Twitter Updates for 2010-04-30

Posted: April 30th, 2010 | Author: anitacochran | Filed under: Tweets | Tags: , | No Comments »

OMG I missed it by FOUR days!!

So here I sit, un-employed, wait I mean SELF-employed and looking forward to celebrating my D-Day (The one year anniversary of my Departure from KSN.)  Honestly, I thought it might be tomorrow, so for giggles and grins I looked it up…..yes on my calendar it reads, LAST DAY AT KSN.  Here’s the funny part, it was April 24th.  That day that so defined the end of one of my lives and the beginning of another went by unnoticed!  I completely brain-farted.  I could have sworn it was the 29th.

The question I ask myself is am I happier?  The answer is easy.  Yes.  I miss one part of being Anita Cochran more than I should, but the rest of her I don’t miss at all.   That part that’s missing is feeding off  an audience and “performing.”   In some ways I still do.  Teaching in front of students at Wichita State University, allows me to have an “audience” of sorts.  It still allows me to produce and write and tell stories, just in a different capacity. I perform in front of the camera still with some freelance commercial work (Okay, Gregory Agency I’m ready for my next gig!!)  It’s just the DAILY being on TV that I miss.  (Not that I ever saw myself, since TV News is live and I rarely watched the newscast after …..I really only caught glimpses of me on TV anyway! )

I don’t miss news like I thought I would.  A big story breaks I find out about it on Twitter, and typically google the latest details IF, and it’s a BIG IF….IF I am even interested in it.  My news mind is completely different now that I’m not responsible for getting all that stuff to you.  Mostly now I just understand why most of you didn’t care about much of what we served up on the TV for you.

I don’t miss having to be somewhere (aka full-time job) EVERY single day, or in my case NIGHT.  I love having the power to decide whether I will work a day here or there or take on a project strictly based on whether or not the money is worth the time I have to invest.  It’s the ultimate luxury.  I wish for all of you a chance to live like that at least for a year.

I don’t miss being the TYPE A Supermom who really wasn’t present.  My relationship with my girls has grown 10-fold since I stepped out of the newsroom and back into my own home.  I never let that news anchor guard down at home, and didn’t even realize it until the first time I was in bed with my daughter tickling her when I normally would have been back at work prepping a newscast.  I had NEVER done that before bedtime because I was too busy, wait I wasn’t even home for bedtime.

I don’t miss the back-biting of the industry, the rumor mill that we so heavily supported, or the physical work that it took to actually get a newscast together.   I don’t even miss the paycheck as much as I thought I would.  I guess that’s why I missed my D-Day Anniversary the first time it rolled around. I really don’t miss it.    I’m in a better place, one that would be perfect if we just had some damn TV cameras around!!

Posted: April 28th, 2010 | Author: anitacochran | Filed under: Blog Posts | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments »

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Dino-might Be Fun!

When the idea of taking in “Walking with Dinosaurs” first came up, I admit, I thought…..that might be fun.  I just am not THAT into dinosaurs, so it wasn’t like I had the date sprawled all over the calendar for the big events arrival in our fair city.    Turns out, I didn’t know anything about Dinosaurs.  No wonder I didn’t like them.

Opening night of the exhibit in at Wichita’s Intrust Arena, turned out to be fun, and sorry to spoil it for you, EDUCATIONAL.  I learned a lot, and I am a middle age former newscaster who was supposed to know everything.

I was actually a little worried that my 9 and 13-year old GIRLS wouldn’t really be interested.  Dinosaurs have a sort of “macho” feel to them.  So it was especially fun to watch their faces when the creatures crawled onto the arena floor.  In fact the first thing out of my little ones mouth was, “Mom, are there people in there??”  I hate to tell her that I really don’t know.  (Okay, I’m sure  the raptors were human puppets because their legs were showing, but I really don’t know if T-Rex was remote controlled or  some dudes were in there hamming it up for us. We fought over it on the way home, so as not to spoil it for anyone,  I’ll leave that up to you to google.)  But seriously look at these Dinosaurs….it really was as close as we’ll probably ever come to knowing what it might have been like millions of years ago.

I sat there enjoyed myself and haven’t heard one person who went say a bad thing about those darn dinosaurs so I have to give this little gig a big thumbs up.  The sad part is, NOT that the dinosaurs are extinct….but that this kind of production couldn’t be used to teach our kids the HISTORY that I learned last night.  It made all those “era’s” we learned about in school make so much SENSE.  Sadder yet, both the husband and I admitted we had forgotten how the Dinosaurs died.  (6 mile wide comet that carved out the Gulf of Mexico) I hope if that part is fiction no one tells me, cause it was a great way for the story to end.

And just to name drop, we saw Bruce Haertl, Jemelle Holopirek, Brett Harris and their families.  I felt like part of the “Old Gang” again.  Okay, I really didn’t but it was great to see them.

Oh, and if you want to go there are shows through Sunday. :)

Posted: April 22nd, 2010 | Author: anitacochran | Filed under: Blog Posts, Where's Anita? | Tags: , , , , , , | No Comments »

Really?? A LOVESAC?

So we just got back from Dallas to visit my niece, Keesha, and I did some shopping. I guess looking back shopping wasn’t the best option  for those of us still trying to live on less money.  So a funny thing happens, I fall in LOVE with a thing called …..wait for it, a LOVESAC.  Yes, it’s LOVE SACK!

Basically it’s a big ole bean bag, but more modern, chic and I’m sure a heck of a lot more expensive.  The one I want is lime green and with the cover adds up to almost $600.    The fact that I’ll need two, cause I think LOVESAC’s should come in pairs makes me wish I had a full-time luxury job again.  Okay, I just lied.  I don’t want that dang job, I just want the LOVESAC company to send me my big ole bean bags so I can enjoy them for free.    Why doesn’t the world work that way?  I mean I LOVE the product.  I could be a LOVESAC spokesperson for them, and sell the crap out of those things.    Besides taking all my pay out in trade I could get a big ole giggle telling everyone I’m the new face of LOVESACS!!

And dang the luck, I forgot to take  pictures of me snuggling up to the Lovesac, stay tuned, It’ll happen.   For now, I’ll stick the pix on the brochure up here so you can get an idea, and so the rest of you thinking too far outside the BOX, can reign in your dirty minds.  As the flyer proclaims.  This is not a DIRTY WEBSITE….I mean really would Anita Cochran lead you THERE????

Posted: April 20th, 2010 | Author: anitacochran | Filed under: Blog Posts | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment »