I like cooking. But only for others. I hate cooking for myself... when it comes to Thanksgiving and Christmas I lvoe making a big pot of something and bringing to family gatherings.
If you just want to keep them out buy the electric sonic ones. There spectacular. Ive had them for two years now and have had no mice. It doesn't hurt them, they just don't like the noise. There also supposed to keep out roaches and certain buggies.
Robots would scare me if they were the replicators from Stargate... Thems some scarey robots!
Zombies would just be fun! Walk around with a silenced gun of some sort and they'd be gone soon enough.