Tall Girl Problems:

This is my view on a daily basis: The “full length” mirrors cut me off at the top of the head…especially when I wear heels. Sigh. First world problems over here.

I’m loving my outfit today! My co-worker keeps telling me how much she likes it too. Made my day! Another said that I strut when I walk wearing high heels! I can’t help it, they make me feel sexy!

All in all, its a decent day. I have one more night of editing and then I’m done! I’m so excited, these past 3 weeks have made me nuts.

I’m off on Monday-we have another postgame show next weekend so I get an ENTIRE day to myself! Can’t wait!

Tomorrow night at my PT job the class is sold out…hoping for some decent tips! 🙂

Happy Thursday friends!

Good Things

It’s Tuesday and I’m off. Day 3 of a 3 day weekend. I had to work at the TV station on Saturday so I took a comp day today and a vacation day Monday. I still have 8 vacation days to burn before the end of the year. I plan on taking the entire week at Christmas off! (Its like I’m back in school! I love it!) But that only burns 4 days. So I’m taking the Thursday and Friday before Christmas too. Since November is a ratings book, we can’t take time off in November. So its all coming out of December. I’m excited for a break.
I feel like I’m caught up on sleep. I’m sure that feeling will go away again once I go back to work tomorrow. 😦
I ran some miles Sunday and Monday. Today its gross and rainy here. I know that’s no excuse but its all I’ve got. The heart wants what the heart wants.
I work A LOT this week: I worked at Corky last night made $18 in tips, then I work tomorrow, Friday and Saturday nights there too.
I’m also editing videos for my friend. 6 down and more to go. That’s at least $600 in the bank! The time crunch editing sucks but I love the end result (money!) Christmas is fast approaching.
I bought some new skinny jeans to wear with my boots today. I got them at Wal-Mart. I ain’t even mad about it.
The leaves here are gorgeous. Fiery red and a bright yellow. Even in the gloom of the day they make me happy.
The first 2 pictures are from Sunday. It was sheer autumn perfection here: Sunny, 70 degrees and a vibrant blue sky. The 3rd picture was from today. I tried to catch the leaves falling, but my photography skills aren’t THAT awesome!
I’m going to watch ‘Hocus Pocus’ tonight. Maybe even some ‘Teen Witch’ too.

Have a great Tuesday friends!

Today marks a major milestone in my broadcasting career: I’ve been at my TV station for 10 years! An entire decade! How did that happen? On the left is my first picture at the station. We have a board where they put our photos downstairs…I’ve actually gone through several pictures because I have changed so much! On the right is me, just a few days ago!

What a difference a decade makes! 🙂

Here’s to the next 10 years!

Also, that HAIR?! What was I thinking? It was short enough to spike in the back–now my hair is the longest its ever been in my adult life, and I love it! 🙂

Newbies

I work with a bunch of early 20 somethings. Most of them have just graduated college. I get it. Lincoln is a starter TV market. We can’t be too picky.

HOWEVER!

Today I met our new Director. All of our other directors are 34-40 years old.

New Director has been directing for about a year. He has also done some on-air work.

New Director is 18-years-old.

18-freakin’ years old.

I kid you not.

A teenager will be directing my Husker Football Pre and postgame shows! He can just barely vote! But assures me he will be 19 in January! Oy. You’re still a teenager, son!

BRB, I’ve officially entered crazyland.

Things I’m doing right now: editing a music video for my friend that pays me to edit and do voice-over work for him.

The song is Mackelmore and Ryan Lewis, “Can’t hold us”.

After editing to it for 2 hours I officially hate it.

However, look at this sweet computer he set me up with! Its freaking awesome!

I just wanna go to bed… 😦

This day. Ugh.

Today marks two mornings in a row of being woken up in the middle of the night by a work phone call. This time, my Chief Meteorologist called to tell me at 1:45am that our Morning Meteorologist was sick and he needed to call someone in, but who? Our weekend girl (who has Thursday and Friday off) or my roomie (also a Meteorologist) and works Thursdays. I told him to call my roomie and went back sleep.

Clearly I was out of it. She literally lives one floor below me, I could have gotten up and ran downstairs. But in my defense it was the middle of the night and I was tired!

Then I forced myself to get up and run, despite being quite tired, because I thought I had a froyo fundraiser to go to tonight for a friend. Turns out it’s NEXT Thursday. I could have slept in!! Oh well, workout is done! And it was a fantastic morning for a run-60’s, low humidity, nice day!

Then the news day got crazy…we had an inmate who was out on work release escape-made for an exciting few hours! He was just caught about 2 miles away from the station.

All I want to do is go home and chill.

But I need to get a few groceries and I think I may go for a bike ride. This day is gorgeous! I really shouldn’t waste it.

