Yes, I have an enemy.  So does the rest of my family–though I think I may be this enemy’s biggest target.  It doesn’t seem to matter where I am….at home, at work, in my car, in my classroom, even in my bed asleep!  I MUST watch my back at all times.

Who is this awful enemy, you ask?  BUGS!  :shudder

I absolutely hate bugs.  The animals themselves don’t really bother me…though they are a bit annoying flying around intruding in my personal space.  No, what really gets me is when they feel the need to bite me!  I mean really…what did I ever do to them?  I must mention that I am pretty allergic to bug bites.  Thankfully I’m not allergic to bees, but if I get a mosquito bite, I alsmost instantly swell up and have a whelt the size of a nickel at minimum.  If I happen to scratch them?  Forget it….I’m going to look like I have elephantitis.

When I was living in St. Louis, I had encounters with the little devils, sure.  When I was younger my parents played softball several nights a week and mosquitos seem to swarm at those ball field lights.  Calamine lotion was our friend.  And we often smelled of Off.  As I got older, I became more of an inside person and tried to wear bug spray if I knew I’d be somewhere that I could become Mr. Mosquito’s supper.  It seemed to work fairly well, less those few that got me here and there.

Fast forward to the new Country-Fried way of life.  Bugs are out to get me, I’m telling you.  Not just mosquitos either!  In the three weeks I’ve been here, I’ve been bitten my ants, mosquitos, spiders, funky flying things that are nameless to me, and other miscellaneous things that would look better on the bottom of my shoe.  I’ve had immediate whelts the size of a quarter.  One got bigger and redder everyday and freaked David out so much that he drew a line around it’s perimeter to make sure it didn’t continue to grow.  Thankfully, it started going away.  Though I do have several bites that have been there for over 2 weeks now.  What’s with that?

And yes, when I said I had to be cautious when I was in bed, I was serious.  I’ve woken up with bites down the backside of my arm before.  Very strange indeed!

I guess maybe because there’s more undeveloped land up here that there is free for them to breed in, they’re more prevalent up here.  Not sure.  I do know that they drive me insane though.  I’m sure at some point we’ll come to a co-existence that works, but for now, they’re still on my black list.  Haha!

Anyone have any ideas on what to do to get rid of them all?  Or at least have them not bother us?  (I know….it’s like asking for the moon, but hey!  A girl’s gotta try…)

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