Thanks so much for your comments! I really appreciate them, even the disagreement about Cat, (who’s name I realize I misspelled in the column, by the way!)

I always want to know which topics my readers like best, so your note really helps me. I try to cover everything that I think will interest people, like I always did on my show.

I’ll definititey include more insights on the competition shows. As a matter of fact, I’m readying a column about last night’s Miss USA contest for later this week.

But I have to tell you, I don’t write about “gifts” so that I can have them myself–I give most of them away after I look them over to decide which ones to laud. I write about them to let people know of interesting new products that none of us would have thought of on our own. And to give some new companies the publicity that I think their items deserve. I love when someone tells me that they’re glad I let them know about something, like lash growing gels. I heard from a group of girls in rural Colorado who would have never had any idea this kind-of thing existed, and now they love their new lashes! Shallow, maybe, but I’m so happy to have been able to do that for them.

And I still stick to my assessment of Cat. One of my friends actually always tells me he thinks she’s “on something” to act so goony, but I just think that’s her way of hosting. She makes it too much about her, which I just don’t care for.

Every time I write-up these shows now, I’ll think of you!!!

Thanks again for reading and commenting.

Karen