What a week

I stayed home this morning.  Just exhausted.  Let me give you a few highlights and lowlights of this week:

• There are mice in the house.  Portia killed one early Wednesday morning, but one skittered from underneath the stove yesterday morning.  Preheating the oven to 400 drove it out from its hiding place.  Portia was licking herself and didn't see the little thing dart out.  However, she's spent the better part of every night on Mouse Patrol. 
• And we've found mouse droppings in several places in the kitchen.  Which means that we've been cleaning everything in the kitchen.  My dear student assistants, please don't worry.  I washed all the kitchen bowls, utensils, and baking pans before and after I made things for you.  Using very hot water, strong, antibacterial detergent, etc.  And we're using bleach to soak any number of things.  Ugh.
• I work at the Local Yarn Store (LYS) most Saturdays.  Yesterday morning I got a tearful phone call from my Saturday co-worker.  One of her closest friends had been killed a few hours before in a botched robbery attempt.  There are not enough words or hugs to give comfort. 
• Even sadder is that this is the second friend to be killed in less than a year, and a third friend (one that we both knew) died in a car wreck a few months ago.
• Another dear friend came to the LYS asking me to finish seaming a knitted jacket and block it so she could wear it to her mother's memorial service.  I'm honored that she asked me.  I'll also try to keep from crying when I do it, as I knew her mother too.

Back to cleaning.  Joel's done much of the vacuuming and pulling things out, and it's time to put order to the current chaos, now that various things have dried. 

Did I mention the snake in the library?

Comments

[Rustee]

Fun times! Hooray for Portia!

[PlazaJen]

Ugh. My dear, you need a good relaxing soak, or hot tea, or a stiff drink. I hope things improve; so sad, so tragic about the murder. Such a bright light, such promise.