tick, tock, sqeak

i can't remember the last time i was up this late.

after 20 years of living in this house, mice have finally found their way in. it started last summer when my dad noticed a bag of dried foods was chewed into. he set up a mouse trap using chinese sausage as bait and sure enough, a mousey-wousy was caught the next day. that's it. nothing more from the vermins til about a week ago.

i brushed off acidriot when he complained of hearing rodent footsteps between floors. he hasn't been sleeping enough. only a couple days earlier he was paranoid that a hand waved at him from outside the window as he was doing dishes. then we found droppings in the kitchen cuboard. within this past week, we've killed 3 mice. a friend tells me that they operate in groups of 3. how he would know mice infiltration dynamics is beyhond me.

anyway, i guess the whole point of this post is to describe the mice that died.

mouse #1
-acidriot leaves a note in the kitchen that reads: "THERE'S MORE MOUSE SHIT WHERE THE RICE IS AND THEY'RE CHEWING THE STYROFOAM THE COOKING OIL IS ON! THERE'S ALSO SOME IN THE NEXT CABINET UNDER THE SINK. MOUSE SHIT!!"
-we placed two mouse traps (with pizza crust) in the kitchen
-the next day, maifaun leaves a note on the kitchen floor: "Mother mouse is dead behind door #1. Didn't want to take it out because I was in the kitchen when it went off! gross"
-it should be noted that he took a picture and decided it was the mother because he saw nipples
-nash helped me dispose of it

mouse #2
-acidriot wakes up to find 2 mice in his room
-he takes his slipper and beats one to death
-he beat it over 10 times

mouse #3
-acidriot chases the other mouse to the washing machines
-he drops a steel-toed boot on the mouse and it stumbles
-he drops the boot again
-drops it a few more times
-the mouse is close to being flat and blood oozes out of its eye
-he then vacuums them *pffffff-thoink!*
-HE VACUUMS THEM!?!?!
-vacuum bag is disposed