DISCLAIMER: I am grouchy and irritable because I made a mistake am missing a milestone in my child's life and all of this is coinciding with reading some posts that irritate me on my good days. I am a fan of teachers and respect the job they do. Following I just had to get off my chest to move on with my day.
I'm missing my daughter's first day of kindergarten because I FORGOT to request the day off, because I've been worried about various thing regarding employment for those I deeply care about all summer long (and still a little now). I'm in a really grouchy mood and feeling really stupid for not remembering to request the day off.
While I'm feeling guilty about missing this milestone due to working, I've come across several friends on Facebook who are all teachers. Now in their defense and before I start my rant, they do have a very tough job, and they put up with a lot of things I can't even imagine, nor do I want to imagine, when it comes to dealing with the parents of the children who attend their classes. I do, however, find it highly amusing that it's only the teachers who have never done anything other than teach that consistently have posted things for the past few weeks like: "I'm so sad to see summer go." "Wow! I've got to get use to these early morning hours again!" "So sorry that I don't have a few more weeks of summer left, but it's back to "real life" on Monday." Aaaarrrrrgggghhhh!!! Do they not realize that the rest of the working world only gets 2 weeks vacation & 6 holidays as a norm??? Do they not realize that "real life" consists of not being off all summer???
Anyway, this all made me angry because A) I'm already feeling sorry for myself, and B)in spite of what people think about those of us who work in television, we make less than most people think. I, in fact, after working in TV for over 13 years make less than most of my teacher friends who've worked less than 10 years.
Keep in mind that because I work in television the following is true about my life: I work every holiday unless I've requested a particular holiday off. I then wait to find out if that holiday is approved off. If it's not, then I work it anyway and am paid holiday pay. I've worked at this particular station long enough that I do, fortunately, receive 3 weeks of vacation per year (in 3 and 1/2 years I'll get 4 weeks unless something changes with the policy). If there's a hurricane I don't see my family. I don't evacuate the state. In fact I begin living at the station to make sure that I don't miss my 12 hours shift during said hurricane coverage, AND did I mention that I get up a 3am (soon to be 2:30am) on my normal regular work days so people can watch the news before they go off to their "early morning" jobs. Yeah, hearing the constant stream these of these posts for the past few weeks has just set me off a little...sorry.
I deeply respect & admire all of my teacher friends, and in NO WAY want to belittle what they do. I just would like them to realize what back to the "real world" really means to most people.
ANYWAY, none of this changes the fact that I screwed up and I'm missing a milestone that I will never get the chance to see again. Which is what made me touchy to the posts in the first place. At least my hubby took pictures for me.
Moving on now...
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Monday, August 16, 2010
I'm dealing with a boat-load of mommy guilt today & I've HAD IT with all the posts about Summer being over...aaaaarrrrrggggghhhh!!!!!!
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
My Personal Election Rant, The Fabulous RAYS!!! and Taking it off together Tuesdays # 18 & #19
I've been out for a while as working at a news station during an election period is horrendous. Why? Because after our normal days work we must offer up something called "Free Time" to political candidates, regardless of party affiliation to say whatever they want in regards to their platform/bid for whatever office they are running for provided it is not deemed obsene or offensive by FCC guidlines. I believe we are allowing approximately one minute and fifteen seconds of free air time to all local and federal candidates in our viewing area should they decide to take it. One candidate for some office I've never heard of that isn't in my voting district anyway, but is in some district of our viewing area has had the audacity to not show for this "Free Time" not once but TWICE. Let me tell you, when you are at the end of your work day and you just have one more appointment or meeting or whatever that requires the participation and promptness of another human being and they don't show resulting in making your work day longer than necessary not once but TWICE...let's just say if this candidate was somebody I could vote for I would vote for whomever was running against this candidate, because this candidate has no consideration for others...even those getting nothing out of helping them except, of course, a longer work day than necessary. Was there and apology either time...uh no. That says it all!
On a lighter note: I am so totally stoked about the RAYS being in the World Series! My family and I have been to several games over the years. Big Stuff and Little Bit have both been to SEVERAL. They've meet players, and have various versions of The RAYS logos from over the years. My hubby still has his hat from the Inagural Season. We will, however, be watching the Series from the comfort and safety of our home for several reasons...the least of which is the Trop is Sold Out for Games 1 and 2 (mind you we went to a game back in September and even though they were the best in the American League at that time you couldn't give tickets away...tonight you'd practically have to sell you 1st Born to get them, be that as it may I'm excited for the RAYS and I can't wait for it to start in a few hours!
Now for the Wednesday edition of Taking it off Together Tuesdays #18 and #19
For #18
Original Starting weight: 264.4 lbs.
Last week's weight: 211.2 lbs.
This week's weight: 210.4 lbs.
Weight lost this week: 0.8 lbs.
Total lost since October 8, 2007: 54 lbs.
Now for this week's update for myself and the group:
Starting weight: 264.4 lbs.
Last week's weight: 210.4 lbs.
This week's weight: 210.8 lbs.
Weight gained this week: 0.4 lbs.
Total lost since October 8, 2007: 53.6 lbs.
And now the group.... not a good week, but they do happen:
This week our contest is sponsored by Tammy! She is offering a copy of Superfoods for the prize for this week! If you'd like to sponser a prize, let me know! We are currently out of prizes!
The names of this week's "losers" were dropped into a coffee cup and this week's WINNER is Chris!
Congrats to Clara for being this week's biggest loser of pounds!! Be sure to cruise over to her blog and congratulate her!
Chris - 1 LOSS
Tammy - 1.5 GAIN
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - No Change
Grace - 0.4 GAIN
Leigh - No Change
Clara - 1.5 LOSS
Julie - 0.8 LOSS
Cheryl - no report
Audrey - 2.2 GAIN
Christy - 0.2 LOSS
Tina - 2.0 GAIN
Danielle - no report
Jessie - no report
Steph - no report
CYN - no report
This week's total - 2.6 GAIN! EGAD!
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Kirk Douglas Interview (Originally posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2007)
Today, or rather yesterday we had an interview with Kirk Douglas on Daytime. He was promoting his new book "Let's Face It".
It was a satellite interview, so no, I didn't get to personally meet the man, but it was just interesting to watch this interview being taped. He was interviewed by Lindsay MacDonald and she has interviewed people many times (satellite or not), but usually the interviews are very informal, call the celebrities by their first names (ie Bruce Willis would be simply Bruce); however, this man is a cenimatic legend and Lindsay, for obvious reasons, was referring to him as "Mr. Douglas".
Anyway, I swear I have a point, those of us in the control room were going on about how as a younger man he was incredibly dashing and handsome
and now he's just a sweet "old man"
Be that as it may, he was extremely charming to Lindsay, and the interview seemed more like a conversation than an interview in my opinion. Despite his stroke and slower speech, his sense of timing is still there...he set up a joke and none of us knew it was a joke until the punchline hit, and we were all laughing. At one point, I think he had our producer crying, because she found him "...just so lovable".
He just seemed to love doing what he does, and that came across. The fact that he came across so friendly and down to earth and happy to be there (and believe me we've done interviews where celebrities were in the mind set of let's just get this over with!) just made my day. It also made me think that there's so much more to life than the daily grind, and I should try my best to be happy in the moment I'm in and not worry so much about all the other stuff.
I'm going to bed now, and that's my ramble for the day
