Catherine Goes To School

I got "the call" from Craven this morning about the car. It had passed inspection, but just barely. And of course, they had their recommended list of things to fix. The front tires were just barely passing spec, the alignment was off, and the power steering fluid needed replacing. I figured probably should get that done since I'm probably going to be heading up to PA more often (I've already got a trip booked for next Monday and Tuesday) and the snow seems to be more prevalent there (plus if the alignment is out, those long trips are just going to kill the tires). The power steering fluid is supposed to be replaced at 40k and the car is at 39k, so I felt that was at least justifiable. I later found out that the power steering fluid is proprietary and you can only get it from the dealer, so I'm sure that cost me some extra for them to go procure that. All in all this dead battery is costing me a fair chunk of change.

Catherine's first official day of school was today. She got all prepped and ready with her "packpack" (that's what she calls her backpack) and later she insisted on wearing her "hoodie". Mom rattle off some photos while I was video taping before we left. Since I had no car, I went with the kids to school, plus this way I could video tape Catherine's first day. Quinn was also very excited about Catherine going to his school and had agreed to take her to her class, but instead of taking her to her class, he ended up taking her into the bathroom. Which worked out well since she had to go. And then Quinn decided he had to go too. So we stopped filming for a bit. After that Quinn escorted Catherine down the hall to her class and dropped her off (before he left though he decided to tell Catherine's teacher about the race track he got for Christmas). Catherine gave both me and Ginger a hug then ran off into her class. No crying, no apparent separation anxiety or anything. Ginger then went and dropped me off at work. Now even though it was Catherine's first day, it was Tuesday, so she had Ballet today. This means she was only in school for about an hour before Ginger picked her up for class. Since I had taken the video camera for filming Catherine at school, Ginger used it to film her some at Ballet also. I didn't get a report from anyone as to what happened after that, but I assume they went back and picked up Quinn and went home for lunch.

My car was finally finished around 5:30, and I had to scramble to bum a ride since Craven closes at 6. I co-opted KennyG into giving me a ride. Almost didn't get the car since we got there at 6:15, the lights were off and they were getting ready to lock up, but I got the car. Came home and Ginger and Catherine were just getting up, this was probably around 6:45 or so. Quinn actually napped longer than Catherine today, which is really unusual. We had Chili for dinner, the kids went to bed around 9:30 (they stayed up a little late since they had napped for so long).

After the kids were finally asleep we got to watch Scrubs. I've missed that show. I'm a little disappointed that "My Name is Earl" and "The Office" have gotten the Thursday 9PM to 10PM death slot up against CSI though. I mean really, what are the NBC executives thinking there? Putting a freshman comedy that doesn't even have a full year under it's belt up against the number one show on TV? I can't decide if they're just stupid or if they don't want the show to succeed.