Knock Knock..... It's your Ants !!!!

A New Reoccurring topic my be starting here..

I am thinking of calling it " Honeymoon Hisses."OR

"Newlywed Nightmares "

I'm not sure which ?

If you have been following along in the ongoing MarcellaCinderella postings..

You can see that we are still in the early dating years...but I figured,I may as well throw in some out of sequence posts about the early days of our marriage..

You know mix it up.. or mess it up.. take your pick...

As I may have mentioned.... in the early days, we lived in a small house my parents owned.. which we rented... It was strategically located RIGHT behind a Chinese restaurant called

The House of Woo... Yeah.. Not kidding..

As newlyweds..living behind this establishment.....everyone loved ribbing us about which one was the REAL house of Woo.... They would say things like.. Wink Wink.. "Is yours a House of Woo too ? "

or..

"Bet YOUR house is the REAL House of WOO. !!! nudge nudge.

Yeah.. it was a riot living behind a Chinese restaurant... the aroma on the hot summer nights was enough to kill a cat... come to think of it..

I kid.. I kid.. no cats were killed ( That I know of... )

It wasn't glamours.....

But beggars can't be choosers... and we were just shy of being beggars.

My parents were kind enough to let us live there for the price of the house payment.. and made no profit what so ever from us...

It wasn't always easy or fun living there.. but for some strange reason.... almost 30 yrs later I only have happy funny memories of that house...

We came home from our Honeymoon there ..

Our son was born and lived briefly there.

It really was some house..With some unbelievable memories attached...

OK.. I will give you a little taste of one of our early marital moments ...

Again.... we live behind a restaurant...keep that in mind..

I had decorated the our little home so cute, doing my very best to turn it from a house into a home...

It was small and not in the greatest location ever.... but it fit our needs perfectly..

On this particular night.. it was so hot out.. and of course we could never afford air conditioning.. so we had to open windows letting in the occasional whiff of Kung Po cat... I mean Cicken..... and fried rice waft in..

The constant buzz from the busy street we lived off of.. as well as the always touching bar fights that could be seen or heard from just across the road..

Oh did I fail to mention that besides living BEHIND the Chinese restaurant.. and NEXT TO the busiest road in town... we also lived ACROSS the street from the local bar.. In the words of the ever pleasant Mr Rogers.. It's a beautiful day in our neighborhood...

Anyway...

It was hot... the windows are open.. the T.V. is one of the main sources of light, other then a dim light coming from the kitchen..

Mr R and I are ending our day watching this new thing they call cable... and this weird new show called MTV... I don't see how it's going to catch on?

Hmmm .....

I got up to move the fan a bit after all it was MY turn to have a little "Fresh" air..

As I looked up at the panelled ceiling .. I could have sworn I saw the entire upper part move...

Man.. it is either

A. REALLY REALLY hot and I am witnessing a mirage..

B. The combination Heat,Restaurant, Bar and Busy Traffic fumes have altered my vision.

C. There is entire line of ants crawling along the wall and ceiling from the window ( Facing said restaurant) all the way into my kitchen !!!!

Nooooo ... it couldn't be... it's just my imagi.....

Holy Crap !!!!

I followed the little buggers from the window..........all the way to my paper towel holder...hanging on the wall.

It was decorative as well as functional,it had two little drawers that you could put keys in or change or say Ummmm.....Hershey Kisses... * cough * cough......

I opened the first little drawer and out spilled I swear what seemed like a bucket full of ants... spilling all over the floor and counter top...

I screamed at the the top of my lungs..

Mr R was there in seconds flat.. with baseball bat in hand...

" Put down the bat .....and Come help me!!! I squealed.."

There we were stepping on , smashing and crushing entire colony of the interminable intruders... They seemed to just keep coming and coming.. Talk about being grossed out...

Once we were certain there were no longer any signs of insect life...

I tossed anything that had been opened.. even if it seemed to be closed tightly ( NO MORE SURPRISES ).... disinfected the counter tops, washed the floor, and headed for the nearest Hazmat cleansing station....

(Man I get the Heebie Jeebies all over again just thinking about it.)

THAT... was one of the first Funny Now.........Not so Funny at the time escapades.....

Little did I know there would be SO MANY more .... Interesting .... things to experience in this house..

We got over it.....After all......We were young.. Happy... and had just had our first unannounced visitors..... We just didn't know it would be ....our ANTS....

Badum.... Bum... Ching......


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