A few days ago Mousie, Fen and I all went out to our favorite Chinese food place.  (Mousie was too sleepy to cook, and Fen's cooking is a little scary sometimes!)  Anyway, we ordered three of the vegetarian dinner, only we substituted the hot-and-sour soup instead of the egg-flower.  Mousie generously agreed to eat my soup, and I generously agreed to let her.  It's tasty and delicious, but too spicy for my little bunny tummy; it also clears out the sinuses and I was sick of hearing Mousie sniffle.   I got a selection of the cooked vegetables (some of the cabbage from the Tofu in Black Bean Sauce and some carrots and baby corn from the Steamed Veggies in Broth) and we had a very lovely dinner with lots of leftovers.

As we were leaving, a man about Mousie's age or so came up.  At first we didn't know what to think, but he put his hand on his tummy and made the ASL sign for eat, then the one for help.  We gave him the leftovers (at my suggestion, because Mousie and Fen had obviously forgotten about them) and then we were all about to go our way when the police pulled up!  *gasp!*

They said they'd gotten a call about the man whacking the living daylights out of a poor, defenseless Aunty-Em machine: you know, those ones that like to give out money to people when people feed them plastic and numbers on a pad.  I think he must have gotten mad because the one to went to had already given out all her money for the day and he was hungry.  Anyway, he motioned to Mousie, and she told the police that he needed help cashing his checks.  They looked at the checks, then asked if he had ID.  Fen gave him some paper, and the police let him use one of their pens to help everyone communicate with each other.  Mousie asked him, he pulled out his wallet, then said they wanted to know where he got them.  Mousie asked, he said at home, and then they wanted him to sit over by the police car with it's flashing lights.  So Mousie fingerspelled "they want", then made the signs for "you sit over there".  She really shouldn't have dropped that ASL class at college.  I think she's going to try taking it again over summer.

Anyway, they said they were going to take him in just to double-check on the checks- to make sure he hadn't taken them out of other people's mailboxes- and told us to have a good night.  I'm glad they let him eat while they were waiting, because he was pretty hungry!  I hope everything turned out okay; we had to go.  I guess this is just a good example of how you can help people when you know other languages (or at least a little bit)!

Last night was Halloween, and there were so many of those little people dressed up in funny costumes it made my head spin!  Mousie dressed up too, she had on all black and her hair was up in braids with gold glitter all over it and black feathers, and she had more black feathers stuck to her face to make eyebrows.  She put them on with this white goopy stuff she called "liquid latex".  She looked pretty scary, I didn't know what to think!  But then she smiled at me and everything was all okay again...  Besides, those little feathers were kinda fun to bat at while I rode on her head- it distracted from the glitter itching my tail!

Anyway, she and Fen went to see this late showing of the movie 30 Days of Night.  When we got there, there were a bunch of the employees and other movie-goers dressed up too!  There was even one employee in an old yellow "Wolverine" costume from X-Men. He had the hair going for him and everything- he said it was naturally like that, he just encouraged it slightly with a little hairspray.  We took a bunch of pictures, but Mousie says I'm not allowed to post them because of the other people's privacy.  I guess that's fair, but I still wish I could show you!

Once we got in the theater and settled, I started getting chilly, so I snuck down and cuddled on Mousie's neck.  Then the movie started...  It was a really creepy vampire movie!  I was scared the whole time, but I really got scared during this one spot...  I dove my little face against Mousie's neck, and then all of a sudden she screamd and I got smacked and went flying!  SHE HIT ME!  I couldn't believe it!  I think the indignation of being flung through the air like a common napkin was the only thing that helped me get back up the stairs to where she and Fen were sitting without freezing up in fear... the movie was pretty scary!

I nipped Mousie's finger, and she completely deserved it... even if after the movie she did explain that when I dove into her neck she freaked out and thought some psycho in the theater was trying to play vampire on her.  I'm NEVER going to a horror movie with Mousie again!  I'd rather stay home where I'm not in danger of being tossed about like a ragdoll.  XP*