OPEN SESAME!!!!!

HI-O!!! Garrick again.....
So my dad came for a visit last fall and saw the house and he really loved it, but he noticed that we still had the original 1949 garage door still attached to the house.

so he gave us an early Christmas present and purchased us a new garage door to be installed...
!THANKS DAD!

here are the old space consuming spring and levers that used to be attached

and here is the clean smooth tracks that replaced them

OHHHHHH A KEYPAD.....secret code...now stef doesn't have to wait for me to open the garage and if she has to get in it is not a friggin' nightmare.

the beautiful motor all mounted and clean

and the end product...oh it is so nice and makes the house look so put together....I never thought I would be one of those people that loved working on a house..but I AM!!! I also installed a new doorbell that day, so much fun.

SUNDANCE 2009

So let's begin...first off this is Garrick writting this blog entry to tell you all about Sundance 2009. I was hired as a driver for a company named ESG to drive the celeb's around for a week and here are the people I drove, saw and met. First these three Irish actors I picked up in the morning after a night of drinking and they were hilarious!!! I actually listened to the Inaguration with them for about 10 minutes...with Liam Neeson!!! I will never forget that. Ok so here are the people I......
SAW

Here is that Kristen Stewart from "Twilight" she was tiny..smaller than my daughter.

Jim Carrey stood next to me as I waited for my person and said "HI" to the crowd..we are the same height.

Charlyne Yi from "Knocked Up" she kills me in that movie.

Kirsten Wigg from SNL fame, saw her at the airport waiting for Liam, she is tiny also.

JIM!!!! John Krasinski, I saw him giving an interview.

Can't even spell this actors name right.....Chiwetel Ejiofol....or somethng like that...

IRON MIKE TYSON...He is like 5 feet high 5 feet wide..I wish I was kidding.

50 Cent..his bodyguards stopped my car and he walked right in front of me..should have honked and scarred the crap out of him
I also saw a couple other stars..but I just can't remember their names...oh well, now onto people I...
MET

007..Pierce...incredibely nice had his wife and kids with him and said hello to me and was truely a gentleman.

I met this bunch..Tia Leon is gorgeous, Billy Bob is a hipster doofus, and I drove Kyle (Agent Cooper) around for about 15 minutes, that can segway into who I....
DROVE

Rodrigo Santoro ...!!!!!LOST!!!!!! he is Paulo killed by the Medusa Spider and buried alive!!! Also Xerxese from 300 he was so nice and so cool..he held my hand...that was ODD!

Of course Obi-Wan Kenobi ....Ewan McGregor...omg I just about lost my mind when he was in the car..he is cool as they come.

My biggest star (to me) was Mr. Liam Neeson, Qui-Gon Jinn himself...He and his wife were so nice and so cool, and I have a hilarious story about him I will tell you when we are face to face, but I knew I would have Liam in the car and so I brought this Vanity Fair Magazine and both he and Ewan signed it.....that made the trip all worth while....

It was hard work and not alot of sleep and little pay, but I believe I was meant to meet these people for the sole purpose of getting my magazine signed..it was all worth it.
May the force be with you...always.