State Of The Union Address.

Well, hello again fine folks! This is ol' jcrow here, stopping by to provide a progress report from headquarters. We've got some big stuff going on, you may want to sit down for this. :)

Thursday, Christopher and I decided to turn our kitchen into a small time bakery. We were standing there at the counter whipping up some tasty treats, and this wee little mouse ran out on to the sink and stopped and just looked at us. He was a brave little mouse, not scared of us at all. He had gotten into some water somewhere and his fur was all frazzeled and he had one little beady squinty eye - totally reminded me of Scrat on Ice Age. Anyhow, I laughed and was like, "...would you look at that little crackhead mouse?!" We stood there for a while checking him out, going on about how darn cute he was. In the short amount of time that we remained in the kitchen following his grand little crackhead entrance -  he ran back and forth from under the foreman grill to the sink to watch us several times...we were quite tickled with this brave little fella and his little mouse antics. :)

Friday, I came home from work and the little crackhead mouse was in a mason jar with some cotton balls on the kitchen table...Chris had caught him after he jumped into the sink and couldn't get back out, and made him a little temporary home. I was so excited! I've wanted to have pet mice for quite a while, and although I had previously decided that their names would be Costigan & Costello...we decided that since this little guy was all about our baking scene, he should be called Ratatouille. 

Saturday, I went Christmas shopping with Madre & Tesler and we stopped at the Feeder's Supply on Brownsboro Road. They had these kickass little rodent houses on sale, so I brought home a new home for Ratatouille. One would not think that a mouse would have so much personality, but this guy - oh he's full of it. We spent most of Saturday night sitting on the couch, watching Ratatouille jump and climb and run in the wheel. Yeah, we are just THAT cool on a Saturday. :)

We also decided Saturday night that we would bait another little baby mouse so that Ratatouille would have a roommate. It didn't take long for a chocolate covered pretzel to lure another one into the sink, and viola! We've got ourselves a Mr. Jingles. :)