Make sure to watch all the way to the end to see some real foodie carnage!
I have had the idea to do a video series called Kitchen Confessions for a while now but I was worried about getting too personal. I am actually quite an aloof person and will do just about anything to avoid emotional content, especially publicly. But it would not leave me alone. Then, this happened:
Yes, that is Hershel from Walking Dead on the top right!
I had seen a video somewhere of an unboxing of Japanese candy sent by Japan Crate. I thought it was such a genius idea! Pay $12 to receive a box of candy that is eaten in Japan. I wrote them and they were thrilled and sent me a box.
Reg and I shot the video and halfway through the process, the video camera died. We continued on and I thought everything was fine. Until I saw that big yellow ?!!!!
We did everything, consulting techie friends… Nope. The video was D-E-A-D. Totally corrupted. As I said in my kitchen confession, I didn’t cry but I did crawl into bed and stayed there for about three days. Ah the joys of living with deep depression.
So get this, as I am filming the video for the confession there is this incredibly long delay in the audio. I had no idea at the time but as the video progressed, the audio got worse and worse until it felt like you were watching a dubbed movie.
I once again tried to share some of the candy that was included in that incredible box of treats and had no idea of the techie hell that was going on.
I even tried eating some again on camera but a lot of the video was absolutely unusable!!!
I tried to fix some of the audio as much as I could and put it up on YouTube.
I had not even shared it with anyone yet when lovely Debbie laughed at my experience and called me a wally. Sigh. This was one of the reasons I was hesitant to do this series because it is personal but hey, when people start making fun of you that is a big sign of success. That I can live with. Feeling cursed technologically? Unacceptable.
Wish I could say the tech issues stopped there but I had two more big kitchen disasters today! I had no idea I was going to have so many things to confess so bloody quickly.
I do not mind sharing disasters so we can have a good laugh but please Universe, throw me a good luck foodie bone if you don’t mind? I need some help!
Suzie – I wouldn’t worry at all about the disasters. They just make you real, and who doesn’t have disasters in their own kitchens? I would much prefer seeing and knowing about the problems than seeing the perfectly processed unrealistic junk you see other places. Keep on keepin’ on! Love seeing the good, the bad, and the ugly, it makes you real.
Thank you Lynn! I appreciate you supporting my real-ness. 🙂 That means a lot!
Confession is good for the soul, LOL! This reminds me of your homage to Vincent Price video that had all the mysterious tech glitches, etc. . . . could Vincent be roaming about AGAIN? Love your hand-crafted Hello Kitty tee, by the way, it turned out great!
Debra, I thought about that video too! Oh my goodness, I was so cursed for that video and I haven’t had many problems since. Thank you! I worked so hard on that t-shirt, so glad you like it. 🙂
hehe that is awesome, it happens to all of us as for sound problems maybe try a desk mic over the headset versions, I have yet to find a headset mic that is as good as a desktop mic
Yup, it’s gotta be something to do with the headset, won’t be video recording off the computer again, just going to use the camera I have. Glad you liked the video!
I got it figured Suzie , you’re in a time warp. Just looked at the time markers on the comments and every thing is in the future LOL !!!!
P S I second Lynn’s comment about you being you . Disasters are a part of life. If you want to be perfect sign up to Blog on the Food Network ( I know how much you’d like that ) .
I guess I am just ahead of myself, aren’t I Wayne? LOL, true, I would much prefer to be real than pseudo perfect!
Glad you shared this with me because it was still brilliant. As you always are, even though you are about a billion times TOO hard on yourself.
I still believe in you, no matter what.
Thank you! I really appreciate your feedback and am glad that you enjoyed the video. Yes, I am hard on myself, it’s true. Gotta work on that. Thanks for your support, as always.