Four years ago we had our house treated with Termidor, and got the treatment that is supposed to be guaranteed for five years.  By my math, we should have at least one more year before we should be seeing any signs of any termites.  But no.  With this most recent rain, they decided it was time to crawl out of the ground and start feasting on our 2x4s.

When this happened four years ago, they popped up only on the outer walls of the house (inside the house, but the walls that share the exterior of the house).  Supposedly, rather than coming up from the ground, it was surmised that they got in through the roof.

This time, they are on an interior wall.  A wall that does NOT share an exterior side with the outside elements. What the heck??  And the buggers are eating quickly, too.  The first patch we have spotted seemed to have popped up overnight.  There’s no telling how big that tunnel is going to be by morning!  My guess is they got in the same way as before – through the roof, since we’re on a cement slab and the exterior walls also happen to be made of cinder block.

Stupid bugs.  They give me the heebie jeebies and my skin crawls just thinking about them.  I know they won’t hurt US, but they still give me the willies.

I guess I get to call the exterminator tomorrow and have them come out and do an inspection.  On the bright side – at least there is still a year left on our guarantee so that hopefully this re-treat is not going to cost us anything!  Or at least not as much as it would if it were not under warranty!

That is what happened last time… we had a re-treat, which was only warrantied for a couple of years, and then a couple weeks after its expiration, the damn bugs showed up again.  I’m glad that was not the case this time – treating for termites is not exactly cheap.  We paid over $800 for the last treatment with Termidor, so they darn well better do a re-treat for practically nothing, if not free!

Wednesday was originally supposed to be a day for me to work from home so I could attend a special T-Day lunch at the Kiddo’s preschool, until she got sick the  night before and I ended up doing my work later that night after everyone was in bed, so that in case she was still sick Wednesday I could give my full attention to that.  Wednesday night I made a dessert to bring to Thanksgiving dinner.

Thanksgiving was at MIL’s house, but when we got home later and got the Kiddo to bed for a nap, I think we ended up vegging out in a tryptophan stupor catching up on some Tivo’d shows.

Friday I kept the Kiddo home from school so she could have a long weekend, and after some morning errands, which did include a stop at W@l-m@rt, but only to get some plastic storage bins and some lunch, the rest of my afternoon & evening was spent cleaning up around the house.

Saturday my husband went to his brother’s house with the Kiddo, while I stayed home and SIL came over to help tackle the mess that was my bedroom, clearing out clothes that neither I nor my husband wear anymore, nor will we probably ever wear again.  Can you believe I dug up stuff from high school, which was over 15 years ago?  Even better, can you believe that I once wore a size 3/4??  HA! Yeah, that is a size I’ll only ever see in my dreams.

Then Sunday, I wasn’t completely lazy, even though I wanted to be.  I probably did about four or five loads of laundry in addition to the normal two or three that we usually do.

The bright side though, is that the piles of clothes that were strewn about the bedroom are now either thrown away (if they were too holey), or packed into a storage bin for a yard sale or to be donated, or washed and folded and put into our closet!  And I can actually GET to our closet now!  The poor garage is about to burst at the seams though.  Ok that is a slight exaggeration, but it IS getting full. Some of it can eventually be thrown out in the recycling, but the recycling bin is full to the brim and the trash man doesn’t collect until Thursday for recyclables.  So that will be a slow going process since we do not have a pickup to use to take stuff to the dump.

I’m just glad to see the floor again and to be able to get into my closet.  Yay for some progress!  Other than that…the weekend was pretty exhausting.

*shakes fist*  Go away!  I don’t want you here days before a holiday!!

So I’m sitting here consuming a huge glass of orange juice and took two vitamin C pills.

I hope it goes away… I don’t want to be miserable for Thanksgiving!