The Great War of Apartment #104

I'll blame my lack of posts and lack of excitement in this post on night shift. Enough said.

About an hour and a half ago, I walked into my kitchen to turn the light off as I was going to bed. I looked down on the floor and saw a smooshed raisin. Gross. I knelt down to pick it up and throw it away, but as my delicate fingers made contact a thousand ants scurried in all directions. EW. EW EW EW. I have ants! THEY ARE SO GROSS. I grabbed my Windex+Vinegar, cursing myself for getting a 'natural cleanser,' of all times I really wanted some hardcore, non-diluted BLEACH right then. Thus initiated The Great War of Apartment #104. Me vs. Ants. I spent quite a while soaking the sick little critters with my pansy cleaner, then I gagged as I cleared the battlefield. I then went straight to the internet to find good ways to get rid of ants. I plan on getting RAID as soon as stores open, but I don't want them to gain ground between now and then. I saw things like mint, pepper, cinnamon, and pure vinegar will get rid of them. Something about the strong smell or something. I have a LOT of pepper, so I went with that first-- as soon as I started sprinkling it around the bases of the cabinets (where they were coming from because this old building has essentially ZERO caulking throughout.. don't get me started..) I realized that pepper on the ground looks like a million little ants. I sprinkled it all around anyways in a fit of insanity. Then I saw a bugger lost in the middle of the (off)white linoleum. I decided to sprinkle pepper right on top of it to see what it would do (hoping it would roll over and die). It definitely panicked at first.. then it got out of the pepper and started heading away from it, BUT then it turned around! It returned to the pepper and started scavenging within it! WTF?! So then I got out the cinnamon. I saw another ant in a bare space so I dumped some cinnamon on him and watched. HE FLIPPED. He sped away from the cinnamon and didn't look back. I put cinnamon in his path and he avoided it like the Plague. So-- I swept up all the pepper and replaced it with cinnamon. It has been VERY messy. I shoved cinnamon so far in the cracks that I don't think I'll ever get it out. But I am PRAYING that it will keep the ants at bay until I can get some serious chemical warfare to unleash on them. I feel like they're crawling all over me. VOMIT. All because of ONE LITTLE RAISIN! Seriously.

As if my unwelcome friends are not enough, my rock band downstairs neighbor is STILL at it. I even initiated mature confrontation and went down to his apartment, rang the doorbell and said "I live above you. Can you please turn your music down?" For a good 24 hours it was a dull roar instead of deafening noise and I was quite pleased with myself. But all good things must come to an end. I think I'll ask one more time and then I will feel justified complaining to the manager. It blows my mind that he thinks it's an appropriate thing to BLAST music SO LOUDLY when living in such close proximity. Honestly-- he'd have to live on Mars for that to be an appropriate volume. Poor volume awareness is one of my biggest pet peeves. coughnicolecough

I have decided to not write about running for a while. It isn't something that is pleasing me at ALL. So please refrain from asking about it (...mom).

I have ONE MORE WEEK on orientation and then I'm flying solo. EEK! I seriously thought I had two weeks left. Nay. That is three shifts until I have to go it alone. Ulcer worthy. I'm pretty sure I have an ulcer already. I had a TERRIBLE dream that I was talking to my boss and she said "It looks like it will be quite a while until a day position opens up..." I remember that (in my dream) I pasted on a fake fake smile and nodded my head as I tried to be a 'team player'. Screw the team, folks, I gotta get to days. I'm going CRAZY! And now there are ANTS IN MY KITCHEN AND IT IS 2:20AM BUT I CAN'T SLEEP BECAUSE I'M AFRAID THAT ANTS WILL CRAWL INTO MY MOUTH BECAUSE I'M A MOUTH BREATHER! This is why daytime hours are best for me.