Foot Fetish, NOT

Posted on August 11, 2009 by anitacochran

Really I’m not that into feet, in fact, my husband will tell you the thing I hated most about him when we first met, his feet. Now however, one of my daughters has a pair just like his, so I’m growing used to them. That said, I become very distracted each Sunday during communion at Church. I can’t take my eyes off all the toes strolling by, and more importantly the toe nail polish they are sporting.

This Sunday was particularly bad because I LOVED my own toenail polish so much. I borrowed the hot pink polish from my 9 year old daughter and it was HOT HOT HOT. Now, that said, I couldn’t help but compare my toes to everyone elses. I’m amazed how many people have really long second toes. On my funky foot, the big toe is the biggest toe, and that includes length.

When it comes to polish, I definitely prefer old lady polish, to the purple, blue, glitter, funky designs that the teenagers are sporting these days. I wondered how long have people been painting their toe nails? So I googled it, turns out I don’t have the stomach for the answer. I mean it didn’t bother me that fingernails have been painted since the year 3000 BC, but when I got to toenails and it was all about why it’s ok for guys to wear it, I quit searching.

The point of all this is simple. Lots of times, I’ve thought, I’m not wearing open toe shoes, because my polish doesn’t match, is chipped, or it’s simply time for a new coat, turns out that may be the right answer. Someone does notice how your toes are decorated, and at least in church during communion, that someone is ME. I’m Anita Cochran and that’s what I really wanted to say.

Scooter Lip

Posted on August 10, 2009 by anitacochran

My baby Tanza’s 9th birthday party ended with a bang this weekend. I mean, I must have extra special powers, because the minute Kent said we were getting her a motor scooter, I predicted how it would end. Pretty much with blood, tears, and with a little luck escaping an E.R. visit. Sure enough, she has Scooter Lip today to prove me right.

I so badly wanted to take pictures when she arrived at the pool after the incident, but she refused, and a day later the one she let me take has been banned from posting on my website and facebook, at least for now. Stay tuned, eventually I think it will be funny.

To make a sad story short, she and her cousin Madi, were zipping around the neighborhood, when Tanza slowed way down, toppled over, and did a header landing on the curb via her MOUTH. No she couldn’t land on her hard head, had to be the mouth, with teeth in training retainers and permanent ones out there just begging to be destroyed. When we wiped away the blood, the tooth looked okay, though she told me later, it actually hurt more than her lip.

Going to church was an issue, she didn’t want anyone to see her like this. Well, baby girl, you’re starting school in a week, whether the lip has receded from it’s current Angelina Jolie size or NOT! So can I just say one more time, Motorcycles, even when it’s a scooter with a motor are death traps. I hate them, I’ve covered so many accidents in my news career that what I should have said when Kent wanted her to have one is NO.

But I didn’t, so now each of my girls has one, and Scooter Lip probably won’t be the last injury we will receive. So while I’d like to say, “Don’t come crying to me when you take the next header.” What I’m really going to say is a little prayer that we outgrow this stage without any dentures, nose jobs or casts needed. I’m Anita Cochran, that’s not only what I want to say, it’s the topic of my prayers from here on out.

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Leon Liebl

Posted on August 7, 2009 by anitacochran

I couldn’t believe it, my brother called today and said, “Hey, I hear Leon Liebl isn’t on TV in Kansas City anymore.”

I about spit my drink out because, the once up on everything Anita Cochran, hadn’t heard that he’d been part of cutbacks at KSHB in Kansas City. For those of you who say, hummmm, that Leon Liebl name sounds familiar. That’s because for five of the years you watched me on KSN-TV doing the weekend news, Leon was sitting beside me reading sports, sometimes throwing pens, and always making me laugh. Love the guy, like the little brother I never wanted.

I love to tell the story of sitting in Hays, Kansas working my tail off as a cub reporter, anchor, producer, the list goes on and on and on. Somedays working 12 hour days with all that heavy equipment, thinking this is insane!! The only thing that kept me going was at least I wasn’t Leon Liebl, doing the same sad thing in Garden City. Then I’d chuckle.

The funny thing is when KSN finally called to bring me home, they didn’t really mean Wichita. They wanted me to move to GARDEN CITY so LEON LIEBL could move to Wichita. I took the gig and fell in love with southwest Kansas, and Leon Liebl. I still consider it home, but then again, all of Kansas fells like my home.

Eventually I replaced Leon as anchor of the morning show, before we finally were paired together on weekends. We have much in common, and Leon I keep the letter you wrote me when Mom died. I always will.

So anyway, this is just to say, Leon I’m looking for you, and heard you’re taking some time to decide your next move, Congratulations. May your new life, be every bit as spectacular as mine, and should we need to, I will be more than happy to work beside you once again. I’m Anita Cochran, and that’s what I really wanted to say.

