Dominican Housewife Chronicles - Mosquitoes and other pests

Well folks since we last talked some great things have happened in my life.  The first and most important I think is that my husband and I have been married for 6 months.  YAY.  Okay maybe you're thinking that's nothing right but for me the one who swore she would never get married again.  This is huge.  I'm usually done and packing up my things after 3 months of dating so I think this one might stick LOL.  Here's a picture that we took on our 6 month wedding anniversary while at a party.

No my husband isn't in jail (notice the barbed wire in the background).  I posted this picture on Instagram and one of my friends commented about it so I thought I should explain here in case anyone else wondered.  It's just what they do here in the Dominican Republic.  For the most part all of the houses here are surrounded by barbed wire fences.

The second fairly significant thing this week was that I finally realized my purpose.  For the past few years I have been struggling to identify my purpose.  I believe that we are all here on this earth to fulfill at least one purpose if not more.  So here it goes.  I have realized that I am here to feed the mosquitoes.  Yep I'm mosquito food.  That's why I'm  here it seems.  I have spent hours researching, buying and concocting homemade potions to get rid of these little blood suckers.  I've studied them.  I know how they think now.  So I'm pretty sure the ones around my house have organized into a little union or maybe it's a gang (definitely the bloods LOL) I'm not sure what's going on but they are working together.  It is no longer a solo attack.  At least one if not multiple mosquitoes fly at my face while others attack my legs or back.  I have mosquito bites in places I cannot mention here.  My daughter saw some homemade concoction on Facebook and sent it to me.  It was easy enough to make, you use mouthwash, stale beer (there's no such thing as stale beer in this country by the way so I had to improvise) and Epsom Salt.  You mix this together and spray your yard and it's supposed to last for months.  Hmm well I made my batch and after trying to explain to my husband why I used three bottles of perfectly good beer I went outside and sprayed the yard.  I see a gang of them in my laundry area every time I go to wash clothes so I started there.  I was so proud of myself because the next day it seemed to have worked.  There were very few mosquitoes in the house.  It was very strange but nice.  Apparently those little buggers were just somewhere having a convention and planning their retaliation because the following day they returned with a vengeance and they brought their friends the flies too.  I felt like I was fighting for my life in here that day.  I'm here alone during the day while my husband works and I'm sure the neighbors must think I'm crazy because I talk to them, the bugs. I say things like, I see you.  Oh yeah it's on now buddy.  Just wait until I catch you you little blood sucker.  They are mocking me by landing on the bug spray bottle.  I'm in the kitchen trying to cook and I see mosquitoes land on my arm while a fly dive bombs my head. 
A few days after I sprayed the outside laundry area I went outside to wash clothes.  I'm pretty sure that homemade concoction caused them to grow because I was greeted by a swarm of some of the biggest mosquitoes I've ever seen in my life.  So after spending money on bug spray, repellent and making the homemade concoction I was sitting in my bedroom applying after bite to 90% of my body when a mosquito decided to attack.  I was at my wits end and I reached for the closest thing I could find which happen to be a bottle of Febreze.  I sprayed the mosquito mid flight and low and behold he fell straight down to the floor.  Could I have possibly found the answer to my mosquito problems?  It sure seems that way.  I carry the bottle around the house with me and spray them and they drop dead right there.  The best part about it is that my house smells great all the time now. 

The next exciting thing that happened this week was I made a decision on my book cover for my book that I'm finishing up now.  It's called Passport Wife and it's a compilation of my journal entries from the time I met my husband up until two months after our wedding.  Many of my Facebook friends have remarked that my wedding pictures and some of my pictures I post from time to time remind them of a fairy tale.  Well I'm here to tell you that it's not quite a fairy tale at least not all the time.  This book will take you behind the scenes or shall I say behind the smiles as I navigated my way through this surprise of a lifetime relationship with my husband.  Always asking myself how did I get here?


Release date still TBD in 2018.