Today has been a day for unexpected and unwelcome visitors.
First, the GINORMOUS fly in my room. I swatted him with my shoe and he stopped moving. Then when I went to pick it up with a tissue, it moved. Turns out I only gave him a slight headache, so I swatted again and then promptly removed him from my room.
THEN, tonight happened. I am peacefully walking back to my room from the kitchen and I see a large insect scurrying across the floor. Flashbacks to my first mouse encounter entered my head as I silently screamed and ran into my room, automatically going through the steps I had done before to secure my room from the opponent if it tried to enter my room.
I was content with being posted up in my room for the night, but as my roommate (the one who saved me from the mouse) walked in the door and screamed, I remembered the pact I made with her when she relieved us of the mouse. I told her since she got rid of the mouse and was terrified of roaches, I would kill the roach if we were ever in the presence of one. Okay, so I may have thought we would never see a roach, but when I opened my door and saw her panicked face, I realized I would have to put on my big girl pants and take care of this roach.
I donned some clothes to make sure all of my skin was covered (with the logic that if any skin was visible to the roach it would somehow be able to attack me), and we strategized in our living room. I grabbed our broom (hey-- it helped with the mouse!) and entered the war zone. It was sticking half-way out of our metal shelves. I then decided to try and cover it with our toilet plunger so I could grab some roach spray under the sink. As I tried to cover it, it ran into the middle of the floor. I surreptitiously walked over to the sink, grabbed the spray, and sprayed the holy heck out of our kitchen floor. After completely covering the floor with roach spray, I got him. Then, I covered him with a plastic bowl thing, and let him have his last few moments alone. He is still currently there as far as I know, and I will say my last good-byes in the morning as I flush him down the toilet.
To all the bugs I've encountered today, I have to quote Destiny's Child:
"You're bugging me and don't you see that ain't cool?"
Update: (literally not even an hour later) I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth to find one crawling up the wall....but I sprang into action with my spray and killed it. Roach apocalypse is apparently on its way everyone.
That's New York City for ya. What area did you get the apartment?
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