Sorry for all of yesterday's troubles with the live blogging software! (For anyone who subscribes by email, no I did not blog in Latin. Don't know where THAT came from....)
Here's a cut-and-paste of the big event:
9:49
We are through the door and in our seats -- I'm sitting next to several other Weddingbee bees and met more on the way in the door, whee! The audience warm-up man is insanely cute. I want to take him home and so he can give me motivational speeches three times a day.
9:51
The studio is gorgeous. And freezing. I recognize lots of Martha's Macy's products scattered around the studio....
9:52
For other ANTM fans, I suspect I saw Nigel Barker walking up the stairs while we were waiting. If so (or even if it was someone else), he was gorgeous. As were his very pregnant wife and small child.
9:57
Darcy Miller just asked for a photo with Bee! She (and of course I mean Bee) is such a celeb.
10:02
Martha's here and the show is on, y'all. I have mixed feelings on the whole Martha phenomenon (perhaps we'll discuss later), but she is seriously darling in person.
10:07
Martha just gave cameras to her associated bloggers. Now I feel extra guilty for forgetting my own camera at home. People are snapping pics left and right (at least, they were before the show started). Well, y'all know what Martha looks like, right?
10:11
Perez Hilton will be on after this commercial break. When the warm-up guy announced it, everyone was like "Paris Hilton, whoohoo!" Then people figured out it was Perez. Oh. Um, okay, guess he's interesting too....
10:24
Bee is also live blogging over at Weddingbee. Hers is far more informative than mine. I actually drifted off for a bit and emailed Mr T. Used to be skeptical of married people who are all, "aw, I'm apart from my honey for a few days and it's so saaaaad." I always figured it's a good opportunity for girl time. But, you know, this is our first couple of nights apart since the wedding.... And it's so saaaaaaad!!
10:28
They're making cookies. Now I'm hungry. And freezing! And my laptop battery is disappearing at an alarming rate -- excuse me in advance, if I disappear without warning before the show is over.
10:35
Earlier, Martha and Perez Hiilton were discussing the amount of celebrity information available on the Web. Martha's salary came up, and she said of course that's available in her public filings. And PH asked something along the lines of "And is it correct?" The SEC lawyer in me kind of loved that one.
10:37
She's doing crafts with one of her editors, Eddie Ross. Apparently he's a contestant on Top Design this season. I've only watched one episode this season, but I don't remember him at all. I even remember the interview from the clip they just showed, but somehow he, the interviewee, never made it into my brain. Will have to root for him now!
10:42
Two "political bloggers" from the Politico website. I dedicate my audience participation in this segment to Mr T, who reads a zillion political blogs. I love that about him, in part because it means I don't have to -- whenever something interesting comes up, I just ask him for all the details.
(In other news, apparently Sarah Palin reminds Martha of her friend Sharon. Random, I know. But you heard it here first!)
10:51
They're discussing gardening. I recently read that gardening is incredibly healthy -- not the food necessarily, but the actual digging in the dirt. Sadly, we only have fake plants at home. And the cats eat them anyway!
10:58
Big audience pan. Get ready everyone! (In other news, "hi" to Grandma, who's watching this at home. No idea if she'll actually get to see me in the audience. Though they got as close as the woman next to me ... a/k/a Mrs. Toucan.) And just as I typed that, they photographed it from behind. Pigtails and a green print shirt, if you were watching!
10:59
And we're out. But we're all getting HP wireless printers. Yay!!!
10:59
My laptop is extremely close to dead, so I'll catch you all later for a wrap up. Thanks for following along!!!
A couple of postscripts: First, here's a photo of Bee and Darcy Miller, from Darcy's blog:
Also, thanks to the hard-hitting journalistic resource known as US Magazine, I have confirmed that Nigel Barker's and wife are expecting a baby in December. So that was definitely them spotted yesterday morning. What an incredibly attractive family!