What a great day! I was only there for part of it! I had to leave early so moving company people could come and look over all our stuff to give us an estimate. Despite my half day though – I still have something to say about my time there.
Today I was stumped with how to put together the newscast. Usually, when I know what my lead story is everything else just falls into place but today I felt like I didn’t have much to work with (that is until that one AWOL soldier barricaded himself in a house for 3 hours). What it really boils down to is that I just didn’t want to be there but I still did my best to make the cast as good as it could be and I still added breaking news to the website and sent out emails about crazy viewer story ideas.
I find it so frustrating that I care so much about not caring! Part of me wishes I could just walk in there and not answer the phones – tell annoying reporters to grow up and do their jobs and to get a brain so I don’t have to do their work for them – rebel against updating the web just because I’m tired of being told how freaking important it is to do it – and probably the thing I wish I could let go of the most – the need to have every script the way I want it.
My half day is writing out like a whole day but I won’t have to worry about it next week! Next week I’ll be working to keep two busy kids (and myself) alive while trying to move – finish preparing for Nate’s baptism and finding a sweater to wear over this cute dress I bought for my 10 year reunion (Ginger, remind me to ask you if you have one!)
It’s funny because today I got a small dose of what My First Wednesday as a full time mommy will be like – Nia was coloring in her room in the middle of 15 or 20 coloring books and I was standing right next to her sorting through her dresser drawers when a funny sound coming from Nia’s crayon. It was then that I realized she had been coloring on the carpet! Like really coloring – like putting her whole arm into it –
When I saw her I said with a gasp “NIA!” She immediately started crying, you guessed it, “I wanna listen.” When I asked her why she colored on the carpet she said, “Cuz I don’t want to.”
What?!?!
Let the adventure begin!
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