While I was looking for my 80’s photos I stumbled across some of my fun Rock Star pictures.  The one with Steven Tyler is my favorite.  I love that guy (even though I’m twice his size!!  — including my hair!  HA!) 

And we have Achy Breaky Heart man Billy Ray Cyrus - wearing that Mullet proud!  (Better known as Miley’s DAD these days!)

And Keith Urban (better known as Nicole Kidman’s hubby!)

Hi everyone.

I was called in this morning to help out with the Midwest flood story on Fox and Friends, and was all set to do that throughout the show when I was told Alisyn was not feeling well, and would I mind doing both the weather and the news this morning!   Well, I said yes despite all of a sudden getting a big case of the jitters!  Thankfully, the Fox and Friends crew are sweet as can be, and made me feel like part of the gang right away.  I’ve never done news in the studio in front of that big Blue Wall before - and I’ve never had to stand on a box to do the news either, so these were all new and a little intimidating factors during my morning.  All and all I think it went well, and I was asked to stay to do the After the Show Show too!  That part of the morning was also extremely fun, although the subject matter turned a little risque, so watch at your own risk!  (I will get the Viewer Services folks to post it here later on)

I will give you an update on what’s going weather-wise  a little later, but I wanted to say hi first, and hope everyone had a great weekend.

jd

Hey guys!

Thought I would check in and say hello.  Still not feeling 100 percent,  but I was able to do a few chores around the apartment today and I’m not as dizzy as I was a few days ago which is a good sign.   The heat has kept me indoors, although my husband braved the high sweat-factor and went to the Belmont Racetrack to see Big Brown lose Big Time.   I forgot to watch on television, but he said it was just a shame of a race considering all the hype and the odds of winning.  He has his little conspiracy theories as to why this horse did so poorly, but I forgot to ask him if I could write about them on the blog, so I’ll leave it to you to also speculate as to why the horse didn’t match up to the expectations.  I have to admit I find it hard to watch these horses being pushed so hard to win.  It seems cruel to me…but that’s just my opinion.  I’d rather stick to lottery tickets or scratch off cards! 

The tornado count over the last few weeks and months has been so incredibly high -  we are on track to record-territory in terms of twister numbers and widespread damage this year.  Hopefully the severe threat will start to diminish over the next few weeks as we get into the summertime months.  This is a great article summerizing the season so far, and putting everything in context.   We still have a risk of tornadoes tonight  and tomorrow for the storm weary central U.S., and the heat will be the big story in the east Sunday and the early part of next week.

Thanks again for your wonderful support and well wishes.  I hope to be back at work on Monday.  And I hope I’m feeling up to a little celebrating tomorrow since my husband and I are celebrating our 1st wedding anniversary!  :) A couple of you mentioned you already knew this, and I’m impressed with your memory!   Take care everyone - hopefully I’ll see you Monday!

jd

The happiest day of my life!  June 8th, 2007 

Photo courtesy of Superduperphoto.com

Here are some of the pictures the hubby took in Central Park of the dogs taking a swim in the lake.  He caught a good cardinal as well! 

Good morning everyone (did I get you with that title? Eagles, Thunderstorms and SEX? HAHA! Read on to find out more…)

The Eagles were awesome last night. I’ve seen them 3 or 5 times over the last decade or so (I freaked out when they reunited in the 90s because I never got to see them when they came to my hometown in the 70’s…I was a little young for concerts) One of my first jobs out of school was a Classic Rock DJ on our local radio stations, and that’s when I discovered my love of the Eagles. I bought every album, book, magazine and was just obsessed with them. So when they announced a reunion tour back in the 90s, I couldn’t believe my luck. At any rate, they are still my favorite band, and despite the fact that some of them have enormous egos, I forget about that when I listen to them play.

Fox News Channel made an appearance at the concert, by the way. Don Henley’s song Dirty Laundry is all about tabloid television, so in back of the band on a huge screen they played a montage of all the cable news outlet shows and some of the networks as well. They seemed to like showing pics of the ladies on “The View” quite a bit and some choice fight scenes from “The Jerry Springer Show” - and they definitely had a bulls-eye on the Cable News opinion shows. Ah well. It was definitely entertaining despite seeing some of my colleagues as targets for Don Henley’s musical opinions about what’s on the tv-box.

The guys played for close to 2 and a half hours! A lot of stuff off their new album which I really like, and some classics too. Joe Walsh stole the show as usual - and everyone sounded better than ever. Despite Don Henley’s arrogance, he still remains my favorite. I love watching him sing and play the drums at the same time. Now that’s talent! (I can only think of him and Phil Collins who do this seemingly effortlessly) The band got to showcase a few of their solo hits outside of the Eagles which I was impressed with.

