Underworld Returns

Kit Kat has been waiting a long time for the latest Underworld movie to come out. She was ready to go see it. None of her friends have seen the series. So Momoko planned to watch the movie with Kit Kat. Then Momoko got sick.

Kit Kat said she would go to the theater by herself. That seemed too sad. So I volunteered to go. Kit Kat looked up the time on Flixster. It was showing at 4:20pm. We left for the theater an hour before hand. It started snowing heavily. But we planned this thing out. So we forged on. We searched around to find a parking spot. The guy at the ticket booth said Underworld was not playing at 4:20pm. Fail. We got tickets for the 5:00pm showing.

Food lines we long, but we had plenty of time. We actually snuck into the end of Mission Impossible. After it ended, we got better seating. The theater was tiny with six total rows of seats. As the previews we about to start, Kit Kat noticed that everyone had 3D glasses on. Great.

I ran out to the ticket person, who gave us some glasses. We put them on in theater to find they did not work. They were IMax glasses, not 3D glasses. I ran back to get the right glasses. The movie turned out pretty good. No spoilers here except that the bad guy is the actor that plays in Lost Girl. Nice.

Super Bowl Ads

This year the family decided to watch the Super Bowl together. We were mainly interested in the advertisements. However the game provde to be a good one. There were a ton of snacks at our house. Little Kat made pulled pork in the slow cooker. Kit Kat prepared some guacamole and chile con queso. We had purchased a cheese and meat tray as well.

The ad that made me laugh the most was one from Sketchers. It was a dog race with many race dogs, but one short dog. The short one tore up the track and won the race by moonwalking over the finish line. What was his secret? He was wearing two pairs of Sketchers shoes on his feet.

The second best ad was for the Kia Optima. The sand man comes to sprinkle dust on a couple while they sleep. The wife gets some dust and dreams of a prince rescuing her. Sand man trips over some shoes, spilling way too much sand on the husband. His dreams go wild. He is driving a Kia Optima. Babes are in the stands. There is some sort of wrestling with pyrotechics in the middle of the course. The husband goes wild on the track, then punches it to drive into the wife's dream with the Optima. Over the top.

The honorable mention ad goes to Chevrolet. It is post apocalyse in 2012. The world seems destroyed. We see one vehicle starting up from under the dust. It appears to be a Chevy Silverado. Then there are more Silverados starting up. The trucks gather in a circle. Someone asks about Dave. He did not make it - he was driving a Ford. LOL.

The Passing of DJ

Momoko noticed that one of our fish was floating upside down. He was still swimming. But Momoko said that is usually a sign that a fish is near the end. We had named this fish DJ, which was short for Dojo Loach, the type of fish it is. DJ was a recent aquisition (in the last year). He is not the shortest Dojo we own. But he is the skinniest Dojo.

The next day, Kit Kat told me that DJ had died. He was floating near the top of the tank. Poor DJ was rigid in a straight position. Kit Kat scooped him out and disposed of him. Luckily we have three other Dojo Loaches in our tank. One of them is pretty old. So perhaps we may pick up some more of these and put them in our incubator tank.

Goodbye DJ. Your time came too soon.

Case of the Missing Tube

This morning I brought down a toilet paper tube for some of our gerbils to chew. I put it in the cage with our oldest gerbils. They need softer cardboard to chew as their teeth are not as strong. At lunch I saw that the tube was gone. Wow. They must have really chomped hard on the thing.

After lunch, I layed down on the floor next to the old gerbils' cage. There was a lot of activity in their small wooden house. Then I figured out what happened. The gerbils chewed about half of the tube. Then the dragged the remains into their house to finish chewing. Heheh.

These older gerbils have the largest cage int he house. Usually we use the space to give them all kinds of toys. Right now all they have in the cage is their wooden house and metal corn meal bowl. The gerbils use the bowl to roll around and take a bath in the corn meal we pour into it.

After school today, I will instruct Little Kat to fill up the cage. We have a gerbil wheel for them that just got cleaned. We also have a circular cardboard box they like to hide in. There is also a large sturdy box they love to climb on top of.

Exhausted Cat

This week is Science Fair at Momoko's school. And Momoko is in charge of it. So on Monday, Momoko brought Kit Kat to work for help. Apparently Kit Kat was worked hard. Luckily Kit Kat brought her own car to the school. After the school day was over, Kit Kat drove herself and Little Kat home.

When Little Kat arrived in the house after school, he plopped down on the couch and was out. I let the lil guy sleep for about an hour. Then we woke up Little Kat to cook us some dinner. It was a good move. Momoko came home really late. However she was just in time for Little Kat's dinner being ready.

Today the Science Fair is still going on at school. I went out to work in the yard. Kit Kat stopped by Momoko's school after school was over. She picked up Little Kat again to bring him home early. Momoko stayed really late. Apparently this time Little made it upstairs to his bedroom. He needed another nap.

Car Shopping

Today I woke up to find the whole family sleeping. It was almost noon. They must have stayed up late last night. I had a hard day at work yesterday, so I turned in early. The reason I got up early was that my bro was coming over to look at cars. He is ready to buy a new one.

Today was the day to see Subaru. We first looked at the Outback. This is a station wagon style vehicle. It was nicer than I thought it would be. I appreciated that they had the bottom of the line vehicles in the lot to see. Next we test drove the Forrester. I love the look on the outside. They inside was a little cheaper than the Outback.

Finally we stopped by Honda to see the Ridgeline. We test drove one before. But the sunrof took up too much headroom. I liked the one we saw today. It was all black. Unfortunately the cost was in the $30k range. My bro needs to make the final decision. Then we will return to do some price bargaining.

Pizza Pizza

Little Kat stayed home sick from school today. He told me his legs felt wobbly in the morning. As usual, I picked him up some soup when I made my run for Chinese food at lunch time. Our sink was filled with dirty dishes. So before lunch, I unloaded, and had Little Kat load up the dirty ones.

After lunch, Little Kat seems healed from his "illness". I let him watch one episode of anime on Netflix. Afterwards he watched some TV in his bedroom. Kit Kat came home on time today. Her after school activity was cancelled. She played with some gerbils and ate a snack. Then she went to take a nap.

Momoko called me from work. She said we should not let Little Kat cook since he still might be infected. So we had Kit Kat pick us up some pizza and breadsticks. They have a great deal going on at Little Caesars. Large pepperoni pizzas cost five bucks.

Kit Kat was not happy that she had to drive to get dinner. She had a headache. After picking up the goods, Momoko sent her to bed for a nice nap. Momoko also fell asleep after dinner. I figured why not join the bunch, so I took a long nap as well.