we had kids this week, Caleb mentioned that our cat is our child right now, I know it is silly, but Hammy is our little buddy.

So we had a bag of catnip that Hammy tore up, so I placed it in a zip lock bag and into a drawer, so Hammy would not get into it and make a mess. Caleb was looking for something in that drawer, and placed the catnip bag on the kitchen counter. We came downstairs this morning, and it was all over the kitchen, he tore up the whole bag, rolled in it, played in it for who knows how long. He was happy as a little clam with his catnip. I have attached a photo, it does not give him justice, you can see the specs of it all over his body, and the small spots on my floor, every inch of the kitchen had been catnipped. I suppose you can learn a couple of lessons, 1: Where there is a will, there is a way, and most often a mess, and 2: That is what we get for sleeping in on a Saturday morning and locking him out of my room! Cute Hammy.