I HAVE A MOUSE!!!!!
May 24, 2006 at 2:38 AM 
<--- (I'm not dirty; my wood floors just need to be redone.)
OMG... I HAVE A MOUSE IN MY APARTMENT AGAIN RIGHT AT THIS VERY MOMENT! (2:38am EST) SO GET THIS... I'm sleeping tonight, all sleepy-sleep in my bed when all of the sudden Bev starts barking wildly and jumps off my bed. Sometimes she and Elvis play in the middle of the night so I didn't think anything of it at first, but then I realized... this was a different bark. I quickly sat up, looked out my bedroom door and into the living room (thank God I sleep with a night light--I do so for moments just like these) and saw both her and Elvis standing guard outside a closet, staring into it.
I stood up, walked over to them and neither of them moved from their spot. I looked inside the closet and didn't see anything, so I shut it. Bev went back to bed (outta sight, outta mind for her, I guess), but Elvis is still paroling the area, pacing back and forth outside the door, peering underneath. I hear something inside making noise, like a chewing, gnawing noise--it has to be a mouse! What else could it be?
OMG, OMG, OMG!!!! I don't have a roommate anymore--what am I supposed to do? I hate, hate, hate rodents. I can deal with a roach--I don't like them but I can deal with them--but a mouse I cannot. In my first book, that whole big mouse/baby rat fiasco (we're still not sure what it was), was pretty much the worst day of my life.
So, I don't have many choices on what to do here. I can lock the babies (Elvis and Bev) in the bathroom (because I don't want them to get it), then try to muster up the courage to open the closet door and shoo the bastard out with a broom.
Okay, who am I kidding--If I see it I'll close my eyes and scream bloody murder, then have no idea where he ran off to.
Okay, next option... I can plug up the bottom of the door with a t-shirt or something so he doesn't get away while I'm gone (the steel wool I have is in the very closet that little MF-er ran into), run to the corner store, buy a mouse trap and attempt to "toss" it in the closet when I get back. PROBLEM: I have $1.35 in my wallet and $7 in my checking account. How much are mousetraps? (I'm getting paid tomorrow. Life's really glamorous as a writer--isn't it?)
Whatever I decide, I'm popping a Xanax first. I'll keep you posted on what happens.
Reader Comments (8)
You have a mouse
in your house
Well get it out!! lol
I can see the mental picture of you standing on your table holding up your gown with broom in hand.
I totally understand because I am the same way when it comes to lil furry creatures that do not belong in the house. Get a mouse trap, put some peanut butter/cheese on it and slide them in a few corners where your pets cannot get them. (I wouldnt bother with the glue traps..eweee)
Sorry Karyn, what a way to wake up during the night. Tell us how it goes!
Get it out! Get it out!
Girl you are braver than I. I would have taken my pillow and went in a different room . . . I won't even tell you, okay I will, that I once slept on the couch just because there was a spider on my ceiling above my bed - so not exciting.
Need us to send you some money for a mouse trap? :-D
Take Care!!
omg, i remember that whole mouse fiasco from your first book! hmm is there any way you can charge the mouse trap (i'm assuming you have even one credit card again!) and then put the money back right away when you get paid?
or can you get your landlord to do anything? uggghhh i hate mice too! they're nasty and they multiply like crazy. i hope there's only one!!!
thank the lords i've never found a mouse in my place before. that's not to say i haven't been freaked out -- i found a cockroach once. i was pretty much wounded for life. and i ended up moving.
I say go to dollarama and buy a $1 mouse trap!
Karyn, Karyn, Karyn...what are we going to do with you? I live right down the block from you. I get mice sometimes too. It doesn't mean you're dirty, it means you live in NYC. Let Elvis get the mouse. He'll enjoy it, and you'll be mouse free.
lol! i totally went through this myself, i actually got my two kittens because of it. lol... i'm such a chickenshit.
xo, nicole
oh man, that's not cool..
what are you going to do??
Get a sticky trap, small amount of peanut butter in the center and you're done.
Good luck!