No, I'm Not At ABC15 Anymore!

Now that I have your attention I want to thank all of the loyal viewers that have been e-mailing me to find out why I'm not doing Traffic or Sonoran Living anymore. Actually, in case you missed it, my last day was August 29th. I have blogged about this before, but have found that people don't read all blogs and just the most current.

The contract was up between the traffic company I worked for and ABC15 and they decided not to renew. They said it was just business and nothing personal. I'll accept that. I have been a traffic reporter for over 15 years and will for sure miss it, but I won't miss waking up at 3am every day. That was brutal and I'm the one from the morning shift that came in on the later side. Yikes! Think of it this way...when you are getting up in the middle of the night for a potty break and are so excited to go back to bed, well think of the morning anchors and reports because they are getting up for good.

I had such fun helping out with Sonoran Living and I hope I can continue hosting somewhere or maybe even continue with my Voice-Over work. I guess the possibilities are endless as long as I am enjoying what I am doing and can balance work and family together.
Take care and please keep in touch. Andi

How did you hear about me?

Okay, so being that I am not working RIGHT now, I have a lot of free time on my hands and one of the things I love doing is checking my web-site meter to see who is visiting my web-site, www.andibarness.com. I can tell what city you are in and how you found my site. Lately, it seems that a lot of people are googling me and I'm curious why? Did you read my name somewhere? Are you in need of a tv host or voice-over artist? Are you an ABC15 viewer that is curious why I am not on the air anymore? I would love to know the reason for the google so feel free to answer this blog. Remember, I have a lot of free time on my hands and I can write back.

Are you googling me?

Okay, so being that I am not working RIGHT now, I have a lot of free time on my hands and one of the things I love doing is checking my web-site meter to see who is visiting my web-site, www.andibarness.com. I can tell what city you are in and how you found my site. Lately, it seems that a lot of people are googling me and I'm curious why? Did you read my name somewhere? Are you in need of a tv host or voice-over artist? Are you an ABC15 viewer that is curious why I am not on the air anymore? I would love to know the reason for the google so feel free to answer this blog. Remember, I have a lot of free time on my hands and I can write back.

Here's To A New Begining

I have been gearing up for the day I could wake up at a normal hour for a long time and tomorrow is the day. Granted it means that I will not be doing traffic reports for ABC15, I feel like it was meant to be. Tomorrow is the first deay of the rest of my life and while it sounds cliche I really believe that my "dream job" awaits me. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but I can tell you that it has nothing to do with waking up in the middle of the night and it will have everything to do with some type of television hosting or voice-overs. Mark my words...

I am free!

I know I have written in some past blogs about not having to wake up early now that I am not working those early hours (as of yesterday), but I can't believe how my life is about to change. I already feel free. Not only will I be able to go to bed later, wake up later, make the kids breakfast, work out early instead of the middle of the day, go to my boys late night baseball games, watch tv with my hubby, etc., but I will also not be as STRESSED out to get some much done in a day before I have to go to bed. I can go out with my girlfriends at night, have me time and even except jobs (contact me at www.andibarness.com) without having to ask for permission from ABC. I don't have that tightness in my chest thinking about getting to work early. So is this what a normal person feels like? Hey, I can even go on vacation whenever I want. This is going to be great!

My next chapter

Since this past Monday I have realized that my life as I have known it for the past 8 years is about to change.

No more waking up in the middle of the night to go to work!

For the past 4 years I have awakened at 3am to drive 20 miles to ABC15 and before that I woke up at 4am to drive 20 miles to Clear Channel radio.

This has meant no fun for me during the week, but that is about to change! Now I can do happy hour with my girlfriends, I can finally stop being the first one to leave special events, I can stay at my kids' baseball games for more innings and I even get to watch TV shows with my husband after the kids go to bed. Wow! This is going to be fun!

Now the next thing I need to do is get some extra work and some $$ coming in. Need any voice-over work done or maybe a television host for your next project?

Suit Sale

So the big news in my life is that as of September 1 I will no longer be the Daybreak Traffic Reporter for ABC15 in Phoenix. No, there is no drama. KNXV is just going in another direction and their contract was up with the traffic company I work with. I WILL, however, continue to be a contributor for "Sonoran Living". Yeah!!!

Anyway, this means I will no longer have to wear a suit and I can't tell you how excited I am about this. Suits are expensive and I own a bunch of them. So, my new idea is to photograph all of the suits that I want to get rid of and put them up for sale on my web-site.

Stay tuned! Expensive suits for really cheap are on their way to you........