11 months and 2 weeks - it is official

I wanna go home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


well, as I am standing around the dining room, broom in one hand, flashlight in the other, front door standing wide open, I am sweating like nobodies business... just waiting for that slithering slitherin to come outta there.

Now, part of me thinks, hey get a cat, but then I can envision the Lucy-esk helter skelter that will likely ensue, so I pray they stay outside.

Now, I have a choice, keep the lights on - it is 9pm folks - or turn them out.

Keep them on - this means I can SEE slitherin, but it also means a housefull of bugs, mosquitos, flies, moths, millers, you name it, they are all out there just waiting for an oppty...

Turn the lights out - not so many bugs in the house, but that means me and slitherin are in the house together in the twilight.

Well, dumbass decided that maybe a piece of cardboard at an angle would encourage the bastard to slither up it and I could broom it out the door.

OK, I really have to stop skipping lunch, clearly my cognitive function is suffering from it.

So, after I slammed around the house finding things to cover all the vents and cold air returns, they are all covered, some with plywood, some with plastic grocery bags, some with peel backed vinyl tile squares meant for under the kitchen sink, well, now it is just slitherin in that duct and me.

So, the bastard hides behind the cardboard which puts him right next to the duct work that leads to all the other vents in the house. Well, I don't have to tell you he went for the long dark tunnel.

Now, I just read that snakes can stay alive for months in a duct system.

GREAT.

I repeat.

I wanna go home!