I won a Sexy Jesus shirt and doll. The doll’s kind of cute. The base has a little coil spring and a sticky underside. I stuck it to the top of my monitor, even though it overlaps a bit on the sides.

We were going to run copper wire through the big rat cage (the one that’s really a ferret cage) to try to make it more escape-proof, but Tom decided to get chicken wire instead.

My period, which I thought was over, decided to give me a little grand finale not long after I fell asleep. Although I got a spot on my sheet I was too tired to get up and wash them, so I jumped right up and did that as soon as I got up around 3:00 this afternoon.

Then I ate the free sample that came in the mail that Tom left for me when he went to pick up the mail and wire before work. It was a granola-like bar rich in fiber. There was also some cereal that came with the sample, but we were out of milk so I gave it to the rats.

After I ate and entered sweeps, I tackled a 4-hour job I thought would take just a half-hour or so. My hands are cut, my back aches like hell, and if these rats get out of the cage after all this time and work, I will absolutely squash them. Just squash them!