Friday, September 30, 2011

What the in cable did you do Lincoln???

So after having 2 Verizon techs come to our house and tell us there was no possible way to run a cable from our 3rd level to our first level without making a mess of it.  We simply could not have cable TV dowstairs.  "There is no clean way to do it.  You needed to run the cable before the walls where done."  Well Thanks but that doesn't help me any.  So we went over a year without cable TV in our playroom.  Well here we are all this time later and Taylor and I decided there has GOT to be a way to run that dang cable into the bottom level.  SOOOO... We did a few days worth of measuring.  Then we prayed we didn't drill into anything important that would shock and kill us or flood the place.  We  drilled holes into the 3rd level floor and our 1st level closet cieling hoping that it was hollow space.  And it was... sorta.  From upstairs we had to blindly thread the cable into a hole that was about 15 inches under the floor to allow it to pass through and make it's way down into the closet.  Talk about threading a thread through a needle.  I had to get it just right for the cable to fit through that tiny slot and after about an hour Taylor screams "YOU DID IT!  YOU GOT IT THROUGH!"  woooo hooo!  I ran downstairs and he ran upstairs and "Yahhoooos", "We did it!" and high 5's were exchanged.  We did the "impossible".  It was late and we decided to clean up the mess later and turn in for the night.  The next morning Taylor goes to work and I am with Lincoln while Dylan naps.  I go to check in on Dylan and head back to the bedroom where Lincoln has decided to HELP me by pulling the entire 10 plus feet of perfectly run cable out of the floor.  I didn't even know what to say... so I started laughing.  "Ohhh Lincoln!  WHY?!  Why did you do that?  Mommy worked so hard on that" and he says with a big smile.  "Ohh, I hewping you Mommy!  Yook!  I got it!".  "Oh yes... you did get it.  Lets go downstairs and get a treat because you are such a good helper!"  I had to get away from the sight of that cable before I lost my mind.  Crazy Lincoln strikes again.

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