Catching Up

Yet again, I'm titling a week-late blog post, "Catching Up."  I'm so tired of being so tired all the time!!  I can't wait until ONE DAY when I have a "normal" life again and I'm not exhausted and loopy and unmotivated all the time!

Sigh.  Thanks for listening.

Now, ancient convention pictures, so we can move on and see super cute baby pics from this most recent weekend...

Let's start with the highlights of Thursday night:

 

I finally found a gift shop.  But I did not buy this hat.

 

I did see lots of creative hats, though!

 

I get the elephant.  But not the frog.

 

There were even hard hats. (and hard looks, too, apparently)

 

Flair.

 

I had several more Sarah Palin hair sightings...

 

All sorts of variations.  I'll spare you all of the pictures (there were many)

 

I'd say she was definitely the star of the convention!

 

Truth be told - I was much more interested in this man.

THE TOM BROKAW!!

He and Chuckie T were just one skybox away... chatting it up....

 

And eating pizza.... my friends, I'm going to let you in on a little secret... we in the media are just like you.

 

We eat pizza.

 

And watch football.

Yup.  The guys in the skybox were much more fixated on watching the Redskins than they were...

watching Mr. Red State, John McCain.

It was powerful stuff watching him give that speech, I must say.

 

At the end, the McCains and the Palins took the stage and the crowd went WILD.

 

Then it was time for the infamous balloon drop!!

 

I have never seen so many balloons in my life.

Note to my family and friends: I have a birthday coming up, you know.

And it's kind of a big deal.  A last hurrah, if you will.

I think it's the perfect occasion for a balloon drop!!

:)

 

So, after hours of sitting around watching politicans and football players... it was showtime!

 

Live shot city!

 

Live interview with Senator Brownback from Kansas. 

 

And that was pretty much a wrap.

Reunited

This morning I am sipping a Pumpkin Spice Latte!  (Shout out to Nikole for making a STBX run)  Yep, a PSL and it's just September 11th.  Oh, it's September 11th.  I'm not going to dwell on that. 

Back to my latte - now, it's earlier than I usually delve into the PSL world, but I think I'm ready.  Well,  maybe.  Kind of.  I would still go to the pool, though.  So, maybe I am still in summer mode?  I don't think I'd take the Pumpkin Spice Latte TO the pool... so definite diagnosis: I'm in between.

Which is perfect because Fall is kind of an in between kind of season, right?

I digress...

I would like to point out that on page 29 of this week's Newsweek, Sarah Palin is wearing my glasses.  The ones I have now.  She probably had them a couple of years ago.  I'm thinking she's out way in front of the opti-world, especially for Alaska.

So, maybe I'll have the glasses she has now, in a couple of years.

Mmmmmm... PSL, how I've missed our times together.

Scoopdate

Yes, yes, I'm behind on the blog.  I know this.  Sorry, faithful readers!  My blog is becoming the online version of my laundry basket.  It's piling up.  I just realized I still have convention pictures to post.  Yeah, yeah, maybe tomorrow - it's so much better posting them on Internet Explorer, so maybe after work in the morning...

Now, though, the final chapter to the Scoop Saga.

Scoop was returned to me, unharmed, the final night of the convention.  There was a knock on the skybox door.  I opened it, and scoop was in the hallway, with an American Flag.

He's such a patriot!

Unfortunately, Scoop's ultimate demise was yet to come.

After safely making it home to DC, he was blinded by a giant puggle.

Poor Scoop.

He is ever the inspiration, though.

Do you think this means Brokaw is a Democrat?

Hmmm..  political puggle.

We interrupt this blog to bring you a very important message:

BABY G HAS ARRIVED!!!!!!!

 

Isn't he the cutest little peanut ever?

I can't wait to squeeze him (gently) and kiss his little head!!

Courtney, I'm so proud of you, Mama!

Side note: Did they send out vouchers for babies in the mail like they sent the economic stimulus package payments?  I swear everyone I know is having a baby right now, or just had one... it's CRAZINESS.  So many babies!! 

2nd side note: If you are one of my millions of friends having a baby, or if you just had one, or if you need a baby gift - check out my mom's brilliant baby headquarters: www.rockabyebabyobx.com!

Save Scoop!

Scoop has been captured!

***UPDATE*** Scoop was returned to me, safe and sound. Eric has claimed responsibility.

Wednesday

The big highlight of Wednesday was Sarah Palin's tour of the stage and the podium.

Eric and I waved to her, so if you saw the video of her waving, let the record show, she was totally waving to us!! (this is our re-enactment)

I made Sally a diagram (I think I'm not spelling that correctly, but whatev) of the Palin family tree with regards to the Baby Daddy.

Scoop's last picture pre-capture. 

Our feature took us to a couple of interesting shops in Downtown St. Paul.

A look at the media village outside the X, and our Hearst trailer quarters. 

I ordered room service and it made me happy... until I received my first piece of Scoop propaganda.

    

Tuesday

Sally eating breakfast, you can always point out the TV reporters at the buffet.

We got some firefighters to pose with Scoop (for the children!) Haha...

Rachel Lampa rehearsing.

I ran into former Hearstie Kimberly - she's now at Fox News, I wish I could see her more often!

We did 15,000 live shots, I swear...

Sarah Palin hair spotted - I started noticing this more and more...

It rained and the Secret Service had confiscated Sally's umbrella, boy was she happy to get it back!

The Secret Service guys loved commenting on my highlighter yellow suitcase.  Always easy to spot though :)

Monday

Yes, yes, I realize I'm falling terribly behind.  For now, pictures, minus my colorful commentary.  More later.  I promise, I'm uploading stuff as fast as I can.  We're working crazy hours and the internet at the hotel is spotty...

Here I am producing Monday AM's live shots.  Yes I am on like 47 phones and a headset.

Doesn't it look like Sally is going live from a crime scene? Hahaha... throw back to local news days :)

Isn't this sign funny?  We were thirsty, but we needed a backlight more than we needed water!

Would you believe I forgot my tennis shoes?  I bought some bo-bo's from Target and they were a LIFESAVER!  I felt like an old lady sporting black pants and tennis shoes, but everyone was doing it, so I figured it made me cool.

Live shot #447:  Shout out to WGAL in Lancaster, PA!!

Eric, forced into compliance because of boredom, started bonding with Scoop.

We ate way too much candy.

This stuff appeared to be holding imporant piping in the ceilling of the skybox... doesn't it look like peanut butter?

We also ate pizza.  I ate more on this trip than any other 5 day period in recent memory, I'm pretty sure!

Eric McJensen.

Various shots of Scoop doing our various jobs and me being a goof off at the live shot location.