Raindrops are Falling on My Head

Pert the request of some friends, I'm posting some photos of my short career as a weather girl:-)  [I took cell phone pics of my computer screen, of my old videos my mom clipped together- that's why the quality is marginal of the actual weather segments]

Preston, Marvin, Abbey and Me on my last day.

 (circa 2005-- I'm so glad my fashion sense has improved since then- lol!)

How did I get to be the weather anchor? Here's the story:

When I lived in Casper, Wyoming, the local news station K2, held an "Anchor for the Day" contest.

I did a video tryout at the studio and then they aired the auditions and the 4 people with the most votes got a chance to do the news one night.   Well, thanks to lots of family and friends, and especially my brother having lots of his friends vote for me, I was one of the 4 contestants.

So when I got there, they assigned me to do the weather.  I had a few hours of instruction by the actual meteorologist, and the next day we aired live on the 5 o'clock news.

 It was pretty fun.  I'm the only one that didn't read the prompter.  The weather is all unscripted, since you are looking at 3 different screens.  Anyhoo, I guess I did such a good job that the station manager asked if I would be interested in subbing when the regular weather girl was on vacation or out of town, I said "Sure!"

So after doing that for about a month, they moved her to the desk, and asked me if I would accept the position as weather Anchor for the CBS station KGWC (that they also owned).  And so I said sure to that too!

I did 3 segments during each newscast.  The first was a quick look at today/tonight/tomorrow's weather, then the national, statewide and 5 day  forecast, then the quick recap at the end of the newscast.

And so that's how I got to be the crazy weather girl!  It's so funny to watch now (I was pretty amateur), and maybe I can upload some videos later [but I don't know how to rip them off the DVD my mom made of some of the segments I saved...hmmm...]

Anyhoo, it was great fun.  I signed a year contract with the station, it was only for 2 hours a day, 1 hr to prep all the slides and learn the forecast, and then the newscast.  It was a small market news area, but still super fun.  All the other journalists at the news had come from working at other cool places, like my friend and main anchor Abby, from MSNBC.

 Keep in mind I was only about 25? Sometimes people ask me if I'd try to get on at a station here, but I really don't have time to work right now with the kids, and this is a bigger market with a lot of competition.  I think I could do a much better job today, but it was I was young and had fun.

Thanks for all the good times in Casper, WYO, where the forecast always included how fast the wind gusts would be, that's one thing I don't miss:-)

"ONCE"

Saturday night at the Palace Theatre in Cleveland was so fun with my friend Teri! We thought we were going to be late after getting caught in road construction, so we're running through the parking lot and the maze of a building to get to the right theatre- just to find out curtain time was 7:30 and not 7! lol! We looked like idiots in a rush for nothing.:-)  However, I am proud to say I could keep up with Teri (aka Cross fit/Tough Mudder Mother), at her jogging pace:-)

  I absolutely loved this musical. The music was absolutely amazing.  5 stars for the talent and plot,  negative stars though for the cursing.  [I heard the f word more that night in 2 hours than I've heard in my entire life.]  All that aside, the characters were lovable, believable, and the love story was gut wrenching.  Such quality music, which all the actors played their own music on stage, and the set was set up with mirrors for the so you could see the actors playing their instruments from different angles, etc. All of that really made for a stellar performance.  Thanks for a fun night Teri- I should get out more often:-)

First Snow!

It came early this year, November 12th to be exact. (Last year it didn't snow until after Christmas!!)  Of course I had the sprinkler guy coming to winterize my sprinklers the day before but he cancelled, and then it snows:(  Anyway, it's thawing out today, so he's coming over and hopefully will still be able to blow them out.  The snow is almost completely melted, but the kids were dying to go out and play, and luckily it was wet enough snow for this:

And yes I did get pegged plenty of times (after I put my camera away to keep it safe:-)) Nothing like feeling fresh COLD snow up your nose! Those little stinkers! Don't worry though, it's just too hard to try to have a "nice" snowball fight, so it got a little dirty-- aka the REVENGE of MOM. Bwahaha!

Apparently the patio table doubles as a winter tanning bed.