It’s that time of year!!!
We’re finally done with winter (and yes, being from Florida I consider three days of below 60 degree weather winter) and heading into one of my favorite times of the year - spring! I have never experienced spring break on Panama City Beach before, and I have to admit, I still haven’t gone and checked it out.
I took a week of vacation for my own little spring break during the first major week of visitors here. Instead of the beach and club scene that most spring breakers take part in, my spring break was a little more subdued ... ok, a lot more subdued. The hub of my vacation was my house in good old Citrus County. From there I took a couple day trips throughout the state. I spent a day in St. Augustine, a day in Tampa, and a day in Orlando park-hopping at Disney. The best part, though, was just spending time with my family.
Perhaps I’ll make a trip down to the beach this weekend to catch the my first round of rays for 2008!
(Another reason I look forward to spring ... not much longer until football season!!! Go Gators :cheese:
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Randomness
As I’m sure you’ve figured out already, I’m really bad about this whole blog thing. I know that blogs are supposed to be updated often, even several times a day ... but my life just isn’t that exciting. So in an attempt to figure out something to blog about, you’ll have to bear with my randomness.
The past 3 weekends I’ve been down in Gainesville (even if for only a day) for the football games. The Western Kentucky and Troy games were good starts, but blowing out Tennessee was amazing. Old Rocky Top just crumbled in the Swamp!
This week my team is in Oxford, Mississippi to take on the Ole Miss Rebels. I’m planning on watching the game with the Panhandle Gator Club. This will be the first time I’ll be able to do anything with the group.
It seems like the Seminole powers-that-be here in the Panhandle are trying to keep me from my people! Every time the Gator Club has an event or regular meeting, it turns into one of those crazy days at work and miss it. Hopefully nothing will come up this weekend.
I’ve been able to do some stories at work this week that I’ve really enjoyed. I like doing softer, feature type stories - I feel like that’s really where my skills lie.
On Sunday I did a really sweet story about a soldier and his wife. They met online and later fell in love, then he got deployed to Iraq.
When he left they had planned on getting married in June 2008, but those plans quickly changed. They realized they wanted to get married as soon as possible, so in March, with him still in Iraq, they were married over the phone!
The soldier came home on leave this past week and took his wife to Disney to celebrate seeing each other for the first time since saying “I do.” He had planned this big, romantic proposal during their dinner at Cinderella’s Castle (even though they were married, he wanted to go through all the steps that most people go through). It was a very sweet, feel good story.
The other story I enjoyed this week dealt with the old Bay Line train depot. This depot was built in 1924 and brought Panama City from just another sleepy Gulf town to what it is today. I love history, so a history related story is right up my ally. I like fading between current video and old photographs to show how much things have changed.
It’s sad that this historic building is going to be torn down, but if there was a chance to save it, the effort should have begun 25 years ago.
I was hoping this weekend would be nice as far as the weather goes, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to work out for me.
I haven’t been to the beach in over a month, and the slight tan I was able to get over the summer is quickly disappearing.
You’ll notice very soon just how pale my skin is naturally. But if it’s a trade off between good beach weather and a bad Gator game, or a stormy day and another victory ... I’ll take the rain any day!
“Neath the Orange and Blue VICTORIOUS our love shall never fail. There’s no other name so GLORIOUS all hail, Florida hail.”
Go Gators! :-)
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2 Things I Like (Besides the Gators)
Yes, I know. It’s been a long time since I’ve written a blog entry, I admit it! The past few weeks have brought their ups and downs - but I suppose that’s just how life is. I’m still getting hung up on that whole change thing, and yes, I know it’s been 3 months but it takes me a while. Even though my family is only 4 1/2 hours away, that’s the farthest they’ve ever been and I miss them. I have a 3 1/2 year old nephew who I miss like crazy, and from what I understand, he misses me a lot too. I talk to him on the phone occasionally and he always asks me why I’m in Panama City and why I’m not coming home to see him. That always breaks my heart because I don’t want him to think that I don’t want to see him. He told my sister the other day that he wanted me to have a frog. When my sister asked why he told her when he is sad, his frog (a stuffed animal, mind you) always makes him feel better because frogs are silly. That cracked me up. My Mom watches my nephew during the day while my sister is at school (she’s a 3rd grade teacher), and today when I was talking to her I could hear him in the background asking “when is my Megan coming home?” Hopefully I’ll get a chance to see him soon.
I’ve trained him well - he’s a huge Gator fan already (he was Florida’s mascot Albert for Halloween one year). This week I checked my mail and found a letter from him. He drew pictures for me of the Gator basketball plane shooting down the bad guy plane. Last year during football season he referred to himself as Chris Leak and this year he is Timmy Tebow. During basketball season he was either Joakim Noah or Corey Brewer - I’m not sure who he’ll be this year. As you can probably tell, I absolutely love that little guy!
Enough about my family (the best family in the world, I might add). Tonight the Miss Teen USA pageant is on and Bree and I are pretty excited about that. We plan to have a popcorn, s’mores, and possibly ice cream party while we watch those skinny little girls strut around in bikinis. I know I’ll never ever be that tiny, so I may as well enjoy being able to eat the good stuff! I love watching pageants, even though I was never really a pageant queen myself. My pageant experience is short and sweet - I won Miss Lecanto High School at the end of my junior year. It was my first and last pageant, but I insist on watching the Miss USA and Miss America pageants every year. I haven’t gone to the Miss Teen USA website to pick which girl I think is going to win yet ... maybe that’s what I’ll do now.
Have a wonderful day and Go Gators!!
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About Me
Hey there... I've spent all my life in the Sunshine State. I grew up in the small town of Lecanto, Florida and I'm very excited about starting my career at WMBB... and living near the beach is just a big plus for me. I recently graduated from the University of Florida so of course, I'm a big Gator fan. If you have a few minutes, you can shoot me an email - malbright@wmbb.com. I'd love to hear from you.
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