For the most part, I am patient with living in this less than glamorous house, in this less than glamorous neighborhood. I know that in a few short years we will move on to bigger and better things.
But
this
is
the
last
straw!!!!
(Not literally, but that sounds good.)
Last night I went to brush my teeth before going to bed and when I opened the medicine cabinet to get my toothbrush there was a cockroach on the shelf!! Sooooo gross! So of course I ran down the hall with a bad case of hee bee gee bees to get Scott to kill it. He decapitated it with a can of shaving cream and flushed it down the toilet. Then I made him sanitize the shelf and sink with clorox wipes. Clorox wipes don't work very well on toothbrushes though - maybe a little too poisonous. I refused to brush with it because what if that nasty roach happened to crawl on the bristles? Unfortunately, it was an electric toothbrush and we didn't have any extra heads in the house. Scott, while sympathetic to my plight, was unwilling to go to Wal-Mart for a new one. (Okay, it was 11:30 - who can blame him). I decided to boil my toothbrush head...for anyone who wants to know it doesn't work very well because it melted somthing inside and wouldn't go back on the base. That left me brushing with one of Stephen's (unused) kiddie toothbrushes. I am glad we had a few extra around.
As a side note, I have found a roach in my medicine cabinet one other time in the past and on at least two other occasions, under the sink, not to mention the dead ones I find occasionally in other parts of the house first thing in the morning. Of course, most of you will remember the more recent "roach in the toilet incident." I am so parinoid about roaches in that bathroom now that I creep in there and carefully inspect the bathroom each night before getting ready for bed - I would rather be looking for a roach and find one than not bother to look and get a nasty suprise. Scott is very amused by the whole situation and he loves to tease me about it but he is always there to kill the suckers for me! Thanks sweetie!
The other last straw with this house is that our air conditioning is not working right now. For anyone who has lived in Arizona, you know what this means. It is unbearable in here and while we are fortunate to have free maintenence with this house we now have to sit around sweating and waiting for the guy to show up. The lady I spoke with on the phone said she would "call the guy," and have him come check it out. I asked how long it would be and she said that "he is working on a few houses ahead of yours - he will come after that." AHHHHH!
5 comments:
do you need to come over to my house??? seriously. i have been in these houses with no AC and it is miserable so if you wanna come over, please call and come over, please!!!!
OH grossness!!!!! Blah! I love that you used the word "Hee bee gee bees". So awesome!
ugh...in our apt. in tucson we got bees all the time and clint is alergic to them...they finally found the hive, and our ac broke in our house last summer and we had to stay at inlaws till it was fixed cuz it was gonna be 2 days...not okay
Oh, I am so sorry!! I hope things get better there soon or you find a new opportunity to move somewhere better suited for your sanity!!!
I agree, these houses are an advantage but they are for sure less glamorous! I'm sorry you are having difficulties with roaches(we did in the beginning) I just had Devon spray one week then have the campus people come down and spray the next and keep switching off like that! Plus we kept our drains closed (of course only when we weren't using them) for a few weeks and now I haven't seen one in a long time!
So sorry about your AC! come over any time, Londyn would love a buddy! What village do you guys live in?
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