long time gone……

well it’s been a long time since i have “blogged”. blogged…who even came up with that word and that should be the million dollar question. i’m sure if you goggle it the answer is there somewhere. it’s weird because 10 years ago no one knew what blog, google, myspace, twitter, and facebook where. now these words are part of your daily life. don’t get me wrong technology is amazing, but i think sometimes people forget that there are things that you can’t just google to find the answer. like life and the dreams that you have for yourself. you have to set goals and objectives for yourself. once you reach that goal you set for yourself you have to set a new one alittle higher than the last. i’ve met so many people the past few days that have no dreams. so now i’ve been asking myself am i the odd one? have i been doing this wrong my entire life? granted i have a job in the business that i’ve always wanted to be in, met some pretty amazing people along the way, have been blessed to become friends with many of them, have traveled to different places, enjoyed different cultures, hung out with governor’s, mayor’s, grammy award wining musicians and i still ask myself every night, “what’s the goal for tomorrow?”

some goals are small and some are large. either way they are a goal. so tonight i think i’m gonna make a goal. what will it be?

an update on jason…

just wanted to let everyone know that jason passed away friday, march 27th.

please pray for him and his family……

There is still good news to report in the world…….

it took alot of people to make this happen…..thanks to you all

with all the bad things that happen in the world….this story needs to be told….

Hospice patient’s wish granted by speaking with country music star
By David Dinsmore • ddinsmore@thetowntalk.com • March 5, 2009

Music recording artist Taylor Swift

Jason Bernard, 19, who is terminally ill, received a phone call from his favorite singer, Taylor Swift. His caretaker, Barbie Martin (from left), and hospice workers Shannon Henry and Jessica Miller, pose with Bernard at his home in Flatwoods. (Amanda Guillot/aguillot@thetowntalk.com)

Jason Bernard of Flatwoods knew he was getting a rare treat as he listened to a few bars of his favorite song by his favorite artist.

In fact, country superstar Taylor Swift told him that she doesn’t sing for everyone over the phone. For him, however, she made an exception.

The private cellular concert was part of a surprise phone call last Thursday between Swift and Bernard, who is living with a terminal illness.

Bernard, 19, receives assistance from Guardian Hospice Care. Shannon Henry is one of the Guardian nurses who is helping take care of Bernard.

Being in hospice care is about giving the patients what they need or want, and Henry does whatever she can to help, she said.

“It’s about maximizing their quality of life,” Henry said.

So when she was watching music videos with Bernard one day, Swift became the topic of conversation.

“I told them that she was my favorite artist,” Bernard said. “She makes good love songs.”

The fact that he finds Swift attractive didn’t hurt either, he said.

Henry made a mental note of this, she said. She got in touch soon after the conversation with a woman she knew as Melissa at Cenla Broadcasting in Alexandria.

Henry asked her for help in contacting Swift and she make a phone call to Bernard. Within 36 hours, Henry was heading away from Bernard’s home when her cell phone rang.

It was one of Swift’s assistants.

“I was impressed how fast they called us back,” Henry said.

She turned the car around and began phoning her coworkers to let them know the good news, Henry said. After another hour, Swift called and chatted on speaker phone with Bernard.

“I was nervous,” Bernard said.

They talked about the video shoot Swift was doing with Kelli Pickler and her leaving soon to travel overseas.

Swift asked Bernard about the things he enjoyed, such as what he likes to watch on television. He also told her his favorite song by her was “Our Song,” of which she then sang a portion.

“When she started singing, he really got into it,” Henry said.

There were other people who listened to the phone call and shot video with their cameras to commemorate the moment.

“I’m just glad they did this for him,” said Barbie Martin, who also helps to care for Bernard.

News of the 5- to 10-minute phone call spread far beyond the small circle of people there to witness it after Swift mentioned in a radio interview she had just spoken with a young man named Jason in Louisiana, Martin said.

“I’ll never forget it,” Bernard said.

A New Lesson….

well today we finished up the annual toy drive that we do at the radio station.  so here i am doing my good deed for this month. i was standing out in the cold collecting money and toys for some homeless kids for christmas.  all was going great and then a co-worker of mine spots this little ol’ lady having a hard time walking across the parking lot.  she had a case of bottled water on the bottom of her buggy.  we assumed she was going to her car and so we offered to help her to her car. little did we know she was walking home. so here is this little lady who was 70 maybe 80 years old tring her best to push her buggy full of grocery’s home.

to make a very long story alittle shorter…. as we were talking to her we knoticed that her glasses were broken and half of them where missing.  so i’m pretty speechless at this point which is very rare.  so we finally convience the lady to let us bring her home.  we loaded her stuff and her buggy (which she was using as a walker) into the van to bring her home. which turned out to be about 2 miles and one very step hill away. it’s insane to think that the lady who could barely walk was going to push a buggy full of grocery’s that far.  when we finally got her home thats where today’s lesson was learned. we got her and all of her stuff out of the van and tried to help her into her house. she wouldn’t have it she literally had to crawl up the steps to get onto the porch of her house. there was no railing for her to hold onto to walk up the steps of her little house that looked like a very old shotgun house that really shouldn’t be lived in.

