Knitting and Mice (my complaints...for today)

Okay, here are my complaints for today...December 1st, 2006! Knitting and Mice. I will start with the knitting, since it is a short one. I learned how to knit in April and since then have taught five other women how to do it. They all say I am an excellent beginner teacher ("beginner" because I have yet to master any stitches beyond "knit" and "purl" (and still am not sure if I have the "purl" down)). My complaint is that I have seen some of the projects that these other girls have completed and they look great. My projects....never completed! I have started a couple, but not one has gotten any longer than a potholder! Am I allowed for one of my New Year's resolutions to put down ...."To finish one knitting project"? NOTE: Vincent just pushed a bunch of keys on the keyboard and now it is writing in italics and I can't figure out how to go back.
Well, I am going to set a goal for myself today, the first of December is somewhat like the first of January, and make Macy a scarf for Christmas. Wish me luck!
Complaint number two: Mice. I have them in my kitchen. Not the one little mouse who sometimes finds their way into your house accidently, but a family of them who are living in the perimeters of my house and come in at nighttime. I have been doing research online as how to get rid of them. This started out because I was scared of them, but the desire to rid my kitchen of them is now pure REVENGE! I recently went to the store and invested some well earned money into an arsenal of mouse traps (not the snap kind, but the tunnel ones so that you can't see their bodies.....yes the ones that break their necks (I am very against animal cruelty, but mice don't count in my book!)), a plug in thing that emits high frequency waves that drive the mouse crazy, and a bag of cotton balls and Oil of Peppermint (read that you put out plates of cotton balls with the Peppermint on it and it drives the buggers crazy). Well for two days I have yet to seen any evidence of mice! I hope it works!
NOTE: I thought the Peppermint Oil would make my kitchen smell nice and christmasy for the holidays, but now the smell is even driving me crazy!