Nicole vs. The Roaches

Ok....by now some of you have heard that I've spent the last 25 days sleeping on my boss's couch. Why? The apartment I was supposed to move into was invested with cockroaches. I'm not talking about a roach here and there at night....I'm talking about roaches out in the open, just hanging around playing poker, DURING THE DAY. The roach control websites I've been to all say that if you see roaches during the day, infestation is an understatement.

Sigh.

How did the apartment get like this? Simple: the girl who lived there before me rarely cleaned, rarely took out her recycling, left bags of sugar and other things OPEN in the cupboards, and had an ENTIRE YEAR'S WORTH of PIZZA BOXES on the floor. I'm not surprised roaches found their way there--the place was a frickin' hilton! (How this girl managed to live like this is a mystery to everyone.) When the extensiveness of the roach issue was realized, I said there was no way in hell I was moving in until the problem was resolved. This is why I've been sleeping at my boss's house. But, after about 6 cans of Raid, traps, bait, two bug bombs, and a thorough trash/food evacuation, I think my apartment might be ready for human habitation.

But because it's been saturated with all kinds of chemicals, it needs to be scrubbed down so I (and Miami) don't get sick. It will be really hard for me to get that done during the week, and this weekend isn't suitable for cleaning, as my co-workers and I are throwing a rockstar party at a 5-star hotel downtown (we're all going to dress like rockstars and proceed to act like rockstars....surely there's no shortage of things to do in Seoul...). The party begins Saturday afternoon, but I need to prepare my costume beforehand, and I'll probably have a hangover on Sunday. So I suspect I will first move into my apartment next week Sunday or so.

I'll show those roaches who's boss!