Of Bugs and Problems

Many of you know how I feel about BUGS in our home.  For anyone not knowing yet, let me be clear.  DIE BUG DIE.... clear enough? 

When we somehow had uninvited guests arrive, set up house keeping and were subversively planning a coup d'etat upon our unsuspecting household I WOKE UP from a very long emotional sleep.  Bed Bugs.  Oh my the big one because they are so very resourceful, insidious, lying, cheating little bastards who only come out in the middle of the night when we are in deepest sleep to work their own personal plan.  We are and will be forever grateful to them and the fact that we have not seen one in over 5 weeks now but today will flip the mattresses, inspect under the bed and reapply dust as insurance. 

Why am I grateful to these little buggers?  Because they woke me up in a HUGE way that the previous years roach escapade somehow failed to manage.  We are supposing that getting roaches from the neighbors who moved in next door to us was just not BIG enough to do the job.  OH that escapade woke us up to a small degree but certainly not the mania that bed bugs sent us into. 

Our physical social circle of friends were drug along the complete cycle of the event along with me as it was over whelming, consumed our every moments thoughts and the terror of it all has not seen the equal in any scary movie to date.  I completely quarantined us except for my Partner going to work or a quick visit to the store to contain the little monsters.  Only through containment could we assault them with our counter attack.  Yes, it still is quite vivid in our memory and just this past few days have we been able to go to bed without a full check of the bedroom, walls, door frames, window frames, behind dressers, under bed, under blankets etc.  We still continue to place anything cloth that has been "sterilized" into white trash bags then seal them shut before storing them until needed to be used unless they are being placed into a container which has been prepared for them. 

OK so now that we have gone through a little post traumatic stress with you over it, lets get onto why we wanted to write this today.

One thing that people said while trying to calm me was this:

You had no choice regarding getting them

You have a choice regarding keeping them

What a wonderful statement to take with us through out life.  It is a mantra in our thought patterns now when we think of a problem in our lives.  Now wasn't that worth getting bugs for?  I mean how utterly fantastic is that?  We woke up AND we found something to hold onto during our darkest hours.  We had a choice (which was the first weeks mental assault upon our mentally ill brain) of trying to figure out where it came from and place blame OR to get busy and KILL THEM ALL.

Wishing you a bug free/problem free day OR a sprayer full of OUT YOU GO.