I AM THE CHAMPION!




SATURDAY
11:30 am- a trip to home depot and 4 dollars later i have a bag full of mouse traps and i am ready to use them
7:30 pm- friends come over to eat food and watch a movie. good times.



SUNDAY
1am- my friends leave my house after an evening of laughter and frivolity.
1:30 am- i'm in bed- in major need of sleep.
1:32 am- mice munching on wood somewhere in my room.
2:15 am- i look at the clock again... i've now been awakened by the sound of mice running around my bed and now i'm on edge.
2:15- 3:30 am- i toss and turn- every so often yell at the mice when i hear them running around. sleep is now just something i could have been doing.
3:35 am- after hearing the mice munching on something just by my head i turn the light on. i begin pulling out my dresser and bookcases- grasping at anything i can get my hands on so i can find the stupid crappy mouse that has been invading my slumber for weeks now.
4:00 am- i am now delirious after a long unfruitful search for the bloody rodents.
4:15 am- i begin FINALLY putting the mouse traps together, loading them with peanut butter (it's been said they like it better) and placing them around the entire perimeter of my room.
4:25 am- grab comforter and pillow from my bed, shut my bedroom door behind me (so i won't hear any "snapping of traps" and take my sleeping position on the couch.
4:30 am- out like a light.

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8:15 am- alarm clock goes off.
8:15.5 am- turn alarm clock off.
9:30 am- wake up again-- i now have one half hour to shower, get ready and get myself to church.
9:32 am- carefully open my door to inspect the traps. discover 2 mice caught in 1 trap. VICTORY!!! no other traps have been triggered... yet.
10:10 am- amazingly i made it just as the sacrament hymn is being sung.

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1:55 pm- arrive home from church.
1:58 pm- enter my room to discover that 4 more traps have the culprits in them.
1:59 pm- the victory dance.


MONDAY
1:10 am- friend leaves apt- time for nite-nite
1:15 am- discover that one more mouse has kicked the bucket.
1:30 am- in bed. laying very still. listening. waiting. finally relaxing.
1:35 - 7:15 am- PEACE AND QUIET... the entire night.

I WON! THE BATTLE HAS MY NAME WRITTEN ALL OVER IT AS VICTOR! I ROCK!

i know very well that if there were 6, there are probably 100. this war may not be over- but for now i will bask in the peace. i will sleep long and i will sleep hard. i will doze off with a ginormous smile on my face and slumber in silence. ahhh... i'm so ready to sleep now.