MENA November 2010 Chat

[JeanneVictoria 55]

Morning everyone! Beautiful Friday to all!!

Tammy, be sure to post your pictures of the house! Love the colors of the rooms you have

already done. I'm so happy you live close to your family.

Rosie, enjoy your vacation! Are you planning on going away?

Hi Andrea, Jenell, Olivia, Charles, Mithra, Amber, Batta, HG, and Jackie!

We will have Thanksgiving dinner out. I'm the diva this year...I don't have to cook!! Lovin' my new title

My family has always put their Christmas tree up on our birthday Dec 18! Started ages ago and we still continue

to do it. My mom and dad used to tell my twin and I that the tree was "our special birthday present"! We believed it

then and continue to believe it

(L)

Wishing everyone a beautiful Friday filled with happiness and love. Have fun!

[Muh and me 18]

BRRRR, Happy Friday!

[JeanneVictoria 55]

Hey Terrie!

[Muh and me 18]

Hey Terrie!

Hey Jeanne! How are u?

[JeanneVictoria 55]

Wael received his citizenship interview letter today! He will be interviewed Jan 12, 2011. Fantastic way to begin the New Year! :dance:

[Batta 6]

Good morning All,

It is time of the year when it is cold, the Xmass lights are going up and shopping starts

Well it is freezing cold here in Chicago, but cannot complain since it is Sunny!

We will be heading to Downtown to see the Magnificent Mile Lights Festival which will include the Mickey Mouse parade and Fire work this evening.

Hubby will not be working this week so I am excited, but also happy that he passed his exams for his job as a truck driver, sad story he will be on road for like 2 weeks with 2 days off each time, so not sure about Xmass being off..Ohh well.. I will just take it day by day!

Nothing left for my 3 weeks vacation time.. going home to Texas to spend Xmass there

All in All it is a Good year.. Happy Holidays

[R and F 34]

Hey good morning guys. Have a great Saturday.

[NancylovesAhmad 1]

Hope everyone is having an amazing weekend. I am so excited Thanksgiving and Black Friday will be here soon.

[Mithra 1,185]

Congrats to Wael! That's great news, Jeanne!

Wael received his citizenship interview letter today! He will be interviewed Jan 12, 2011. Fantastic way to begin the New Year! :dance:

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

Congrats Jeanne & Wael! Cute story about the birthday Christmas trees.

Congrats Batta on dh getting his CDL! I hope he will be home for Christmas.

Last night when I got home from work I saw that more people had put up their Christmas lights in the neighborhood. We also got out of going to Thanksgiving this year at my brothers. Yipee! I didn't want to go because I'm vegetarian now and I knew that there wouldn't be much that I could eat with my diet restrictions unless I brought my own food and that would be awkward. Now if we could just get out of Christmas. I don't know what my Mom was thinking when she invited all these guests. She has to work Christmas and I have to work Christmas Eve and Christmas and all these friends and family are coming. She didn't really think it through.

Work was really challenging yesterday. I was squeezed with all these special requests and technical malfunctions. One reporter attached their package to the wrong slot and expected another reporter to fix it for them but when he attached his package that erased her package and neither of them attached her 10 pm package to the right slot so five minutes to show I'm trying to find her package but I didn't know what project it's in because the rundown didn't have the same name as the project and we had 6 different projects from various reporters about weather, winter and roads. Earlier she thought she lost her edited packages, which is also why it made it difficult for me to find her packages later, because when I did finally find them they were saved strangely with two different edited projects in the same project. I couldn't tell which one was the right version and which one was her 10pm package which she usually titles and none of them were titled or had her look lives attached. I felt bad about everything that happened with her stuff because during the first month working there I messed her packages up. One time I attached her 5:30 to her 10pm and another time I attached he package without look lives. Which might have been the same times. Then I attached her look lives to her package with her pad still on the end so there was dead air and the director had to cut and I hadn't changed the properties on her look lives from 4:3 to 16:9 so her face look squished. It was an embarrassing learning process. Finally the producer told her to edit both her packages herself and attach them to the shows like other reporters are required to do and she'd just got lazy with because she was friends with the editor before me who would help her out. I have enough to worry about than editing reporters packages for them right now.

Then on air for our 10 pm show because of problems with finding her package I had to attach the 5:30 package to the 10pm and the producer had the director cut to another reporters package and then back to the her package when I attached it. But the director had quick fingers and it started her package in the middle of it. So there were all these screw ups on the 10 o'clock show. I guess the producer/anchors mic also failed but I noticed sometimes their mics fail on air. It was a mess but that wasn't the only mess, that was just the on air mess. There was the behind the scenes mess I was trying to mop up that kept me running around and I had to have the director call the engineer for help. It seemed yesterday everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I barely got the content into the 10 pm show and I was freaking out being squeezed like that. And since I'm new and still learning I give myself extra time and work off the clock in my 2 hour break between shows but that wasn't enough time to get everything I needed done. The producer said after the show that when it comes down to it I do not have to take sports feed requests because it's not my job. That I wasn't hired for that and we have sports guys for that. It's just the sports guy was super stressed out because his editing equipment was crashing and he couldn't get what he needed done. I had told him that maybe he had a bug and needed to get it checked. But I'd ended up helping him out doing three requests for him from various stations which cut into my own editing time. Some of it I was doing for the first time so it was a learning experience and I had to call the senior editors for help, then master control or the director and then the engineers because of technical issues. It was a lot yesterday.

Edited November 21, 2010 by Cleocatra

[R and F 34]

Happy Sunday to all you guys.

[JeanneVictoria 55]

Afternoon everyone! Hope your Sunday is going well!

Thanks Mithra and Olivia! I'm so happy for him.

Olivia, you certainly have been busy! What a learning experience for you!

Enjoy your day!

[FaithfulandTrue 6]

Happy Monday MENA!!! Hey Mithra, Andrea, Olivia, R AND F, Jackie, Tamara, Mohamed, Jeanne, Terrie, Batta, Nancy and of course Charles Boy, I have missed a lot Congratulations to Jeanne for Wael getting his interview for citizenship Batta, congrats to your hubby getting his cdl .. well I was sick again with bronchitis I had to miss days at work and it's tapping into my leave for the year oh well.. maybe next year I can save some leave for a real vacation or something.. not sure if I'm cooking for Thanksgiving I really don't feel like it.. and I'm scared to go to my families house .. they may have ham and I'm trying to stay away from pork not because hubby is muslim or anything.. my bp goes up when I eat it sometimes and it's really not good for you.. and I want some bacon and eggs right now I feel like that dog in the begging strips commercial oh I forgot, I have to get off of deviant art website.. I will try to post a link to my gallery of 5 photos I just never really posted anything.. but I have to find another site to put my photos on.. my oldest daughter says they post porn on there and nobody's doing anything about it, even though they have complaints.. the site says that it's art ... so please be patient with me.. I will probably go out Thanksgiving to take pictures of the trees and their wonderful colors well gotta get back on the 800 number and answer calls ya'll take care now ya hear southern talk

[Ban Hammer 13,283]

bleh, i took today off from work. probably a good thing too, my back is hurting from all the yard work yesterday. blew out the neighbor's gutters with the gas powered blower, picked up enough leaves to fill about 5 pick up trucks, mowed and raked - took about 6 hours in all.

[FaithfulandTrue 6]

bleh, i took today off from work. probably a good thing too, my back is hurting from all the yard work yesterday. blew out the neighbor's gutters with the gas powered blower, picked up enough leaves to fill about 5 pick up trucks, mowed and raked - took about 6 hours in all.

hey Charles sorry about your back hurting.. hope you feel better