It's Monday, and Just Another Day at the Office

You know, I'm beginning to wonder if it gets any better. This past weekend went by way to quickly, (as it always does), and I felt as if it was just as much of a beating as the weekdays! My only salvation was some time at the local watering hole with The Nutcase, Lestat, Babs, and K, (of course). But I guess I'm really wound up - I mean after 3 dry martinis and an Irish Car Bomb, I would expect to at the very least, feel slightly toasted - but no. Alas, my tolerance makes me a really expensive date.

But aside from that brief oasis, my weekend kinda' sucked. Saturday was alright, I guess, but Sunday I worked in the yard all frigging day and made a rather unpleasant discovery: About two weekends ago, when I last did some yard work, I opened the shed door to have sawdust blown into my face. I thought it a bit peculiar, but just went on with my life as if nothing happened. Well, the same thing happened this past Sunday and I looked around the shed a little more and saw a combination of sawdust and insects. Fearing the worst, I opened the phone book and called my local termite exterminator - Of course, if being Sunday and all, I didn't expect anyone to be in, but I did leave a message. Then I grabbed my bug spray and went out to the shed for a little bug carnage. The bug spray worked! Unbelievable! This was great! Maybe I didn't need the bug guy to come out after all - But then curiosity got the best of me and, after I was done with the yard work, I went on-line and did a little research on termites, only to find out that bug spray ain't gonna' do it.

This afternoon, I took off from work early to meet with the bug guy: a very pleasant man with lots of information on bugs. It was like having my own personal entomologist right at my door. I showed him the shed and he shook his head, smiled and said, "Well, you'll be happy to know that you don't have termites." I breathed half a sigh of relief as he continued, "... you do, however have wood (or carpenter) ants." He told me about them and the difference between termites and carpenter ants - termites eat wood, whereas carpenter ants just live in wood. The extent of damage can be the same, it just takes carpenter ants longer to do it. The thing that absolutely sucks is that it's going to cost $440 to get rid of them.

You know.... just when you think you're getting ahead of the game, life throws you a nice little curve ball like... say... carpenter ants, and you have to take two giant steps backwards.

So this evening I put the sprinkler in the front lawn, trying to forget about the ants and the cost. I walk back to the house, slamming the fence gate, only to disturb a wasp's nest that was nestled in the corner of the gate. No, I didn't get stung, but I got a nice adrenaline rush running away from a swarm of angry wasps.

I hate insects.