Lately I’ve been feeling really grateful and more able than before to notice my blessings. It’s possibly because I don’t hurt all the time, and after ten years of torture, being out of pain is a blessing in and of itself.
Anyway, I thought that you (a viewer of ABC 11, I hope...) might like to be let in on a few secrets around here (ABC 11)… Here’s why I love this place, and you guessed it; it goes a wee bit beyond the Junior Mints in the break room (they’re not free, but STILL! Who gets Junior Mints put in their vending machine?!!!!); it’s 100 percent because of the people here. It takes some really special people for to pry me away from my kids. (OK. I’m lying. Being with kids all day would drive me absolutely batty, but I do love the little boogers like nobody’s business, and I love my kids a lot too. Seriously, I miss them all day, every day. It's like my heart's being ripped out of my chest when I'm not with my kids.)
You might find it interesting that Barbara Gibbs (morning anchor) is a PHENOMINAL cake decorator, and she's hilarous. She’s made cakes that look like newborn babies, snuggled in their blankets, like Elmo, like beach scenes and even one that looked like a Facebook page! She knows what fondant IS, and Baby, she knows how to use it. I mean it’s unreal. Once she made a complete dollhouse, from top to bottom, including chair-rail, bead-board wainscoting and tiny little cut-and-pasted wallpaper. She didn’t make that out of cake, but it was still cool and showed her laser-like focus. She also likes to dress her dog up in tight little Auburn t-shirts when her team wins championships (she's a football nut, like I was before babies comandeered all my time), and she’s the best friend in the world. I mean THE best friend a girl could have.
Steve Daniels, beyond being the most amazing reporter (which we all know), can make one heck of a tasty margarita, and when you meet his wife, you realize even MORE what great judgment he has. When he’s not reporting or anchoring, he pretty much laughs all the time. When I anchor with him, you'll notice, right after a commercial break, my eyes will look all glassy, and that's because during most commercial breaks, we just laugh and laugh. After I hang out with him for about a day and a half, he has me thinking that I might just be the smartest, most clever & creative, funniest girl in the world. But I sense that he does that with most people. He has the best laugh, and making people feel good is one of his secret talents.
Tisha Powell's secret talent is that she's super smart and knows the lyrics to every song ever written. I kid you not. She has a sweet, beautiful singing voice, but what was the most surprising thing to me is how she knows every single word to every single song. EVERY SINGLE WORD-- TO *EVERY* SONG. From Motown to Eminem to Montgomery Gentry to David Allen Coe to Usher or Lil’ Wayne; you cannot stump the girl! Jon Camp (our reporter) is a HECK of a talented musician as well. My husband and I are almost at groupie status, regarding Jon. I keep thinking, "If we could just get Tisha out one night… to sing with Jon, MAN, what a show THAT would be." But for now, I just sit in awe, during commercial breaks, as she belts out song after song. I can barely remember my kids’ middle names, but she knows every word to “A Country Boy Can Survive”?
Amber Rupinta is my 'mom away from moms.' When I had hip surgery last December, she left me food in the fridge at work, because she was just worried that I wasn’t eating enough. She is THE BEST mom; rushing home from her 3-am-'til-noon job, so she can be stay-at-home mom to her two boys for the next 12 hours of the day. She impresses me so much with her drive-- about everything, but especially to be the best mom, sister and friend.
These are just some of the cool fellas and babes with whom I work. I don’t mean to sound like I am kissing up to anyone, but I just feel so blessed to work where I work. There are so many great people: Cornell, our eternally-happy video editor, who always has a smile. Derek, the executive producer who does it all and doesn’t yell at me when I screw it up. Brandon, who never gets mad, no matter how many phones or computers I break. Jim, our other editor, who can turn any of my stories into, well, a lot better than they would have been without him. Bill, the director who's always cracking jokes. Paul, the photographer who shoveled a snow-path to my car when I was on crutches, and never got mad at me for asking him to shoot way more for a story than I could ever use. Mark Armstrong, who amuses us all with his clever wit. Shaun, the web guy who lets me wax poetic in his office, when I’m sure he has 10,000 other things to do. The other Brandon, our assistant news director, who carries my heavy bags to my car for me and whom I actually heard singing a Kris Kross song the other day. Larry Stogner, who, when I was put in the hospital on bed-rest because my body was threatening to deliver our twins waaaay too early, was standing in my hospital room THE VERY next day, concerned, and friendly as ever.
I told our news director (my boss) once, “You hire well. I mean-- I really love everyone you hire. I mean-- you are a good hirer of people. You pick good coworkers for me.” It was a bit awkward, but he smiled. I think he knew what I meant.
Work environment is more important than pay scale. You can make a big salary and be miserable all the time, but who wants that? Sounds like a GREAT place to work.
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If you think she's stunning on the outside (which she is).. she's even more beautiful on the inside! It's the truth!
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I don't recognize all the names from my days down that way (1998-2002) - people do come and go. Thanks for the insights (and the memories) all the same.
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