Have you heard of Jane Schroeder? She is a pioneer in Toledo television and at nearly 95 she’s still got it. Watch my interview with Jane where she recounts the early days of television. She’s one of the most charming people I’ve profiled all year.

Trying to get ready for our summer trip was driving me….

But we finally changed our work and school day stripes and hit the road.

 At times on our summer trip it seemed like we traveled to a galaxy far far away.

By now I figure you’ve realized without having to read tea leaves where we visited on vacation.

And of course after a trip to Disneyworld..well… I’ll have what he’s having.

 

Here’s a link to a story about Harley Davidson motorcycles that I did with 106.5 The Zone’s Murphy in the Morning! Kind of fun for a chuckle. Especially if you want to see me in total “fish out of water” mode. We did the story because the Harley brand is celebrating its 105th Birthday this summer.

Anyone who reads this probably knows I’m a morning news anchor. As a morning news anchor the question I get more than any other is “what time do you get up?” The answer: 2:45 a.m. Early call, true, but not too different than my neighbor who works first shift at Jeep.

I have many positive things to say about shift work especially when it comes to family life. When I started in news I worked night-side. That’s from 2:30 p.m. until after the 11 o’clock news. My kids were little then and it was great to be home until two in the afternoon. I only needed 4 hours of babysitting since the hubby worked a regular daytime schedule and got home in the evening. Essentially we both had full time jobs and only had to pay half time of childcare. Later I worked the weekend shift. That gave me two week days off.  Again, it was nice because my husband was home the weekends so my kids had 4 days straight of at least one parent  home.

This morning shift came at the right time in my life as my kids afterschool actitivies keep us going each afternoon and I’m available to do whatever they need from homework help (except math) to cheering in the stands. I get just under 5 hours of sleep a night but no worries, I catch up on Friday nights. Except…

Before I continue I will tell you that I enjoy flipping through decorating magazines. Not that my house is decorated in any sort of style at all but I like looking at the home decor magazines. So when I have a few minutes to wait, say in the parking lot as the kids are finishing up whatever they’re doing or on a Saturday night after go-go-going all day, I enjoy looking at the magazines.

I am talking about shift work and home decor magazines because of this. 

I’ve purchased this magazine twice. Same issue. Something looked vaguely familiar. Oh well, I thought no big deal, I’ll just recycle one. (That’s why you’re only seeing the one in the picture.)

Then I did this:

 I’ve purchased this same magazine 3 TIMES. (I threw one out because I scared myself when I discovered I’d bought it repeatedly.) Either I love Renovation Style Magazine so much that I can’t wait for the next issue or maybe I just love this fireplace mantel. But the more likely scenario is my short term memory is Swiss Cheesy. Big holes in it.

So shift work appears to be good for my family life but it appears it be REALLY good for these two magazine publishers. What was I saying again? I forget.

Meet Wink, Maggie and Grace. These three pretty kitties belong to someone you know at 13ABC Action News. Any guesses? And it’s not me or Vickie.