Life in the Fast lane

As you may already know, Kit Kat got her driver's license. This week she also got a permit to park at her school. Now she is dangerous. Yesterday she drove to school. Of course I heard that she stopped by Chick Fil-A after school for a snack. Ahh. The good life.

Tonight Kit Kat has drama practice after school. Nobody has to go pick her up afterwards. She drove her car. Same deal tomorrow night. She has a drama presentation after school. She will drive her car.

The real bonus happened when Momoko arranged for Kit Kat to be on her insurance. It actually did not cost that much extra. Kit Kat is listed as an additional driver on the car. Yee haw. She has full coverage for a low extra fee. Makes me think Kit Kat should go to college locally, if only for the low insurance rate Momoko got her.

Discovery

I've have been cleaning our old guest bedroom. It is going to be my new study. There was a comforter on the floor. I found it strange that there was so much blanket. When I lifted it up, I found a basket of clothes hidden underneath. This was the work of Little Kat. Some time ago he decided to get out of doing some laundry. So he hid the basket where we would not see it. Bad move Little Kat.

Today I cleared out the final furniture downstairs to make room for the new big screen TV. We are getting rid of the entertainment center down there. It is not large enough to house the new TV. I hauled the old entertainment center up the back steps and put it behind the shed. Later we will get the thing hauled off.

I cleaned the carpet up. Now I just need to get Kit Kat's help to move a dresser over into the recreation room downstairs. The dresser will be our new TV stand. Then we will get Little Kat to hook up the Xbox 360 we got for Christmas to the TV. The plan is almost complete.

Open Window Effect

When we moved in the house, I claimed the 4th bedroom upstairs as my study. Momoko seemed helpless with all her papers. So I opened up the study to share it with her. She desperately needs a bookcase though.

Well we gave away our guest bed in the downstairs 5th bedroom. So I am going to make that my study. Today I moved my two bookshelves from the top level to the bottom. The bookcases themselves were a haul. But the books were the hardest.

I did not move a few items. For example, I pulled off the super absorbent window towels from my bookshelf. I put them on the window sills in our master bedroom. While doing so, I found one of the windows open.

Now we were freezing because it is a double pane window. Only the inner pane was open. Still, now I know why Momoko had been complaining about a cold breeze up in tghe brdroon. Tomorrow I move out shelf with school supplies up from the basement to Momoko's "new" study.

Sick Family

Kit Kat was the first to get sick. Momoko immediately followed. Little Kat and I tried to hold out. It seemed to work. Then I kissed Momoko for New Years. Then I got ill.

Both Kit Kat and Momoko complained that their illness was getting better, but returned on them. Today Momoko woke me u early. She said that Little Kat finally got sick. He was staying home with me. Little Kat remained in bed all day.

It is dinner time now. We are sending Kit Kat out to pick us up some dinner. Momoko commanded Little Kat to come down and help figure out what to order. Little Kat came down the stairs slowly. He used his sword as a cane. LOL. Enough drama Little Kat.

Kit Kat the Driver

Today Kit Kat and Momoko returned to the motor vehicles administration to take the driver's test. I got the call early in the afternoon. Kit Kat passed the test. It is pretty rigorous in our state. You need to pass a closed circuit driving test. You also have to go out in traffic with the test administrator.

Kit Kat did some practice this morning with Momoko. They practiced parallel parking. Kit Kat said she almost went over the time limit for parallel parking during the test. But she made it. Kit Kat did not ask for her test score. All she knows is that she passed.

Now that she is licensed, Kit Kat is already driving by herself. She went to Burget King for lunch by herself. She also drove Little Kat to the library. I suspect this trend shall continue. The only downside is that Kit Kat needs to be an insured driver. Ka-ching.

Big TV and Parking Exercises

Last night I looked through all the ads in the paper. The cheapest 50 inch TV was going for $599. That was just a little too expensive. When we bought ours, we paid $499. Momoko told me to go ahead and pay the extra $100. No way.

I did some googling around. Online TVs seemed just as expensive. Then for kicks I did a search at Sears. That's where I bought the last TV. For some reason Sears did not have an ad in the paper today. Lo and behold, they had a 50 inch TV on sale for $499. Yes. I snuck out of work at lunch and bought the thing.

After work I was scheduled to help Kit Kat practice her parking. We drove to a local park. The parking lot of was empty. No obstacles. So we drove back home and picked up some trash cans to simulate cars on the left and right. We practiced backing into a parking space. Then we did some pulling into the parking place.

Unplugged

We got the Xbox 360 with Kinect gaming system for Christmas. I think we let Little Kat set it up and connect it to our TV. I had him show me how to start it up so I could play my new Final Fantasy XIII game. Worked pretty good.

These days I am working from home. Each day I go out and buy a lunch. Then I take it back home to watch some anime while I eat. I use our Wii system to access Netflix video on demand. Today I grabbed the Wii controller and noticed that the Wii got moved.

I traced the video wires from the Wii and found they were unplugged. Little Kat is using the TV connection for the Xbox 360 now. Looks like we need to do something about this. It costs money to get online with the Xbox and use Netflix.

Our current thinking is to get a new TV downstairs that is big enough to hook up the Xbox 360. That will have the added benefit of a secure floor on which the kids can jump for gaming. Just need to buy a big TV and stand for it.