Salon post: June 1

[jenett]

Welcome to this week's salon post!


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Topic of the week
I am still at "Wow, May was exhausting" (not dire, but you know, I don't get to use this icon enough, so icon) though I have a little hope June will be easier.

(For values of 'easier' that involve driving an hour and change each way to present at a conference on Monday. This is a "I have 15 minutes as part of a panel discussion, plus I need to be social at lunch" thing at least, so the prep is not huge.)

My question for the day: What are you looking forward to this summer? What would you like to be looking forward to? (Summer is not my best season, because wow, do Jenetts not do well in heat, but July has some great plans in it.)

What I've been up to:
More progress on the Doctor Who watch (I'm up to Clara's second episode as an actual companion), a tiny bit of knitting, and a lot of pokinmg at our new catalog options.


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Comments

[havocthecat]

Antpocalypse 2018 has been keeping me from writing. The amount of under-appliance scrubbing I've had to do is ridiculous, as is the toll it has taken on my knees, which were a little shaky in the first place.

I made my own ant bait/poison with boric acid and sugar and it's been working admirably well (I have a moral stance against hard pesticides in the house except as a last resort, and I barely use them outside the house either), but they've been after something under the fridge that isn't stopping them, even with the homemade ant bait/poison killing them off and luring most of them away from the fridge.

I don't know how many people consider antpocalypses real conversation at a salon, but it's pretty serious business when you're living in a place they've infested. UGH GET OUT OF MY HOUSE YOU LITTLE CREEPY CRAWLIES.

[jenett]

I feel that things that are driving you up the wall and away from doing other things you'd much rather be doing are entirely reasonable topics around here.

(I get seasonal ants, and then they go away again, and they do not bother me as much as they do you, but I am still NOT A FAN.)

[havocthecat]

I think we may have kicked the ants? But we did have to scrub and rescrub and I resorted to using lots of pennyroyal essential oil in our kitchen, which smells TERRIBLE. (I didn't touch it. It's on cotton balls which I handled with tweezers.) I also re-caulked the door leading to the deck (with white silicone caulk), which, after #cockygate, made for a lot of fun jokes this weekend.

Then I finally got to the scene with the character I've been desperate to introduce. I skipped a bunch of the travel stuff I didn't want to write (and just outlined the shit out of it instead).