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August 4th heralded the singlemost anticipated day for me-a new apartment. All summer I had been looking forward to move-in, and while most of my expectations were met, I found that there were a few unwanted surprizes in store.
To my dismay, not only did boys live in the apartment before us, but one of them had a dog. So, after moving in all of my furniture, clothes and pictures I discovered we had fleas living with us.
As of this morning, I have counted 17 flea bites on my legs and feet. I’ve spent the duration of my stay in the new apartment with my feet on the coffee table so as not to sustain more bites. The upside of this would be that at least the Olympics are on, and I can watch Michael Phelps and fellow Olympians “smash” world record after world record.
The maintinence crew from our apartment complex stopped by earlier, and surmized that he would probably be spending the rest of the day in our apartment making repairs. Kate has just arrived with her parents, and is waiting to unload her things from the car, because the apartment may be sprayed in a little while, in which case we will have to vacate the place for 4 hours…
