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hell yeah PG Wodehouse! Life with Jeeves is fabulous also, of course.

Last time I super needed to escape I was in the middle of reading the Fellowship of the Ring. I finished it, stormed through the Two Towers and the Return of the King and then circled all the way back to the Silmarillion, followed by the Hobbit and then the trilogy again. It was intense but I'll be damned if Tolkien didn't do a great job of ejecting me from reality for a long, comprehensive, cozy few months. Tom Bombadil is a magnificent defense against OMW.

Blocking holes is the most effective way to keep mice out, but you'll still need to deal with the mice you already have. Glue traps are the worst, and definitely the least humane--we had a mouse that managed to tear one of its feet off trying to get itself out of a glue trap, so that was the end of that method. You want to avoid poisoning the mice, too, because they'll just end up crawling into some inaccessible cavity in your walls to die and your house will smell for weeks. Snap traps and rat zappers are effective and will (usually) kill the mouse instantly.

If you're squeamish about actually killing the mice, you can rig up a trap with a paper towel roll, some peanut butter, and an empty trash can : http://members.aceweb.com/patrussell/mousetrap/Mousetrap.htm

These are very very effective and don't harm the mice at all, but you do need to figure out what to do with the mice once you trap them-- you want to release them faaar away from your home, and it's awkward walking a mile to the nearest park with a mouse in a trash can.

ps, dear AT, why oh WHY can't you hire an editor/proofreader?

1050908, good point. you're right. let me just pull out my calendar and re-schedule all my poop-breaks for times that i know i'll be at home. why didn't i think of that sooner?

when you gotta go, you gotta go. let's not be absurd.

i'm with burnttoast. i've seen much better examples of bathroom art on this site. what gives?

lol @ piranesi-- totally the best parody

i LOVE this idea, and i think kelly has done a wonderful job with an awkward space.

a lot of the above comments are uh... really mean. what's the deal?

the SP Muse lights would be lovely in a kid's room.

I don't think short-lived necessarily equals shallow crap-- look at andy goldsworthy.

I think these show a remarkable amount of creativity and skill, and if developing a sense of artistic elitism is going to teach me that creativity is secondary to archival stability, well, count me out.

i'm with hnhkt-- i'd be weirded out if a houseguest sent me replacements for items they'd spotted around my home. if my guests are examining my homewares and determining that my french press isn't up to snuff, well, i'd rather not know about it.

also, as a guest, i'm not sure about showing up with a vase-- i think unused vases can become difficult-to-store clutter very quickly and i wouldn't want to foist that on a host. but... i can't think of a better solution to the hunting-for-a-vase conundrum.