Try to stay calm!

Over the weekend, I had lunch with my girlfriends.  I told them that I have crisis almost everyday and I thought about how absurd it is that my life is not normal and I should clam down and take a deep breath.

Then the new week rolled around and first thing Monday morning, no internet connection in this apartment.  Are you kidding me?  L had not arrived his office yet and I called to find out how to fix this damn problem.  I need to have internet connection so I can be connected to the outside world.  Ev has been sick for awhile now and I started getting a headache.  I would like to use Skype with my mother (in Taiwan).  In any event, per instruction from L, now, I had to go check the router and modem (what the heck is that anyway?).  I had to have L on the phone first to find out which one is router and which one is modem.  The white one is router, he said.  and black one is modem.  I said what black one.  There is a dark blue one.  Is that a modem?  which plug I have to pull, there are 7 plugs total.  I got the right plugs and pulled off the router and modem, wait 5 minutes.  Not working.  Then try to restart the computer.  I did twice, and still not working.  Then L told me to use modem line directly on the computer.  NOT WORKING!  At this point, I was going insane because Ev started pulling the wires (he loves wires!).  I had enough.  I turned off the computer and left the house.

Of course, L came home late evening and there was internet connection.  What the hell?  This was not working for me.  Don't get me started in using the remote controls.  We have 4 for TV and DVD.  I never figure out how to use any of these things.

Then Tuesday came.  It was a perfect day for me.  I picked up my CSA in the afternoon and picked all the edamame with Ev.  Yes, look at the picture above, those are edamame branches and edamame grow on the branches.  Of course, you have to peel the shells.

I felt so great after putting Ev to sleep on that night because there was no crisis on that day.  Ok, this is a good start.

Then I heard something in my pantry.  I discovered mice in my pantry.  Of course, I had to call L.  It was 7:30 p.m. What the hell is he doing in the office 7:30 p.m.?  No, that is normal.  I told him that we have a problem here (actually this was a real crisis).  The mice in the pantry was eating away my favorite chocolate cookies.  It is French!!!  Anyway, I spent the next 3 hours taking out everything from the pantry and stuffing all the gaps between the walls and floors.  By the time L came home,  I was already exhausted.  He bought a whatever sonic plug to prevent mice coming.  It was $15.  I was so tired.

And the sonic machine did not work because 2 days later, I saw more mice poops in my pantry.  Again, I called L in his office.  Do you call this crisis?   I think it is.  Mice in the apartment really stresses me out.  I am just sitting here blogging away because I have no idea how to get rid of mice.

The thing is that I try to read online of people who live a very calm life, such as Soulemama.  Does she have mice problem???