Gimme The Mike! Oklahoma

What a week! I taped my episode of Gimme the Mike Oklahoma on Monday. Talk about feeling like a rock star! The hair and makeup people would come running every time I looked "shiny" or my hair looked out of place. There was a Braums food table set up by Craft Services, and everything was being catered to us, the four contestants vying for the title of show winner to be able to go to finals. I felt like one of those stars that must get catered to... "I only wanted RED M&M'S! How DARE you - - Now I cannot perform tonight!" LOL. No, I actually stayed very quiet and reserved and just concentrated on giving the best performance possible. I know, it's hard to believe but it's true...

After all of the hours of the show taping, I was standing there as they were tallying each person's score and I thought to myself "At the end of the day - win or lose - I really had the most fun out here doing this.

Too bad that you are just going to have to watch the show to see if I won... 0:)

My outfit was so very cool! I was singing a country song - Independance Day, by Martina McBride, so I could'nt just walk out there in a dress. I bought new jeans and used a jean jacket that I had for a year. Here is the cool part... I went to bed one night just thinking and thinking about HOW to dress this oufit up for TV. The next day I was driving down the road and my cousin Jennie popped into my head. She is an artist - a fantastic artist that paints on pretty much anything, boots, jeans, jackets - as well as the canvas. I asked her to paint something on my outfit and she came up with the most awesome thing. She painted a HUGE treble clef on tbe back of my jacket in Gold (she know me well) and down the right pant leg some music notes dropping to the ankle.
She went to bed that night and had a dream. She said as she was working on my coat, my Mom walked up to her, looking healthy as ever and said "Jennie, this is great. Please tell Joy not to worry, I am her guardian angel and I have been watching over her. I am going to make sure she wins." Jennie woke up and said out loud "wings!" The next morning she painted angel wings on either side of the treble clef and replaced the flag on the music note with an angel wing. She also put a small treble clef with the angel wings on the front pocket of the coat. Everyone went crazy over it. Jennie did a wonderful job, but it was also my Mom working in my life once again, because.................wait - I cannot tell you - you have to watch the show! Let me just put it this way for you - - it's really goooooood - and Momma was right.

KWTV Channel 9, Monday, July 18th at 7pm.
http://www.newsok.com/gimmethemike/