"We've Got Meeses In Our Peeces!"

um...yeah,ok.

so, um... in our neighborhood for the past 3 winters we've had this problem becuase of all the landscaping changes over at the golf course across the street...

mice.

yeah, i know! seems it's so bad 'round this time of year you can't find mouse traps at the grocery store by my house. our problem has been pretty much localized to under the dishwasher the past 2 years.

not this year.

they're everywhere! it's like a frickin' alfred hitchcock movie. and it's gross. my sister is having a nervous breakdown (again) because she equates mice with a "filthy" house. which we don't have. and if that was the case the whole neighborhood would be "filthy". AND....we figured out where they're coming from. we were getting the christmas stuff out of the storage area off the utility room in the basement. it's the only part of the basement that's not finished, my brother-in-law moved a box in the corner and there was this HUGE pile of dirt in the corner. DIRT!...DIRT!!! the little bastards came THROUGH THE CEMENT FOUNDATION OF OUR HOUSE!!!

can you believe it?! neither can we!

needless to say we're all really grossed out. i want to boil everything i own in bleach. EEEWW! we find a big box that has (had) some papers in it and they were all shredded up (lovely), and as were were moving the papers from the box to a garbage bag. 3 MICE START JUMPING ALL OVER THE BOX TRYING TO ESCAPE! AAAAAHGHGH! EEW EEEW EEEW EEEEW. my bro-in-law grabs a bbq fork from a box and just starts stabbing repeatedly into the box, skewering papers and mice like a fucking gladiator...

it was bloody, it was nasty...it was awsome!

ugh. traps have been set mice have been caught and disposed of, but....my story get's better...

last night, when i got home. maddie. my dog. caught a mouse in the laundry room! AAAGHGHGH ICK, ICK, ICK!! i know she killed it cause it was twitching when she put it down, but thank god she didn't break skin cause there was no blood. as grossed out as i was, i had to tell her she was a good girl and stuff...then she wanted to give me kisses....um, no, really. i wanted to figure out a way to rinse her mouth out with listeriene, but i don't think that would have been successful. oh gross!

looks like it's time to call an exterminator.

death toll to date = 9