Today is Monday. Apparently today is Columbus day. Who knew? I slept in a little(due to the fact that it took me a couple hours to fall back to sleep after Tom left) and got ready for the gym!!!! I ran/jogged/trudged 2 miles. I could have gone longer but I was expecting a call from Nichole and didn't want my phone blowing up the gym. After the gym I went to Walmart because bugs are invading my apartment. We have spiders all over the place in our apartment, I don't like spiders but they are beneficial and kill other bugs. I try to leave them be. If they stay out of my personal space then they get to live. If they cross the line, they die. Its very simple really. But this morning as I moved the scale, which is right by the bathroom sink, I came across a huge spider. Of course I had to give him the bathroom but I still had to get ready. I quickly grabbed my stuff and ran away. Other bugs that have invaded our apartment are the previously mentioned flies and a new bug. The cockroach. Okay, I am a pretty clean person. When it comes to the kitchen, which is where the roaches are currently residing, I usually don't like leaving it a mess. In fact, I usually make sure it is clean before I go to bed. Well, I have a family of roaches living under my microwave and coffee maker. It is super gross. I went to Walmart and got a spray that kills spiders and roaches and I am spraying down the apartment. If the spray doesn't work I am going to find something stronger. I hope it works though. After spraying down the bathroom and part of the kitchen Nichole called me and we were able to talk for about a half hour. It was a good talk. I am going to wash some dishes now and then I am off to the library. Lord willing, we will have internet on Wednesday. Ugh, I hope the guy comes.
Well, I didn't make it to the library yesterday. Instead I tore the house apart and cleaned it thoroughly. After cleaning it I sprayed it down with bug poison. Every time I saw a bug I chased it down and sprayed it. I also moved Tom's chair into the office and started a “garage pile” in the void that the chair left in the living room. As we unpack more, all of the seasonal stuff will go in the garage. The purpose behind this strategy is to cut down on the clutter in our apartment. I have already taken a couple bags to Goodwill (I found it!) and I have at least two more to take. I made Spicy Shrimp Alfredo for dinner and Tom and I watched a James Bond movie.
Bugs wig me out. In our last apartment (bottom floor) there were ants. bad. And you know me, I'm a bit of a clean freak. All it took was one of Lincoln's Cheerio's from breakfast and by lunch I had a trail of ants under the table from some crack in the wall. I used to cry about it all the time. Pat thought I was insane (probably true. Whose really afraid of sugar ants anyway?) It was more the feeling that I wasn't being a good housewife that bothered me. In the end, I realized we lived in a crappy apartment and "this too shall pass" =)
ReplyDeleteIn our apartment before that (when we lived in the basement of our friends' gorgeous 3200" ft home(!)) we lived with centipedes. I'd actually never even seen a centipede prior to that, so it really freaked me out. One time, we got home late and I was feeling the wall for the light switch, and when I was able to flick the light on, I saw that my hand was centimeters from this disgusting harry centipede. GAH! Now, like most things, Pat and I laugh about it.
Hoping your full of such laughter. xoox
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ReplyDeleteIf you can't get rid of them, Bekah, esp. the roaches, you can ask your landlord to take care of them. That happened to me eons ago as a newlywed living in Massachusetts (my hubby was in the Air Force). When the roaches had migrated from the kitchen to on my clothes in my BEDROOM DRESSER, the landlord's help was immediately demanded.
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