To Do List

I'm getting ready to leave for my trip to southern California. It's already Saturday evening and we are leaving bright and early on Tuesday morning.

The first thing on our check list is to finish building the rat cage. Yes, Breezy and I, who have no building/tool experience what so ever, decided to build a rat cage. I hunted around for one on Craigslist for awhile but nothing great was available and new rat cages are usually around eighty dollars. Breezy kept saying, "Lets build a cage. Let's build one!" and I continued to ignore her until I realized that maybe, it wasn't a bad idea.

After deciding to go through with the project, our first resolution was that we absolutely were not going to ask for help, at all. (At least until we screwed it up so badly that begging for some male TLC was the only option left). That left us with the task of navigating Home Depot solo.

We found many sharp and shiny objects along the shelves at the store and maybe attracted more than a few funny looks from shoppers who actually had some concept of what they were doing but eventually a worker pointed us in the right direction. We bought two rolls of hardware cloth and have been in the process of creating the perfect cage.

However, we need the cage to be finished before we leave.

Second task is cleaning our room so Breezy's dad doesn't have fun rummaging through the clutter. (In my defense, my side of the room is mostly clean.)


Third is to do laundry and pack.

Forth involves getting my car ready. The valve cover gasket needs to be fixed, or something like that. Garrett is going to help me, or rather I'm going to help him. Afterward apparently we are going for a 2 or 3 hour drive to make sure the thing actually works, A-okay, or something like that.

Busy, busy, busy and not very much time left.