To Begin With...
A good way to start a blog, wouldn't you say? Not the things before or after but the things we need to begin with. To begin with, I am Marissa but call me Mouse. Why? Simply because that is who I am. I am a mouse. Well, obviously I am a human being. I don't mean in the literal sense anyways. More like in another sense, more symbolic. I, like a mouse, can be shy. I, like a mouse, am small. That is what I mean.
I have been called mouse, ever since I can remember. My parents joke that they kidnapped me from Disneyland. That my parents were really Mickey and Minnie Mouse. When I would inquire what happened to my fur, my dad would tell me that they shaved it off, cut off my tail and trim my ears. One time when our house got invested with mice I told my family that maybe they were relatives of mine. When they put down traps I refused to help them. I didn't want the mice to die. One day, before the traps (I think), I went to the pantry to get a snack. Opening the door I walked in and started to reach for a bag of chips when, seeing a movement, I screamed and ran out. I had apparently startled a mouse, who startled me. At the time it was just my little brother and I in the house. I raced out of the pantry and jumped on the couch where my brother was. Still screaming and almost crying, I pointed at the pantry. He was a little bewildered and I managed to say "mouse." I had left the door to the pantry open and he walked over to it to peer in. All in all it was a very funny experience. The mouse escaped us after he and I tried to captured it. Don't know whatever happened to the little mouse.
So mouse I am called and it fits me quite well.