No blog post today
Household crisis still unfolding.
I apologize for two things:
Sorry for not having a blog post ready for today. I will quickly explain why below.
I am also sorry for being cagey for the last three weeks about the household crisis we are going through.
We have bedbugs.
I did not want to announce to the world that we had bedbugs without Jennifer’s consent. Earlier this week she told her 32.2K Twitter followers, so I suppose the cat is out of the bag. Speaking of bags, everything that we own has been sealed up in trash bags or plastic tubs for the past few weeks. And I am not sure when this will all be over and we can return to what passes for normal in this cursed timeline.
2021 might be utter garbage as well, but allow me to indulge in some magical thinking.
I am taking exactly ten minutes away from prepping our house for the second and hopefully final treatment to get rid of the bedbugs that have bedeviled us for the past seven or eight weeks. If Number One Bronc’s got some advice for you, it’s this:
NEVER GET BEDBUGS.
It is the bloody (literally) worst. Trying to rid your home of this pestilence is like having a labor-intensive part to full-time job that does not pay you, but instead drains your bank account while revolting insects drain your blood. Seriously, we have spent so much money. The emergency fund is all gone. We could have gone on a pretty nice vacation for what we have spent so far. Not to mention what our landlords have spent. It just makes me want to cry. I hate bedbugs so much!
Poor Jennifer was eaten up by the little bastards, she is allergic to them, a “reactor”, so horrible welts sprang up all over her. Welts that itch worse than having chiggers, if you can imagine. I am apparently a “non-reactor”, so I have not suffered like she has. If I had not caught one of the little monsters in the act, I would not even know if they were feeding on me. It’s embarrassing, expensive, laborious, inconvenient, and gives you terrible body horrors. Like I said, it is the worst. I would not wish them upon my worst enemy.
The only good part of this is that they seem to be confined to one room—our living room. Our couch had turned into Bedbug Manor, so we had it wrapped up and plastic and removed by professionals.
We thought of this as a method of disposal, but we are already pariahs in our building, and burning down the whole stack would not endear us to to the condo board.
Next week is a big day for the blog, so I will be writing a very special post. (Cue emotionally manipulative music sting). I will also be running a special on subscriptions starting next week.
My timer just went off, so I better get back to prepping for the exterminators. They will be here tomorrow morning. (Hopefully for the last time.) Wish us luck.
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