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[rivka]

Good news: I got everything out of my cabinets in preparation for the exterminator, and didn't see a single roach while doing so. I'm running the dishwasher now, and once I empty it in the morning my kitchen should be ready for toxins.

Also good news: I ran into my next door neighbor Michael while we were both taking out the trash, and asked him if he'd seen any bugs at his house. (He hasn't.) He pointed out that the city recently tore up our street to do some utility work - a few weeks ago, in fact, so approximately at the same time that we started seeing roaches. Neighbor-Michael thinks that our roaches probably came in when their natural lair was disturbed by the utility workers. If so, that might mean that they don't stick around once we've treated the house.

Bad news: I didn't ask the exterminator what I should do with all of the things I took out of the cabinets. They're in my living and dining room right now, piled in huge mounds on the dining table, heaped up in laundry baskets sitting on chairs, stacked on the coffee table. What happens next? Will the exterminator bring some sort of tarps to cover them up with? Was I supposed to remove them from the house completely? Will he just avoid spraying the foodstuffs with poison? I should've asked, damn it, and now it's too late.

Also bad news: I forgot to have dinner, in all of the excitement. Now I'm tired and I don't feel hungry, but I should probably eat something. Something that doesn't involve any unrefrigerated foods, dishes, silverware, or cooking implements. Hm. I have some yogurt smoothies in the fridge. Doesn't that sound like a tasty, healthy supper?

Comments

[eeyorerin]

It depends on what sorts of methods the exterminator is using, but in my experience they've just sprayed stuff (or inserted gel packets) into the cabinets and haven't needed to cover up anything.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Long ago when I had roaches, the spray would land on everything uncovered that was near the kitchen. And it was the tenant's job to cover it up. If anyone offers to clean up dead ones before you put stuff back, do take them up on it! Or if you can find someone who will do it for pay. The exterminators we used to get had some instructions about what to do afterwards, like we were not supposed to wash the cupboards just to put down shelf paper.

As for supper. I had round one at 6 pm (a bit of pasta with jarred tomato/alfredo) and am now heating up some fish sticks and eating bread and butter. I would have had a yogurt smoothie if we had any.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I would have had a yogurt smoothie if we had any.

They sell them (http://www.foodengineeringmag.com/CDA/ArticleInformation/features/BNP__Features__Item/0,6330,95430,00.html) at grocery stores here. Definitely meal-sized, not snacks. I like them for breakfast - they have lots of calcium and fiber, both of which are lacking in my normal diet. Also, they're yummy.

[wiredferret.livejournal.com]

Speaking as someone who is just now sitting down to a supper of quesadillas (minus the chicken I meant to warm up), I think yogurt smoothies sounds perfectly reasonable.

[duane-kc.livejournal.com]

Cover it all up with old sheets, then wash the sheets as soon as you take them off.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Supper for me, more often than not, is cereal. More often than not, the cereal is Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, aka Cocoa Pebbles. (I justify this by having a healthy, balanced lunch at the faculty club, and hot chocolate for breakfast.) So yes, a yogurt smoothie sounds perfectly reasonable.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Hey, you could do worse for dinner than a yogurt smoothie. There are people who make dinner of, like, chips and salsa. (Not that I was ever one of them, of course. No way no how. ;-)

-J

[txanne.livejournal.com]

True--or microwave popcorn, The Single Woman's Dinner(tm). Or an entire can of Pringles. Not that I know anybody who does that, of course, never in life.

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Bugles. Original full-salt Bugles.

I think I'm too late, but...

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Hrm. When we had exterminators in for termites, we had to take all the perishables out of the house, except for those things in factory sealed containers. But that's not the same for roaches, probably.

http://www.unexco.com/roach1.html looks like it has good information. Scroll down to "BEFORE THE EXTERMINATOR ARRIVES".

Smoothies

[totallydevilish.livejournal.com]

Geek alert. Your like 30 girl you don't make livejournal entreis about yogourt smoothis as a healhy dessertish supper. Man, that's crazy.

Re: Smoothies

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Dude, you are so right. Thanks for setting me straight.

Re: Smoothies

[totallydevilish.livejournal.com]

By the way why is your username Rivka? That's MY first name. It's hebrew you know.

Re: Smoothies

[rivka.livejournal.com]

By the way why is your username Rivka?

Um... because it's my name?