Saturday, June 18, 2011

The Trials of Life

Well obviously I am not very good about keeping up with this blog.

On another note, my roommate and I bug bombed our house today. It was quite exciting. We set out papers under the little cans, gathered up all the stuff we needed for the next four hours and set it on the porch, and set the bombs off. The instructions were so cryptic. "Point cans away from face... Leave area immediately!" So we did. I'm sure we would have been amusing to watch, running from room to room giggling nervously every time one of the cans started spraying its noxious gasses. So now I am at Starbucks, two hours early, waiting for my shift to start. Oh well. It gives me time to catch up with stuff, like blogging.

The mice are beginning to disappear. We finally got our landlord to call the exterminator, who set out more poison and sticky traps... Basically what we had been doing before. Maybe the poison and sticky traps are industrial strength. So far we haven't found anything on the sticky traps besides these brown-gray hard shelled bugs that are impossible to kill. I had to beat one with a broom handle. The poison has been eaten on, but we haven't seen much activity lately, so maybe they are going away. I found a bunch of mouse droppings in one of the cabinets at floor level in my bathroom, so I dropped some poison in there too.

On the topic of the bathroom... It's dreadful. It's tiny, the walls are an awful gray-tan that sucks the light out of your very soul, and there is no mirror. I bought a tiny mirror for $1 at Salvation Army, but it barely fits my face. The landlord said that there would be a mirror by the time we moved in, but I'm guessing she forgot...? I have plans for that bathroom, though. The insides of the cabinets were actually part of the master bedroom closet, so someone just took some plywood and build shelves and walls to make cabinets for the bathroom. If you can call them walls. There are gaps in the corners and along the seams where the wall meets the shelf. I want to paint them, because it's just naked wood, but how do you make something pretty with paint that is shoddily put together in the first place? I also want to get a little shelf/cabinet/thing to hang on the wall above the toilet for more storage space, as well as a real mirror if the landlord doesn't carry through. The only problem is that these things cost money, and money, as always, is tight. Suggestions?

I also have a prayer request. The transmission on my car has given out, and it is going to be $2900 to fix, which is a little out of the available funds range. It wouldn't be such a big deal, except that if/when it rains or I need to get groceries, my bike is not the best mode of transportation. Some prayer would be great. Thanks, guys. You're the best.

Well I guess this is long enough. Happy weekend guys. Have a great Father's Day.

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