Today is Saturday and the day just seem to fly by and disappear. We slept in a bit late and found that there was no food in the house when we got up, but no one felt like going anywhere.
Our friend Marcus had nothing going on this morning and came over and cooked breakfast with Dominica. He had enough ingredients to bring over and add to the ingredients that we had to do a full breakfast of eggs and potatoes (basically we had eggs, he had potatoes.)
My project for today was to take the television and move it out of the living room. None of us really want the living room set up in that way. So now that Dominica and I have the master suite, we are ready to start moving stuff around.
I moved the little end table on which the television has been resting into our room, and then the television and the Steam gaming system. This is far from how we want the room to be set up, but it is just to get us through for a week or so. We are missing part of the television wall mount so we need to get a new one, at least for the moment, until we find the parts of the old one. Once the television is up on the wall things will be much better and safer. It’s just the cheap 40″ television that we are using right now, though. We will still need space for the Steam laptop and stuff for now.
We made a plan, though, to have the Steam machine and related equipment move into the master closet. We want to do this sooner than later, so that the television in our bedroom can be nothing but the television and no hanging cords or anything like that. We want it to be clean and fancy. We also want to get a small stereo system to put into that other room and in wall speakers so that it can be as clean as can be.
Chris came over and helped me to move the orange futon into our bedroom, too, which will be used for watching the television in there. It has been unused and just “in the way” in the living room since forever at this point. So this is a good use for it.
This evening was a full daddy daughter evening. Dominica, Rachel, Chris and Estella are all going out to the big 80s night party in Ft. Worth tonight and going to dinner first and, of course, Dominica and Rachel take hours to get ready, so it was just me and the girls from the middle of the afternoon and all night. We played Skyrim for a while. It was me playing but after a while Liesl asked if she could control it for me and she probably played for more than an hour with her being in control of it! I was surprise at how good she was at it.
Around nine the girls decided that they were in the mood for a movie. But they said that they needed a “kids movie”. So I looked at Amazon Prime to see what was newly available and discovered that the Pink Panther movies were now available. This is awesome. It looks like maybe all of them are there now.
I talked the girls into trying the 2006 reboot Pink Panther movie. They were skeptical but agreed to watch it long enough to see how it would be and once we were watching it, they were very interested.
While the movie was on I ordered Domino’s pizza which came pretty quickly. Their online ordering is awesome. We got one thick double cheese pizza, one thin crust with onions and green peppers and some cheesy bread sticks. Perfect for movie night.
They loved the first movie. The Pink Panther was a good choice. We will watch more of those.
I was pretty tired but this point, it was maybe eleven thirty, but the girls had loads of energy. So I got them set up with The Spiderwick Chronicles and went to bed. The girls sat at the end of the bed and watched the whole movie and really loved it. Another great pick by daddy tonight.
I didn’t get much sleep but I did get to relax and probably got at least an hour of sleep while that movie was on. As soon as the movie was over the girls just climbed into bed and fell asleep.