The Walk

I spent a good deal of time going out on Sunday. So I was too tired to do my normal work like laundry and bills. I had to pick up that work on Monday. When the kids came home, I was tired.

However I had made plans with Little Kat to drive him to the store for some late Christmas shopping. Then Momoko wanted me to come with her to the pet store. We need a new stand for our newly acquired 20 gallon gold fish tank. After all that I was ready for a nap.

Little Kat, Kit Kat, and I had scheduled to go walking yesterday. But I had a pretty busy day. Plus Little Kat had tons of homework to do. I figured we would just postpone the walk. I heard a knock on my bedroom door at 9:30pm. Little Kat finished his homework and was ready to walk.

I put on my coat and reflective vest. Then Little Kat brought me our bright flashlight (to help cars see us in the distance). Little Kat went out and thought it warm. So he left his coat at home. No way. It was 40 something degrees outside. I made him put on a jacket. Then we walked down to the "M&M", a sort of cul de sac at the intersection of two streets.

En route to the M&M we discovered the house where a friend of a friend of Kit Kat lives. This is just 2 or 3 streets over from us. I was surprised we lived so close. This is just an acquiantance of Kit Kat since she goes to a different school. However it felt like it was a small world.

Two Better Than One

We tried to put the new gerbil in the cage with the others one more time. Poor thing got chased and chewed. It was just not working out. One option was to return the new gerbil to the store. That sounded sad. I was getting to like the little girl.

There was one more option. We could keep the gerbil in a separate cage. The other older gerbils were going back to school with Momoko in the fall anyway. This could be our new permanent home gerbil. There was only one problem with this. Our new gerbil would be lonely.

Problem solved. Kit Kat, Momoko, and I went to the pet store. We purchsed the sister of the new gerbil. This sister has read eyes. I thought they would be happy when they got reunited. Nope. The first gerbil was still running away from her own sister. At least we got them a cool wheel to run in.

New Addition

The family went to the pet store today to pick up some supplies. We all looked at the fish. Kit Kat picked out an active Dojo Loach. We may name him Loachee.

There was another fish that was very active. Momoko wanted to buy him. But our skacker salesperson did not know how much it cost. Fail. After pet shopping, Momoko treated us all to milk shakes. Chick Filet makes a mean vanilla milk shake.

New Fish

Momoko had the kids move our fish tank out into the living room so we could see it all the time. Actually Momoko bought a new tank. Then our fish moved from the old to new tank. To tell you the truth, now that I saw them, the fish did not look too exciting. Their colors were drab. And the fish seemed to not move around too much.

This weekend, Momoko took me to the pet store. I spied two huge and brightly colored fish. Too bad they were the aggressive variety and would eat up all our fish. They were expensive too. I ended up buying some tropical fish. There was a black molly, red mickey, red wag platy, and red glass barb. Those names mean nothing to me. Hopefully all you fish enthusiasts know what I got.

The trend is that I got some bright red fish that seem to move around a bit. One of them (the red glass barb) swims back and forth, up and down with abandon. I hope it does not use up all its energy a die. They rest of the new fish seem to swim around a lot, and go up high in the fish tank. The older fish seem more excited too.

On a totally separate note, I had to get up at the crack of down to drive across town to headquarters. Had a meeting with some managers. It went ok. Ate lunch with a new employee I had not seen for a couple year. Visited Momoko's college and picked up an application for graduation for her. Come on Momoko. Get your degree.