A trip to france

I know that you've all been wondering what exactly I've been doing with this my week and a half long vacation. I know your all very interested because I get asked like 57 times a day what my plans are. As no one seems to be down with my plan-less vacation.
Well today M and I took a little trip down the French Rivera. We rode bike down nice coble stone parkways. It was a very enjoyable way to spend a few hours. Ok maybe we were only gone for like an hour, but either way it was a good time. Really nothing compares to riding your bike for the first time (even though you bought it six years ago), in the nice calming breeze of the French Rivera. It felt kind of like in a movie. I wanted to go to Italy or maybe England in the late 1800's, but alas there now that I got my bike back, and well lets face it put some air in the tires, there will now be lots of bike trips around the world. I even went wearing a dress, because well what else would one wear to bike the beaches of France. Well I'll keep you posted on where else I travel on my plan-less vacation

A clash of cultures.

Ok there seems to be this little riff going on at work. See we bought all these games for the break room, like jinga, monopoly, checker/chess etc. I was crabby at work so I was eating in the break because there were too many people in the office. So I said to recetionist that we should play a game. She picked checkers becuase it would be the easiest and the quickest. Well it turns out there are some, well I'll call them made up, rules to checkers. So we are playing and S makes her way to my side of the board and gets a King. I'm all no big deal, though she won't move any of her checkers out of her side so I can get in, they still aren't going anywhere. Well then she tries to move like three spaces with her King to Jump me. I'm all what the hell are you doing. You can only move one space at a time. Well its starts this whole big thing where in we need to break out the rules. Half the people at work though really thought thats houw you play the game. There really seems to be a divide along the lines of where you grew up. Thats the best I can figure. Seems a little crazy to me though as what would be the point of the game once a king has been made if it can do whatever it wants. There was actually quite a big of discussion about it throughout the day. I'm happy to say that we did break out the rules, and i was right. I can always live with that.

There's a fucking mouse in my house.

Ok I know I have an apartment, and I've been trying for almost a week to pretend that it wasn't there. I know you wondering how one can pretend something is not there, but before last night I hadn't actually seen the stupid thing. See I guess its NOT actually in my house per say, however its seems to live in the entry way to my front door. I noticed the other day there were paper towels and a rock outside my front door that appear to have come out of the hole in the frame. Now I was pretending because I didn't stuff paper towels in there. I was trying to assume that whoever live here before me would not actually think that a viable option to fill the whole, but apparently I give them too much credit. Anyways, like I said I was pretending that it wasn't there, being that I hadn't actually seen it.
Well last night I opened up the door and turned on the light, and this little thing crawled out of the air conditioning. Then it proceeded to crawl up into a whole that I would guess goes under the stairs to the apartment above mine. Ish. I do actually have all my christmas stuff out there and now I'm not sure I will be touching any of that anytime soon. Hope it doesn't get really hot because I'm sooooo not touching the Air conditioner, which I think I might now actually be afraid of.
I really don't know what to do about the mouse becuase I don't think I can do the whole trap thing, and I'll be real honest and say that Idon't know how else to get rid of it. I mean seriously if filling the whole with paper towels didn't work I really don't know what will. On the plus side I'm happy that it was not a rat. As I was kind of freaked out at the idea of a rat being in my house. Ever since I saw this HUGE ASS rat run across the street and down the alleyway between my building and the building next to mine.
Seriously I just want a normal apartment where the only living things are people. Is that really too much to ask. You would think not but apparently it is.