Jordan, Armstrong: Eat your heart out!
I just love, love, love, love, love tonite's (Friday's) 5pm story.
Love it.
It was just such a pleasure to meet Ricky and his mom.. a pleasure to chat with Mark Smith and Chris Scheller.. a pleasure to be able to tell an uplifting story that reminds me of why this job can be so fufilling ((cue songbirds and sunshine)).
Anyway~ I hope you like it too. :-)
Okay: info for you on the program/unveiling.
http://www.ohsudoernbecher.com/support/fund_freestyle.asp
Info on the type of leukemia Ricky has: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/ALLinchildren
I didn't know how big of a deal shoes are (Mark Smith is in this article): http://www.solecollector.com/news/2005/05/evnt_sc_cof_hawaii.html
If you've seen my scuffy, sensible, boring work shoes then you're probably not surprised.
About two weeks ago I FINALLY bought some black shoe polish to hide the scuffs when what I really need to do is GO BUY NEW WORK SHOES! (although I think my husband would disagree... he just hasn't learned to appreciate my idea of 'different-shoes-for-different-things' which explains why I need three pairs of black sandles.)
Dave writes with two completely awesome suggestions about how to return the practical joke favor ((see previous blog entry)): Isn’t that story about the Boeing Tram just a trip? I looked at the website and it would cost over $4 million dollars per mile. Who has that kind of money? Anyway, I read your blog about the faces being taped up all over our office. Here’s a good way to get someone back. Buy a pack of the really small restroom sized Dixie cups and fill them each individually with water. Then place them on the floor of the offenders office so that they cannot walk into their office. They’ll spend the entire day emptying the cups of water.
Or you could block off the door to their cube and fill it with packing peanuts.
Dave-- that's GENIUS!!! I also thought about heavily taping said-offender's car doors shut while they are at work but I'm afraid any tape will mess with the finish (not cool), so I'll just have to chalk that up to an 'entertaining' thought.
Joe writes about the Primate genome project: Yes, Monkeys are cute..until they start throwing things.
Now, see, I don't care who you are. That's funny.
Mike's Mystery Puppy is likely to be named.......... Toby.
I think I got about 30 name ideas from everyone which was great!!
Katie snuck in one last suggestion: Gadget.
Mark writes about me anchoring the morning show while Drew Carney strutted about in only a grass skirt and a plush-carpet chest:
I just went blind after watching Drew shake his tailfeathers! Yikes! Hopefully, I'll be able to get my vision back... It was nice to see you back behind the anchor desk (before I went blind, of course).
Raz Drew for me...
What? What's that Mark?? I can't read this because I WENT BLIND TOO! :-)
Still saving: Fat Firefighters (I think a "before and after" photo is coming)
Happy Friday. I'm out!
