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 So, tomorrow I have an exterminator coming out to look at our ant problem. We have ants, not many and not the big ones. We have little annoying ants. For the first three years in our new house I was able to battle them tooth and claw and I was always able to mount a superior defense (allbeit temporary) against these little buggers using my trusty caulk gun and bug spray. When they would come in for the next attack I was always able to find out how and stop them cold. You know the dad in the movie "Christmas Story?" How fanatical he was with fuses? That's me and bugs. I hate them: they hate me. It is fated. Ying and the yang. Anyways, tomorrow I have finally relented and called in back-up as I can't find the source of how the ants are A) getting in and B) staying in. I caulked everywhere I could think of. I even used that spray foam insulation in the basement. You know the stuff that is so friggin' strong that if you get it on your skin you can just kiss that skin goodbye. Anyways, the ants won. I lost. I give them credit but I will take much pleasure in their demise. Much.
Here's the strange thing, I feel somehow emasculated in asking some other dude to come in and squash my bugs for me. I mean, I am a stay at home dad, I feel like I should 'have' this. Anyways, I need help. I submit.
Finally, the last piece of this puzzle is the protocol. Do I clean the house for this dude? I mean, our house isn't messy, like stupid messy, but it could use a once over. I usually do pick up the house once a day, but homer is supposed to come over early and I don't know if want to clean tonight (actually I do know and I don't want to). So what is the protocol exactly? Clean for the dude that comes over to spray for bugs or do some other stupid thing in the house or what? I usually have in the past, but I tired from the weekend, tired from figthing the ants and tired of cleaning--at least for the night. (I could write this though) Special Thanks to Assistant Editor: Carrie from OurCrookedTree
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I fight the same ant trail by the back door every year, too. This year I'll call the exterminator right after we move out! 
And why clean when he's just going to be treckin' dirt through your house anyways! 
