They cancelled Monkey Trauma Center for this?!
Ants. They are everywhere. I can’t escape the evil little many-legged bastards. Last year around this time, the ants were in love with the bin. Very easy solution, take the trash out, and all the ants go with it. This year… they are everywhere. I’ve found them crawling around the seams of the fridge door. Yesterday I found one in the toilet bowl (what the?!)
Today they are in the cupboards. All our pantry foodstuffs are on the dining table, and yet the ants still keep showing up in the cupboards. Due to the crappy construction of this place, there are gaps at the back of the cupboards where the ants can get in and out and where they can hide without me getting to them. And I keep finding them all over the place. I swear one was crawling on my chest earlier, but I never did find it. I think I’m going insane. By the time Jake got home for his lunch break, I was yelling at the ants and crying whenever I would find another one. Stupid crawling ass-butts.
Also, why must french-braid pigtails be so difficult? I mean… I can do them, but on myself they come out looking… crapulent. Ah well, at least ants can’t climb up my hair now…
It’s 10:30pm and it is rather warm in here. We’ve got all the windows open blowing a lovely cool breeze… but it smells like metal. And if you know anything about me, you know that is not a Sez-friendly thing. Rather confusing.
So after the top half of the entry was written, I googled ways to prevent/get rid of ants using things I already have. One was to spray/wipe ant-areas with a vinegar-water mix, which I had already half done. That’s what I clean with, so the cupboards had been wiped over with it. I went through every place I’ve seen ants and spritzed the mix all over the place. I haven’t seen an ant since. Hopefully it keeps them away for a good while. Even if I have to do it often, I don’t mind the smell of vinegar, it reminds me of chemistry class.
When Jake got home this afternoon, outside was rather dark looking and windy, so we didn’t go for a walk in case we got rained on. Of course, once we were nice and clean from the day’s grime, it was sunny and happy looking outside.
We had honeymustard chicken with broccoli for dinner, and then the last 4 peanut butter cookies that were in the freezer (that I made around the time of our anniversary last year. I’m impressed that one batch lasted that long!) …and now I’m gassy and my burps keep tasting like honey-mustard-peanut-butter. Rather disgusting, but nothing compared to strawberry-frozen-yogurt-jam-donut-buttermenthol that will forever be in my mind as the worst recess snack idea ever.
That reminds me, I really have to get those recipes to share. And get those pictures of our ride home last weekend all organised and show-able. Eh, one day. Maybe.
And my picture of the day with my crappy attempt at tying my hair back.
It is totally pokemon time now.I made it to Vermillion City and I’m really enjoying the way it looks. It’s so familiar and yet… not.
WE HAVE THEM TOO AND I WANT THEM ALL TO DIE
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*shudder* Seriously, the toilet bowl?! Not sure why, but I’d have thought ants would have been more picky than that, heh.
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I know what you feel like! I keep finding them under my shoes and things I leave on the floor in my room, its disgusting! I keep an old shoe that I don’t wear anymore close so I have something to squish them with if I see one anywhere. Try getting some ant powder that kills them, you just pour it where ever they are and they die, slowly!! hehe!!
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Get some of these: http://www.greenfeet.com/itemdesc.asp?kw=Terro-Liquid-Ant-Baits-6pk&ic=5507-00779-1000&eq=&utm_source=google-base&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=5507-00779-1000&utm_term=Terro-Liquid-Ant-Bai It’s a liquid in a little plastic box. You just snip the thing open and set them down, ants die. No smell, the stuff doesn’t get everywhere, just DEAD ants.
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Part 2: They sell them in stores here, but people buy them all really fast, so I have to order them from online. You may have better luck over there. 🙂
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I hate ants so much! They invade the house this time of year.
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Those Terro baits are awesome. They are tiny, the ants eat the stuff and take it back to their home and they all die. You might notice more ants at first, just a warning. They swarm the bait because it’s so tasty. I always think, ‘Eat away you rat bastards!’ and laugh like a hyena. But then, I’m weird like that 🙂
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They are wanting to be around the awesome. Or they are bored.
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I’m up to the gym below the lake of rage, whatever that’s called. Now then, ryn: you mean pokemon black and white? Yeah, I knew since it was “leaked” in a magazine and then put up on Pokebeach. They need a new game to introduce Zoroark and Zorua after the Zoroark movie comes out. I was waiting to OD bout it then forgot.
