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Another take on Archie’s mouse problem…. hahaha!

Besides, from personal experience, there is no better way to spend quality time with your family than when there is no heat since the place where the space heater is will be the best place to be lol.

One of my favorite memories is of being snowed in with the family – our pilot light kept blowing out and we spent several days in our living room with a space heater, electric blankets, games and puzzles. Despite the fact that I was a teenager at the time, I was actually kind of sad when it was over.

I hope people donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t start analizing every word he writes, could come to a point where heà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢d feel unconfortable sharing this stuff.
Some things he write may not be meaningful, but ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s fun. Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢d be a shame if he had to start thinking twice about what he writes.

Amen.

And there are cockroaches in my house. We can’t help it–just the area we live (Hawaii; former sub-tropical rain forest). No amount of bug spray will kill them all during certain times of the year. And centipedes (one of which crawled into my bed at night and bit me on the foot–dang, that hurt). In Texas you get those black crickets that infest everywhere during the hot months. I hated them when I went to school there.

I know you weren’t insinuating uncleanliness Autumn, but sometimes words don’t translate well in written form. Leads to misunderstandings. As far as I’m aware, though, David doesn’t have a breathing problem. He has audible breath because of his vocal chord problem, but he breathes just fine and actually has really great breath control when singing.

I find it hilarious that people assume that I thought their place was not clean because of the mouse.

I suppose I was one of those people. When I read this:

rodents carry diseases and should be delt with. Everyones health is at risk with a house full of rodents

and this

DAà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s comments make me think that the upkeep and maintence of the home have been put on the back burner … [it is] sad when there are 4 other kids that have to be in the house

… I assumed that you thought the house was contaminated and unkempt.

I made assumptions about what you were saying and evidently I was wrong. For that I am sorry. It goes to show that we all make assumptions based on what people write. When David said “no heat” we all drew our own conclusions – some more extreme than others – and it’s likely we were all wrong. :rolleyes_wp:

And now I’m going to turn up my own heat and wrap some gifts. Happy holidays! :biggrin_wp:

We had a nice conversation with Jeff and THEY ARE NOT FREEZING, David fanbase, so everyone can relax.

So there, they got heat, maybe David was talking about something else, or thinking in people that don ´t have heat and the meaning got lost in translation…and mice can be anywhere even in the cleaner places… last time in my friends house one decided to go out during my friends bday party and she is so clean you wouldn ´t believe she is our Bree… The scene was even funnier  ´cause she has a chihuahua…we didn ´t know what we were chasing for the dog or the mouse… that was a party to remember…

BTW Davidarchuleta.com has two new videos… happy holidays from David and behind the scenes ALTNOY…

Not really sure why Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m being attacked for giving my opinion of Davids wordsà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦Ãƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦Ãƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦Ãƒ ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ ¦

I’m giving logical reasons for why I don’t agree with your opinion. I’m not attacking it.

Why leave home when you can just get it fixed?

Why assume that because the family is going on a family vacation, they’re not having it fixed? He never said that. Many people travel on the Holidays to reunite with other family, and from what David’s said, much of his extended family lives in Florida and Georgia, where it’s warm.

David detailed in his blog how he spent time putting his room back into order. Why assume they haven’t already gotten rid of the mouse or mice?

My sister lives in a fancy duplex in a commercial area in White Plains, has two kids and keeps a clean house. But a few months ago she left her apartment for an entire week because it had to be fumigated by professionals. Things like that happen. To assume that children aren’t being cared for in those situations is a huge stretch.

Ià ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢m not sure where weà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢re going to go quite yet, but weà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢re probably going to go somewhere that isnà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t snowing haha. I love looking at the snow, but ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s no fun when you donà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢t have heat in your house

Why leave home when you can just get it fixed? I understand that mice find warm places in the winter but rodents carry diseases and should be delt with. Everyones health is at risk with a house full of rodents especially a kid with breathing problems. DA’s comments make me think that the upkeep and maintence of the home have been put on the back burner with all the events going on in his life. I just think that is sad when there are 4 other kids that have to be in the house while he is off starting his career.

Wow, no offense but they need to take care of business at home for those other kids, I think that is a real shame.

I think it’s quite a stretch to assume that, based on what David said in his blog, his siblings are not being cared for. Nothing I’ve seen of those children suggests that they are anything but loved and well cared for.

I know a lot of people (myself included) who have kept clean houses and had to deal with a rodent from time to time. It just happens. And I’m not sure that the “no heat” comment actually meant that they have no heat in the house. Maybe his parents are like my husband and like to keep it turned down low. Or maybe we all tend to like to pick these blogs apart and take everything a little too literally … lol.

Wow, no offense but they need to take care of business at home for those other kids, I think that is a real shame.

I don’t get it. Heating systems fail on occasion and almost everybody has had to deal with a mouse getting into their house before, especially if there are no cats around. No doubt these little, everyday life problems are already resolved. David just wanted to share something interesting like he always does. It’d be a shame to read something into it that’s simply not true.

One of my teen daughters is a serious animal lover, so whenever our cat makes a à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“discoveryà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ , we catch the critter live and carry it outside to a wooded area.

From different interviews, I’ve gathered that David is an animal lover as well so he might do the same. Who knows. He did say in one of his Q&A blogs that he used to have cats and he loved them but had to give them away because his Dad turned out to be allergic. His cats wouldn’t have let the mouse take residence in his drawer. lol

I’ve had a cat for five years and one of the man reasons is that I hate mice.

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Reading David’s blogs are like catching up with an old friend. Anything that is slightly “out of the norm” heads the list of things you end up talking about. I love his writings and his video blogs because they are so very normal and engaging. He doesn’t bore us with his introspective thoughts that are none of our business, anyway, just gives us a little “slice of life” that helps keep us connected.

Way to go David…you know how to make us all smile a little bit more.

I think the mouse problem speaks more to the extremities of the weather than anything else. We live in a nice but rural neighborhood, and a vole had a litter in our attic. One of my teen daughters is a serious animal lover, so whenever our cat makes a “discovery”, we catch the critter live and carry it outside to a wooded area.

This probably solves the mystery of where David was when he heard the mouse the last time.

Actually, I think that he was blogging from a hotel room the last time he talked about a mouse. Nevertheless, he’s probably got boxes and boxes full of Nutter Butters and other assorted treats in his room. It’s no wonder he’s got mice.

KISS 108 finally has David’s backstage interview from the Boston Jingle Ball posted on their website.

And here’s an interview with Fox All Access.

I kinda doubt it. Ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s a middle class neighborhood on a cul-de-sac. My brother has a 4,000 sqft house on a cul-de-sac and it barely fits the lot. And ità ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s so cavernous that they seriously thought of selling it because it was soooo big for a family of 5. A family of 7 would be just about right.

You may be right about the size of their house. I got that information from one of David’s fansites…so I take everything with a grain of salt unless it comes from team David.

8,000 sq ft? Thatà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã¢â€ž ¢s a lotta house!

I kinda doubt it. It’s a middle class neighborhood on a cul-de-sac. My brother has a 4,000 sqft house on a cul-de-sac and it barely fits the lot. And it’s so cavernous that they seriously thought of selling it because it was soooo big for a family of 5. A family of 7 would be just about right.