trinityvixen | (no subject)

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.