Re-financing the house, while over-run by pests

We just signed the 400,000 papers to re-finance our mortgage today. We will now be on a 15 year FIXED 5.0% mortgage! Woo hoo! 15 years until freedom! Well, at least until the college bills really start adding up. To afford this change I had to switch my number of dependents on my tax papers. Hopefully there will still be enough of a refund in the spring to fund a small portion of our retirement.

Meanwhile, I've spotted our house mouse today. He'd been MIA so long that I hoped one of our various inconsequential traps had finally worked. Alas, no. Ants half the year, recent struggles with bedbugs (or something??), a mouse mascot, and our never-ending rat holes in the front yard...maybe one of these creatures should be paying the mortgage instead?