Wednesday, January 5, 2011

New Years Cleaning

So yesterday as I was doing a little New Years cleaning and de-cluttering (yes, I can do cleaning and de-cluttering when I live out of a garage), I had an unexpected visitor:
(Hola Senor Lizard that scared the crap out of me)

Now before you think it, no I am not a complete pansy. But I knew that this cute tiny little lizard that was perhaps dead or hibernating (do lizards hibernate? I should know this...) was going to turn into one of these bad boy, velociraptor-types from Jurassic Park, and bite my face off (or possibly spray some crazy acid and severely disfigure me...)
(I'm telling you...it was one wink away from turning into this...)

Enter mop standing up in the corner. I first attempted to hook my old soccer bag onto the handle in attempts to knock it off. When that failed miserably, I came at it from a different angle and used the mop stick to push off the box that the demon lizard was wallowing on...which knocked the box off sideways onto the soccer bag, thus trapping the lizard between two boxes...AND IT STILL DIDN"T GET OFF! Demon lizard. Then I got up all of my courage and lifted the box that it was on, and it fell off onto the bag. Dang it! So back to the mop. I used the mop to lift up the bag and attempt to fling it off by some paint (hopefully containing lead). Mission Accomplished! Got rid of some stuff and a demon lizard. Hopefully we don't see it again in a few weeks when we move our stuff out of that garage and into a moving truck!