At the last horse show before the World Championships, nerves run high at the Shelbyville Horse Show. People from all over the state and even further come together for four nights of horses, music, fashion, people, food and so much more. Shelbyville's very own "Derby-esque" event, we have our own celebrities such as William Shatner. He is known to show up at the event, and I was lucky enough to attend opening night, last night, and the host of the new Lifetime show, "How to Look Good Naked" Carson Kressley was in attendance last night with a whole entourage of people along with him. Carson was also most recently a judge on our own CW's show "Crowned".

The Shelbyville Horse Show runs tonight through Saturday, Aug. 2. The Horse Show starts at 7 p.m. each night held at the Shelbyville Fairgrounds. Hope to see you there!
This is a picture of my friend Elizabeth, Rachel and I at the horse show last night. Looks like we are having fun right??

Okay...so I know American Idol is a Fox Network show, but I am not here to promote the show, I simply would like to share with everyone my experience at American Idol Auditions yesterday.

Schedule for the day:
3:30- Wake up
4:30- Waiting in stand still traffic on Watterson
5:00- Arrive at Fair and Expo Center and wait in a line that seemed to be a mile long
7:00- We are now able to enter Freedom Hall and are told to leave outside our outside food, umbrella, and blankets, the items we were told we were allowed to bring initially. Leaving my Coach umbrella at the front entrance of Freedom Hall is not an easy task, especially since I knew it would get stolen as soon as the first person left the auditions....and it did.
8:00- Everyone has filled the arena and we now begin filming little saying like" Welcome to Louisville" and "Getting Lucky in Kentucky"...yeah....
10:30- The auditions finally begin with people on the lower floor and they work their way around the lower level. The audition consists of groups of 4 going up to a producer or two in a section and singing only about 10 seconds of your song.
1:30- Becoming a little bit restless, I have taken several uncomfortable naps at this point, and become a little delusional and start to read the "Readers Digest" I packed along, all the while becoming light headed and shaky from lack of food since I had breakfast at 4 this morning.
3:00- You really only can hear some many versions of Whitney Houston songs before you go a little nuts.
5:00- My section is finally called down and I am put into a group of 3 others and as we step up in front of the judges the first girl is told she sang too soft, the second person is a guy and he is told he should have sang something in English( he sang an Italian opera...bad choice) and the girl next to me is told she should have sang a girl song (she sang Frank Sinatra) and I sing Bonnie Raitt's "Something to Talk About". I am told I had a strong voice and had good song choices, but just "not what they are looking for".

A very long day, an incredible experience, but one I will never do again. I really would have beaten myself up if I didn't go to the auditions, especially since they were right here, but I am not like the other people who auditioned with me, I can't sing any louder, any more feminine, and you can't really get anymore American than Bonnie Raitt. I already did what I could do, I really can't change what they are looking for, or how I appear to them. I am not sure if the other thousands of people that were there will realize this or if they will go to the next audition site and try again, just like I heard some many already planning to do as we walked out the hall of shame.Here is a picture of the people filing in. This is not even half of the people there.