Mice suck

Sometimes complaining gets you nowhere other times it gets you something you might not have bargained for like maybe a 10 ft wide christmas tree. Last year I teased Ben about our little Charlie Brown tree so this year he showed me and brought home this monster. Every ornament we own and 7 strings of lights later the thing still looks bare. Not to mention the fact we had to scoot our couch so close to the tv I get dizzy everytime I watch it. I guess complainers get what they have coming huh.

Lately we have been hearing noises in the area where we trapped the squirrel last month. Thinking maybe the squirrel that got away was back Ben set a mouse trap and hoped it wasn't a squirrel because a mouse trap just wasn't going to cut it. Later that night we were sitting at the kitchen table when we heard a noise like a pool ball rolling down the track inside an old pool table. Ben snickered while I was confused. "We got one" Sure enough, the trap had went off and we had a mouse inside the crawl space above our woodstove. Saturday morning we had another and as I sat at the kitchen table all day Saturday trying to write a paper I heard the trap go off 4 times. Sunday morning, yep you guessed it, 7 mice in 24 hours, that is disgusting.

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Halloween is a big deal here in Bangor. There were some houses that were decorated so awesome and I meant to go take pictures but I never did, I was probably on facebook. We did put together a couple of costumes that were pretty sweet in my opinion but almost totally lost on the crowd we hang out with. Seriously who has not seen the movie Juno? Tell me why? It was an awesome movie and well I know it was a bigger deal in MN because it was shot there and stuff but still...COME ON. I did get some laughs drinking a beer wearing my pregnant suit but why that was funny I do not know. We see pregnant women walking down the street drinking a beer and we don't laugh at them. Maybe they laughed because I didn't have the full effect without a smoke to go with the beer?

Thanksgiving takes on a whole new spin when you don't have family to celebrate with. It was more like a vacation than a holiday. We deep fried a turkey and trimmed all the fixings, invited our Canadian friend over and ate a great lunch, then packed up and headed up to camp.

A few weeks ago we watched the movie The Strangers. That movie freaked me out and a number of times I wanted to just shut it off and forget about it but we watched the whole thing and now I am a little weary of staying somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Late Friday, while we were staying in the middle of nowhere, we heard a knock on the door and then this dude just walked on in. Ben and I were sitting under the propane light reading and I freaked out. If he had asked if Tina was home I know I would have crapped my pants (line from scary movie) But no it was just toothless Charlie from down the road who forgot his blankety blank dammit corn starch. He wanted to make coconut chicken but no cornstarch, oh the travesty. Sorry man we don't have cornstarch, we have like salt and pepper, a bottle of vegetable oil and some antifreeze, that's about it. See ya and thanks for scaring the crap out of me. BTW you made going to the outhouse after dark a near death experience for me for the REST of the weekend. Thanks

Living like Little House on the Prairie, even for just a few days is pretty weird. After dark we played cards, read, took turns on the guitar and I worked on a quilt but by about 9 o'clock we were ready for bed. It felt like we were like 80 and had nothing to do. In some ways it was a nice break from everything, in other ways it sucked. Like I really dislike radio, especially the bad middle of the boondocks radio we had to listen to and my fingers, yep they kill from too much quilting and too much guitar and oh did I mention my hair after not washing it for 4 days. Yes that sucked too.

But soon enough the weekend was gone as weekends tend to do and we were on the long drive home. We keep 20 Questions in the car for such occasions and usually have some fun with it. My mom hates 20 Questions, she thinks the things sees inside her brain and that scares her. Hmm I don't think that is how it works but there was that one time her word was kangaroo and she answered I don't know for almost every question and it still got kangaroo. I can't explain that. But anyways we were playing on the way home and I stumped the thing with fish hook, score for me. Ben was on like question 14 and I guessed his word, it was gum. Again 20 Questions was stumped, its first guess was sanitary napkin and then it guessed spaghetti. Seriously that was almost as weird as kangaroo.