We had very good seats (I broke down and paid top price for floor seats) but of course my husband and I got stuck sitting in front of very drunk, very annoying group of people that were trying to re-live their 20s. One guy was so loud I had to contain my temper not to scream at him to shut his yap. I paid 200 bucks a piece for these tickets, and this loudmouth was ruining my night out!! My hubby was trying to control his Irish/Italian temper throughout the evening when the band took a break between sets. Thankfully once the Eagles started to play, his drunk, annoying voice was drowned out (but not entirely silenced!) His girlfriend/wife was equally annoying moving up into our row and dancing in front of us. I politely told her to move her bootie to another aisle. I don’t mind people dancing, but when they are totally drunk, out of control crazies that have no regard for other people - that’s when I let them know to move it out of my view. She was not happy.

So, I give the band a 9 out of 10…and the concert experience a 2 out of 10. It’s too bad that some people are ignorant — or as my husband pointed out just plain selfish. Am I getting to old to tolerate stuff like this? I just want my entertainment to be stress-free! Especially when I’m forking out 400 clams for 2 people!

Ok, I digress…In weather news, New York City is under a “moderate” risk for severe weather today which is pretty rare to see. We could get some isolated tornadoes across the northeast! I’m a little excited about this prospect, but of course I will be enjoying the storms from inside my apartment in my pajamas.

Tomorrow I am going to see Sex and the City movie which is one of my favorite shows. The one and only television box set I own is the pink-felt special edition HBO Sex and the City. That show used to cheer me up living as a single, career focused lady when it was a weekly series on HBO (that and the Sopranos made my weekend nights much more exciting) When I lived in Houston, I even had my own little group of girlfriends like the ladies in SATC. It was just so much fun and really touched upon single gal issues. So, I am also excited about this little outing as well - and it only cost me 24 bucks instead of 400! I am a little nervous to see what kind of riff-raff will be sitting in front and in back of my seats in the movie theater, as ladies can sometimes be 10 times more annoying then drunk middle-aged men…wait did I just say that? haha.

Alright, that’s all for now! I hope you don’t mind my little stories and rants! Have a great weekend everyone, be safe and keep chatting with one another! Cheers!

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JD

Here’s George Spink from L.A!  YAY! (George I found your picture on the Morning Show site…but am glad I did!)

Just want to take a moment to pay my respects to all the servicemen and servicewomen that gave their lives for our country - their sacrifices will never be forgotten.  And I would like to add my gratitude and admiration to all of our soldiers and sailors. 

God Bless America.

Janice

Thought I would post the last of our pix here since we leave first thing tomorrow morning.  I’m definitely going to be sad leaving this amazing Island.   I slept well every night with the sound of the ocean close by and the light rustling of the trees calming my mind.  The days were incredibly relaxing with no time-table or tourist attractions to make us feel like we had to constantly be looking at something.   We didn’t have many plans, and just did what we felt like  which is just the way it should be ”on vacation”.  It took me awhile to “wind down”…but once I did de-compress,  it was pretty easy to stay in relax-mode.

I got the hubby to take a picture of me in the hat I bought the other day which will hopefully remind me to relax a little more when I’m back in New York.  It says “I’m on Turtle Time!”  We should all be on “Turtle Time” once and awhile just to slow things down and get back some perspective.   It’s hard to do once you’re in that ”go go go” cycle, but it’s essential to our health and sanity!

AND last but not least, the Viewer Services folks are re-vamping things on the Blogs for a Monday Weather Machine unveil.  I haven’t seen what the Machine page will look like, but I hear it’s pretty fancy!   There will be a permanent link to the U-Report site on it which is very helpful, and it will be easier to find this place once you’re on Foxnews.com…perhaps a few more weather-related links too!  So stay tuned for that.

Alright - one last trip to the Beach, and then a bit of packing to do.  I’m getting sad already just writing that.  Maybe I’ll win the Mega-millions and I can buy a place here!  :)  I just emailed my sister-in-law to go buy some tickets today after Don from Richmond reminded us!  

Thanks to everyone who keeps coming back!  I know I say it alot, but it means so much to me that we have such an energetic, fun group of people who like to meet here.  It’s just the best!

JD

Hello everyone!

We had a wonderful day today - despite the stuffy nose.   The weather was perfect for kayaking, so we headed out to the marshes.  I’ve never been kayaking before, and it certainly took some patience along with a great deal of balance!  I wasn’t able to take too many photos (the balance thing…) – so here’s what I managed on my little camera (my husband as a much fancier camera than moi).  I also found  a picture of my birthday pancakes last Friday - so that’s what you’re also seeing inbetween outdoor shots!  Mmmmm….pancakes…

I must admit I am pretty tired after a long day, so I’m going to sign off here.  Glad you guys are still visiting and commenting.  I am so pleased at the crew we have here.  I was jumping onto some of the other blogs last night, and some of them seem to be kind of out of control!  So I am thankful we have such a courteous and thoughtful bunch.  I hope we can keep it this way! :)  I also like the fact that you guys start off with what the weather is like where you live!  Very cool.   I look forward to reading everything you comment on each day.

Have a great night!

jd