Sunday, October 17, 2010

A Celebrity on our hands...

Yes...I am now a TV celebrity. I had my first TV interview this past week and am now on a first name basis with these guys:

I didn't think about how it was probably weird that before I even officially met them I was calling them by name, "Hi Mary...Hi Ron...Hi Bill." But...whatever...they are Utah Celebrities in my opinion.

To check out my TV moment on video go here and you might have to click on "Healthy Halloween Treats from IHC": http://connect2utah.com/news/noon-video

Believe me I am not really proud of this video but since it is my only claim to fame I will share it. You know...it is so hard listening to yourself or watching yourself on video. I was SOO nervous and the video take was live. I met Ron Bird like 20 seconds before we went live and he was asking me questions I didn't think he would ask me. Nick and I role-played what I would say OVER and OVER again and nothing came out how we practiced. When it was over it felt like the interview was only 30 seconds long and it was all a blur but it turned out to be like 4 minutes long. Kind of crazy.

And...yes I am also an IHC icon just in case you haven't seen the website...

www.intermountainhealthcare.org
under "Billing and Financial Assistance" at the bottom (of ALL places)

And this has to be THE WORST picture of me...EVER. I get a text/facebook message/e-mail from a different person at least once a week notifying me about my picture on the website. It wouldn't be so bad if it was a better picture of me. So...why am I blogging about it? I don't know. Well maybe just to tell people that I KNOW it is a bad picture of me and I didn't voluntarily put it on the website. The only reason it is up there is because they needed to take a picture of somebody diverse and lucky me... I am 4'11" ...and that makes me a diverse person in Utah I guess. :)

But..I will take what I can get when it comes to being famous.

9 comments:

Marci Wittwer Butterfield said...

I am so proud to say that I know you. :) good Work. I thought you looked and sounded fab!

Jen said...

AH you are so cool! Way to rock the mic :) You are like an IHC celebrity you know!
p.s. glad it was you and not me because you did way better then I could've

Melissa said...

Great job! I couldn't ever do that...I bet you were super nervous. Loved your line about salty and sweet. :) Now the question is what will you be eating for Halloween? ;)

Devrie Pettit said...

Way to go!! It was amazing. PS You always look cute.

The Smoots said...

You are darling as ever! You definilty are a celebrity. I totally just bought a bunch of candy, and now I am regreting it. You convinced me! Way to go girl you sounded great!

John and Rachael Alexander said...

Oh my heck! That was so awesome to watch you! You sounded so grown up and professional! loved it! you are totaly a celebrity!

Emily said...

You are a super star my friend! You seriously kicked interview butt! I can't believe that it was your first time doing anything like that. You are a such a natural. And you look/sound adorable!! Wow you are seriously such a professional grown up person!! I don't think this is the last we will see of this kind of thing...Look out world here comes Erica!!!

Lorna said...

You are too cute Erica. Emmett was absolutely memorized by your video!

Rickie said...

Oh, sis, you are hillarious. You did a great job in the interview, I know I already told you, but you should hear it again. Now I'm off to check out this photo on IHC's web-site. Have you ever thought about modeling?