Irony and Beef

When I was getting ready to move to Montana I had this image in my mind of a place with mountains and lots of snow and of course cold weather. I never really had a problem with cold weather and snow as a child or even to the age of 18. However, once I went to college and had to walk up to 30 minutes in cold and snow I began to hate it. So I was a little scared of Montana but decided I would suck it up cuz hey gotta start my career. Anyways, this weekend Montana was sunny and dry while my old home home of Philadelphia and Maryland where I went to school got slammed by snow. About 20 inches of snow. Ironic. I haven't seen that much snow in a long time and who knows when I will since Montana is just gorgeous haha.
Besides for the weather I have now completed my first 2 weeks of work at KXLF. Nothing too drastic in the second week. Still a lot of holiday feel good, charitable stories. I'm thinking that's what the third week will be all about as well. I had three live shots my second week and by that I mean I was live standing in front of a blue wall in the studio. On Thursday another reporter and I drove to Bozeman, Mt (about an hour and 15 minutes away) to go to the CBS station there for some website training. Well we were told it would be website training, it turned out to be just a guy talking to us about social media. Terry Heaton was his name and I guess he's written books on the subject. He congratulated me for owning melanieyuill.com but then told me I needed to update it and turn it into a blog about news and the things I cover. He also told me I need more Twitter followers. His advice was to tell all of my facebook friends to follow me on Twitter. I knew that wouldn't work but thanks to the three of you who (not including my parents) now follow me on twitter after that status update haha. You will one day help me get a job at CNN since he told us that when CNN has two candidates up for a position they hire the one who has the most twitter followers. I was also told to have a facebook page that people could become fans of. I think I'll wait til I actually have fans so like 10 years if I stay in this business maybe lol. I also had my pictures taken for the KXLF website so maybe that will be up there soon along with my bio.
Saturday night was the KXLF Christmas party. It was good, was at a local steakhouse. For those of you who know me well, no I did not order steak although everyone kept telling me how good it is there. I'll probably have to try it at some point I just am not quite ready to delve into eating red meat again. Never really liked it in the first place. However, at this Christmas party lots of people were telling me about Butte food that I have to try. I was told about a nut roll like thing that has a name I don't remember and probably couldn't pronounce but guess I'll have to try it. I was also told about pasties and where to get the best one's around here. Pasties are pronounced like the tense past with an e at the end, not like paste or glue with an e at the end. The latter would be adhesive coverings women put over their nipples and I don't think anyone wants to eat those. So now a pasty is basically a pastry filled with beef, potato, and onion. I know I'll have to try one at some point while I'm here I just don't know if I'm looking forward to that. I'm very open to trying lots of things even if it doesn't sound great but I of course want to experience my new home so a pasty tasting will come sometime. People also told me about pork chop john's. They have famous pork chop sandwich's. That I may just make my boyfriend try when he is out here and have him tell you how it is. I despise pork. I'm also not a big red wine fan but they drink it a lot out here. Maybe cuz they love steak so much. I'm much more willing to start drinking red wine regularly tho then I am to eat steak and pork chops.
Friday night ( I know I went out of chronological order) I had dinner at a local steakhouse with my cousin, her husband, and her father who was in town for the weekend. If I've ever met her dad I don't remember it because I was so young so it was good to get to see him. Very nice guy from California. I ordered fish and chips at the steakhouse but they were delicious. Also, after visiting London last March I now love fish and chips and order them whenever I see them on a menu in the states. Now this steak house that we went to Friday night I'm told is very old school Butte from about the 50's. It was what they call a supper club back then and to this day all the seats are red velvet. Crazy. But great food and lots of food! When you sit down at the table there is already salad, bread sticks, beets, carrots, onions, and something else that I'm not sure what it was. Then when your entrees come out they come with pommes frites (fries) ravioli, and spaghetti. These are placed as huge platters in the center of the table for everyone to enjoy. So you really get about three meals in one. It was all very very good though.
End note: Being in Montana means I can't watch all the Eagles games. I'm a little saddened by this. Currently I have the Steelers Packers game instead and the Steelers just got a touchdown to tie the game with no time left. Impressive and at this point I kinda feel bad for the Steelers because they've lost so many in a row. Still Bresnan Cable if you could make sure I get the last two Eagles games of the regular season that would be terrific. Thanks. Oh and Go Eagles for winning today!