Let Me In

My brother and I saw a movie called Let The Right One In. It was a foreign flick about a vampire girl. Now they have remade the movie for the USA. I told Momoko that we should see it. She declined saying it was too scary. However some friends of her said it was a good movie. So this morning Momoko and I got up early and went to the show.

We left Little Kat watching TV. Kit Kat invited two friends to spend the night yesterday. They stayed up all night, so they were still asleep when we left for the movie. Little Kat decided his sister and friends should wake up early. So he stomped on the floor over top of them. The dirty rat.

Momoko and I got some good breakfast at the movie theater. The movie was not too good. They got the plot basics down. However they could not mimic the soul of the foreign flick. Now I wish we had seen The Social Network instead.

Going to School

Last night I did not have a big dinner. So I was hungry when I woke up. Decided to drop by McDonalds. Normally I get the sausage McMuffin from the dollar menu. But I decided to splurge and get an egg McMuffin. I was a bit taken aback by the $2.75 price. It was worth it though.

I had a lot of work to do today. It was tough. Momoko and Kit Kat were going to the doctor's in the afternoon. That meant I had to pick up Little Kat from school. I had to skip lunch because there was so much to do. It was ok. The boys that I normally eat lunch with were not in the office.

Luckily I got out of work 10 minutes early. I got a chicken sandwich from Burger King. That tasted good. I got Little Kat and asked him about his progress report from school. He lost it. His school is good though. They have all the grades online.

Little Kat told me he had to write an essay on Black History month. That was odd seeing how Black History month is 4 months away. He called his friend from class and found out he needed to write an essay about an inspiring Hispanic person. Sheesh. This guy needs to pay more attention in class and write down his assignments. Can we get him a planner to log his homework?

Downtown Meeting

My company scheduled an all hands meeting for our team. Food was going to be provided. But it was going to be held in the middle of the city at rush hour. Ouch. Everybody pretty much said they were going to take the train there. I had to buck the trend.

I made sure I left early to drive all the way into the city. The drive started out good. Then it slowed to a crawl in the city. I drove by where I went to high school. Then I missed my turn. Went around a couple circles, found the place, but missed the one parking space by the meeting place.

Well I circled around a couple blocks. Found a little VW Beetle leaving his parking spot. I did a quick U-turn, and claimed the spot. They had some weird way to pay for parking. You don't put coins in a meter by your parking space. You walk down the block to purchase a receipt to put in your window. What the heck? I only had 2 maximum of 2 hours parking. When my time was up, I snuck out of my meeting, then came home.

Dinner on the Cheap

I had to work a little late today. It is my school night. So I had to drive straight from work to school. The highway was bumper to bumper traffic. It was moving very slow. I only had time for McDonald's drive through for dinner.

My plan was to eat off the dollar menu. I got a McDouble for $1.00. Then I added a small fried for $1.00. Finally I asked for a cup of water. That is free of charge. The drive through line was slow. What was taking them so long?

When I got to the window where they give you the food, I got a bag with the burger and fried. However the dude handed me a bottle of Dasani water. I did not question it. That's a $1.29 value right there. Maybe the guy was new. Or maybe he was giving me a deal. I don't know. I did hit the gas before they asked me to pay for the water. Bank error in my favor this time.

Delayed Work Out

I had to work late today. So after dinner I decided to take a little nap. Momoko said the family would exercise in about an hour. The bedroom was freezing. Normally I only have a sheet over me. The sheet was not providing any warmth.

I tried to suck it up and go to sleep. No use. After about a half hour, I went out into the cold and turned off the air conditioning. Then I went to another room upstairs and turned off that window unit as well. I grabbed a nice blanket from the closet and got warm. Sleep came easily.

The next thing I know, it is an hour and a half later. I got dressed for exercise and came down. Momoko said the kids started without me. However she was still chatting online. We went downstairs. The kids both said they had an "easy workout" today. I tell ya. I sleep for an extra hour and the slackers come out. We spent another half hour exercising. What are we going to do when I need to be out of the house for the rest of the evenings this week. I guess exercise will be put on hold.

Birthday Boy

We went to a buffet today for lunch. It was to celebrate Little Kat's birthday. He said he likes the buffet because they have chocolate milk. Strange. Momoko loves their cabbage. Kit Kat was looking for clam chowder, but had to settle for their potato crisps. Me, I like their salad bar.

After lunch we headed home to open presents. I gave Little Kat some binoculars. This was in addition to the cell phone cover I gave him earlier this week. Momoko got Little Kat a TI-84 Plus calculator. It is the one they use in school. Little Kat was a bit disappointed. Kit Kat game him some Nintendo DS accessories. Up until this is was an ok birthday. But then Kit Kat snuck upstairs, and brought down Momoko's real gift. It was a Nintendo DSi XL.

Man this thing looks cool. It is almost like a netbook computer. Little Kat browsed the web. He also used some funny apps to draw on top of people's pictures. The thing has a camera on it. So Little Kat is dangerous. The DSi XL turned out to be the best birthday gift ever according to Little Kat. He later cleaned up with some cash and other gifts from my family. Things are looking up for the little guy.

Playing Pictionary

Kit Kat gave a card game to one of her friends recently. She told me about it. You use cards to play charades. It sounded really fun. This past Monday was supposed to be our biweekly game night. For some reason we did not have time to play. It got postponed to today.

Luckily on Wednesday, Kit Kat picked up a Pictionary card deck for our family. You know we were going to play it. This game requires you to choose teams. It was the boys against the girls. We chose the easy very of the game. However it was quite difficult. Neither Kit Kat nor myself could guess the word "Teddy Bear" for over 10 minutes. We finally gave up.

In the end, the team of Momoko plus Kit Kat won. However Little Kat and I did win a few rounds. I tried my best to give us an edge. I blurted out a lot of words that might be related. That won us a game or two. Little Kat also used more than just the cards for a game or two. I dread the day we have to play the advanced version of the game.