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He’s My BROTHER-in-law

Posted on August 6, 2009 by anitacochran

If anyone repeats this to my brother-in-law, I’m gonna lie and say I never said it. Then again if he reads it over on anitacochran.tv, I’m gonna say someone else hacked my website and wrote it, but the truth remains, I love that big lug.

Let’s just start with his name, Doug Wewe, yep, W-E-W-E, Mr. Wewe is quite the character. He married my little sister Shasta, who goes by Shasta Wewe, go ahead say it fast, laugh and get it over with. The Wewe’s are so cool about their name, making fun of it is just part of their happy go lucky life. Envy them that, I do.

Anyway, back to the big lug. He’s a farmer, we drank a beer last night after he helped the guys take my hot tub away, and it dawned on me that I’ve spent the last, I don’t know 16 years growing to love him. It’s hard to admit because he taunts people, and teases them, and often grosses people out, but he’s just so unique I miss him when the family gets together and he isn’t there. I think that may be, part of why there’s no divorces in our family YET, the in-laws are as whacked as we are, so we all sort of blend in perfectly. Except for Doug, someone saw his picture on facebook and said what’s that , a Hillbilly, and I’m thinking, he may look like a hillbilly but he’s our hillbilly, so we take it as a compliment, and I bet you a thousand bucks, Doug would too. I’m Anita Cochran, and that’s what I really wanted to say.

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Mac Duhhhhh?

Posted on August 4, 2009 by anitacochran

Finally got that Mac Book Pro I’ve been yearning for for years, and really it just makes me feel stupid. It does everything, I mean it can do things I don’t even know that it can do!

Since the iphone ( and yes, I was one of the first to spend way too much money on mine when it first came out, but I’ve loved it ever since) I have been a huge Apple fan. I’m just an uneducated one. I’m tempted to have a facebook friends teenage son come over and give me a tutorial, because I don’t want all the real Mac users I know to see how Mac Dumb I really am.

So I have a back up plan, I am just gonna carry my Mac book around and never open it up in public, other than to play my Spangles commercial and the teaser for the TV show I’m working on, hopefully that will be enough to convince people I’m cool, because I may not be able to make my Mac Book do anything, but I have one, and that makes me feel cool, and that’s good enough for me. Because, I’m Anita Cochran, and that’s what I really wanted to say!

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Happy Birthday Mom

Posted on August 3, 2009 by anitacochran

Those of you who really know me, know that when I really like something, or really believe something, I say it, Over and Over and Over again. So for as long as I have an audience, be it TV, radio, online or on paper, I’m going to spend every August 3rd telling you to send your Mom flowers. I know what I’m talking about because every August 2nd, I take my Mom flowers, to the cemetary.

August 2nd is my Mom’s birthday, and I don’t even know if I ever sent her flowers for her birthday while she was alive. I can’t remember ever doing that I wish I had, but some of you still can, so sign your name and mine, and I bet we can make some people smile, I bet my Mom will get a kick out of it too. And then, if you really want to take it one step further, send her flowers again, on YOUR birthday, thanking her for all she did. Gosh I really wish I had thought of that before I lost her, then again, I wish I’d done a lot of things for Mom now. I’m Anita Cochran, and I wish like hell I didn’t want to say that, but somehow I need to, so maybe some of you won’t have to down the road.

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Piano Part Two

Posted on July 31, 2009 by anitacochran

The 12 year old won’t drop it. Now that she’s entering Middle school, and won a spot on the cheerleading squad, she’s pushing her pom pons and proclaiming there won’t be enough time for piano. I’ve pretty much put my foot down and said, “OH YES YOU WILL.” Today, though, I’m starting to crack.

The two of us were riding bikes talking about cheerleading when she hit it again, “Mom, I’ll have practice and games, and there won’t be time for piano.” Last time she tried to argue that as someone who has free will, she should be able to decide. The time argument is better, because I can see me running ragged, not just to get her where she needs to go, but nagging to get her to get some piano practice in.

I came back with the great argument that she would regret quitting now, later in life, when she sat down to the piano and yearned to play it. I also pointed out, she is limiting her options as to careers and hobbies. I got the argument, “Mom!! I’m not going to be a singer.”

“I’m either going to be a marine biologist, a teacher or a banker.” Lexy tried to convince me. Then the bottom really fell out when in a nearly inaudbile voice she said, “or a news person.”

I pretended I didn’t hear that one, and went on to say, well what if you decide to enter the pageant world? What will do you do for talent competition. That’s when it dawned on me, that she’s clearly thinking this through.