i stood there by the van and it hit me. i’m blessed. i already knew this but here lately life has been weird. a friend and i were talking the other day about “time travel” and if it was real then what year would you want to go back to? what would you do? well, her’s had something to do with history. mine was a more simple. it was that i’d go back one year from today (dec. 6, 2007) and spend every second i had from that day until dec. 17th at 11:30am with my grandfather who passed away on that day last year. needless to say the room was silent after that answer. now that i’m completely off topic…..i guess what i’m saying is that as much as i miss my grandfather there is this lady that has a son that isn’t taking the care of her that he should. he doesn’t know how lucky he is to have her. the just of it is here i am complaining all week that i’ve been working too much, not making the money that i feel i should be making, not taking enough time for me. then today this lady walks into my life for a few mins and then i reliezed. there’s more important things that need to be taken care of in this world. for this one little lady there are 100 others just like her out there. so don’t pass up a min of lifes lessons. they are all around you. you just have to slow down and you’ll see it for yourself. like i did today.

oh, btw….we got her a wheel chair, so nice folks are going to her house next week to fix her a raling so that she can walk into her house, and we are getting her a new pair of glasses.

just remember be kind to each other. no matter who we are, what we do, what color we are, we all are human.

Making The Kid In Me Happy…..

the year was 19….(something) and i was in jr high and the love of my life was jordan knight from the new kids on the block. there was no question. we were going to be married because his pictures covered my locker (haha!). it was meant to be……then fastforward about 15years (or so) and the world has changed so much. i have changed so much but this past saturday night in new orleans when i walked into the venue to see new kids on the block in concert.  my past and the me now met and i see that they really aren’t that different. i mean granted, i’ve moved on from the “gonna marry you because your pictures are in my locker” (haha!). i mean i’m older, wiser, and grown up (at least alittle bit). the show was more than i ever that expected it to be. the kid in me finally got to see NKOTB in concert and now i’m complete…….

and yes the guys are like fine wine… they just got better with time

Ode To Morning Radio….

for all those who don’t know here at the station the morning co-host decided to leave. with this being said i am helping out the morning show and still doing my afternoon shift……and yes, i’m really sleepy. i give props to all those who love morning radio because i don’t see how you do it every freakin day! getting up at 3:30am (are earlier) and be all happy and cheerful. you guys have all my respect!!

you rock!

-melissa

Just A Lil’ Blog About Me Being Me

just when i promised i’d start blogging life takes a a turn for the crazy.  so, here’s a very brief blg to catch up on things.

first up…. i had a blast friday night at the joe nichols show.  made alot of people happy by just being nice.  see, for some reason people aren’t used to people just being nice. this is the just of what happened…. i have a job where i’m lucky enough to be able to go to concert’s and go backstage (ok, that sounds odd, but it’s true). well, the people i was supposed to go with had some other things to take care of. so, i go on to the show and here i have some extra tickets and i hate to wasted stuff that others can get some kind of enjoyment out of. i go into the venue and walk around. i see a couple sitting way in the back and i walk over and ask them if they would like seats alittle closer to the stage.  i had a hard time convincing the guy that i didn’t want anything for the tickets. i wasn’t going to use them so why not give them away. finally after a few mins they take them and to there suprise it was 2nd row. then i see over in the cornor three ladies sitting there checking out the joe nichols shirt they just bought. i go over and ask if they are big fans of joe and the one lady said they had drove 4 hours to come see him and that’s when i asked the all important question, “would you guys like to meet him?” the lady in the middle said that she wish she could and i said here and handed them all three meet & greet passes and told them to follow me. the look on their face was shock, disbelif and then came the question, “what do you want for them?” they couldn’t believe that i didn’t want anything. as we were walking back a lady that listen’s to me came up to meet me (which i think is still odd when people do that) and i asked her if she wanted to go back with us. she also was shocked that i just wanted to give them to her. to make a long story short we all got to meet joe and he was super nice. i had no idea that it was all of these ladies first time going backstage and i’m glad that i was there to share the experience with them.

the one thing i learned from all of this is that people aren’t used to others just being nice for the heck of it. i think that’s a huge problem that the world has and this is something that we all can fix. so be nice to someone today.  to sound all chessy and to quote the clay walker song “chain of love”

You don’t owe me a thing,
I’ve been there too
Someone once helped me out,
Just the way I’m helping you
If you really want to pay me back,
Here’s what you do
Don’t let the chain of love end with you

 

ok, i have to go finish my double on air shift for today …….(that’s another blog for another time)

-melissa