Gasps of Horror

In honor of Aswan’s new job, we decided to go to Solo (twice in one weekend for me!) to go to Payless to buy him some quality shoes yesterday. Luckily, he found a pair that he liked right away. Sadly, we got a flat tire, but amusingly we got to watch 4 old drunk guys try to fix it for us! Between the four of them, it took 20 minutes, half a pack of cigarettes, and half of what appeared to be a beat up water bottle filled with paint thinner (at least that’s what it smelled like) that they passed around. They were basically like the 4 stooges. Good for laughs, but I’m skeptical about this tire tube they patched. We’ll see how it holds up…

Anyways, we found out that they just built an Ace Hardware (which is more like a really upscale Wal-Mart in this country) there, so we decided to check it out. I’ve been looking for some cute bins or baskets to organize my under-the-bathroom-sink cabinet which, for the last two years, has mostly been a big mess of unused rolls of toilet paper, bottles of lotion, shampoo, nail polish remover, mousse, more lotion, medicine, tubes of toothpaste, new and used toothbrushes, band-aids, etc with no rhyme or reason to it. I can never find anything under the bathroom sink without digging through a pile of bottles and tubes. So long story short, this country apparently provides nothing in the way of cute organizational materials. But I finally did convince the nice Ace sales lady to sell me part of a display they had – 2 bamboo baskets. Score. But that wasn’t enough for my organizational needs. My only other options were cheap neon colored plastic containers with Hello Kitty shaped holes in them. Pondering what to do, we wandered into the kitchenwares department. And I found some really cute breadpans that were reasonably priced. So yup. I now store most of my hygiene supplies in breadpans.

I mean, THEY ARE GREEN! How cute is that?!?  Besides my severe lack of organization, my under the bathroom sink cabinet was having another issue. Over the past year or so, it’s been accumulating a lot of dirt. Like, a LOT of dirt. Like, an embarrassing amount of dirt that I never cleaned up because it’s the under the bathroom sink cabinet and who else even sees it? I’ve been wondering for quite some time now where all the dirt has been coming from. I assumed it was somehow from ants. I see ants in my bathroom a lot. You can’t fight them, so you just learn to live with them. Or at least that’s my excuse for never cleaning up all the dirt. Again, long story short, I was wrong. As I was rearranging and organizing things, I pulled a tube of Arm and Hammer toothpaste that mom sent me for Christmas out of its box so that it would take up less space in the breadpan. And guess what came out with it?!?

THE CULPRIT – ALL THAT DIRT WAS COCKROACH POOP!!!!

As I started going through other boxes of stuff – Immodium, hair ties, Benadryl, bobby pins, Claritin, first aid kit – I found that nearly EVERYTHING was full of COCKROACH POOP!!!

Needless to say, I gave everything a THOROUGH cleaning and lit several candles. And I’ve already checked three times today to see if I see any more cockroach poop anywhere. Fingers crossed that it was only the one (now laying dead somewhere in my front yard) and he doesn’t have 75 ugly little step children hiding out somewhere…