Oh We’re Halfway There

Most of my day job involves being “on”. I spend much of my week on the phone or in Zoom meetings. By the time Friday limps around I am pretty spent. Weekends are a chance to zone out a bit and recharge.

Perhaps ‘recharge’ isn’t quite the right word. It’s more like an iPhone that is a couple of generations behind the one that Apple wants us to buy and it takes longer to charge your “outdated” one AND the battery depletes faster than it used to.

Regardless, once Monday announces It Has Returned I am more or less ready for another week. Not that I have a choice.

This weekend Shannonlee and I shot another episode of Help Me, Hannah!, the webseries I am doing with En Femme. This episode was all about shapewear and consisted of me trying on different cinchers and the like.

These videos require a lot of planning between synching up schedules with Shannonlee, my makeup artist, the studio, and making sure the clothes I am talking about arrive on time.

There’s also the mental game of being comfortable not only being on video BUT also being pretty vulnerable. Recent videos have featured different tucking garments and a bra fitting… both of which required me to be in various stages of undress.

But I roll with it. Or I at least fake it.

I spent a better part of two hours that day just talking while wearing just a bra and panties as I babbled about corset safety and the advantages of butt-enhancing undies.

The key to this is just kind of shutting off ninety percent of your brain and working with whatever is left.

But as I mentioned by the time the weekend is here, my brain power is pretty depleted. When I start filming it usually takes me a half dozen tries to get the introduction right.

I don’t know why I look showing ya’ll these silly outtakes but there you go.

I get a little bit of a second wind when we’re halfway to the end of the week. I hope everyone has a good Wednesday and we are getting closer to the weekend with every breath.

Love, Hannah