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Time sure flies! Had a a great trip to Niigata and Karuizawa. Trying to catch up on life back at the house, so I will not say much tonight about the trip.
Worked on putting Christmas stuff away since we left town bright and early on the 26th and didn't get the chance to pick up Christmas day. Did three huge loads of laundry and need to do one more to catch up in that department. Grabbed a few items from the store. Got a list going of things that I need to get done. Got 2 things marked off out of the 7 listed. This is a list of big items that I really need to get done within this next week. I will have to work hard and keep focused.
Gotta go. Want to chill with the boys. Hey, a girl can't be all work and no play.
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| Good day.
Received a package exactly as we were told it would come from the States.
Dead mouse removed from house.
Gingerbread House made.
Cookie baking underway.
Now if only the house would clean itself.
As for the the mouse, here is the tale (no pun intended) I have to tell to you. We noticed evidence of a mouse in our house about two months ago now. He was a stealthy little bugger at first. I barely noticed that he moved in because he was a tidy guy at first and quiet. Then he grew more daring and more bold. Things getting chewed on and droppings about. Yes, we had a visitor. He managed to figure out how to get in between the walls a and floors of our house. We could hear him moving very freely above the ceiling or in the ways. Scratching...biting things to make himself a home in our walls. Lovely, I know.
Quickly we sprang into action. Everything out away and sealed tightly. Then we ordered traps from eBay. Here in Japan we can only get poison and sticky paper. Neither of which worked very well for us last year when we had a different visitor. The little bugger was quick to spring a trap and seemed to get caught as the evidence of blood around the trap showed. BUT...this is a big but. There was no mouse and no blood trail leading anywhere at all.
This things was growing more and more annoying day by day. He was just having a hay day nesting between the floor and ceiling and being very triumphantly noisy about it. Finally Corey noticed that there was a loose board in the upper closet in our living room. He set a trap in the closet.
Sunday while we were eating dinner, we heard the sickening snap. However, we had not caught the offending mouse. Instead, Corey sealed off the board while the mouse was still in the closet thereby trapping the rodent in the closet. He also laid another trap, which the mouse tripped but didn't get caught. We laid yet another trap and this time I had found some more poison from the last time tried to get a mouse.
Imagine the mouse already holed up in the closet for 24 hours now, and then being offered another set trap and a bowl of poison. He was getting pretty desperate. We noticed that the poison was strewn about, but we waited a bit longer. Last night we heard the last trap trip, but we heard him scuffle a bit so we knew he wasn't in the trap. Finally after nearly 48 hours of being trapped in the closet, he died between the trap and the bowl of poison.
Lest I sound too cruel, I am ecstatic to know that our fiend is gone!
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| Met up with the teammates for lunch at Shakeys. Did a bit of shopping in Ikebukuro. Managed to secure one more item that brings me to almost finished with Christmas shopping. Bought some donuts and took them to Kornegay's house. Not just any donuts, but Krispy Kreme donuts. Did a gift exchange with buying only 100yen gifts. Pretty amusing really. Enjoyed dinner together. Fun way to start our Christmas break.
Tomorrow we need to visit the flour mill to get flour for the cookie baking I will do for our Candlelight service on Wednesday night. Next two days are about baking cookies and getting cleaned up and ready for the Candlelight Service.
Christmas is coming!
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