Centipedes!!!

Hello....I just had a "showdown" with a centipede. I saw him earlier running across the living room carpet, nearly knocked me over. He ran into the bathroom and under the baseboard heater. I was hoping I'd never see him again but lo & behold less than 30 minutes ago I saw him (or a friend??--yikes!!) run across the carpet in the front room. First let me say, I do not like crawly things and without sounding like a total girl, it just makes my skin crawl. So, I was going to step on him with my nike flip flops but then realized that the bottoms have 'holes' and I did not want his guts on my foot. So I grabbed a sneaker and my wonderful attack cat Winnie had him cornered near the bookcase....I took said sneaker and it was the end of his reign of terror. I just hope that he is the same centipede that I saw earlier because I can't handle the thought of there being more than one. Ewwww. :(

So I had a pretty decent day. I meant to get up at 8 this morning but my back was killing me from my vacuuming spree last night, so I stayed in bed until 10 or so. Got myself together and went to Tops (grocery store) and Walmart. Picked up a nice new mop, a bucket and some pine-sol. Let me first say that I am very appreciative that I'm able to stay here at my grandfather's house, I really am. And I understand that it was a lot of work for my two aunts to clean out over 80 years of stuff. With that said, this place is a mess. Not cluttered or anything, just dirty. Not filthy by any means, just needs a good cleaning. It has been driving me crazy. I've been doing little things every day but this morning decided it's time to bring out the mop. So I'm all excited.

My aunt Barb comes over to bring me my mail (which is a whole other story) and I said something about how I went to walmart and I'm going to mop the floors, blah blah. She then tells me that I can't use any kind of cleaner on the floor, only warm water. I said why? She told me that it'll take the top coating off the linoleum. Huh?? I read the back of the pine-sol bottle before I bought it and the only thing it says that it CAN'T be used on is wood floors. Unless this linoleum is some high-end specialty brand that I never heard of before, I highly doubt that it's going to ruin it. For the love of god. I don't care what she says, I'm going to be a rebel and mop the darn floor with my pine-sol.

As I've said before, I love my aunt Barb. She has taken on the role of my surrogate mother since my mom died and for that I will always be grateful. She's a wonderful person and I know that her intentions are nothing but good. With that said....she is making me want to pull my hair out. I think I mentioned that she wouldn't let me use my grandfather's home address as my forwarding address....she said it would 'confuse the mail man'. Ummm, okaaaay. So now every day she calls me to tell me every little thing that I received in the mail and then it becomes a production as to how said mail will get to me. I think the reason she had me use her address is to give her a reason to call me every day and see me...which I do appreciate, really I do...but I'm 35 years old and I don't like being treated like I'm 12. Okay, enough complaining.

I talked to Matt today for a few minutes, he's in the process of moving into his new apartment on Avalon Rd in Redmond. He's bringing boxes over with his car a couple times a day and then movers are coming in on Wednesday to get the big stuff out of the townhouse. I really hope that he likes his new place....it's funny because during one of our talks we had before I left, he mentioned how this is going to be his first time living on his own. He joined the army right after we graduated and lived in the barracks until we got married....so this will be a good experience for him. I'm excited for him.

Well my eyes are getting heavy so I should get to bed. Have a good day everyone! :)