damage assessment

Elbow

Knee

Knee view 2

Side Bruise

Side bruise with reference. Notice pointer finger on left hand has a missing finger nail (past injury)

I saved my baby.....Sidewalks of NOLA.....19 of 24...Saved the Baby again...

So you know girls, always trying to be a damsel in distress waiting for a hero...Well my sweet Emma is not immune to my off-guided stereotype (and joke)...Friday after getting off work at Earth Search (ESI) I got Emma out of the car to walk to our apartment...Well I had not seen her yet because Sarah had picked me up from work (a whole nother story) and i was in the front and Emma was in the back sleeping...So I decide to walk down the sidewalk holding the car seat in front of my face so we could smile and coo and each other....Well next thing i know we are falling towards the cement sidewalk and guess who needed to be saved....Emma....So i hastened to put her car seat down in a safe place and i continued to fall to the sidewalk (it was like a slow motion Matrix scene)..Emma was saved (Mommy ran and comforted her for me) and daddy was laying on the ground feeling very happy Emma was saved...and very pain stricken (PSSS...I may have cried)...Well in the end i made it up to our bed and assessed the damage...One bloody elbow..CHECK....One bloody knee....CHECK....Scrape on my side...Check....All other systems a go...Current Time 4:20pm...Time for a nap before work at 9pm.....Beep Beep at 6pm....Text from my Pita Pit Boss.."can you come in right now, we have a Bookoo (big) delivery order"....Get dressed real quick go to work....Work until 5am...Total 24 hr work total 19 (8pm-4pm ESI, 6pm-5am). Recheck of injuries....Huge bruise on side....CHECK...scrape on elbow CHECK....knee swollen to the size of a baseball....CHECK...all other systems a go.

Small note on the Pita Pit work Schedule this past weekend...Friday 6pm-5am (11hrs), Saturday 7pm-5am (10 hrs)..Sunday 6pm-1am (7 hrs)...Grand total of 28 hrs worked....

On to saving Emma again...Today (Monday) my poor, sweet, awesome, hardworking Sarah went to put laundry in the washer (outside) and the wind blew the door closed. Sarah was in her robe and had no key to get in....Emma's location..laying on the boppy on our bed...Ut Oh...So Sarah calls me (from our wonderful neighbor's phone) up at Earth Search and runs the situation by me.

• She took me to work so i had no car to return home
• The baby is inside on the bed
• She wants to know if she should break the front window to get in
• She was amazingly calm

I rack my mind to think of a "mattish" solution (something inventive and/or creative) to this situation and i came up with nothing. So i ran down stairs to my friend Katie...quickly told the story...and she threw me keys to a company car...ZOOM..ZOOM...Home in record time....Open the front door to find that the door to Emma's room is locked so we can not get past the living room to get to Emma...So i run down the stairs (remember my knee that hurt...I did not feel it...Welcome to being a Dad)...Enter the ally that goes to the back door and hear my Emma wailing...SO I RAN FASTER (still not feeling my knee)...I get to the back door and my key is not working fast enough so with my Dadish Adrenalin i kick in the door... run to Emma who is still wailing....Time til she stopped wailing and began to laugh at her parents... 3 seconds (whats wrong with you guys?? Lets play!)

Atleast I have tonight off from the Pita Pit :c)

Be sure to check out Sarah's Account of the excitement

Waiting on the sidewalk

While I was on the sidewalk outside my office in the 9th Ward today waiting for Sarah to pick me up from work this car pulls up. Quick Matt think what do you do!

a.)Duck...its a drive by
b.)Ignore them..they may be a homeless person asking for money (it could happen)
c.)Pull out your Tylenol... they are looking for a drug deal (here is your chance to get out of debt Matt)
d.)Get your mental map ready....its a tourist asking for directions

Well I was going with C (the drug deal)...But it turns out to be choice D (the Tourist)...and here is their classic question verbatim, "How do you get to that dam that broke on those people??" Ding Ding your a Dork...Its a Levee and are you speaking of the time when peoples homes and lives were WASHED AWAY (not and exaggerate statement, they actually WASHED AWAY)....

