Unwanted guests

We have an infestation of fruit flies in/around our kitchen sink and kitchen window. They have also moved into our bathroom (we have never had fruit in there...).

It says online that fruit flies come from rotting fruit on the counter, wet sponges, and flowers. We had all of those at the same time a week ago, around when these flies "moved in". We had strawberry tops in the garbage disposal that may not have gotten chopped up all the way, yes my sponge gets wet sometimes, and I had a vase of lilies (my fav flower) by the sink!

I have tried it all over the past week... cups of vinegar and wine with hole-poked saran wrap on the cups, glasses of white wine, bowls of soapy water, etc. I have seriously become like a jungle woman, where I see a fruit fly and I can catch it in my fist!

I'm really a clean person! Since our new roommates have arrived, I have bleached everything in my kitchen, including my garbage disposal. The average life span of a fruit fly is ten days, but these things are multiplying like crazy! I will go to bed having smashed all of them, and then when I wake up there are 10+ more fruit flies in the sink.

We went to the management of our apartment, but they just sent up this foreign man who didn't know English, and we killed the flies together with fly swatters for 45 minutes and bonded over non-verbal violence.

... Any advice? :(

Biggest Fear

During the car ride home from Connecticut today...

Ryan: What's your biggest fear about the future?
Me: (Thinking)... Financially?
Ryan: No, just anything.
Me: (Thinking some more)... Having someone close to me die.
Ryan: Can I be honest?
Me: Ya..
Ryan: That's going to happen.
Me: Ya, it sucks having a biggest fear that's inevitable.

Welcome to our home!

Here are just a few pictures of where we now are living...

Views from our apartment:

Our bedroom:

Our guest bedroom:

oh. my. gosh.

So it's been a really long time since I've gotten on here and blogged. Here is what has happened since the last time you heard from me:

1. Long story short, the creepy old Mexican man who lived above us was harassing us and threatened to kill us. Needless to say, we left that night in a hurry and didn't return to our apartment without a police officer. Why they only questioned the guy, I do not know. But good news, he is being evicted along with his chain smoker girlfriend.

2. We had nowhere to live for about 2 weeks so we spent a few days in Connecticut and then the rest we stayed with Bev and the Herb family (Bev's fiance, his mom, and his brothers). Bev let us sleep in her bed, while she shared a bed with her future mother-in-law, bless her heart.

3. We moved into a new apartment. Goodbye beautiful wooden 1 bedroom apartment with psycho man upstairs, hello lovely ocean-front 2 bedroom apartment with no psycho man upstairs!

4. Track ended :( But Lauren, the other assistant coach, and I are besties, so it's all good.

5. Maddie and I threw Bev's shower and it was a success! It got everyone, especially Bev, wicked pumped for the wedding! (It's on July 16th, BTW).

6.Our apartment is FINALLY all moved in! Right now it's a mess so I will take pictures soon and post them!

7. Oh, and I got an iPhone, so it's become a hassle to physically turn on my computer and do anything I can't do on my phone. It's really bad, actually.

8. Justin and Bailey came up this weekend to visit! Justin took us all out to do some really fun things.. Friday night we went to the Sox game, and Saturday we went on a whale watch! Here's pictures! I hope you can figure out for yourselves which is a picture of which:

Okay, so I didn't get any pictures of whales because I was sick. But that's Boston as we were leaving the harbor! I love my new home :)

9. I had no idea I left my blog with an ugly blue background. Ugh.. I'm going to quickly try to make this blog look nice!