New Light in Living room...Stringing cable..restringing phone

Today i took down the light in our living room and i rewired the new light fixture that sarah and i picked out up by connecting the white to white, black to black and gold to gold (gold is a new one for me). So now we have a new light fixture in the living room...We also have a new one to put up in the bedroom...but thats for another day.
Friday i decided to restring the cable cord so that it was not strung across the room anymore. So i drilled a hole next to the hole a drilled for the Fax phone cord and...WOOOPS...i snapped the fax phone cord in half...so then my new priority was restringing the Fax cord..cuz hello...we are running a business here and get lots of Faxes...Matt made a boo boo. Well i restrung the Fax line then strung the cable cord...YEAY MATT...All boo boo's fixed and i accomplished something.

Sidewalk

Hey Kelly...Watch out for the hole!!! (when Kelly visited us she kept tripping in this hole in the sidewalk where grass had grown up in it and you did not see how deep it was).
Haha not anymore...the last few days I've been planning my first concrete laying experience. I measured how big the rectangle was that i was going to pull the broken concrete out of and pour new concrete. It was 60x40...so I've seen people pour concrete...they have a wooden rectangle made from 2x4's and they pour the concrete in them. So i made a rectangle too....I subtracted the 2x4's from the 60x40 measurements and made my rectangle...then i bought a 2 bags of concrete, the 2nd one just encase i needed a little extra to fill the hole. I decided after looking at the broken concrete that about 1/3 of the rectangle was in pretty good shape other than a crack through the middle...so i decided to leave it be. I took the broken concrete out of the hole and dug out a 3-4 in rectangular hole. Then i checked the weather report to look for 3 days in a row of sun so the rain will not ruin the setting of the concrete. Turns out Saturday was a great day to do it :c). So i poured 2 bags in and said UT OH...cuz it bairly filled the hole...So i ran inside asked Sarah for my wallet and Drove off to Lowe's...Meeting a train with 59 cars that i got to watch on the way back...GREAT!! So this time i bought 3 bags...the 3rd bag of course was just in case i need a little more. Well i get home pour in 2 bags and find i needed the 3rd one....I poured it in (5th bag) and found i was going to need 1 more....I didn't have time to go back to Lowe's before it set so i decided to put the Broken Concrete pieces in and see if that helped....Well i took me walking up and down Magazine looking for random pieces of rock or brick but i finally finished the sidewalk :c). Then the we heard the all the girls in the front room at 10:30pm (1 hour after lights out) and had to go give consequences for being up after lights out and being in other rooms...Push over Matt let the girls come out and sign their name in the wet cement after they write their point down. The girls do not have writing in cement ediqute and ended up making the sidewalk look kind of ugly...but i made it and they signed it...so all is well. Pictures to come.

Bathroom Fan

On Monday while Sarah was at School i decided to replace the bathroom exhaust fan, because the fan did not work. Felt like a good reason to replace it. Anyways for those of you that have never installed an exhaust fan it turns out to be fairly difficult. The idea is simple...Connect 3 wires on the fan to 3 wires in the celing. The hard part comes in when you try to take out the old fan that has been in the celing for 30 years or more with 30 year old wires and nails. About 2 hours later i had the old fan out and i looked up into the hole and found that there is only one stud going along the side of the opening, making it hard to sucure the fan in the hole. That might be why it was so hard to get the old one out (someone put it in really good). well i ended up connecting a hook about 3 feet up into hole and strung picture hanging wire down and "hung" the exhaust fan out of the celing. It doesnt look great but it works...Pictures to come!

2nd Stay at the Oshner Hotel

My second stay was more miserable than the 1st stay. My 1st stay atleast had the first time wonders with it...WOW THERES A CAMERA IN HERE.....WOW AN INTERCOM....WOW THIS IS A COOL HOSPITAL....I GET TO WEAR THIS ODD MASK....Anyways this time i didn't get the pre-sleep dvd about sleep disorders....The Brewers won (chasing my Cubs in the NL Central)...and they told me i was going to wear the mask the whole night....I begin my evening by telling my personal assistant that i can not sleep on my back....to which she tells me that in order to wear the mask i have to be on my back....So i was optimistic about the night...maybe this time i can sleep with this crazy machine...Well she straps it on and i tell her it is too tight...Okay she says and "loosens it"....It still hurts i tell her...Oh you will get used to it she tells me...GREAT...Well about 2 hours in i could not stand the pain anymore and i buzzed her...I tell her to take it off I'm better off without it. So she takes it off...for 2 minutes... then comes and straps it on again. So much for sleep. I finally got to leave about 6:30am and i went home, gave my wife a kiss, and rolled over on my stomach so i could sleep, and off i was to dream land...Oh by the way..its 6:00pm and i still have the marks from the mask on my face and my nose still hurts...I told that lady it was too tight! Life goes on :c)