“Well, I’m awesome at hula hooping.” So being Anita Cochran, I’m just gonna leave it at that, because that’s what SHE really wanted to say.

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The Nose KNOWS

Posted on July 30, 2009 by anitacochran

Had to update you on the BFF’s nose ring. It hasn’t been all smooth inhaling since she decided to pierce her nose. Melissa you know, is a hairdresser, those girls can get away with ANYTHING. I don’t even have a picture of her with it in, because ever since she decided she had to have it, it’s been in, out, down the drain and now perhaps, up her nose.

Yeah, word today as we Starbucksed was that she thinks the one she lost that didn’t fall down the sink, she may have actually inhaled during her sleep. I’m starting to grow attached to the little jewel, not only does it give me something to concentrate on while I talk to her, it is a constant source of material. Somedays when it’s kind of red, bordering on infection, I like to tell her she needs some Neosporin. Other days when it’s got make-up caked around it, I honestly proclaim, it looks like a zit. Then there are those days, when it’s kind of cute, but honestly, it is just soooo not her. Melissa is a good girl she just looks like a party on wheels.

Today she says she’s done,because one of the nose jewels may be permanently embedded in her brain, or hanging somewhere along her esophagus. Melissa, says she won’t be putting it back in, but give her a day and some wild hair will blow in her face, and she’ll think, I just don’t look hot enough unless I have a jewel in my nose. Gotta admit, it makes for good stories, so I think I’m gonna show her the cleavage piercings afterall cause I bet the mileage we get out of those will be like twice as good!!! I’m Anita Cochran, and I told her so, or at least, I should have because back when she said, I’m gonna get my nose pierced,that’s what I really wanted to say.

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What’s A Mom To Do?

Posted on July 29, 2009 by anitacochran

They did it. My 8 and 12 year old daughters won their 3 and 5 hole golf championships this week. It’s a second title for the little one, and a third title for the big one….Momma is proud.

The thing is with five golf trophies in the house, the only one who can’t win in the future is me. Take for instance this year. I was trying to be supportive so that the girls wouldn’t be under pressure to perform. My nice comment went something like. ”Hey if you don’t win, so what….you already have TWO titles!” Lexy fired back with a semi-spiteful, “You don’t even think I can do it!” Ugh.

Of course, I hoped she could do it, but having been knocked down about seven billion times in my own life, and getting bloody noses, knees and other assorted body parts, I also know what it’s like to lose. So far, my daughters don’t. Every little victory of theirs makes me wonder how painful the big first loss will really be, and… maybe part of me does just want to get it over with. The other part of me knows I’m not equipped to deal with their losses either. So far, I’ve found my daughters successes have been much sweeter than my own, maybe I am just terrified their defeats will be even more devastating too, and frankly, I don’t know if I can take it, OR kiss it enough to make it better for them to get through it without tantrums, deep depression or at the very least major drama. Oh well, at least for this golf season we’ve escaped! Congrats Lexy and Tanza, would it have helped if I told you earlier, I expected you to win all along? I’m Anita Cochran, and that’s what I really wanted to say.

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Girl Meets Boys

Posted on July 28, 2009 by anitacochran

Holy Schmoly, I think I figured out why God never gave me a boy. At one point in my life, I wished for boys only, so that I could be the Queen of my family. Turns out I’m the Queen anyway and thanks to two daughters have at least some idea of what I’m doing. Today at golf, overseeing three 8 to 10-year old boys was an eye-opener.

First off, little boys talk….a lot. I could barely keep things straight because two of the three would be telling me stories. Obviously both were looking at me at the same time! Are you telling me they couldn’t see my head bouncing back and forth trying desperately to keep up, did they honestly think that was normal? I ended up letting them blabber and ignoring them, like the men they will become, they didn’t even notice!

Then there’s this thing called, cheating. Okay, maybe they were just in a real hurry, but as each kid got to his golf ball, he’d whack away, to heck with golf etiquette and who was suppose to go NEXT.. Then I realized what they were really doing was trying to get in a few swings I wouldn’t see and thus count on their score card. I let them know right off who was in charge, and they didn’t try that again, their future wives can thank me in 20 years.

Finally, there’s this little item of keeping score. Don’t get me wrong, little girls are keeping score, but when they ask what they got on the last hole, they aren’t sure. When little boys ask, they’re testing you. First they want to see, if you maybe missed a swing or two (remember the cheating) then they challenge you, to make it appear like you are wrong. Dudes, I’m a 45 year old cougar, while I may be new at little boys, I know exactly where you’ll end up, and it won’t be with me saying, OOPS, you’re right! Because here’s what the little boys didn’t know. I’m Anita Cochran, and I once was a little girl, which makes me right from the get go, and that’s what I really wanted to say!!

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