Heebie Jeebies

Everywhere Hubby and I have lived (with the exception of VA), we have dealt with annoying bugs- cicadas, roaches, etc. However, what happened last night takes the cake.

LB woke up around 1:30am, so I made my way into the kitchen and made him a bottle. I walked into his room, picked him up out of his crib, and sat in the rocking chair to feed him. That's when I saw IT. Something about 5 inches long was crawling across the floor! It disappeared under the dresser, so I turned on the light so I could get a better view. Then IT darted out from under the dresser and started to charge at me and LB! So I took a plastic bank that looked like a baby bottle, unscrewed the cap, and caught IT underneath and piled a few books on top to keep it trapped. Now what?....

I did what every wimpy wife would do- I woke up Hubby. "Can you please take care of this thing that I found in LB's room? It's so creepy," I said. So Hubby got out of bed and went into LB's room to see what we were dealing with. "You know what that is?" he said, "That's a centipede."

A what??

"Centipedes can be poisonous," he said, which only added to my fear that I had found this thing in my baby's room. So, we sprayed some Raid under the bottle (that really pissed IT off) and left it to die. Needless to say, I couldn't sleep all night. Every time I heard the baby make a noise through the monitor, I thought it was that thing eating my baby (overactive imagination, I know, but it was thoroughly scary).

This only adds to my dislike of living in Hawaii. Yes, it's beautiful here, and there is so much to do, but with all my dislikes before (see older post), and now dealing with centipedes, it's just too much. I miss living in NH, where the worst bugs you deal with are black flies and mosquitoes. Sure, there are bears and wildcats, but they don't usually come into your house, and they certainly aren't poisonous! I've just about had it with this tropical living. Vacationing here would be nice, but I'm really not liking being stuck here with centipedes.... ugh....