Holiday Excitement

I can't believe it's been a week since I was writing from the Denver airport. Boy does time go by fast. I hope everyone is enjoying their holidays. It's hard to believe 2009 is only a couple of days away! Christmas with the family was nice. We had a pretty eventful Christmas Eve. It's been a tradition of ours to go to church then have dinner at Outback Steakhouse. Well, while we heading to Outback my mom called to put our name in. After she told the hostess party of 5, the hostess responded with 65 minute wait then all of a sudden scream into the phone, "fire in the kitchen!" and hung up. We ended up driving across the street from the restaurant to Carrabas and low and behold fire trucks were speeding to Outback and the entire restaurant was evacuated. The excitement didn't stop there... The manager of Carrabas apologized because our wait time ended up doubling which wasn't that big of a deal. Then, once we started to get our food, Matt found a piece of a a broken ceramic plate in his salad! Our waiter was a friend of his and said he'd let the manager know. As soon as she made it to our table, she said, "Not you guys again!" It was pretty funny. Luckily for her, we weren't too worried about either or the troubles. The manager chatted with us for awhile joking about how after Outback caught on fire all of the customers headed to Carrabas and a waiter walked out after venting to his table that he wasn't having a good day. Needless to say, the manager had her work cut out for her that night. Christmas day was spent with my dad's brother and his family in Kentucky. It's always nice to spend time with them since we don't see them a lot. My car was dropped off Christmas day too. All it needed was a big bow on top :) Just my luck though, I still haven't been able to drive it. It was fine when the mover dropped it off, but somehow yesterday morning the entire back windshield was shattered. It's being fixed tomorrow morning.
That's all the holiday excitement for now. I can't believe how warm it is here. Washington is getting inches and inches of snow and it reached nearly 60 degrees yesterday! I'm not complaining, it was definitely nice out, but just strange since it is the end of December. And, for anyone who's wondering, yes, I plan to keep this blog up as I continue to look for a new job. I'm sure I will have plenty of stories to tell, plus I with new friends across the country it's the perfect way to keep everyone in the loop.

This is what "boothing my show" means. It's the producer's desk in the control room where I follow along with the script and make sure everything is on time. I have a headset to listen and talk to the director. The long microphone is how I can talk to my anchors and let them know about any changes as the show evolves.
This is the view from the doorway leading into the control room. You can see another producer sitting at the desk and then on the right hand side is the director, graphics operator and audio person. Way back in the corner is where the tapes are handled.
And last, but not least a picture from our final farewell dinner. A handful of us gathered at PF Changs Saturday night to have one last outing together. What a great group of people to work with-I'm going to miss them!

Airport Nightmare

I am writing as I sit at the Denver airport. After running through the Denver airport to catch my connecting flight I made it on the plane only to be forced off soon after. The pilot announced there is mechanical problems and everyone must leave the plane. They said it could take an hour or hours before we get back on. All I know right now is that there is some problem and a part is being shipped to the airport. According to the screen at the gate, we were suppose to re-board the plane 10 minutes ago. That's obviously not happening.

It's amazing all the announcements for other flights and number of standbys listed. I just heard an airport official announce a plane is overbooked by 14 people and the soonest she can get those on standby a flight to their destination is Tuesday night! What a stinking nightmare. I don't even want to imagine being here for 2 more days. Well, my battery is going to die and I can hardly keep my eyes open. I haven't slept since Friday night and that was only a couple of hours. I hope your weekend before Christmas is running smoother than mine.

Sinking in...

I had hoped to post more pictures of the packing process, last days at work and the snow, but unfortunately, I canceled my Internet Tuesday and only have access from work. Therefore, I will have to post pictures from home.

But, I'm going to have to make this quick. It's starting to sink in that I only have one more show left, plus I just said goodbye to my news director. I'm taking tomorrow off to be around when the movers arrive and he's off the rest of the week. I'm excited to be closer to family, but saying goodbye is definitely going to be harder than I thought.

Winter wonderland

Yes it is. Snow and ice took over the area this weekend and boy is it cold. I drove to the station this afternoon to print some things out and make some more copies of my resume tape and it was as though no one plowed the streets overnight or this morning. I was really surprised how bad the streets were considering it hadn't snowed much at all today. I'm use being at home and having the plowers out salting the roads even BEFORE it starts snowing. O well. Other than that, my weekend as been extremely low key. Lots of packing. It's hard to believe I only have this weekend left and then I will be back home. The time has flown by pretty fast.

Friday evening...Sunday night...
It might not look like a big change, but I can promise you it is. What you see is almost all of my things. I really don't have that much - not surprising since I haven't been living in WA for too long. The movers come Thursday, so I don't have much time left to get things done. Luckily, all of my cabinets are empty and my clothes are all off their hangers. Once I can get my clothes sorted out between what I want to have with me and what I don't mind missing for two weeks then I will be good to go. The last thing I will take apart is my bed. Everything else.... is pretty much packed :)
I hope your weekend was a bit more fun than mine. I'm sure I will have some interesting stories in the next couple of days. I'm not sure if I will see a movie this week. I couldn't see "When the Earth Stands Still this week due to the timing. The schedule changes at the station left our reviewer watching the movie during the morning when I was working. Luckily, he said it was not worth his time... it just stood still on screen - no excitement. I have no idea what the movie is or what it will be this week. As soon as I do, I will let you know.

Two weeks and counting...

I really dropped the ball on blogging this past week. It was a really busy week for multiple reasons. I'm not sure how this week is going to go either since more people are beginning to take their vacations and it mixes up the staff a bit. Hopefully I can stay focused at the end of the work day and get my packing out of the way this week so I can enjoy the last week as much as possible with my friends and co-workers without too much stress. In and effort to make up for my lack of blogging I wanted to add some photos. PUPPIES!!!!!!
My friend from the station was (still is) fostering a dog who gave birth 2 weeks ago to SEVEN male puppies. Aren't they cute and little?! They are just now beginning to open their eyes. The first picture is all of them nursing.Besides playing with the puppies I did do some cleaning, baking and job hunting. My fridge and freezer are full of buckeyes! Everyone at the station is excited to try one. Most of them have never even heard of a buckeye before so they have no idea what I am even trying to bake. But first, I need some more space in my freezer before I can dip the rest of the peanut butter balls in chocolate. Unfortunately, none of this is too exciting since things are winding down. I should though have a movie review for you this week. I passed on "Bolt" last week because I had too much going on and needed my evenings. I'm not sure what the movie is yet for this week, but I'll either see it tomorrow or Tues. The reviewer is now doing weather for the Wed-Fri night newscasts and can't see a movie at the regular Thurs night time. Like I said earlier, work schedules are all over the place right now. In that case, I need to get myself ready for bed so I can be bright eyed tomorrow morning!