Getting up early doesn't have any advantages!

Well I got up at my normal time today... 6 a.m. only problem is that everyone else won't be up for a while! Les is crashed out in the bed behind me and everyone else is sawing logs upstairs! I did get up this morning and watch a webcast of "Greek" which is a pretty good show on abcfamily. I don't think that I can wait any longer till all of our shows kick back off in the Fall. You know Heroes (I know Lele watches this one), Lost... who doesn't watch that, October road (Chelle knows what I'm talking about), the Closer (which is on this summer), and Grey's Anatomy. Well everyone have a good weekend, when they wake up!

Two trips to Fayetteville in the same day...

Got a phone call at 6 a.m. this morning to take a trip in the Commander (thats the twin engine airplane at work) up to Fayetteville, we took some of the big wigs from the forestry commission up there for a meeting. Well thats where Les is, only problem is that she can't hang out or even talk that long on her cell due to cheerleading matters. She called me a little while later and asked if I would come up and hang out over the weekend w/ the fam. So I am at the house, cleaning up and packing for the return trip up there this evening! Makes me wish that I owned an airplane... it only took 2 1/2 hours to go from Malvern to Conway to Fayetteville and back! It will take me that long today to get to Russelville via I's 30 & 40! Well all else is well here, hope that everyone else has a good weekend.

Random Questions

1. I’ve come to realize that my last kiss was…earlier today, quick peck w/ Les as she was reading Harry Potter.
2. I am listening to…the air conditioner kick on.
3. I talk…alot and my stories usually contain to many unneeded details.
4. I am dating…no one, probably have to move out if I did that... besides Les said that I have no game.
5. My best friend…Is reading her book... and I am entertaining myself!
6. My car is…I have two vehicles, a truck and a car and they are both old and worn out.
7. I hate it when people ask…dumb questions!
8. Love…is a two way street.
9. Marriage is...very rewarding
10. Somewhere, someone is thinking…hold my beer, watch this. We are in Arkansas.
11. I’m always…happy, very rarely do I get mad at all.
12. I have a secret cheesy crush…on Catherine Zeta Jones, its ok Les knows.
13. My mobile phone…is getting ready to be upgraded next month, kinda excited about that.
14. When I wake up in the morning…I am up, once my feet hit the floor I am ready to start the day.
15. When I go to bed at night…I have to endure Les watching her DVD's of her fave show "Charmed." it helps her go to sleep, probably from boredom as that is show is pretty dumb.
16. Right now I am thinking about…the next word that I have to type, I am not the best typer in the world, I type 3000 words a minute, but its in my own language.
17. Babies are…constantly renamed in my house, Les likes to play the baby name game alot.
18. I get on myspace…every morning and check and see if someone sent me something, but I am to lazy to send other people messages!
19. Today I…hung out by myself as the wife read her book.
20. Tonight I will…probably keep doing the same thing as she looks like she has several pages to go.
21. Tomorrow I will…well the game plan is to get up and go to church, and then come home and watch Les read.
22. I really want…fly jets for a pretty major corporation, thats my dream.
23. Someone that will most likely repost this is…I think that everyone else has done one of these so probably no one.

Aviation the good and the bad...

As some of you know, either from myself or from Les, I have been flying with a friend of mine in Little Rock for about 2 years or so building up some multi-engine flying time and experience. About 6 months ago or so it looked pretty promising that his company was getting ready to need a pilot to fly their airplane due to the fact that both of the pilots that were flying for them were going to be moving on to better things. Well I found out that the possibility of flying for their company kinda went up in smoke as the companies executives have decided to sell all of their airplanes. It made me sad that this job opportunity went away as fast as it had surfaced! But after thinking about it for a minute I realized how bad it could have been if I had started to work there, then the company decided that they no longer needed a plane and a pilot! I know that at least I have job security here flying for the State, cause there is always going to be forest fires! I have a long day ahead of me, have to entertain myself due to the fact Les now has the new Harry Potter book and she said it will be finished in a span of 24 hours, she has till midnight tonight.

Can anyone see this?

Been having some problems making this thing work today...

I wonder what the sun looks like...

It has rained so much this week that it almost makes you forget that this is actually summertime! But I know that the second that I pray and hope for sunnier days... it will be a 100 degrees in the shade and unbearable. Well the wife and I are going to see the new Harry Potter movie tonight, should be a good one. Bye for now and everyone keep an eye on the weather and be careful... lightning struck our hanger again!

My Savior!

I already know my real savior Jesus Christ... this is about one of my co-workers. My Buddy, Jake was sitting at the hanger this morning listening to my series of traumatic events w/ my Xbox and he turns to me and asks if I wanted to just borrow his until mine gets back!!! It seems that he has one and doesn't have any games for it and doesn't use it very much. That pretty much made my day... Hooray for July the 17th and NCAA football 2008.

$500 is alot to spend on a paper weight!

