Yes, you need a course. Also worth noting, depending on your city. If you get restrictions and later on decide you want an LTC, you may have problems getting the restrictions taken off. It might just be better to wait til you're 21 and go for an unrestricted license. Obviously don't know if that's something you might want to do in the future

Pepper spray is over the counter now. Just go to dicks or wal mart and get it. Gun shops also sell it

Rats and mice will always be around no matter where you are. We've lived together for thousands of years, we aren't gonna change that. But rats aren't IN your house. They are mainly outside with the raccoons. For the most part, your house/apartment/building isn't going to be infested, but you're gonna see or hear them every so often

Forget? It's pretty hard to forget to clean it. It's fairly easy to be a lazy asshole though

Catholic schools are much cheaper than daycare. That can always be an option for the year. But you might possibly have problems getting into kindergarten after

As a snow plow driver for over 20 years, I've been stuck in these precipitation patterns plenty of times. There is nothing new about it really..... There have been PLENTY of years where it snowed what seemed like every other day for a month straight. Sometimes a couple inches, sometimes a couple feet. January is always a very grey, dark month. Only difference right now is that the precip weather pattern is landing on us while it's not very cold. Which again isn't really anything new. Our average high temp is about 36 degrees (no snow)

Averages in January mean very little though, the huge swings of being single digit temps one week to being what it is today the next can really screw around with our averages

If it's your first car, best to have it towed, or let it sit there until you get plates. But if you're switching plates from another car, it's totally legal to take them off and drive the unregistered car with them. You have a week to register it.