litany of woes
Apr. 16th, 2015 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_siobhanSo the last couple of week ended up going kind of suckward. I managed to get really really really sick and spent about five days lying around like a slug feeling sorry for myself. Complete waste of a long weekend, plus I missed a birthday celebration for a friend.
The other shitty thing that happened is that George got out. Axel had opened a window to take advantage of some nice weather and the damn cat somehow managed to pry the screen right out of the frame and escape. That was over a week ago and we haven't seen a hair of him since. One of the TCR volunteers came by with a trap and we had it set up on the porch in case he came poking around looking for food. So far we've caught just about every pet in the neighbourhood and a couple of seriously pissed-off raccoons, but no George. I suspect he's miles away by now.
Meanwhile, we still have mice. One of them managed to die behind our kitchen sink and the smell is... well, it's pretty much what you would expect from having rotting meat behind the wall. Given their size it's pretty impressive just how completely foul the house is. I am seriously considering spending my Saturday ripping out the wall to get at it.
At some point last weekend I got completely done with my hair and shaved it all off. Whenever the people at work asked me about it I just say, "Yeah, I may have gotten a little carried away." Which is polite office-speak for, "I just ran out of fucks."
So. How was your week?
The other shitty thing that happened is that George got out. Axel had opened a window to take advantage of some nice weather and the damn cat somehow managed to pry the screen right out of the frame and escape. That was over a week ago and we haven't seen a hair of him since. One of the TCR volunteers came by with a trap and we had it set up on the porch in case he came poking around looking for food. So far we've caught just about every pet in the neighbourhood and a couple of seriously pissed-off raccoons, but no George. I suspect he's miles away by now.
Meanwhile, we still have mice. One of them managed to die behind our kitchen sink and the smell is... well, it's pretty much what you would expect from having rotting meat behind the wall. Given their size it's pretty impressive just how completely foul the house is. I am seriously considering spending my Saturday ripping out the wall to get at it.
At some point last weekend I got completely done with my hair and shaved it all off. Whenever the people at work asked me about it I just say, "Yeah, I may have gotten a little carried away." Which is polite office-speak for, "I just ran out of fucks."
So. How was your week?
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Date: 2015-04-25 11:16 am (UTC)For some reason my brain went to Mr Wilberforce from Under The Mountain (the original).
No idea why.
The other shitty thing that happened is that George got out. Axel had opened a window to take advantage of some nice weather and the damn cat somehow managed to pry the screen right out of the frame and escape
Damn. Sorry to hear that.
Given their size it's pretty impressive just how completely foul the house is.
We had one die in our (tin) shed two years ago.
A tin shed, in the Australian summer.
I didn't find its body until last December (and haven't cleaned it up yet because it's basically dust and a skeleton). The smell has just gone.
Although, I am now an "expert" at knowing the difference between mouse poop and dead mouse and multiple ages.
I can't imagine the hell you went through getting it out.