Uninvited guests....

So, our pantry is located directly off our back door. Our house is old and therefore not insulated that well.. Anyway, some of theeeeese little buggers got inside and decided to take over anything they could find in the cabinet in a bag or box last week. Ugh.

Google led me to a solution: black pepper. I lined the doorway with it and no more ants! YAY!

Right?

Wrong.

B/c the other night, I woke up, hearing something that sounded like someone was trying to get in the house. I FREAKED OUT. I grabbed my cell phone and my keys, prepared to run for the hills. I dialed 9-1-1...and held my finger over the "call" button.

Yes, I was that freaked out.

The noise continued intermittently.

I finally got up, went into the kitchen and decided to sit in the dark, listening.

If I heard someone trying to get in, I was OUT....but I just wasn't sure what the noise was...

...and my alarm/motion detectors were fine...

Sooo.. I sat there... index finger hovering shakily over that little green key on my phone, 9-1-1 already entered in...

and I heard the noise...

INSIDE THE KITCHEN.

Which made me realize it was....

...or rather something more like this...
Yes, friends, mother nature is trying to re-claim our kitchen or something.

And damnit we're CLEAN people. Ugh. So annoying. (But so glad it was just a mouse!!!)

I sighed heavily and went back to bed.

When the ant parade occurred last week, I'd put everything I could inside plastic baggies to keep it safe. For example, my granola bars, while individually wrapped, were in a box...that ants got in to.

*gross*

So I put the wrapped bars in a baggie and threw out the box while cursing at the ants who didn't understand me and thoroughly confusing the dogs

I woke up the next morning after I realized a mouse had been in the house...

and it had EATEN THROUGH THE PLASTIC BAGGIE and gotten all my granola bars.

That's it.

Between ants and mouse, I've lost like $30 in food this week!

This is war. Little sqeaky furball is going down. Trap is set. And now, peeps, we wait....

(admittedly, I dont really WANT to find a dead mouse. I kinda want him to just run out from wherever he came and never return).

So, yeah. There's that rant for ya...

And um... I was shopping today and fell in love.

Like not just in love..

In love. In lust. In wildly passionate I have to have this....

over....this....

IWANTTHISBAG. SO BADLY. I've been looking for a gorgeous camel bag for like ...3 years now. Every winter, I look and look and never find what I want. I want one that's big, but not with tons of crap all over it. I want it to be tasteful. I want it to have those kinds of handles.

I saw it in the store window and was pulled as if by some other force into the store....

...until I saw the price tag and wanted to shed a tear. Things Jax doesn't need to spend hundreds of dollars on=handbag.

So, I will wait. They'll have coupons...er...right.. And there's always ebay. *le sigh* But I wanted to share my newest leather love with all of you. Maybe it'll be my 30th birthday to myself! (Yes, my birthday is almost a year away....and yes, I'm also going to Hawaii as a present to myself in some regards...but just let me justify it.) Maybe it'll be my "I caught the mouse" present? Eh? Fine. Whatever. Hmph.

Hope you had a great weekend! I'll recap tomorrow. XOXO!