Life's not fair, or, a departure from the topic of mice (except not really)

Marie has these mice at her house, two of them, Bambina and Not-Named-Yet. And then she also has our whole maze at her house too. And me? I just have me. That's why she has so much more content to blog about. (Don't get me wrong, I promise I'm not bitter about this.) See, PETA doesn't come to my house to investigate attempted mouse starvation.

So I could decide, hey, I just want to blog. I could talk about learning Seussical music on the piano or our lemon cookies on the counter or even how I've been reading my old notebooks full of randomness and they are hilarious.

But then that wouldn't fit with the blog. And blogs are usually centered around one thing (and often this one thing is the random ramblings of the blog author, but whatever), which is, in this case, mice. Particularly Bambina and Not-Named-Yet.

So I have to be creative. Like putting random photos with captions or introducing a stuffed monkey. Or talking about how I don't know what to talk about.

Which is all ok.

But usually somewhere in my ramblings about not knowing what to blog about I get some random idea. Which is, in this case, to name our unnamed mouse. Because really, it would be sad to go through life only referred to as Not-Named-Yet.

When Marie and I started naming the mice, we decided almost right away that they should have Italian names. Giuliano was an instant choice but unfortunately we can't use it because both of our mice are girls. Bambina was chosen from a narrowing-down of sorts, starting with this list. Which is where we will start again.

Now, I'm feeling kind of lazy today, so instead of actually picking some favorites I will let our massive group of loyal readers do it. Yup. That means you. Find some favorite Italian names, ones that would fit mice, especially these mice.

And if you don't feel like it, then just remember poor little Not-Named-Yet and that you're doing this for her.

-Wendy

For the sake of random photos

You know what, I really enjoy when people put photos on their blogs. So today I'm going to just stick a bunch of photos in a post. Just because. I like photos.

Oh! The dramaticness! The intensity! Except not really!

I have an idea! Let's lay out all our tools and take a random picture!

I got my foot in the lower left corner there... gotta love those socks.

You would not believe how many blurry "saw" pictures we got.

A mouse's eye view of the maze. Possibly our most boring picture.

-Wendy

Marie is rolling her eyes at me as I try to come up with a title.

For the title, I was going to write "We like totally finished the mouse maze." Then she started talking about capitalization so I wrote "omg" instead. She didn't really spring for that either, and now she's just sighing.

When we were making the mouse maze the base was all warped so it was kind of hard to put on the bottom. We had all these black screws and we had to squish and smash and yeah. Also we had to go in at some weird angle to get the corner brackets all in.

You know, this is really boring.

Marie just wants to skip this whole thing and jump on the trampoline in the dark. I say we at least put something on here for our readers. (HA. Ahem. Sorry. Just thinking about all those readers we don't really have. Yet.)

I would do a keyboard art mouse but those take too long so maybe I'll just find one online to copy and paste.

"How cheap," Marie says. "I don't care," I say.

No wait! I just remembered how to make a really cute simple mouse. Sure, it's not that exciting, but still. I'll even make it extra big just for fun.

<:3O~

It is the ugliest mouse Marie has ever seen, apparently.