mike's revenge

well, he finally did it! he caught himself a woodchuck!!!

he came home from work and saw one by the side of the house so he came running in the house and started loading his gun. of course i freaked out on him and told him to put it down. after awhile he finally listened to me and decided to set his trap instead. (it was in the house because he had been working on it).

he randomly decided to bait his trap with a marshmallow and apparently they like sugar :)

one of our neighbors was talking to us from her upstairs window, and she said she works from home so she is there a lot and she sees them com under our porch all the time. she told us that the one we caught was just a little guy compared to the others, but mike assures us it won't be the last one he catches.

we took it out to my parents house to get rid of it. mike was going to shoot it which is why there are no pictures of him letting it go, because i didnt want to see that. he took it up to the spring and he said he had a shot but his safety was on, and then he just decided to let it go. hopefully they dont start eating the plants out there!

woodchuck inside the trap

this picture is pretty dark, but it is in the back

CURRENT STANDINGS: WOODCHUCKS-2 MIKE-1

woodchuck strikes again!

yesterday we got mike a new bike. als was having a sale, and he has wanted this one for a really long time. me and megan went and got it and had it here when he came home. megan has one identical to it, just a little bit smaller. so when he came home he thought it was a joke, and it was hers. when he found out it wasn't, he got really excited and rode down to janey's house to show her.

today his family came over to see it. his dad wanted to take his old bike home so mike went out back to get it. he came inside and told me to go out back and look at his lettuce. i went out there and he said "didn't it used to be taller?" ha ha ha! sure did!! once again he said "d*** woodchucks!!" the trap was about a foot away from the lettuce, but unfortunately it got blown over by the wind so we just picked it up and it wasnt set. of course. so once again our lettuce is gone.

*compare this picture to the one from the last post to see the difference.

CURRENT STANDINGS: WOODCHUCKS-2 MIKE-0

mike V. woodchucks

awhile ago we were pulling up to our apartment and mike said "squirrel!" i told him that was a pretty big squirrel and he looked closer and said it was a woodchuck. so of course he had to chase it around the back of the house. we couldnt see it anywhere and we assumed it had gone in the hole between the cement pad and the grass just outside of our back door. mike wanted to try to get it out with a stick but i made him leave it alone.
last week, mike decided to plant a garden. on thursday he went to home depot and bought a big tote and some lettuce, tomatoes, and peppers. he came home and planted the whole thing and was very proud.
saturday afternoon i was at work, and i got a call from mike. when i answered he said "the d*** woodchucks ate my lettuce!!!" i started laughing my head off and he told me that i needed to call my friends dad who is a trapper to see if he could lend us a trap. i asked him what was in it for me and without pausing he said "a woodchuck hat!!!" :)
on sunday mike decided the wait for a trap was unbearable. yes, it had only been one day. so he decided to build his own. we went to his parents house and he found some scrap wood and built himself his own live trap for the woodchuck. when he asked what to bait it with i told him lettuce. ha ha ha! i think im pretty funny!
so far, we havent caught anything. mike has spent plenty of time at the kitchen window with the binoculars staring out into the field next to our apartment where they live. but they have yet to come back.

CURRENT STANDINGS: WOODCHUCKS-1 MIKE-0

mike planting his garden

so proud of the finished product

after the woodchucks had their feast
this is a couple days after and the lettuce is actually starting to grow back.
if you look at the first couple pictures, you will see that it was a few inches tall in the beginning.

this is how all the lettuce looked right afterwards.
barely poking through the dirt.

THE WOODCHUCK TRAP!!

update

i was pretty excited for school to get out and for life to calm down a little, but so far things have stayed pretty busy.
i have started working mornings, and so far so good! i usually work the 1-9 shift, but i really don't like it in the summer. i am a master at wasting time. when i don't go to work til 1 i am really good at bumming around all morning, then going to work and not getting home til about 9:30. then i just chill with mike til we go to bed. needless to say, i don't always get a lot done. now i have started going in at 5 or 6 in the morning which is cool because then i am totally done for the day at the same time i used to just be going in. now the question is, what to do with all this extra time? i'm not used to having a lot of time to myself and i love it!!!!

when me and mike got married, everyone told us june was the month for weddings and i just thought okay..... now i see what they mean. 2 of my friends and one of my cousins are getting married in june. luckily none of them are on the same day! Stephanie is marrying a guy named Scott that she met down in Ogden. and Kristina is marrying..... Jason Baxter! who woulda thunk? me and mike were talking the other day and we realized that the 4 of us used to hang out all the time, and now we are all going to be related. isn't it strange where life takes you sometimes?

scatter brained

sometimes i amaze myself. and not in a good way.

today i had 2 finals. no biggie. went to the first and left feelin pretty good. it was 10:00 am and my next final wasn't til 12:30. or so i thought.

in the syllabus it said the final was at 11:30. i had written in my planner 11:30. but i could have sworn on my life that in the last class she said "remember that we changed it and, the final is at 12:30 not 11:30."

i must have really misunderstood.

i blame in partially on my deafness.

stupid genes.

anyway, i went to the library to study for it and kill time. i've been sick so i was feeling pretty crappy and just really wanted to go home. i was trying to study but my mind kept wandering, so noon rolls around and i still dont really feel ready for the test. but i just thought oh well because it wasn't really a "final" just a last test on the last few chapters, and we get to drop our lowest test in the class. so i thought if i do better good, if not who cares? i could just drop the final and still get a B out of the class.

so i go to the classroom what i am thinking is like 10-15 minutes early. there are like 2 people in there working on a test. i thought it was strage that there were only that many people there. at first i thought that she must just be letting people start it as soon as they came in. then as i walked past one person i noticed they were just checking over their entire test.

OOPS!

yeah it really started at 11:30.

so the professor says to me are you just getting here? i told her i had the time mixed up and she was fine with it and was still going to let me take it. she had to dig a test out of her bag because she was all packed up and ready to go. so i sit down, and the other couple people start to leave. i didnt want to make her sit there for like 30-40 minutes while i am the only one finishing the test cuz i am a blooming idiot and couldn't remember what time it was at. i looked over the test really quick and there were quite a few i didnt know, so i just left and told her that could be the one i would drop because it would probably end up being my lowest score anyways.

and call me lazy, but i am more than happy with a B. especially considering the fact that i only went to that class half the time.

so i wasted about 2 1/2 hours of my life up on campus studying for a test i didnt even take. and i was just sitting in the library when it really started. it's not like i was busy or anything.

for anyone reading this, it probably doesnt surprise you at all.

yep, thats me!

i'm a college student ;)

ugh

im stressed today, and i decided i'm sick and tired of a lot of things. so i thought i'd share.

-i'm sick of drama

-sick of the two faced people who cause drama

-sick of people being nice when they want something

-sick of rude customers at work who act like i should be honored to be able to help them. guess what. im not. at all. and im only being nice because its my job. so, as my sister-in-law shelby so nicely put it, dont whistle at me, wave me over, or ring our "invisible bell" because i am not your dog. and PLEASE get off your cell phone. dont try to point things out and whisper to me because i have no idea what you want.

-sick of school and pointless classes that i have no interest in

-sick of always being busy.

now that i have vented and complained, its time to remind myself that it could be lots worse.

and i am very grateful that i actually have a job. and for a nice apartment. and for an awesome husband who puts up with my crap. and many more things. sometimes it just feels really good to say all the crap that frustrates me.

the end.

peace out

hockey and pie

i felt the need to share this.

mike is currently doing sit-ups, push-ups, lunges, squats,... the works.

i am sitting on the couch on the computer eating banana cream pie.

he is a lot more self-motivated than me. definitely. :)