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September 24th, 2005 at 05:37 am

I'm running a low grade fever for the 2nd day. Not good. My allergies are acting up and I'm so hoping this is not turning into a sinus infection. So far the only symptom is fever and slightly stuffy - no pain, no discharge. I'm using my flonase though.

I haven't spent any money the last 2 days. I filled up on gas Wednesday and today it is up 30 cents from that. No telling what it will be tomorrow after the hurricane hits.

The house we made an offer on is definitely off the market. DH and I went through a list and picked out 10 we want our realtor to schedule a walk-through. We'll see if there's anything we like out there. We found some pretty good deals, so if the house is in any kind of shape, it would be worth making an offer.

I came home to a house full of ants. We suspect they might be fire ants. They jump on you and bite like fire if you walk by. When I say full, it isn't really full, but there are hundreds of them. We can't figure out what they are going to. They seem to be coming up through the floor in our bedroom (aren't we lucky?). So we treated with cinnamon for tonight (it upsets their sense of smell and being able to follow the trail they lay down) and tomorrow we'll look for a non-toxic treatment.

We have 3 different kinds of ants in our house now. Big ones in the kitchen (they are so not aggressive, they act like cockroaches, only out at night). I suspect they might be carpenter ants, but I'm not sure. Little black ants in the cat's room (built in patio). They eat her food and are coming up through cracks in the floor. They are mostly not agressive. They've not bitten me. And now these little red ants.

We have a cat and small kids, we can't use toxic treatments and I won't use pesticides. Especially when I'm sick. It's so frustrating. Tomorrow will be spent pulling out pieces of furniture and vaccuuming and hoping we find what they are after. And the kids have been told, again, no eating or drinking (other than water) outside of the dining room. Interestingly enough, the ants aren't in the dining room where there are crumbs. Go figure.

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3 Responses to “Feeling "blah"”

  1. Anonymous Says:
    September 24th, 2005 at 08:54 pm 1127595292
    1127595292

    A low grade fever may well be sinusitis. Irrigating the sinuses with some saline as well as steam inhalation may help alleviate symptoms. You may however need antibiotics. I have awful sinus problems as you do. Good luck dealing with the ants. Here we have been over run with spiders of all sorts.

  2. Anonymous Says:
    September 24th, 2005 at 09:32 pm 1127597532
    1127597532

    ants dont like cucumber peels either. If you vacume them, they can climb back out of the vacume cleaner when its turned off. But, if you first suck up 2 or 3 mothballs, that will kill them after a few minutes in the vacume.

  3. Anonymous Says:
    September 25th, 2005 at 01:39 am 1127612346
    1127612346

    The big ones are definitely carpenter ants. We have had so many since the spring I lost count. My daughter (6.5) had a playdate and the girl and her mother were at our house. My daughter said "Do you want to see our ants?" and the mom said "Oh, you have an ant farm?" and DD said "No, there real ones!" I haven't found anything to get rid of them other than nabbing them with tissues, napkins, and paper towels.

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