Holiday Weekend

I’d been in a great routine. The clock would hit about 6:30am and I would just pop UP! The alarm didn’t even have to ring. And I felt wide awake and ready to greet the day with a breath of fire… even on weekends too. Something happened on Saturday because I didn’t wake up until 9:30! It happened again on Sunday and Monday. I slept in.

Last night I set my alarm for 6:30, worried I’d never be able to get up. Somehow I sat up at 6:15am ready to go. Thank goodness. Tomorrow is my early day and I hated to think of how hard it would be trying to get myself up.

Now I am in my office trying to figure out what type of caulk I should buy. You see, the ants are very quickly taking over. They’ve chewed their way through a number of places on my kitchen door and I am thinking I need to seal them out even more so than just kill them. The ant situation has me so disgusted. I just want to scream. Once I have the holes plugged and the poison down I an going to have to wipe everything and throw away even more food. They’ve clearly found something. I hate to think about it.

5 thoughts on “Holiday Weekend

  1. Gomer

    If you really truly knew how many ants were in your home…your head would explode.

    It’s pointless to resist because it has such a devious origin. Your exterminator has learned from your HVAC guy (probably at some “exploit the naïve customer” conference) to simply cause more problems than he solves. Maybe he brings a cup of ants everytime he comes? That would do it.

  2. Donna Post author

    I am sure I would be disgusted to know how many ants are really here— but as long as I don’t SEE them, I am fine!

    This whole situation has me really upset. I thought the exterminator would be the solution but in fact he’s done NOTHING other than bring me a couple temporary hiatuses. And he’s probably doing more harm to ME than anything with all this poison.

    My plan is this–

    Plan a
    Bring exterminator back
    Caulk all holes around kitchen door
    Clean out cabinets and floor with ammonia
    Throw out all contaminated food- seal the rest

    Plan b
    If exterminator can’t come back today- buy ant spray from Home Depot and go ape shit
    Caulk all holes around kitchen door
    Clean out cabinets and floor with ammonia
    Throw out all contaminated food- seal the rest

  3. rosalie

    I have a $3.00 coupon for the stuff they advertise on TV. It is ‘Raid Max Bug Barrier’. It says it creates a lasting bug barrier inside and out. Why not try it?

  4. B. Davis

    I have been following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill with
    great interest (because I’m a resident of a coastal state that depends highly upon oil). You know that some “experts” are suggesting that the leakage be solved through use of a “small thermonuclear device”…oh, say, on the scale of 2 Hiroshima blasts. The Russians claim to have “solved” leaks such as this one at least 120 times in the past. BUT SHOULD WE TRUST THE RUSSKIES? Not me, comrade. They are sitting on BP’s shoulder like a little devil whispering in BP’s ear “Do it! Nuke it!” So Donna, maybe a teeny tiny atomic blast — maybe a .000000001 kiloton package — would seal off your ants
    and solve the problem. You’re welcome.

  5. Audra

    Don’t even worry about the poison. Just seal up the door where they are coming in, and clean everything. Once you wipe the ant trails with cleaner you’re good. You’ll probably have a lower power bill too after sealing that door up.

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