A word or two from me about the "roach incident.' First of all, I had just finished telling my friend Susie on the phone that I had never seen a cockroach in my apartment...we saw a big one at the Institute building this week but thankfully nothing here. Bad timing. So those little buggers (no pun intended) have a sense of humor! Secondly, it was not a "little guy." It was huge! At least 2 inches long and dark brown with long tentacles and very ugly! And it was in MY KTICHEN! Thirdly, who ever wrote that cute little jingle called "La Cucaracha?" I want to strangle them. I remember dancing to that little ditty in elementary school with our straw hats and colorful skirts and clapping and hopping around and thoroughly enjoying ourselves. Well, I was hopping and jumping around last night but I'm here to tell you there's nothing about a cucaracha that's enjoyable! Nada! My heart rate is up just remembering the shock of seeing it scampering around my kitchen, running up and down the floors (thankfully not the walls..yet.) We bought a very large can of Raid for "cucarachas, chiripas and hormigas." I have no idea what those other beasts are and please...I don't want to ever know! I'm sleeping with the can under my pillow tonight. Billy better not roll over and startle me or he may get it in the face! (I wonder what it does to 2-legged lovable beasts?) :)
I just have to comment on cockroaches. They are plentiful in Louisiana and I HATED them like you do! The house we moved into was vacant for a while before us and my parents said that the kitchen floor was covered in roaches when they first went to look at it. Thankfully, I was not with them. I remember thinking as a child that Satan must have had some creative powers because I couldn't imagine Heavenly Father creating something as disgusting as a cockroach. I used to have dreams about them crawling on my face in bed, etc. I also remember being very afraid of the flying variety. The sad thing we learned though is that it really doesn't matter if your house is spotlessly clean, cockroaches still like to visit. I do remember that everytime we went on vacation, my parents would set off those cans of fog that are supposed to kill bugs in your house and that helped. The lack of cockroaches in Utah is actually one of my favorite things about living here. :) Good luck. Maybe we should look for a bug spraying man in your area. :)
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