Arghh!!!!

Ants. Everywhere. Tiny little, barely visible ants marching through my house.

Is it totally self-centered and myopic to ask for prayer that I can get rid of the ants in my house?

We are inundated with little ants that I can't even see most of the time unless I put on my reading glasses. When you spray them with something (I usually use the non-toxic spray Orange Guard) they just melt into teeny-tiny little black blobs.

This triggers all my house-keeping shame issues, since we keep finding little piles of ants under anything on the floor, and there are quite a few piles of "stuff" around our house... It also triggers my money issues, since I prefer to only use non-toxic pest services when I do have to call in help - and they are far more expensive, and I had been trying to avoid calling them in.

It was very hot here today, and the ants just moved right in. Tomorrow we will be cleaning and cleaning and cleaning - which was already on the agenda anyway, but it's still no fun to be trying to compensate for an invasion... And I will probably end up calling the pest control company, which will just increase our stress about money and lack of income... sigh...

OK. I'm feeling a little self-centered and ridiculous. A whole blog entry complaining about ants.

This afternoon I attended an "advisement session" at the local state university to hear about the options they offer for obtaining your teaching credential. It was a lot to take in - so many options, so much paperwork, so many decisions about what kind of credential program to enter that will influence the type of work I would be doing for a long time to come. It's a little overwhelming to be considering adding all these responsibilities to my life, when I can't even keep the silly ants out of my house...

I'm off to help clear the toys from one daughter's floor, so that the other daughter can sleep there tonight since her room is where the ants seem to be having a happy late night party (kinda like the dogs in the end of the Dr. Seuss book "Go Dog, Go": "Where are they all going? It's a party!"). I'm hoping for an easier tomorrow.