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[trinityvixen]

I think I need to make a more proactive effort to get rid of the mouse in our apartment. This is the second night in a row I've dreamt about rodents, and I'm getting pretty tired of it. Night before last, I dreamt there was a chute that dumped rats into my room. Last night, I dreamt that I was catching mice everywhere in the apartment (by grabbing their tails, as I've learned to do in lab) and flinging them out the kitchen window.

The mouse likes my room, which is annoying. feiran (none too wisely, sorry, dude, but it's true) went charging after it when she saw it duck in there after it had emerged. I waited for it to stop being scared she was out there waiting for it and, sure enough, it came out again. So, I jumped up once it disappeared behind the stove in the kitchen and plugged the bottom of my door with my spare scarf.

Mouse reappeared, tried to go for my room, couldn't, went back to kitchen, went back to my room, and I think he got in because when I didn't see him head to the kitchen yet again, I investigated my door. There was a tiny space left open by the scarf, or pulled open by the rodent. Sigh.

The exterminator's been extremely unhelpful, as the mouse doesn't want his poison pellets, and the crafty bugger avoids the sticky paper fairly easily. I just need some old-fashioned snap-traps and cheese at this point.

On another downer note, I am getting headaches out of nowhere again. This happened a little while back, maybe half a year, where I'd get sudden, unprovoked headaches right as I was going to bed. I've not been excessively tired of late, so I don't think it's that. I can't say if I've drunk more or less caffeinated beverages either. The headache I had two nights ago really killed, and last night was only a little better because I didn't dick around and went straight for the Advil. I wanted to avoid taking the medicine, but it wasn't going to be pretty.

I don't think these are migraines. Ironically, I think it might be related to too much staring at screens. I've been doing that at work and home for a while, and I think I need to unplug, spend a night without either TV or computer shoved in my face. Maybe I'll go for a walk after work or use my exercise bike (yet another complaint: I am feeling exceedingly out of shape, and I'm going to Hawaii in a month, so that needs to change).

Wow, what a whiny entry.

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[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

I just need some old-fashioned snap-traps and cheese at this point.


Actually they prefer peanut butter (chocolate too, but it's a lot harder to place on the trap properly). Make sure to apply it such that the mouse would have to lick all around the trigger to get at it all since it increases the likelihood he'll set it off.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Oh, another thing: try changing the scent of you room a bit. Whether it be by incense, oils, or something else. If your room smells strangely different then the mouse will pause before entering not knowing what has changed. A couple sprays of some perfume near the pipe it comes in through in the kitchen will also throw it for a loop for a while.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Could be that might do it. I don't remember it being so keen on my place before when I was using my body lotions with more regularity.

I'll try the peanut butter thing, too. Can I get traps from a grocery store? Only I don't think I can get to the hardware stores before they close with how late I get out from work.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Actually are those body lotions the food scented kind (ie. fruit, chocolate, etc)? If so than yes that's the major draw for the mouse.

As for the snap traps, that really depends on the place. I really haven't had to buy them myself in a really long time, but I haven't seen them sold in too many supermarkets. Though some bodegas may carry them.

[fairest.livejournal.com]

OHGODOHGODOHGOD. Normally I don't mind mice at all. I've killed them by the bucketload, y'know? A mouse at large is not a problem.

But last night, one of them was IN MY BED. I'd gone to sleep earlyish. Eugene came to bed a bit later and was just dozing off when a mouse brushed against him. We both woke up and shook out the sheets, and Eugene said he'd seem it jump off the bed and scurry away, but I wasn't able to sleep properly and also had weird dreams about evicting mice. This mouse has crossed the line.

Biting mouse teeth in my bed while I sleep? The potential for future mouse turds in my bed? ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. Beds are sacred. This means war.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oh Jesus! Dude, I am SO sorry, I had no idea. We are going to get traps. TODAY.

Fuck the super, and fuck the exterminator. Harlon says peanut butter on a mouse trap, snippy-snap. And we're burning candles in your room.

[fairest.livejournal.com]

Ew, candles, quod she. I'll supply the peanut butter.

[moonlightalice.livejournal.com]

ahhh!! omg that's terrible. that's like the time over the summer that this ENORMOUS COCKROACH the size of a fiat flew around my room and then scurried ACROSS MY BED

[cagexxx.livejournal.com]

There was a mouse turd in your bed as soon as you got in.

BAM.

[cbreakr.livejournal.com]

If they're not migraines then they might be cluster headaches, which is something I had when I was younger. Doctors told me to take naproxen sodium (Aleve) to help deal with them, though it was only mildly effective.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I had a discussion with my brother about these previously. The pain is very pulsatile (which I think means what I mean which is that it tends to throb in time with my heartbeat), and not at all stabbing. I've had stabbing pain headaches, and this is not that. This is throbbing, but either subtle or sudden onset. I suspect dehydration and/or caffeine rebound. I'm going to try to get out from behind the TV for longer tonight, see how it goes.

Did you stop having cluster headaches, I hope? Those are the kinds that drive people to have accidents because they're so severe and sudden...

[cbreakr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that ended years ago. Looking over that site, though, it seems unlikely that they were cluster headaches and more likely just severe migraines that hit every month or two. Not sure why the doctors diagnosed it as such.

Actually, wikipedia has an entry linked from migraines on Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome that's dead on. It's really weird to have it completely explained, kinda comforting in its own way.

Umm, I guess I'd say keep yourself hydrated.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Do you still suffer from migraines? I gather that these aren't those either, though, come to think of it, they've been acutely bad since we replaced lightbulbs in the kitchen area. The fixture seemed to hold only one bulb, but we managed to get a second one in there, the consequence of which is a brighter living room area. Perhaps too much time spent in the living room is the problem and these are minor migraines (shows you how much I know on the subject, as the only thing that makes me think those might be at fault is a possible light sensitivity).

Hydration is go! I have refilled my water bottle about two or three times today. I'm going to try laying off Diet Pepsi entirely tonight (it'll be a miracle if I manage that), and keep to water.

[cbreakr.livejournal.com]

Lighting is a HUGE factor in this and lots of other health issues. Too bright can hurt yours eyes and too dark (like in my apartment) seems to make everyone sleepier.

[cbreakr.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, and the migraines became less frequent (and are now gone) during/after my psych hospital stays were done, most notably after starting to take Lithium.

[cagexxx.livejournal.com]

You know what else wikipedia has an entry on? Everything.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

Ironically, they don't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything
Just some things named "Everything".