You know how when you’re a kid and you think of a mouse, you
automatically picture these cute little guys?
Or maybe even as an adult, when someone talks about a mouse
this image pops into your head.
Kind of cute still, right? I mean they’re little and fuzzy
and don’t look like they could hurt a fly.
You want to know what mice look like to me? What I see when
one of those little creatures shows up?
BAM! “Hey, human. ‘Sup. I know you don’t really like having
me around…but guess what? I don’t care one little bit. I’m going to go ahead
and go poop on your kitchen towels now. Oh you don’t like that? How ‘bout your
kitchen counter? Still no? Sweet. I’m gonna go crap in your sofa. Check ya
later.”
At least that’s what our
mice said. They may as well have left little notes that said, “Screw you” all
over our house. Seriously. All over our house. Poop in every. single. room.
So long story short, we’re moving again. After our landlords
dumped some money into the house to take care of our rodent problem, they
decided to put the house on the market. We are pretty bummed out because we had
hoped to live here for at least another year while we pay off debt and save up
for a down payment for a house of our own. But, alas it is not to be.
The good news is that the house we’re moving to (another
rental) will be pretty great for us I think. It’s five minutes from school as
opposed to 20, it’s four bedrooms rather than three, and it’s back off the
beaten path so no more busy street for us!
I’m excited and bummed all at the same time. We’ve put a lot
of love into this house to make it home for a few years and we’ve loved living
here—except for the mice. : ) But I know that we can make anywhere ‘home’ and
that so much of it depends on my attitude, so I’m going to spend the next three
weeks getting the munsters excited for the new place. They’re pretty good at
rolling with the punches. Heck, since this will be the fourth time we’ve moved
in two-and-a-half years, they’d better be!
I hope to get some good pictures of The Mouse House before
we move; it’s really come a long way in the last year!
Just to restore your faith in Jaq and Gus. I’m sure they
would never have behaved in this manner. After all, they wore pants.
