The Big DumpTruck

Ya, I thought I’d share with you why I’m glad I wasn’t out on the highway this morning.

I was actually out in it, at the Dentist’s office. It was helpful for taking my mind off the fact that I was at the dentist. It was a long slow ride home but I just fired up a fake log in the fireplace and Junior and I are playing a little Animal Crossing. Just another day in New England.

p.s. No cavities for either of us! Thanks Crest!

Hey, Lynn Hoffman, late of Mix 98.5 must have been googling herself earlier this evening, because she found my site and left a comment that yes, that is her on VH1 Classic. Am I good or what? Of course you’ll see by my reply that I was feeling a little guilty about my earlier post, and I felt the need to explain. See, I loved listening to them, and then suddenly, it seemed like they were making Lynn into the person who had to act dumb so Lander would seem smarter and/or have a reason to explain things. This is a made up example, but if Lander wanted to talk about the Brady Bunch they’d make her say something like “you mean there was a program about two blended families that had to get along with only one bathroom for 6 kids?” See? Like you KNOW she knows that, but she had to pretend she didn’t so Lander could say his schtick.

Anyway, this is why I told the reporter from the Fitchburg Sentinel that I don’t badmouth people on my site. People actually READ this damned thing.

You old-timers will remember when every update to the Dump contained a Lord of the Dance Update. Well, let’s remember those days fondly with a current update: Yahoo! News – Woman Sues Flatley for $35M, Claims Rape.

No dead mouse yet. Exterminator just showed up at the house but I was gone. Don’t know why he did that, I want to find out how much this will cost, first. I don’t want him to drive all the way here and not have me home (which is what happened) either.

Oh, non-mouse stuff: You’ll have to wait for today’s kiddie story. Also, working on editing the NanoNovel still. I haven’t removed any characters….yet. Although part of me thinks one whole plotline (and the grandmother character) may have to go. Not sure yet.

The real kind, not the computer kind. Apparently I’m in for round 2 of MouseWars this year. Three nights in a row gnawing has woken me from a sound sleep. LOUD gnawing. I know last year the exterminator told me they were small mice, but it sounds like something bigger. But it’s been about a year since the last time we had to do this, I think. I’m pretty sure it was February of last year.

I called the exterminator again (I’d love him to figure out where they are coming in…that concerns me, actually) but he hasn’t returned my call. I suppose that’s a good thing because thinking about it, I cannot afford to pay for an exterminator. The whole freelancing thing has been a bit slow lately, to be honest. So instead of making a 2nd call to my bug/mouse guy, I spent a couple of bugs on some trap thingies. I put peanut butter in one and put it in the attic. Now my immediate problem is that I only own a step-stool so I couldn’t get up into the attic through the trapdoor. So the trap is just over the lip of that door. I know the mouse has been hanging out over my bedroom, which isn’t where the door is. Hopefully the smell of peanut butter will attract him.

I guess that means I’m going to need to check the damned thing regularly if I don’t want to have to deal with stinky dead animals later on. *sigh*.