mouse in the house

i forgot about the mouse! there was a mouse 'incident' today at work. we've been having a mouse problem. the mouse guy keeps bringing more traps but it doesn't seem to help. so we find mouse terds but we've never seen a live free mouse except for a sighting upstairs where there was a brutal killing at the hands of dave d.. anyways lately we've been finding more and more terds. so today i was looking for our walkie talkies and i remembered that about a year ago we put a box of stuff up on the top shelf in the laundry room. i got it down and put it on the freezer and tanya and i started going through it. lisa was sitting beside me at the computer. it was a like a time capsule (if they ever do year long time capsules). there were the black skull and cross bones bandaids, a crayon drawing that cory did of me, the backstreetboys picture that we had up etc. so there was some cloth and wood type bunny thingie and it looked like it might have mouse poo on it, so i handed it to lisa and asked if it was mouse poo. she's the expert. "nah i don't think so...", she was saying--meanwhile i had turned back to the box thinking of my barbie named maya that i knew was stored in there. i lifted someting up, i dont' know what it was and there was a LIVE MOUSE. tanya saw it at the same time and we both let out surprisingly loud shrieks and ran from the room. lisa, who is deathly afraid of rodents was up on a chair at my desk in no time. hahaha ahhh... so i went and got the only man around, mark. he and tanya shut themselves in the office (i had to walk lisa out, i've had practice with this kind of stuff thanks to karey and snakes). so tanya and mark tried to catch it but it got away. she tells the tale of trying to trap it in the shot glass with a lid but it breezed past that lid no problem and JUMPED out of the box right towards her! that's when we heard her scream. lisa meanwhile from the safety of the dining room was yelling out things like "i can't believe you idiots let it get away!" so a search was made of the office but no mouse was found. later tanya made traps of her own with peanutbutter smeared in a sawed off plastic bottle dangling over a bucket of soapy water with 'ramps' going up to the edge of the bucket. she also added cubes of cheese to the traps the mouse guy laid out. we'll see tomorrow reveals.