The latest on Matt

Hi my name is Matt, I:

• Changed the oil in my scooter for the second time, but could not figure out how to put the transmission oil in (even though i did it once already). Thus I decided to spray as much as i could in the hole then screw it closed real fast. The next day i made it about 6 blocks from my house and the scooter chugged and died, tell me I did not give it enough oil. Yeay for pushing a scooter 6 blocks home when you were already late to work.
• Am the Office Assistant at Earth Search Inc.
• Am a delivery Driver for Pita Pit
• Am a Pita Roller for Pita Pit when I'm not on a delivery.
  
• Am the Grill Master at Pita Pit when I am not rolling or delivering.
• Am the Master Turkey Slicer/Roller when there are no customers.
  
• Worked 74 hours from Sunday the 5th to Sunday the 12th.
  
• Get paid on the 1st and 15th at both my jobs.
• Love my girls and treasure every moment I spend with them.
• love to sleep more then I did before..Who Knew!
• Am learning my way around Tulane Campus (cuz i deliver there)
• Am proud of the Saints, and the Gamecocks. And Feel Sorry for LSU, and Clemson.
• Am Tired right now.
• Have discovered Apples, i didnt think i liked them but i do...and supposovely they wake you up better than Coffee
• HATE COFFEE (how Sarah and I hooked up I have no idea)
• have drank 2 cokes in 3 years (Seriously...Hard to believe for those of you that knew my 5 a day habit at Winthrop and Rosewood).
• Will do another one of these later...Bullets have always been my favorite...it helps my Anxiety...Who Knew!
  

I made a new day

So I started at Pita Pit on Tuesday (our friends and Family Free day 3:30pm-9pm). I found out I would be working Sun-Thursday 6pm-12am (it was 1am but i talked them into 12 so i could get up for work at Earth Search and still have slept some). It was HARD at first to juggle making pitas, answering the phone for deliveries, making smoothies, and delivering. The first day took some getting used to..But I have a system now and its actually pretty fun. I get to make people happy when i give them yummy food..and the tips are not to bad..I get about $20-$25 a night. Thursday night my boss asked me if i wanted to pick up another day (Friday)...to which i responded...Only if i can get trade in a Sun-Thursday shift...He said how about you pick up tomorrow and we can find a day to give you off...That's fine with me...I was looking forward to the "better" tips of Friday night drunk people. OK so my Friday shift is 10pm-3am (really 4:30am with closing duties)...So i come home from earth search on friday about 5pm and hop in bed for a few hours nap...I wake up about 7pm and hang with my girls till my shift at 10...I was able to put Emma to bed..give DJ his medicine (he has a UTI)..and spend time with my wonderful wife. So I go to work and apparently the drunk people didnt get the "tip big" memo cuz it was one of my worst tip nights..full of people rounding off the dollar on their credit card slips (i got $1.62 on on a $18.38 order...I don't think they were drunk to do that math)...But over all it was a fun night...But your mom is right "nothing good happens after midnight"...I saw a SUV flipped people falling over drunk...and girls who made bad judgments on their clothing (i think they forgot their pants, or their skirts were way to short even for New Orleans). My main clientale is Tulane so I'm learning the campus somewhat. ANYWAYS... I get home about 4:30am and ask Sarah this seris of questions:

Why is Emma wearing the same thing she wore last night? (Umm that was tonight..not yesterday) Oh yea..I guess it was.

Did you give DJ his medincine? (nope you did, tonight before you left for work) Oh yea...i guess i did

THIS is when i realized i had created a whole new day of the week FriSatday (the wasted time between Friday and Saturday)....Yeay there are 8 days of the week now...wonder if i can pick up another day now???