Thursday, December 11, 2008

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas

It's as is some wonderful little Christmas angels heard I was feeling blue instead of red and green. My last 12 hours have been jim-jam packed of holiday fun! Last night, Jessica and I decided to go on a spur-of-the-moment elfing mission (work can wait, we said!) and had so. much. fun. buying gifts for people. I think you're really going to love them.

Then we went grocery shopping and spent an extraordinary amount of time discussing the merits of various mouse traps. Like, longer than 20 minutes. (And I'm going on the record to say that they are both awful, I'm so, so, so glad that I became Mistress of the Cockroaches....because by default that made Jessica Ruler of the Rodents....which is way, way, way worse.) I can't even talk aobut setting the traps, because there is just no way to express the absolute terror and hilarity of the situation. Let's just say that peanut butter, screaming, and the coinage of a new word was involved. Shardy, anyone?

The funniest part of the whole thing is that if you recall, I had resorted to barricading the door shut with our stool. What I didn't tell you is that Jessica mocked me endlessly about this. Well, I went to bed long before Miss J did, and woke up this morning to find my original barricade back in place, with layers of reinforcements around it. Oh, I laughed, wondering what terrors had driven her to such levels of protection. (I know you're all wondering how all this talk of rodentia is Christmassy, but we had holiday tunes playing and there are mice in the Nutcracker. And we laughed really, really hard. So it works.)

But the most magical of all was this morning, when we woke to find that New Orleans was being snowed upon. Snow! In! New! Orleans!! It's so gorgeous. Snow falling on palm trees is something everyone should see. Jessica drove me to work this morning (usually I walk) and since the traffic was so slow, we spent most of the drive hanging out the windows taking photos. As soon as we can get pictures loaded, I'll post them. Oh happy holidays!

3 comments:

Rachel said...

Hey, I normally just lurk on here, but I have to tell you: if you do iTunes there's a Howcast podcast episode on how to trap a rodent without killing it. You girls seem like the gentle type to me. It involves a table, peanut butter, a paper towel roll and a watebasket. No breaking of little mousy necks involved.

Rachel said...

Hey, I normally just lurk on here, but I have to tell you: if you do iTunes there's a Howcast podcast episode on how to trap a rodent without killing it. You girls seem like the gentle type to me. It involves a table, peanut butter, a paper towel roll and a watebasket. No breaking of little mousy necks involved.

Emily said...

Rachel! Thanks for the info. And thank you for thinking that Jessica and I are such kind, gentle souls. When it comes to mice and cockroaches, we are ruthless murderers with snap traps and RAID. If it isn't paying rent, it doesn't get to live here...happy holidays! XOXO