[necessary background: Andrew and I currently live in a bedroom at my in-laws house. They're awesome, and fun, and so generous to let us do this when we're just moving back to SoCal and trying to save money]

A week or so ago I was getting ready to leave for work – I was all alone at home – and went to grab a sweatshirt that was sitting on the window seat. …. but there were several (read: 4 or 5) bugs crawling on my sweatshirt.

Eeeew!

So, I thought maybe we had left the window open and there was a hole in the screen ……
I opened the blinds and there were about 50 of these same bugs … with long wings … crawling all over the windowsill. ….

And I HAD to take care of it right away because I was leaving and there were all these bugs in the room ….

so I searched the house quickly and could not find bug spray (hey, I’ve only lived here a year and never needed it) … so I just grabbed a paper towel and killed as many as I could. …. but I had to get a couple more paper towels because there were a lot of them … and then I finally just got a roll of toilet paper because that was closer. ….

and everytime I walked away it seemed like more would appear ….
maybe they were falling off the blinds back on to the window sill? ….
but they were venturing beyond the window sill too …. crawling all over my things that I have sitting there. … paperwork, sweatshirts, black CDS, etc….

Finally, I noticed these bugs were crawling into my bedroom through a hole in the window frame!!!

I watched 2 of them crawl in! UGH! Into my bedroom!
And I had to leave!!!!

Short term solution – stop up the hole.
I couldn’t find any ducttape or packing tape or anything like that. I never use them, how would I know where they are kept!?
BUT – I did know where the band-aids were … so I stopped up the hole with a band aid.

Luckily, right then Julie pulled up, so I could pass it off to her so I could leave for work. ….

She thinks they’re termites.

Awesome.

(man alive, I wish I had had the time/thought to take pictures)

P.S. A week or so later and the band-aid is still there.