My Dream Home

I believe I jinxed myself by posting about crickets and how one was once on my bed. Well shortly after I was sitting on my bed doing some good old homework and out of the corner of my eye, I saw something black moving. I sometimes see things that I think are bugs...I'm sorta paranoid like that. So I didn't panick at first, but then it moved more into my line of vision and I freaked out. Luckily I had a quilt laying on my bed and it was on the quilt, not my actual bed. So after I calmed down a little bit, I knocked the quilt onto the floor which meant I no longer knew where in it the cricket was. I begged my little brother to come downstairs to find it and kill it for me, but he wouldn't. Thankfully hours later my mother came to the rescue--the cricket was still hiding int the blanket. The next morning I woke up to find a spider on my floor in almost the exact spot the cricket was. Eww. I hate bugs. They are one of the few reasons I don't like fall.

In case you don't believe me, I managed to get proof.


I decided I need to live somewhere bug free!

...do you remember this guy?

 ...or this movie?

It's pretty much official, I want my own Bio-Dome, but mine will have absolutely NO bugs in it.

Thank you Pauly Shore for the great idea.

They're Baack!

I had NEVER ever heard of people getting crickets in their houses until they started showing up in MY house. 3 falls ago, I started noticing them in our basement. And not just occasionally, they would show up DAILY! Several new ones everyday, then I noticed, they were practically waiting for me. They love to chill at the bottom of our stairs. They REALLY crossed the line when one showed up IN my bed. I'm a complete bug wimp, so let's just say I didn't sleep in my own room for a week, I stayed in Kev's old room. I was very glad it was there for me. Luckily that year was the worst of them, last year there were way too many but none in my bed thank goodness. But this year, I'm getting concerned. I spotted 4 this weekend. One of them was HUGE. It looked like it was on steroids. I tried to catch it to kill it but it got away and hid before I could get to it. I hate that they can do that, and worst of all...I hate that sometimes I will kill them and think they are dead. Then I will go to get a vacuum to suck them up with and I will come back and they will be gone. I really don't understand why of all bugs, we have crickets in our basement, but we do. And I've mentioned them to other people in our neighborhood who have said they've had them too, but is this really a common thing elsewhere? Anyone else ever had them? I think it's disgusting. One reason that I hate fall.

Would you be ok sharing your house with something as disgusting as this little guy?