Saturday

Today was great-ness! Well, until about 4pm. I stayed up way too late with friends, then reading my book into the wee hours! I love that! I slept in this morning, and got up, gave Copper a bath, did some laundry, and other things I had been putting off.
I started to vacuum, and then it died. I did all the girly things you do when something stops working. Kick it, push the on and off switch over and over and over and over, check the plug, and turn it over and stare at all those parts. I didn't know what else to do, so I did the closest thing to me. I laid down to take a nap of course! When I woke up the thing magically worked, but I am not sure for how long. I am going to start looking for a sale on a new vacuum this week.
After the nap, I decided to go get my car inspected, only to find that they close early on Saturday.
When I got home, I thought I would clean out the garage. Now, if you read my blog, you know about the little mouse situation in the garage. My garage doesn't have too much in it, because I am a girl and some what of a neat freak. (Side note- I am really big on keeping my garage clean because that is the one thing that all of your neighbors can see. ) I began sweeping up all the little critter mess that I could see. Then I got the bright idea to move my cute shelves so I could clean under them. Well, you can guess where this is going. YES! There was a dead mouse under the shelves. EWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! I put on my big girl panties, and took care of the stupid problem. That's when I saw it. Something else was under the shelves. After freaking out I decided I was being silly and was just going to go and move the shelves back. Duh-duh-duhhhhhh. I heard a small noise, and then saw a little streak of blood. I KILLED THE MOUSE. Knowing how much I hate the little critters, you would think this would excite me. All I can think about is that I killed an innocent stupid mouse. Actually, I saw the tail still moving, so either there is more than one under there or I hurt it, and it will be dead tomorrow. So sad!
I decided I had had enough and just left everything all spread out, pulled in my car and hopefully can have a brave friend come over to help tomorrow. Whew. I am done for the day!

Venting and some positives

I need to vent. My great friend Margo ( shout out to Margo!) told me about this incredible product called tinted moisturizer. I love it because it has a great product name, it is light weight and Laura Mercier offers my perfect shade, which is so challenging to find. I was running low on my tube, and needed my "winter shade" so I trotted along to Nordstrom's. Side note - I HATE the mall! I love it when I have lots of moo-lah, and time to kill, but that is pretty much never so I try to avoid it at all costs. I was going to brave the crowded mall and run in to Nordstrom's and get what I needed and run out. I was greeted by a nice sales lady. I told her my shade and that I needed a shade lighter but that I wasn't sure which one. She confidently recommended my moisturizer in sand. Usually they offer to let you try it but today they didn't and I didn't ask to do so. BIG MISTAKE! First thing Monday morning, I was so excited to put on my brand new makeup, only to discover Sand is WAY darker than my summer shade. So, I had 2 choices. I could wear it and look silly, or go without and look silly. I chose the latter. Now I have to make time to go back to the mall, take back the makeup I already opened and try to find my receipt.

On to my next thing to my next vent. I have another STUPID mouse hanging out in my garage. Do I
a. leave the garage door open and let the mouse run away and home that no others run in
b. put lots and lots of stuff in the garage so I can't see it run along the wall.
c. hire someone to install shelves on the wall so I can get rid of my cute shelving units.
d. get an outdoor kitty.
e. pay the bug man extra to come out every time I see one.

ALSO! I noticed that the weather striping thingy on the bottom of my door that leads from the garage to the laundry room is missing in some places thanks to my lovely dog. UH OH! Can a mouse squeeze under my door? OH NO!!!!!! Yes - I realize that this fear of mice is completly irrational, and it is just a tiny little critter. But EW!

Hmmmmm what to do, what to do!

Also, my Aa key is not working very well. Do you know how many times you use the Aa key? I just have to push it 3 times to get one letter a.

On a positive..... My kids were SOOOOOOOOOO super great today! It was one of those days that they were just super sweet to each other, and were willing to work hard!

Also, I had no class today, so I was able to go to the gym tonight!

Lessons to learn from my blog entry:
1. ALWAYS have the makeup people check the shade on you to make sure it matches your skin.
2. Don't buy a new house that backs up to an empty field.
3. Don't use the letter Aa.

One Step Forward and About A Million Steps Back

The last blog I posted I got to brag about how brave I was sweeping a stupid dead mouse away. Well, the braveness has worn off, or only applies to dead mice.

I was packing up my stuff to take home for the weekend, and when I grabbed my lunch box guess what was in it........... nope, not a mouse. It was 3 roaches the size of a mouse. EWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!! Although I wasn't brave enough to throw the lunch box away myself, I was brave enough to continue working for another hour or so.

I had an uneventful ride home pulled into the garage and that's when the worst part of my day occurred. A MOUSE RAN across the garage floor just as I was getting out of my car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My mom was on the phone with me, and had to pretty much coach me out of the car and into house. Needless to say, the pest control people will be here as soon as possible! At least when I am at work there are people around to hear if they suddenly attack. At home, I am all on my own. The bigger issue of the mice is that I live half way to no where and back up to undeveloped land. I am thinking over getting an outside cat to take care of the mouse problem, but then that might open up even more issues with leaving it food. My mom has an outdoor cat, and skunks have invaded her garage and have been eating all of the cat's food. I don't like skunks either. Hmmmmm.... What to do, what to do......

I am so brave!

Around 8:00 tonight I walked out to the garage to take out a bag of trash. That is when I saw it. A dead, tiny mouse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I came in and pouted for a good 15 minutes before putting on my big girl shoes and going back out to the garage to dispose of the nastiness! I bravely swept the stupid mouse out into the ditch where he belonged.