ladybug_archive | AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH!

This has been the week from Hell. August better than July? Ha!

We are still having mouse problems. I don't know whether there's one or more in here. We thought there were more, but after a long fight with one tonight, it could easily be the same one causing all of our problems. Filthy little disease-ridden monsters.

For the last several nights we've been up all night chasing them when they appear and trying to put precious things out of their immediate reach. One of the days I ended up with two and a half hours of sleep. I think that was yesterday. Usually I'm good at keeping track of the passage of time, but everything is just blurring in this nightmare. Today I had pretty good sleep to make up for it, but the horror goes on.

If only it was like the last time we had a mouse, where it stayed in the walls almost all of the time! This disaster is more like the very first time we had mice problems, at the old house. It was horrible and it took weeks to put the house back in order after we got it. I remember Mom and I both having to sleep in the living room while the carpets were cleaned and furniture was everywhere. I suspect we will be in for more of the same when this thing or things is finally caught (if ever). It/they have been spreading their filth everywhere. I don't know what we're going to do about some of the things it's been getting into, if they can even be salvaged.

I know Applejack was being illogical in some of her frustrations in the Bats! song (and so was Fluttershy in some of what she said in their defense), but I can so sympathize with her feelings, especially the line about them not caring what anyone else wants. Of course, bats and mice just aren't intelligent enough to reason out that they're ruining things for others, but it just gets so frustrating that one feels like exclaiming things like that.