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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Ahhh.

Three of my children went back to school today. I used to be one of those mothers that was sad when everybody went back to school. Now I count down the days until I can clean, and still have it be clean at dinner. Still working out the whole driving thing. My 12 year old goes to middle school in a different city, and my 10 and 8 year old go to elementary in yet another city. Still trying to work logistics out. It took me an hour and a half to get everyone picked up. Let's just say that today, while it should have been relaxing, was spent shuttling, cleaning, wrangling an extremely bored 2 year old, shuttling again, helping with homework, making dinner, then off to the church for more activities. Somebody needs to slap me. I've been so whiney lately. Sorry. I'll do better. I'll even respond to your comments on other posts in the next couple days! Stayed tuned for this exciting event!

Not sure what I was thinking when I asked for a moment of silence. Who wants a moment of silence on their blog?? I, for one, don't. I need comments. I live for comments. In fact, if I don't get some soon, I might go stark raving mad! Not because I don't have comments really. Only because of the ants. Yes. The ants. As you may know, we're trying to sell our house. Ants have not really been a problem this year. Maybe a couple in the living room, a few in the bathroom, and a group by the door, but not in the kitchen this summer. Not, that is, until I decided to show the house on Saturday, and have a realtor come that same morning. I'm running around, cleaning, picking up the cereal, putting it away and stuff, I open my pantry, and what do I see? No, no, not popcorn popping on the apricot tree, my friends. I see ants. Lots of ants. Okay, not a swarm. Don't want to alarm that pest control blogger who came in here last time, lol. But enough for me to break into crazy Nancy Kerrigan mode screaming "Wuh-yyyyyyy!? Wuh-yyyyyyy!? Wuh-yhyhyhyyy!?? Why that day? Why not the day before? Why not last month? Why not a few weeks ago?? Why, on the day that I need to show my house, do they show up??? I know why. It's because they are the devils pets. He sees me down here trying to sell my house, and he thinks..."hmmmm, let me just send her a little surprise to make her a crazy mess! Muwahahaha!" He's evil like that. Thank Heavens for windex. I'm sure that's what they use in Heaven, because it kills ants dead. Dead, dead, dead. I cannot have enough windex on hand sometimes. I found this great stuff at the dollar store. Not only is it glass cleaner, but it's mint scented glass cleaner. Ants hate the smell of mint, and glass cleaner kills ants. A perfect combination. If only I could find the nest, I'd dump a whole bottle of that onto it, and I'd top it off with straight ammonia. I'm telling you, these seemingly insignificant pests, send hundreds of  people to the looney bin each year. Next time you see one, be sure and step on it, and check to make sure it's dead. Lets just wipe out the entire ant race now, before they take over.