E gats friends! I came on today and realized I didn't post at all last week. Unacceptable! Actually a LOT of things happened in my life last night and I feel like I need to catch you up on everything! Unfortunately, there probably won't be any pictures in this post since I'm not sure what they would be...we'll see as I write this...
1. Mice Infestation...
Weekend before last, I went downstairs to do some laundry and what do I find, but lots of little mice droppings covering the floor around my washer and dryer and even on my dryer. Let me tell you now, I HATE MICE!!! I'm afraid of mice, and I'm not afraid to say it. So what did I do? Well when I was getting groceries that day I took a turn down the home section and picked up 2 packages of 2 mice traps apiece. Each package was $1, so $.50 a trap.
Sunday or Monday night I set all four traps and caught three mice that night. Mom can vouch for me, at this point I was on the phone with her asking her how the heck I was going to get rid of these mice, because there was NO WAY I was getting close enough to those mice in order to get rid of them. Well, after a lot of screaming and whining (I was off the phone by this time) I sucked it up and used my BBQ tongs to pick up the trap and toss it. No, I did not reuse these trap. Yes, I could have. But that would have required actually figuring out a way to unsnap the traps and get rid of the actual mouse. At this point that was not happening.
So, at this point I was down to one trap. I moved it to a different area and headed back to work. No mouse until I came home for lunch on Wednesday. The trap was gone. I mean literally, the entire trap. Now, all I could imagine was that I had a mouse that was barely trapped, like maybe only with one leg, dragging this trap around my basement. I search and couldn't find it anywhere. So off to work I went and discussed it with coworkers and we figured it must be under my washer or dryer. So I sucked it up and was as far as possible as my long stick would allow me to be. The mouse ended up being dead and under my dryer and was found.
Next I went and bought 6 more traps and set them around and caught one more mouse. Then the mysterious happened. My traps were set with peanut butter like usual, but when I came down to check the traps, the peanut butter was gone, but the traps weren't set off. I re baited them about 3 times, but never caught a mouse.
So Plan B began. I went and got sticky traps and set them up yesterday. Nothing until I came home for lunch today and on the traps I found 4 mice on 3 traps! I surprised even myself and picked up the traps while the mice were still alive! Anyway, I put them in a trash bag and smucked them with a log so they wouldn't just starve to death in my garbage can outside. I figured that was the more humane thing to do anyway. So, so far I've killed 9 mice and think I finally have them all. I guess we'll see in the next couple days. I'll keep you all updated.
2. 5 Week Results
On Saturday we had our mid way testing for Farrells and here are my results. I lost around 5 pounds, but overall I lost 14 inches! Super exciting!!!!! Not only that, but I increased the number of pushups I can do in a minute from 28 to 47. My situps in a minute increased from 6 (I know, super sad, but I HATE situps) to 12. And finally my mile run went from 13 minutes to 12 minutes. I'm excited to see what happens in the second half of the program becuase they say that most women actually see more results in the second half than in the first half of the program!
3. Neko's injury
Last winter Neko slipped on the ice and partially tore a ligament in her knee. She recovered and we doing amazing and wasn't having any issues. Until last Wednesday. Wednesday after work Neko wanted to go outside, so out she went. I got ready for my kickboxing class and when I let her back in before I left, she wasn't stepping on her back leg again. So she's been layed up for the last fews days, locked out of the bedrooms during the days so she doesn't jump on the beds. And it's working and she's almost back to normal now! She's getting short runs outside and seems to be doing fine with them so soon she'll get longer outside, which will be great for her and me since she's driving me nuts being stuck inside!
4. New Job
Probably most exciting of the week is the fact that I am getting a new job! I know, I just was promoted - but some things just end up happening! I'm still going to be a financial analyst at Sanford, but now I'm going to be working solely with the World Clinics. I'll be working with lots of different foreign currencies when setting up new clinics in different countries. I'm transitioning over to my new department around the first of the new year and will be in a different building and everything. I'm so excited for this new move!
Okay, super long post - but as you can see it was a super busy week. I'll try to be better in the future! :)
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