Natural Sceptre

I love my husband.  Just thought I’d share.  I think this just might be the season of getting colds and not feeling 100%, but I very rarely think that I’m actually sick.  I just “don’t feel good,” and try to do normal things.  AND, I routinely forget to eat breakfast.  This leads to some…well, let’s just call it crankiness.  I get overly stressed about things I can’t control, and get all somber.  John’s own personal rain cloud.  (Good thing I’m also his sunshine, huh? )  I was having just such a day when I decided that, even though I probably didn’t have the time…I would take a nap.  But here’s the thing- I couldn’t fall asleep.  I just kept thinking and thinking.  So I asked John to lay down with me.  He just laid there with his hand on my shoulder…and I fell asleep very nicely.  I’m not sure how long he stayed exactly- but it reminds me of when I was little.  My mom told me that I wouldn’t fall asleep unless she kept her hand on me- so after I fell asleep she’d try and switch her hand for a stuffed animal.  I usually figured her trick out pretty quickly and woke up crying, but she finally found one that was the perfect size and weight…I’ll have to look for that one of these days when I’m back in MA.  Might be useful one of these days.  I like having someone watching over me while I fall asleep. 

So yes.  In other news, we definitely have mice.  GU (girl upstairs) called me freaking out the other day because they had one trapped in their office.  She asked me what to do, I said, “let it go.”  She said, “WHAT?”  I said, “Well, it’s probably already gone.  Shutting a door to a room does NOT trap a mouse.  And you just need to get some poison and get rid of them that way.”  “THEM?”  I sighed.  “Yes, there is more than one.”  John had been hearing them for a little while.  Ended up, BU (boy upstairs) caught it and released it in a field down the street.  That should be a nice vacation for it.  It’ll see some nice sights on the way back home.  We bought some kind of thirsty pellets..I feel a little bad that we have to KILL them.  But it’s got to be done, either that or find “surprises” in our food cupboard.  And we can hear them fighting in our ceiling- it seems like they live in the ventilation area between upstairs and downstairs. 

Now, I’m not too freaked out by mice, I lived in London in row houses long enough to know that they run away from you pretty quick.  They don’t enjoy confrontation.  (Probably b/c it ends in a kid with a glove driving them down the street.  Ruins their whole day.)  But I did have one concern.  We have an opening in our bathroom ceiling that was made a little more “permanent” when I moved in- it was meant to be an access to the pipes, but someone nailed it shut.  The first day I was here the bathroom flooded (previous BU and GU broke their toilet.  HOW did they do THAT?) and John had to cut the little door part out.  So- that means, whilst doing my business….a mice could be peering at me directly.  I didn’t like that very much.  So I fixed it, for now.  I took a hammer and nails….and an old pillowcase….and just covered the hole until John gets some wood and fixes it.  No one can say I’m not a handy girl.

Currently working on a paper for William James.  I’ve got all the ideas outlined, but am stuck slogging through the smoothing out process.  I am so good at procrastinating.

In other news…I signed up for the physical science class online- and have plans to finish by finals week.  I’m actually not too upset by the prospect of taking it anymore- sure, it’ll be more work, but I’ve decided that it’s for the best.  Now, when I have kids in high school- I’ll remember something about physics. 

Oh!  And Becca asked what I got John for Halloween, it was Meet the Robinsons, the new Disney DVD.  If you haven’t seen it yet, I HIGHLY recommend it.  It’s a fun, innovative story- and has a moving message.

Back to the paper.  (The topic is asceticism.  How bleak is that?)