@#$%

Vermin.  Such a disgusting word.  It makes me think of spitting and snarling, which is how I feel right now.
Storytime
We've had a raccoon get into our ceiling.  Not onto our roof, into our ceiling, and it pads around and scratches and scratches and scratches, it's so loud and so close it sounds like it's going to fall right through our ceiling and right onto our heads.  It steals our sleep and makes me crazy. 
Wildlife Protection was contacted about the situation and they came and set up some traps, giving me the charge to check them every morning and reporting every morning if there was a Catch or No Catch.  I forgot to call one morning and they put me through the wringer. It's not a pleasant experience being chewed out by an animal catcher.
The good news is we caught the little stinker.
Here's proof:

Don't you dare think for a second that he's cute!

The bad news is some idiot, bleeding heart, let him go before Wildlife Protection was able to get here to take him away.
So now we'll continue to have raccoon problems, and I'll have to continue go to out every morning and call in my report.  They say the chances of catching him again are very low now that he knows the trick.

I'm so mad I could spit, and to make it worse I have strong suspicions on who the guilty party is, which just angers me more.

P.S. It's against the law to mess with animal traps, and those people aren't interested in being merciful, they take this stuff very seriously.

Sugar Free

So much Yum!

11 days sugar free and feeling great!

Judge me if you must

My new favorite song to run to is Sexy and I know it by LMFAO

I work out.

What's your favorite workout song?

Thumbs Down to Daylight Savings!

Espeically boo to the spring version!  My minutes are precious, and to take away an hour from me is just rude.  In our society, there's really no point to it, it doesn't save energy, because we'll just use electricity more in the morning now instead of in the evening.  We had a hard time going to bed on time, but still had to wake up early, I ended up going to gym an hour later than usual, because I couldn't wake up, and came home in the dark, instead of the light as I do even leaving hour earlier!
  The whole thing just makes me grumpy.

Mall Trip

I had to go to the mall yesterday to visit the Apple store because my ipod broke.  I've got to give props to Apple, they give excellent customer service, and they gave me a new ipod and charger easy-peasy.
I don't like going to the mall, it just reminds me of how out of fashion I am.  I noticed that the shorty short shorts are in fashion again, I liked it the last couple years where the knee length shorts were the fashion, that was sure handy for me.  Let's go back to that. 
And, does anyone else find the trend of short shorts with stockings repulsive? Seriously.  What are they thinking.

On a positive note, I do love going to the mall to get my monthly Godiva chocolate, and Gracie loves the escalator.  She was also a very good girl and held my hand the whole time while we walked around.  She also adored the play place, it was great to see her running around like a crazy person having so much fun, wish I'd had my camera.

what are we teaching her?

Gracie's hungry, she says:  Let's eat, let's eat
I say: We can't eat until daddy comes home
Gracie says:  Oh, eat pitzzy! (pizza) 

Guess she remembers that daddy brings home pizza sometimes. 

Morning Rituals

Gracie and I watch Tangled on Netflix every morning while I comb out her own lovely locks and try to do something with that hair to keep it out of her face.  It's actually become a really great system, Gracie lets mommy play with her hair for up to 20 minutes sometimes, and then afterward, I get to snuggle with my baby for a little longer.  To me it was just a way to get her to hold still, then Skylar pointed out how clever it was of me to have her watch Tangled, of all movies, while I did her hair.  I didn't know I was being clever in movie choice, but I'll take the compliment.

Well Leap Day happened, and Netflix decided that we had enough of Tangled, so they took it away.  Not Happy were we.  I'm pretty sure we were mostly keeping our account just for the morning hair ritual. 
Now what? 
We bought it of course. Can't live without our Tangled.