If you spend your hard earned money on something, especially 1/2 a grand or so you would think that it wouldn't cease to operate in a years time, right? As most of you know, I enjoy video games... I am not addicted to them, but they are fun to play and can help me relax after spending sometime up to 6-8 hours in an airplane. Well last night I thought that I would fire up the old Xbox 360 and play a game of baseball... bad idea! All of these red lights were going off on it and I am really suprised that it didn't start to smoke. At that moment all I could think about was that NCAA Football 2008, the football game that I have already paid for comes out in 6 days and my console decides to go haywire. Well I call 1-800-my-xbox-is-screwed or what ever the number is and the lady that sounded like she was in Iran said that my Xbox was going to get fixed for free... woo hoo. Only problem is that since so many of them have been screwing up, it will take 6 weeks for them to fix it! Words cannot describe the anger I felt last night... that was until Les took me to Wendy's and bought me a Vanilla Frosty! Well I was really happy that the 17th of this month was fast approaching so that I could get my new football game... well I guess I can use it as a drink coaster till I get my Xbox back.

30% chance of rain?

Sometimes I wonder how the National Weather Service comes up with their predictions on the weather! Do they have a dart board and a couple of chimps, the chimps throw the darts and what ever numbers they hit they add together to get the rain chances? It has rained so hard here in M-town that there was quite a bit of standing water in our yard, and I think that if it rains anymore... I may need a boat to get back to work! Today is another fun filled day of nothingness at work, to bad outside to go flying, and rain sure doesn't help forest fires burn. Well there were a few lightning strikes around here, one of them hit our hanger... thankfully we had a lightning rod on it! Well everyone should pack a raincoat for tomorrow I think that they are calling for a 40% chance!

Eight Random Things About Me

Well I guess I am playing catch-up on here so since everyone else seems to have done one, here goes!


1. I am not really afraid of many things... except for spiders, needles, and hospitals. I think that I am afraid of spiders because you never can tell if one is poisonous or not till after it bites you! Needles hurt so that pretty much sums that up, and at hospitals they have needles and you usually need to be hurt to go there!

2. Even though I am outgoing to a certain extent.... I am kind of a loner. Being an only child really helps you learn how to entertain yourself growing up! I am not saying I don't like hanging out w/ friends and family... I can just make due on my own as well.

3. I don't like to take off from work! I enjoy going to work, and not just because I get to fly airplanes. I think that in the last 4-5 years I have taken a grand total of 2 sick days off or so. Days just seem to go faster when you are at work.

4. I hate to read books! Les and I were talking about this yesterday. She is really hooked on this set of novels by the guy that wrote "Kiss the girls." I think that she read the fourth book in the series in one evening. I turned in most of my textbooks from college with the plastic wrapping untampered with!!!

5. I am a morning person! I love waking up early! Now I do not wake up as early as my father-in-law, but early enough. Its kinda nice to sit and relax early in the morning.

6. I have Adult ADD... Les swears that I do not, that I rather have A.L.A.S. (Adult Lazy *** Syndrome) which is probably a better description. But sometimes it is hard for me to remember what I was supposed to do and when! It could be that I am unorganized, which Les is not, and that drives her nuts.

7. I love to travel! I have been to alot of states on the east coast as my parents and I used to drive to Pennsylvania every summer when I was growing up. I have been to alot of pretty cool places also w/ a buddy of mine that flys out of Little Rock, probably Ludington, MI was the farthest away that we have gone and it was really beautiful.

8. Last but not least I have a terrific wife... she is my best friend! Sorry Adam and Shannon, but she is the first person that I want to rejoice with or confide in. I am really a lucky man to have her in my life!

Remember back in the day?

Ok, the wife and I went to see Transformers the movie yesterday and I have to say that was one of the best movies I have seen in a while. Les and I sat around last night and talked about all of the cartoons that we used to watch as youngins. I found out that she was traumatized as a youth by a lady that bought the last he-man toy in Dillards when she was about 4 or so years old. This had to be the saddest story that I have ever heard. I wanted to give her all of the He-man toys that I accumulated from my childhood to ease her pain! Being just a step under thirty it was nice to see a movie that reminded me of Saturday mornings growing up, back to the time in life where there weren't any cares in the world, no bills, work... etc. If you haven't seen Transformers yet, you need to go now! Les said she is waiting on the new Jem movie to hit the box office! Just kidding.

About me...

I guess this is a formal introduction post... my name is Matt I am a pilot for the Forestry Service. The reason I now have a blog? My wife has one so now so do I. My wife is a Jr. High english teacher which means that my posts will be edited and returned to me with several red pen marks as I did not usually score exceptionally well in English while in school! She and I are both pretty die-hard sports fans, especially Arkansas Razorbacks fans! I have alot of favorite sports teams and my wife usually gives me a hard time about them all being horrible... she is pretty accurate with this statement, but to be a fan is to remain loyal, is it not? My wife and I have been married for 3 years coming up in September. She and I have been together a total of about 8 years and we can still make each other crack up and laugh which is really amazing after that much time spent together! I will give the one or two people that may stumble on this blog by accident this one piece of advice... if at all possible marry your best friend you can't go wrong, unless your best-friend is of the same sex, that might be a little odd! Well I hope that this been informative, because I have to go mow the lawn as the wife and I are going to Little Rock today to see the movie "Transformers" today.