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My morning started at 615 when my alarm went off, and then started again at 645 when I decided that I could no longer snooze it and still be to work on time. I was really tired this morning because after work yesterday, I had a pretty eventful evening. I spent my evening preparing my apartment for my mom's visit (we discussed this yesterday) this weekend, mainly so I can make it appear that I do in fact live like a real adult. Somehow this involved my buying a Christmas wreath and poinsettia from CVS on the way home because in my head these 2 things seemed to be very "adult like" things to have. Also, its Christmas time. I know, I'm insane, I have no idea how Christmas decorations help you and your living situation appear to be more adult like. This then turned into figuring out how to hang the wreath after the realization that my oh so very "adult like" apartment didn't have any "adult like" tools or resources needed to hang this "adult like" wreath, but that could be a whole separate post on it's own. (We ended up using a spiral note book wire and some packing tape.. so that should give you an idea) On that note, thanks to my friend Brandon for saving the wreath hanging day.
So annyyyywho, my apartment is clean and decorated, so now back to my morning of insanity. I arrived to work at 8am per the usual, and didn't even have time to take my jacket off before producers were running in to the hair and make green room screaming about guests we had arriving for the show. Dramatic, producers always have a way of being VERY over dramatic, so my first thought? Calm the eff down, cue eye roll! But unfortunately this time, their dramatics were right on point. Let me start by just telling you that we have 6 hosts every day on a normal day, 4 guys and 2 girls. We then have a 2 hour time frame (on a good day) to get all of them ready for their first segment at 10am, LIVE! SO any additional guests are always difficult but usually do-able.
Well this morning at 830, we had not seen any of our original girl hosts yet, and there was an additional female guest that needed to be camera ready as well by the 10am segment and 2 additional female guests that were joining the 1030am segment. So at this point, I too, am joining in on the producers panic attacks..internally of course. (Insert Lady GaGa Poker Face here). Finally at 835 one of our original hosts shows up. She usually is a pretty safe solid hour in the hair and make up chair, as she comes in daily with wet hair, gets a full blow out and set, and a full face of makeup including highlight and contour and full lashes. You're already tired just hearing it right? Yea, me too. So we get her done and in walks the second original female host who doesn't need a blow out, but has double the amount of hair and length as the other host and needs a full curl and set, and a full face of makeup. While we are getting her done one of the assistant producers runs in, mid nervous breakdown, looking as if he has lost his script notes and has messed up his bosses coffee order. "We have another female guest that is going to be joining the segment on air right now and she needs to be ready in 10minutes". Key word here..Female.
UMMMMM, at this point I am just not going to entertain the thought.. that they thought.. that this would actually be possible. So I simply turn to him with a smile and say "Not going to happen" ..sorry about it. My good friend Linda..aka Panda, knows this phrase of mine well and I am sure as she reads this, she can just picture the look on my face at that very moment. The young man simply turns and leaves the room with a defeated look on his face, probably dreading the impending doom of relaying my message to his boss, probably the same boss who got the wrong coffee. We then continue to finish our second female host and prepare for the next additional guest that is to join her in the next segment. Now let me just say, I know you are probably confused with the "original host" and "additional guest" stuff, and as i type this, so am I. But this should only add to my description of the complete madness of this lovely morning on wonderful LIVE TV. (Literally as I type this I am being told about another guest being added to an upcoming segment, I have already had to put the computer down 7 times, but after all I am blogging while at work so it is to be expected).
At this point though, we finally have gotten our 2 main female hosts ready for the day and have scattered the boys in as well so they could get in and out. The boys hate makeup and hair so we usually have to track them down and drag them in with the promise that it will only take 5 minutes, which today was not a lie as that's all the time we had. We also got another one of our female hosts ready, she hosts her own segments sometimes on slow days to fill time gaps, and for some God forsaken reason, someone who gets paid a lot more money than me thought today was a good day to throw her in to the mix too. She was talking about that idiot who tattooed the Romney-Ryan slogan on his forehead which was obviously breaking news that needed to be talked about immediately. (sarcasm). Well this kind gentleman has now decided to get this tattoo removed, shocker, and now we get to hear all about it. This host as well was joined by a female guest to exchange witty banter about this moron. There is now also a small women that has just spontaneously appeared in the room at this point and is just sitting in the corner on the couch. No one knows who she is. I am now trying to figure out in my head who she could possibly be while also trying not to make eye contact with her in the hopes that if I pretend to be oblivious and busy, she will not ask to come through the chair. Turns out she was the guest from this mornings segment that I didn't have time for, and she is now in another segment as well.
So now, I felt like we were officially out of the thick of the woods, and for the most part we were. Guests and hosts continued to stagger in through out the morning with lingering producers hassling us for time estimates, as managers and publicists ranted on their cell phones about their next appearances..but we made it. Now, I don't want to continue to vent to you about the order of getting these host and guests ready, I think you get the chaotic point, but I will tell you that it is now 12:30 and 9 more people have been added to my earlier head count of 6 in the beginning of this article. Simply cray! I finally have another minute to sit down and talk to you guys a little bit more and possibly have a shot at grabbing something to eat here soon. (And when I say grab something I really mean have something delivered because I literally can not leave the building) You eat when you can ladies and gentlemen, and if you don't you won't. Oh, and I forgot to mention to you all that through out this morning's epic
Fast forward to 1:30, I can say now that I have made it through the madness and am enjoying a nice cup of chicken noodle soup :) I hope that not all of you were annoyed/bored with my vent sesh, and the randomness of the raged rant that has become this article, but sometimes it needs to happen. And it is nice when it does happen that you can vent to a cyber world that isn't directly rolling their eyes in your face and can't immediately talk back. The moral of this story being- Oh the joys of television and beauty! Until next time beautynistas, keep on keepin' on. 5 more hours and I will be chugging bottles of wine with my mother and her crazy friends. Happy Thursday!
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