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Happy Post Turkey Gorging Day! It walks like a Monday, and it talks like a Monday...but apparently it is a Tuesday. It must be the tryptophan from the turkey that is making me run around in a haze. (In case you need some random trivia, tryptophan is an essential amino acid (which means that the body can't produce it)...our bodies then use the tryptophan to produce niacin, which then our bodies use to create serotonin, and hurrah, boring story is over when I tell you that serotonin is what makes people sleepy). Strange how a long weekend can feel so short. Oh, update on the rodent in the house: It is a mouse. This I found out when I got home on Wednesday evening. I got home, and my cat was in the basement, hovering over a bag of something (old clothes that don't fit anymore and that I am sure should have been thrown out ages ago or donated to some charitable cause). Since the cat is a feline version of a vacuum cleaner, I didn't really think anything of her snooping around the bag. She was probably trying to eat some wood chips in the hopes of evoking enough pity from me to feed her. This ploy actually worked, and I opened up a can of food for her. She would not budge. I called and coaxed, but yet she would still not move from the corner in the basement. Finally, I had had enough of her snooping around this bag, and I decided to get rid of it, as I moved it, I saw what was holding her attention. It was a MOUSE! I was on the phone at the time of the discovery with one of my best friends, and I unfortunately subjected her to my screams and shrieks of utter horror. After locking myself in my bedroom, I figured that I would let the cat do it's job, and the terror of the evening faded away. Until Thursday. I was sitting down...all excited for a new episode of ER when out of the corner of my eye I saw the mouse running over the back of my couch!!! Panic ensued, and I couldn't believe that I was naive enough to believe that the cat had gotten rid of the mouse. So now the house is rigged with mouse traps around every corner, with the hope of catching the vermin. Please Lord, let this work! Ugh....I will update more when the caffeine has kicked in....