Today I noticed a rather large bug scurrying across the marble floor in the dining room. It was getting late, so I couldn't really tell what it was until it entered the kitchen. It was a baby, I mean mini-mini, lizard. I couldn't bear to stomp out his little life, so I tried to scoot him towards the back door with a fly swatter and managed to get him outside and then he stopped moving. I think I gave him a heart attack with my fly swatter. Luckily, later on, he wasn't there anymore so he must have recovered enough to hightail it out of there.
On a more upbeat note, I made my first ever rings today. I found a tutorial in an old Step-by-Step Wire magazine and I think they turned out very promising. Now I need to find a jewelry supply store to buy a steel mandrel as I whacked the heck out of my wooden mandrel and it isn't really round anymore... can't wait to make some more rings once I get a new mandrel!