On the list of things that tooooootally gross me out!

There are only a few things that really gross me out.

I'm not one of those chicks who gets freaked out by bugs or screams at scary movies, but today I am squirming in my skin. Home sick with a cough like Typhoid Mary, I have been trying to release some of the Puppy induced sleep deprivation that I have had for the past two weeks. So while Lexi is asleep like an angel in her crate, I am downstairs on the couch trying to sleep. My neighbor Deanne is doing a total renovation of her unit and everyday the entire small nation of El Salvador shows up and works their little Latin butts off. Today was not any different. I heard punding and sawing and was dealing with it fairly well and still managing to squeek in a few moments of blissful sleep. Then I hear a noise I had not yet heard during the renovation. It sounded simply like cable being pulled through the wall. I stepped into the kitchen to investigate further and heard the noise coming from beind my washer dryer unit. I really didn't think anything of it. I did think it odd that they were pulling cable as I wasn't sure about the structure of the 60 year old former Military housing that I call home; but what do I know?
So I ingnored it and went back to the couch for more sweet sleep. Surprised, a few hours later that I had actually slept and that Lexi was still asleep in her crate-I pondered that she might be dead up there.....but preferred to think that my training was finally paying off, I toddled into the kitchen to get a drink and noticed that the loaf of bread; we're talking about 10 huge slices of bread, was now just a plastic bag with a big hole in it. All 10 slices were GONE!

What the hell, I wondered, and then I recalled the "cabeling work"..........or so I thought. My worst fears were realized. As I know Lexi could not, (yet) escape from her crate nor could she crawl up to the counter top (yet), there must have been another sort of critter who stole my bread. After the sewage (see previous blog) issue, I immediately called the condo office to report this mysterious theft. The guy in the condo office politely told me it was most likly a R-A-T. A rat....., why couldn't he have said squirrel? Rats sound like I live in the hood. Clearly, my monthly housing payment tells us I don't live in the hood!

Suzanne tell me it is definately a squirrel as "rats only come out at night, dude" While I'm not sure I beleive that theory; food is food and rats are rats; opportunists day or night. I'm going with the squirrel theory as it just makes me feel better.

Meanwhile my favorite high fiber, 7-grain bread is in some critter's belly brewing into what will surely be a HUGE critter dump under my house only to revive the sewage problem again.

Life is a circle!