Baby, SWAT, 2nd stay at 2,000 Hotel

This is my official Press release about the upcoming birth of my 1st child:
On Monday September 17th 2007 Sarah M. Parks walked in the door after her Grad Class and annonced that she would be taking a pregnancy test. I was encouraged but skeptical for this was the 7th test we had taken in the last few months The ever encouraging person i am i put down the computer and walked into restroom and she took the test. She then said "I'm Pregnant". Well i looked at the stick and did not see the normal cross that we are usally looking for, so i made the wrong reponce to this wonderful news. I said "are you sure?, let me check the box" So i check the box and sure enough Little Peanut Parks is on the way. So we Hugged and began talking about how excited we were and how we would tell our parents. Sarah said she could not wait till Nov. 8th when we head to South Carolina, and i agreed so we called her Dad then Mom. Next Matt made his family calls....no one seemed to believe us at first. Just wait till our beautiful baby is born...She/He will be so cute.

Me and Sarah saw a the Jefferson Parish SWAT TEAM truck driving down I-10. This pilice car was following the trucks bumper very close changing lanes and all.. It was cool Matt was way excited and staring. The Truck had all this cool gadgets on top that Sarah and I came up with uses for like...Loud Speaker...Laser guided rockets....Rope hook launcher..etc. Then a few cars up i saw a for real hummer (not the dorky H1, H2,H3) It was so cool.

Friday night i have been invited back to the invitation only Oshner Hotel. If you will remember it is equipped with some state of the art amenities, if you forgot about them check out their Hotels.com page i made for them...The $2,000 Hotel

Exploring the Garage

Mr. Matt's Meat Rub

So Sarah decided that it would be a great idea to cook hamburgers for Dinner on Sunday (Family teacher's cook day). During her nap yesterday Sarah calls me to tell her idea to make hamburgers. So i get 4 turkey burgers and about 8 cow burgers and start thawing them. Several hours later when I went to cook the burgers i noticed that we were all out of my normal main ingredient of WooWoo sauce (Worcestershire sauce). So my moto has become, "If we don't have it..Make it". I turn to the trusty internet which if you remember was my secret behind my rib rub. I find a recipe that surprising to me listed the base WooWoo sauce to be vinegar. I'm not a fan of vinegar....I think it stinks..has a bad taste...and it is just way to potent to me. But a recipe is a recipe. So i put vinegar, soy sauce, water, cinnamon, onion powder, garlic powder, and other ingridents. Then i decided that rather than adding the other spices to the hamburger later, I would just add it right to my new concoction. The end result is Mr. Matt's Meat rub. One girl tells me i should market it, i informed her i would never be able to make it the same way more than once cuz i add different stuff everytime (whatever i think of at the time i throw in). The end result were some very yummy hamburgers!!

Curtains, Rubbing ribs, and Millions of Bugs

A few days ago I found a curtain rod behind a box in the office. I decided that i would put them up. I lined up the curtain braces then I drilled my holes in the wall, nailed in the screw braces, and then screwed in the screws...At this point I realized that I am not very good at one of life's most basic tasks....Screwing in screws....It seems that about half the time I try to screw in a screw with my drill I end up stripping the screw...Its a mystery to me...please post a response if you can help me gain my manhood back :c).

Yesterday was Labor Day so i had to act like a Dad and cook up the labor day meal. I got 2 racks of ribs (which i held up to my chest and acted like they were my ribs..Fun day lol) and decided to cook them. Well after 2 YouTube videos and about 30 recipies i finally decided to make up my own rib rub using some of the ingredients from the internet and adding a few of my own...2 hrs in the oven and i actually made something the girls did not say "this is plain...it needs seasoning" to. So Score 1 for Matt :c). Ill have to make it for y'all sometime, though you need to start getting your taste buds ready for the SPICE you will find in food here in New Orleans.

Yesterday Started with us taking a road trip to Cutoff, LA (thats the true south according to one of our girls). Well on the way down and the way back i must of hit 2 million little black bugs. They are still on the Van as a Trophy......I figure I must have helped at least one person a second of rest from the bugs (THEY WERE EVERYWHERE). While we were in Cutoff i found a few of the bugs having more fun with each other than i thought they should. So i would catch these flying adolescents and separate them. Upon separating them i would inform them that they do not need to reproduce there are already enough of them. They just flew off and found other mates. Why don't adolescents listen to me!!.