Does anyone know how to get rid of a fly infestation? We've searched and can't find any obvious reason why we suddenly have hundreds of flies. No exposed food, no dead mice (thankfully), and I've heard they can breed in houseplant soil, but the rooms with the flies are nowhere near the only room with any plants. We put up fly paper, one of which ( Read more... )

I just learned that the baggy pants thing in hip hop culture originated in prisons, as a way to signal to other prisoners that one is "available." I'm sure everyone knew this but me, but I am rolling on the floor right now. I wonder if the hapless idiots I see hanging out on our street corners know what they're really saying with their attire?!

I got to the post office this morning and, as usual, there was a very long line. Anyone who's lived here longer than a week knows this is going to be the case. Anyway, I join the line and a woman comes in after me, muttering the entire time about the injustice, how all she wants to do is get her item weighed, pay for the postage and leave. What ( Read more... )

Because I want to move there. I am so sick of catching serious amounts of attitude every time I leave the house. It was my dream to live in New York as a kid, but I was thinking of the dream New York of "That Girl" and "The Odd Couple." NOT this ( Read more... )

It's high school graduation day in our town and I just saw this painted on someone's car in that soapy stuff people use to, well, paint stuff on cars:

MY DAUGTER IS A MHS GRADUATE CLASS OF 2007

Saw this one last night:

I BET JESUS WOULD USE HIS TURN SIGNALS

P attempted to defrost some sausages in our microwave oven last night. I went into the kitchen for some reason and was really glad I had, because I was greeted by a fire in the microwave. It was small and entirely contained in the oven, but still, yikes! I imagine it was caused by the plastic that was still partially on the package. Damn ( Read more... )

Thanks to the construction going on a block away from us. Something that sounds exactly like truck backing up has been beeping for two days and my brain can't take any more. I've snapped.

Our local newspaper's message board is going crazy about this Paris Hilton getting out of jail thing. I haven't seen New Yorkers this worked up since 9-11.

I just returned from driving P to the train station. Even though driving around here is often a nightmare, due to an infrastructure built in the first half of the 20th century and way too many drivers, many with suspended licenses, early mornings are usually okay. Today was no different than usual, until I got this freak behind me who was laying ( Read more... )