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Every time I read/think “dead ant”, I get the Pink Panther theme stuck in my head :/
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ryn: I love how Soulsilver feels so familiar. It’s fun to get all excited about the shiny gyarados again.I liked him better as a sprite swimming on screen in the wild. That amused me so very much. I’m taking on team rocket in goldenrod and was so proud I worked out how to get a uniform to trick them, no walkthrough or sez-help at all. Then my rival Pants ruins my stealth-plan *pout*
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I love french braided pigtails but I can’t do a good job on myself either, it sucks! My Mom uses this stuff for ants called Terro, you put some drops on a little card and they all swarm around it and eat it and carry it back to their house and it kills them all in a few days, the stuff is AMAZING!
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I feel your pain with those ants, omg. That happens here all the time. They keep climbing up the side of our patio door and… we find them in the bathroom upstairs and… omg. *cries with you* I found one in my bed just today. IN MY BED. DDD: Ugh. Total snc about the French-braid pigtails. What’s the difference between a regular-braid and a French-braid? o_o Your french-braid…
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pigtails are adorable, though. <3! The way I do mine are much lower on my head. That makes things easier, I think… GAH STRAWBERRY-FROZEN-YOGURT-JAM-DONUTBUTTERMENTHOL?? jdslu5=3ajdkl;!!!!! I agree, that is THE WORST, ever. ryn: I want to thank you for your epic notes that console my loneliness, and your patience with my often very..argh entries lately. You are amazing, and…
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..make me smile huge. I dedicate this mass nort attack to your patience and adorableness. <3
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“Ah well, at least ants can’t climb up my hair now…” Oh! Gah! Flashbacks!!! Sorry, but there have been a couple of times I’ve been sitting in what I thought was an ant-free zone and suddenly had an ant drop DOWN onto the inside of my glasses and crawl around. *cue massive gross-out/freak-out* Dude, there is NOTHING in my hair that you want, stay the hell OUT of it! *shudders* “Idon’t mind the smell of vinegar, it reminds me of chemistry class.” Vinegar will forever remind me of a friend in college who didn’t use shampoo but washed her hair with vinegar instead. I never saw the appeal. “…but nothing compared to strawberry-frozen-yogurt-jam-donut-buttermenthol that will forever be in my mind as the worst recess snack idea ever.” Dang, girl, was this one of those ‘throw-together-everything-in-the-house-because-we’re-out-of-groceries’ kind of recipes? *boggles* 🙂 ~Shady PS: I see that CRC already beat me to the Terro Traps recommendation. *grin* PPS: Worst ant moment ever: Waking up to find a trail of them short-cutting across the corner of the bed… UNDER the pillow I was sleeping on!
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How do you do them so the braids stick up like that?
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Your hair is full of pretty! You can also try lemon dish soap and water. Ants are icky! ~jo
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Braids!
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RYN: Oh, I know how to french braid, I just can’t ever get the braids to kind of stand out of the hair like that. It always looks more like this: http://5purposedriven.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/french-braid.jpg. Like they’re going in instead of coming out, I guess.
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RYN: Oh, also, it doesn’t actually clip like that in the front. I just used a clip that I had to hold it shut so that my hands wouldn’t be in the way. She can buy her own clip if she wants on. 😉
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I love your hair it looks adorable.
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ryn: that bus route is so random, you needed to Pokemon on the trip to make it worthwhile. I have my lovely Haunter GHOSTPIE (lv 36) to deal with the dogs. He knows hypnosis, meanlook, shadow ball and shadow punch. I meanlook then hypnosis if they aren’t already asleep then shadow ball once to bring their points down just over half then slowly eat away from there with shadow punch.
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shadow punch only hurts them a tiny bit so I can get their points down really low without killing. I was looking everywhere for Raikou and then I surfed and he jumped out like “I am NOT the goldeen you’d expect!” *evil-laugh* that made me giggle so hard, he was pretending to be fish-pokemon.
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Blarg, I hate ants!!! We have / had a batch of fleas (from the birds in the ceiling) and it is driving us nuts. Hopefully they will take your vinegar hint and leave.
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I heart Pokemon. I have the Sapphire version and I cannot beat it to save my life. So I usually get frustrated and put it away for a few years before I try to beat it again and remember that I can’t. lol. But it is uber fun. Yay geek games!
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