Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Living Dangerously

I recently acquired 2000 pre-stamped envelopes for the office, and have now used 28 of them, as well as 3 envelopes that were provided with the bills. What, you ask, does this have to do with living dangerously. I'll tell you. I LICKED them all myself. Yes, even though there is the e-mail out there touting the "fact" that cockroach eggs are found on envelopes and will embed themselves into your tongue and grow into very large cockroaches inside your mouth, I took the plunge and licked the envelopes--with my tongue, no less. I know that my courage astounds you. You may later see my photo attached to that e-mail.

In other news, my Mom and I were eating lunch in my office, when we saw movement in the form of a mouse. I tried to ignore it, but could not after seeing it several times. The mouse then had the gall to climb on top of my fridge and dig around in my emergency food supply. If we made noise, he would pop up his head and look at us as if we were friends calling "hello" to him. Mice are not my friends, as you may know from earlier posts. The solution to the problem--I dumped all emergency food in the trash and took it outside, and my Mom was kind enough to set a new mousetrap to catch this "un-friend", so that the food foraging would stop, though she did say that the dead mouse in the office (which I cannot find, but only smell) probably died from overeating. By the way, it was a deer mouse we saw, so I also live dangerously as Hanta virus comes from deer mice. Deer mice are different than the mice drawn in kindergarten classes. They have very distinct features and look like very intelligent creatures, who condescendingly look at you daring you to outsmart them.

4 comments:

Alice said...

Man I wish I had the courage to live so dangerously. Are you coming this weekend?

Moo said...

Alas, I am not. I will be there the next weekend. You are more than welcome to party at the big Memorial day festivities at my house, though. They will involve much playing of the WII. We've gone a little bit overboard, what can I say?

Stephanie T said...

What! I thought you laugh in the face of danger. What kind of tough country girl are you anyhow???

Beee said...

The stamp licking does remind me of George's girlfriend on Seinfeld. George encouraged her to get the cheap envelopes, and they killed her after she licked quite a bit.