I better not get a middle of the night work call tonight–heads will roll! 😉

Hope you have a great rest of the day friends!

Perks of working at a painting/wine bar

At my part time at the Corky canvas, after a bottle of wine is open for 4 days, we either dump it out or we can take it home.

Tonight I went thru the cooler before the class started to check the dates on the open bottles. 6 bottles fell under the 4 day rule.

The instructor and I spilt them up…and I came home with a half full bottle of champagne, bubbly Moscato, chardonnay, and some peach sparkletini! My roomies LOVE me!

And the chiropractor in the strip mall next to us was having a ladies night out, and they gave us free food, a full box of crackers, and coupons for a free first chiropractor appointment!

I’m pleased with tonight! And I get to do it all over again tomorrow!

Night friends!

How did life get so busy?

I started working at the Corky Canvas this week. I trained a bit Monday and then observed and did some bar sales last night. It was fun. I think I’m going to like the job. And the extra $80-$120 every 2 weeks should be pretty awesome.

This was last night’s painting they did:

My boss and I were changing out some of the display wine on the wall, she gave me a bottle of Pinot to take home. I, of course, promptly forgot it at the studio. I don’t work there again until Thursday so who knows if it will still be there. Oh well. I’m not a big drinker anyway.

I worked Monday and Tuesday nights there, had a late dinner with a college friend Monday, have tonight off, and work at Corky Thursday and Friday nights. I feel like I don’t have much time to catch my breath this week. But its ok. It’s good. It’s distracting me from the fact that the one guy that I like that I went out with a few weeks ago hasn’t called in several days. Distractions are good.

In other news, I told Brooke last night that I was going to get up early and run before work this morning. Do we think that happened?

Nope. But, I’m going to run 3 easy miles tonight when I get home. Promise! Then I have to run Thursday morning and Friday morning. There’s no other time to do it.

Tonight, my roomie and I are going to make guacamole, relax and watch tv. (after I run, promise!) I need a ‘me’ night.

I want to write a Fargo weekend recap. Because that weekend was too awesome not to recap. Perhaps tonight? We shall see.

Have a good day friends!

Thursday things

Last night I got into it with the resident Bizzo at my work. The attacks became personal across a crowded newsroom. My boss wasn’t mad at me, but at her. And I learned something about myself: if that would have happened a few years ago, I would have cried either during it or after. Because anger used to turn to tears for me. But now? I’m older and wiser (HA!) and tears don’t come during fights.
The rage I felt during the argument fueled my run (she asked me what I do I all day, because a mistake was made that wasn’t my fault. Then she accused of me of copying and pasting the news!) Needless to say I was enraged.
I set out last night to run 5 miles. Since I moved, I miscalculated the distance and ended up running 7 miles instead. I think I needed it.
I also ended up running super fast. It’s amazing what anger will do for a run! On the route with the big hill I ended up running a 6:59/pace down the hill! I felt like I was flying!!
I was consistently running a sub 10:00/mile. I also ran a 8:45/mile. That is incredibly fast for me! Rage-fueled runs can be awesome. I even was running into a pretty good headwind and it started sprinkling a bit.
A car-full of teenage boys yelled “hey baby, can I have your number?” at me. Its always nice when that happens!
The Lincoln Half-Marathon is May 5th. I’m feeling pretty good about my training.

Have a good Thursday Friends! 🙂

Click-Clack

Ladies, want a surefire way to get noticed when you’re out and about? It’s easy!

Just wear your favorite pair of power pumps and a great outfit and run errands!

I finally got my lazy butt out of bed and ran 5 miles before work this morning so I had some time after work to run some errands. One of those included a Target run. As I was striding purposefully towards the food section my heels were click-clacking all the way as I walked. And wouldn’t you know it? Nearly every person I passed, man or woman, turned to look at me. I’m fairly sure I even caught a few admiring looks from a few guys! All in all, it was a good Target run! 🙂

In other news, today was my lunch with the General Manager and a few other co-workers. And when it was time for me to talk about myself and I told them my story of how I got into the News Biz and got to work at my TV Station and I told them a little bit about my personal life too. Everyone else in the room was older than me, so they had talked about their marriages and kids. My GM knows that I am single but dating. He asked me if I wanted to get married someday, and I told him yes, but I was still looking for the right one. The guy who said yesterday that I had 13 or 14 boyfriends made a comment that in the meantime, I was a dating machine! Roger, (The GM) laughed, and said that every time he sees me out in the evenings I am with a different guy, so he thought that was true! Everyone’s a critic.

That was embarrassing!

But seriously, I have only seen him out when I’ve been on dates 3 times and yes, each time I was with someone else. But still, no judgement, right? Oy.

Well friends, have a great night!