Although, to be fair, Laser Beam is a head taller than me, so he’s actually rather big for a birdie. We’ve got family coming and it really needs doing.

[picture of paint cans]

It’s been a crazy crazy couple of weeks since the audition and I feel as if I’ve gotten nothing done. Some logo work, some paperwork, wear and tear tests. PHEW! I feel bad because I haven’t really emailed any of the cool inventors I met last month. I need to do that, soon.

And I’m still doing part time writing work, looking for full-time work, coordinating getting a new roof on, and getting ready for family visiting/staying/traveling from now through the end of August. Double PHEW!

Anyway, birdies. I’m on Twitter now, and you can follow me here. I’ve also put together a very basic official “me” page on Facebook here. I’m trying to link them together, or not. Trying to figure out what to do with it all, keep this a mom/idea blog but I guess it’s turning more into an invention blog, which is kind of the point I was going at with the [TOAST] (Think of a Something Thursday) posts.

More birdies – we are at the halfway mark of when the inventor show producers said they’d start talking to people about being on the show. Wooo! They emailed me to get new pictures (something happened to mine, just my luck!) so I was up wayyy too the other night and wayyyy too early the next morning to get and prepare food props for my own backyard photoshoot. Good thing I had a working camera and a bolt of black fleece around. And the morning sun cooperated nicely! I guess the nice thing about inventing is that I can do this in my PJs, but the payoff (seeing it on sale somewhere or in the wild, being used) is a loooooooooooong way off – if I ever get there.

But they took a lot of footage for a lot of people, maybe I’ll be filler. Lorena Bee, queen of the “B” roll or filler tape, whatever they call it these days. I’m going to have to get cable or satellite again so I can catch all the episodes and see who made it and how. Though while we were out of town this weekend, a family member suggested I try out for American Idol – but I think I’ve hit my limit on realty TV show tryouts for a while.

I do hope (and fear! TV! Eeeek!) I get somewhere with this – either on this show or just on my own; I mean, it makes sense to start small, maybe on Etsy because seriously, who has the price of a modest home to drop on getting 30,000 of something made up on spec?

But imagine volunteering at my local school in a few years in the lunch room and seeing the kids using my stuff!? Super wow. Or even just all my friends and family, not because I made it, but because it works and it’s cool. Wow.

Anyway, the inventor life isn’t all glamor. I need to go organize the playroom of my littlest birdies and maybe mask up that bathroom for painting, after all. What do we think of the color moss green?

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