Lesson learned #9- Spiders and lizards and bugs! Oh my!

This post come a few weeks late but it is never too late to learn a good lesson, right?

The past few weeks Greg has been on the night portion of flight school which means he reports to class around 4:00pm then flight line and gets home around 1:00am. Fun times, right? This also means that I am home alone during these hours with nothing but my brand new droid (love it!), the computer, and tv to keep me entertained.

In order to try to keep my sanity I try to do little things around the house during these long hours alone to keep me busy. Just call me Susy Homemaker. I cook, clean, do laundry, vacuum, dust, etc (Greg, no comments). It is during one of these simple cleaning tasks, that I learned my most recent lesson...I am most definitely NOT a fan of things that creep, crawl, scurry, etc.

A few weeks ago I was on the couch watching Criminal Minds (why I watch shows about murder and scary people while home alone in a strange place I really do not know) when I decided it was time to vacuum. I get off the couch and turn around to walk towards the closet for the vacuum and see something move out of the corner of my eye. I look to find my new friend...

Meet Mr. Lizard. He is multi-colored, skittish, and freaking fast. I nearly jump out of my skin and return to the couch. I quickly text Greg an urgent 911- come home quick! No response. Stupid helicopter.... no texting and flying. I then call my father and frantically ask for help. He informs me I should try to force it outside. At this point, Mr. Lizard is in the corner behind the DVD stand and I am hovering beside it on my tippy-toes with a pillow in my hand.

I get the lizard out of the corner and open the back door. The back door remains open for the next 15 minutes as the lizard and I have a stand off. He wins. He scurries across the floor in my direction and I freak and jump back on the couch.

Thank god we have friends across the street. I text our friends and request their assistance. They come to my rescue and after a few minutes they cup the lizard and get it outside. All the while I am sitting with my feet far off the ground very thankful that I do not have to deal with this thing. It is way too fast and skittish for me to handle.

Now thanks to the door being open for 15 minutes I have let every fly in lower Alabama into the living room, but those I can handle. Greg and I bought a fly swatter gun which is just as much fun as it sounds. I put it to good use and now consider myself a professional :)

Luckily, I have no had any further encounters with lizards but I have experienced multiple spiders and roaches. Greg has been home for these encounters thank god. I am trying to learn to deal on my own but it isn't going too well. I am just not a fan of things that creep and crawl and can bite.

So for any of you followers who live in the Virginia Beach area, I will be accepting applications for my personal pest control service while Greg is gone... please contact me if you are interested :)

xoxo