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Turning off the Radio Never Got Easier

 Each weekday morning at 7:15 the girls & I get into the van and make the daily trek to school. The ride to drop off both the girls at their respective schools only takes me about 20 minutes roundtrip.  To fill the silence in the car (oh yes, there is silence because my girls are anti-morning people & I am happen to be a morning person) we listen to the radio.  

I can't stand their radio station with all the craziness in the morning. I don't like what they are saying & I really don't like the commercials they play.  The girls really don't care for the station that I listen to in the morning as they say it has too much talk.  We finally settled on WMJI, which boasts itself as playing 'Cleveland's greatest Hits.'  

It has news and weather (this is a must for my teenager, Giggles) and it has to have decent music (and thankfully my tween, The Chicken loves 'oldies'.) So we settled on Majic 105.7 as our radio station of choice in the morning hours.  Some days the music that it plays gives it staying power to last into the evening, that is, until this morning.

They started out with some local news, which lead into world news, which in turn they shared this story. 

The story is about an obese woman giving birth to a healthy baby girl in Romania yesterday via c-section. They went on to talk about how she required 4x the anesthetic than a 'normal' person would need for the same surgery.  Then it started to get ugly.

The President came to my town & all I got was this photo

 I have to admit that when I heard President Obama was coming to Elyria I got a bit excited.  Our town of about 55,000 residents was going to host the President of the United States.  

The day before his visit the schools decided that they would close for the day so that they could ensure the safety of our students.  I got the automated call from Elyria City Schools at 6:00 P.M. telling me that school was going to be closed-thankfully my girls were excited that they would be missing school so I heard all about it when I got home.  

Local businesses in the area near the college had to shut down because of the road closure.  In fact, our city was a gridlocked mess for a good chunk of the day because they wouldn't tell us which streets they were going to be closing so people could avoid them.