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The 5am Gerbil Grab

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Alice woke up at around 4.45am this morning, wanting a drink. So to avoid the low mutterings turning into 10 decibel screaming that would wake the whole house, I got up to make her a bottle. As I was walking downstairs I heard what can only be described as a scampering across the laminate floor in the living room. The first thought that went through my mind was “oh god, the cat’s got in and let the gerbils out!” So I flicked on the light to see the back end of a gerbil disappearing under the table.

The gerbils cage is in the backroom, so to reach the living room it had to get out of its cage, and come through the kitchen before getting to the living room. My first reaction was to check where the second gerbil was – luckily she’d had the sense to stay at “home” and was sitting on the top level inside the cage, peering out. It looks like the sidedoor had been pushed ever so slightly open and the gerbil had squeezed her way out.

I returned to the living room, muttering under my breath about 5am not being the time of day for chasing rodents around the house and spent half an hour enticing the stupid thing out from under the sideboard with some gerbil treats and the enticement of a cardboard tube to chew. Thankfully, our gerbils are pretty tame and don’t mind being handled so wasn’t in the least concerned when she did poke her head out and I grabbed her. I gave her a mild lecture about keeping me out of bed while she wriggled and glared at me and then dumped her back in her cage with her sister.

Bloody things! They’re both curled into a ball fast asleep now.

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Well, I’m currently on my pc up in the bedroom soooooo.

1. Monitor (directly in front of me, obviously!)
2. External harddrive to the left of the monitor
3. Two speakers behind and to each side of the monitor
4. Wireless Mouse
5. Wireless Keyboard
6. Tower to the right on the floor
7. SubWoofer, to the left of the tower
8. Two tall bookcases – one to either side of me (both completely full of books)
9. Two shelves directly above the monitor – the bottom full of books, the top full of Egyptian Pantheon statues, my wand, my athame and numerous other witchcraft items.
10. A three-drawer unit to the right of the Tower – full of my computer supplies (paper, print cartridges, my family tree research)
11. Directly behind me, Alice’s Cot
12. Directly behind the cot, our bed
13. Other random crap

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