I tried out for Kelly Ripa’s new show on TLC for women entrepreneurs, http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/get-on-the-show.html.  It was so exciting and interesting, and these are interesting times indeed.  I have worked relentlessly trying to get ClipCleany (formerly cleanybeany) to market using the traditional routes banks, local Angel investors, and a local investment group. Chasing money can be a full time job.  So Kelly Ripa’s show on TLC where the grand prize is to have your product manufactured and sold on HSN is a huge fantasy, but so is a local bank loan, so might as well have fun. The night before my pitch I was practicing and my prototype broke apart!  I put it together with chewing gum and thought, oh well. When we arrived at the hotel there was already a line of some really great women (crap!) I gave my 30 second pitch while my two daughters waited for me (the other two kids were at home with Dad)and they asked me back to do a 2 minute pitch!  I prayed my broken prototype would light up, it didn’t, and they asked me what it would mean to me if I won and I started to get weepy!  They were so nice about it.  It was a great experience and I and I am thankful for it.  Thank you, Pick Me Pick Me Pick Me!

Ok, I put in the invisible fence and my dog’s happy carefree world has changed.  He got zapped a couple of times and it was awful.  He looks at me with different eyes now, why mom?  Now I have dog-mom guilt, which is better than dog-got-run-over-mom guilt but…stinks.  I have been doing the training with him but he won’t go near the flags, which of course, is the point.   He was so nerved up about the scary change to his back yard he wouldn’t poo.  I know it’s for the better and I know that this gives him oddly more freedom, but like vaccinating your kids, it’s just not fun watching the stunned look of betrayal when the needle goes in.

Had to get an upgrade to the electric fence.  It’s coming soon.  Have to keep a very happy neighbor at Bay:-)  May the peace be with you.