Humboldt County is a pretty small area, yet we’re blessed to have THE coolest radio station around, KHUM. Their slogan is “Radio without the rules” and as such they have the freedom to do whatever they want, even if it means playing the same song 3 times in a row just because the DJ wants to. :-) (luckily they play great music.) They’re ALSO very involved in the community, sponsoring all sorts of events, and they’re very into promoting local businesses. Since I’m always raising money for something, I end up on the air with them sometimes to promote it, and lots of it has been recorded in the recent months. So I thought it would be fun to put up some of the clips, just in case you felt like “tuning in”.

Over the spring I worked really hard as the Fundraising Co-Coordinator for the North Star Quest Girls Camp, a non-profit camp for adolescent girls. So most of the clips I have pertain to getting the word out about the camp and the various fundraisers we did.

Definitely the most FUN fundraiser I did was the Joke Box. :-) The deal was every time someone put $1 through the slot, I told them a clean joke, and for $5 I told them a dirty joke. :-) We had a lot of fun and raised some money, so that was great.
Here’s a picture of what it looked like:

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In preparation for it, Larry the afternoon DJ at KHUM was kind enough to let me come on the air with him and tell some jokes for a while to get the word out about camp and the joke box. Well THAT was a ton of fun, of course, and since we recorded it I can share some clips of it with you here! These clips were from June 27.

This first one is pretty funny, as I totally surprised Larry with some random things he asked me to bring to him as a joke, and did he NOT expect me to actually bring them. It was by far the strangest scavenger hunt I’VE ever been on. And it was on the radio for all to hear. :-)
Gifts For Larry.

In the next clip I explain a bit about camp and the joke box, then tell a joke going into the commercial break:
Camp/Joke Box info plus a joke.

Here’s a really funny joke that I was a bit surprised I was allowed to tell. :-) (it’s not THAT bad though, but it WAS on the radio.)
Thought I might be pushing it with this joke.

This clip is just funny because the label on the Vitamin Water I was drinking was HILARIOUS (at least to me):
Vitamin Water is hilarious.

This was by far one of the strangest radio moments I’ve ever been involved in. Larry read pieces of the crime report from a town North of us called Trinidad, which has a population of about 300. So you can imagine how crazy their crime report is. ;-) So we alternated – he talked about crime and I told jokes. Yup, you gotta love Radio Without the Rules! There are actually some pretty funny jokes mixed into this one. :-)
Crime report and jokes - a natural pairing.

And here’s the final joke I told before leaving the station that day:
Last joke.

Here’s one that’s pretty funny. Mike, the mid-morning DJ at KHUM has called me the "Paris Hilton of Humboldt County" on the air a few times. I know he's just joking, but it's not exactly the most flattering thing ever said about me when there's no context for it. :-) So about 2 weeks ago I was down at the station and on the air with him, to talk about how Jessicurl was a sponsor of the Power to the Peaceful festival in San Francisco, and I took the opportunity to set the record straight. ;-) Check it out:
Jess is NOT like Paris Hilton!

So that was all just a blast. But some of the other DJs there were also super awesome to me in getting the word out about camp, and I have those interviews too. The one below is with Amy, the evening DJ (and co-founder of the station!) She’s also a friend of mine. This interview is all about the awesome camp and why I’m so passionate about it, as well as the fundraisers we were doing for it. Amy is such a wonderful woman!!
Amy teases me a bit when we start this interview.

Even though the message is basically the same, here’s one more. This one is with Craig from KWPT, which is the sister station of KHUM. Craig is super cool - he even uses my products on his wavy hair! :-)
Camp interview with Craig.

So obviously there’s a ton of clips there, but I thought, hey, what the hell, might as well put them up in my blog in case people need a good laugh once in a while! Most of them are pretty short. ;-)

Yep, it's that time of year again – Jessicurl's birthday! :-) Five years ago yesterday I got my business license and thus became official. CRAZY!

In some ways it feels like I've been doing this much longer than that, and in other ways that seems like a long time. It's weird. But all the business people say that the 5 year mark is really the point at which you know you'll succeed, for the most part. So many businesses fail in the first 5 years that I'm really thankful that we've been able to keep growing this whole time.

Of course it wouldn't have worked out if it weren't for our awesome customers, so thank you so much to all of you who have helped support Jessicurl over the years. I really appreciate it. It's been fun, hard, exciting, stressful and all sorts of other emotions, but I can't imagine doing anything else. Anyway, now I'm just rambling. So thank you all again for all of your support and encouragement. It really means a lot to me.