Are you kidding me?

Today's high here in the valley was 100 Degrees..
Tomorrow it is expected to reach 105.

Its the middle of May
WTF?

We're not supposed to get temps like this until July/August...
Hey Ya'll need to start riding more bikes ya pudgy bastards!
Its too hot for this crap! You're melting the ice caps, making it hotter in the valley! Stop It! Stop it now!

(ok now that that's out of the way, Im going to drive my Hummer (The H-1, the original, 3 mile to the gallon beast) up to the corner ice cream store, approximately 100 feet from my front door, to get ice cream and yes, Im going to keep the engine running the whole time I'm in there cause I'd hate for it to get hot on the leather interior and besides that's allot of room on the inside to cool down and once its cool, I'd like to keep it that way. Once Im done getting Ice cream, Im taking the beast across the street to the local drug store and yup, Im gonna buy me that frozen lasagna that takes an hour to cook in the oven (which by the way was made in 1968 and takes more power to heat up than most people's whole house in the winter). Im doin my part for the environment...how about you!)

(That last part was editorial sarcasm...the ice cream store is actually 200 feet away from my front door, and damn-it, its too hot to walk!)

The Visitor and the Pizza Pie

**Author's Warning: If your squeamish about bugs, particularly Roaches, skip this one**

Last night was the Grey's Anatomy Season Ending. I had the popcorn, I had the soda's, I even broke the cardinal rule and moved the ashtray inside, I was not missing a hot second of the show. To many questions that needed to be answered: Were they FINALLY going to kill off the blond chick? Was the doctor from Iraq and Yang going to finally let bygones be bygones and move on? Was Grey and Derrick finally (After YEARS! of waiting) going to get married... Yup, not going to miss a second.

Halfway through the show, something catches my eye on the bookcase.
A little speck of something, but it was moving, stopping, moving...
I got up, saw a beetle looking thing, my mind refused to register what it was, and grabbed a paper towel, Greys Anatomy be damned at this point, There's a bug in the house and must be destroyed at all cost. Went back over, smashed the little thing with the paper towel, walked over to the kitchen where the light was on, and just to be certain that it was not what the little voice in the back of my mind was screaming at the top of its little elfish voice, I looked.

My fears and suspicions were confirmed...a roach.
AAARRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! NO!!!! screamed the little voice!

Now living in an apartment complex such as this, it might have been a scout. They send those out looking for the possibility of a food source at the neighbors. The neighbors next door have recently moved out and the apartment was cleaned by the cleaners. So the possibility of a scout coming over to investigate the smell of the wafting popcorn as Im sitting on the couch, is a possibility. Ive lived in apartments all my life..roaches happen.

But how to use this to my advantage..(Yuppers that's me the optimist!)
The Kids...hummmm...

As typical here at the house, on Friday's we celebrate the ending of yet another week, (More like celebrating that I lived through it yet again!) I order Pizza.
The boy in the middle of wolfing pizza, drops some on the floor..looks at it...and continues to munch on the slice at hand. HA HA! Opportunity Just knocked! So I casually inform the children while they are munching happily on pizza and Hot Wings, what I saw crawling up the bookcase last night.

The Boy is currently doing laundry and cleaning his room, the girl is finally getting her clothes off the floor. The pizza..only a few slices devoured..is in the fridge. Appetites are gone!

Yet again...the rooms are being cleaned, and I had to put little effort in getting it to happen, all I had to do was kill a bug.

(And if your wondering, no, there has not been another scout spotted, Creepy(the cat) has been placed on high alert.)