I keep telling you that I’m busy, oh, so busy, and I have a lot going on etc. etc. How do I balance? How do I get to be a good mother/wife/person while managing all of these things? And why are other bloggers getting so much attention and making so much money while I languish in obscurity?
Okay, that last one is really what it’s all about. I’m busy making a name for myself in the (I hate this word:) blogosphere. I’m like a stealthy little colony of termites, sneaking along behind the scenes and popping up here and there in a dusty cloud of debris.
I just compared myself to a colony of termites. See? I’m stretching myself kind of thin here. I’ve been writing so much in other places that I am out of metaphors. I have been silently scolding myself for neglecting this blog, because I always swore that if I began to succeed in other areas, I would not let this space suffer. But as usual, when there is something going on that I want to talk about here, I hesitate to do it until I have the time and energy to do it the right way.
It has become clear to me that I will never have enough time and energy for anything, so I’ll have to work with what I’ve got.
So let me get to the point. I’ve been invited to be a contributor to LA Moms Blog, an offshoot of the very popular (and powerful!) Silicon Valley Moms Blog. Boy, if I thought I was part of an awesome community before, these women blow my mind. As a contributor, I’m on the message board, and I get tens (tens!) of emails a day from the other bloggers, posting about all kinds of things (but mostly about BlogHer – I’ll deal with that in another post). Yesterday, someone posted this message:
“CBS Evening News is working on a story for tomorrow…we are looking for a woman in her 30s or 40s who is beginning to get serious about her finances…We would like to interview her TOMORROW morning.”
I knew that I’d be working at home today so I responded, thinking they probably found someone already anyway.
Well, what do you know? That someone was ME.
Reporter and cameraman in my living room
It all happened so fast, it was over before I knew it. They came at 7am, taped me with my family, then me blogging (hi, Mom!), then me opening my financial statements and shouting “Holy crap!” then an interview in which I worried more about my crazy eyebrows than about what I was saying.
The story is not about my blog, but of course I tried to talk about it and show it off as much as possible. I didn’t have time to make a t-shirt with my URL on it, but I would have. Shoot, I didn’t even think of writing it on my forehead until just now.
As you know, I’ve been in that chair behind the camera for my whole TV career, and this was reaallllyyyy weird for me. I tried hard not to produce the shoot myself, but I couldn’t help worrying about the sound quality and the clutter in the background and the toys and crap that were everywhere I looked. After a while I had to just give up and leave my fate to the capable hands of the lovely crew, hoping that whoever cuts the piece doesn’t make me look and sound like an asshole.
The story should air Monday night on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric (6:30PM in most markets) but I will confirm that when I can, and I will post a link here when it’s available. When I accept my Emmy, I will thank SVMomsBlog first.
yay Kim!
Yay you!
But gosh darn it, you shoulda been wearing one of my aprons!!!!!
Wow! So can I say like, “I knew her when” and get your autograph or something? Do let us know about the newscast, I want to see it!
holy crap, girl! This is really really really cool! CONGRATULATIONS!
Yea! Congrats!
Cool stuff. Yeah, it would be hard for me not to get behind the camera to check the shutter speed and such.
We’ll keep an eye out for you. Hopefully you don’t hit the cutting room floor 😉
Yeah! and double yeah! See, it was worth having those kids after all….
Quite cool!