Our Little House of Horrors
I HAD EVERY INTENTION TO FILL THIS SPACE WITH SO MANY HONEYMOON PICTURES AND STORIES that you’d want to break my computer two days into it just to get me to stop posting. I mean, come on, I was tweeting and Facebooking and picture uploading after the wedding right up until my phone lost service when we stepped on the cruise, and I had awesome stuff scheduled for the whole week we were away. But then we came back and those good intentions to post got pushed behind the pile of all the crap (“crap” is probably not an appropriate term for all the gifts we were given) that needed to be opened, put away, organized, cleaned…not to mention the piles of my junk we had to dejunk so he could have some room to actually claim as his.
So for the past five days I’ve been overloaded and overwhelmed and any other word that starts with “over”, so I took a break from the web so I could get my real life in order. I’m finally to a point where I don’t feel like I’m losing my mind – as much. And yes, you will still hear all the fun honeymoon stories like the time Kevin got his face licked by a parrot and I got sat on by a donkey. All things in time.
But last night!
Let me set the scene a little bit.
It was around 8:30. Dinner was hot and ready on our plates, and I’d convinced Kevin to suffer through watching 27 Dresses with me. We were barely getting to the good parts when we heard something fall over by the fireplace.
“What the hell was that?! Did you hear that? Something just fell,” Kevin turned towards me in the dark.
I told him that yes I’d heard it and whatever it was, it was definitely INSIDE with us. I have better eyesight than he does at night and I could see the thing as it scurried up the fireplace screen. I jumped up and turned on the light, expecting to see a mouse. What we found instead?
A bat.
A big, hairy, ugly bat that had flown down our chimney, weaseled it’s way through the closed vent and crawled, creep-like, up our screen.
This totally trumps the two half-dollar sized wolf spiders Kevin found and killed on our porch a few weeks back.
“IT’S A BAT! A BAT IS IN OUR HOUSE. IN. OUR. HOUSE!” I was screaming and laughing and just freaking out in general. I like bats, but I don’t want to touch them or move them. All I could keep thinking about was the freak accident from a few years ago where a bat fell out of a tree in pure daylight, fell on a baby, then BIT HIM AND GAVE HIM RABIES. The entire families had to get rabies shots in the stomach.
Gag.
So we started planning on how we were going to get the damn thing out of our house (don’t give me that look, you’d swear too if you had a bat in your house). I found a pair of old riding gloves and threw them on, fully knowing I wasn’t going to actually grab the thing with my hands.
Double gag.
So what did I do instead? I gave the gloves to Kevin, handed him an old pillow case and kicked back with the camera to document it.
Only for you, Internet.
Enjoy the video, and may your house be pest free!
Love, The Officially Freaked Out Newlyweds
Hahaha!! That is funny and completely random. Loved the video to go along with it
. That bat must be talented to end up there!
Kevin is such a brave, strong, and fearless husband. I am glad you found him for all your bat removal needs. Ha! I have stories from being a newly wed that I will have to share with you sometime.
So glad you are back. Can’t wait to hear all the stories.
Great video…but why did you kill the bat?
Btw, you have the cutest voice and accent ever! Of course I’m stuck with a kiwi accent and surrounded by aussie accents every day so yours was a delightful change lol.
Ahhh that’s freaky! We had a squirrel fall down our chimney once and FLY around the house while we were trying to get it OUT. It ended up running UNDER the stove and we had to get it out with a broom haha! I need to watch your video but it wont work on my work computer because youtube is blocked. I will definitely watch it when i get home!
Aww thanks Heather. I love your comments and I really need to catch up on your blog sometime! I’d have to argue you about my voice though – I’m a die hard Aussie fan, so to me my Utahn drawl is boring (besides, we say our “r’s” like “rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr’s”).
I regret to say that Grams made us kill the bat. She’s severely allergic to them and she was afraid it would come back. I didn’t want to kill it, I would have just let it go, but Grams sat on the porch landing and waited until she saw the evidence that it was done. Goodbye bat! I’m sorry!
WOW – OH – NO – SORRY “YOU-TWO” HAD TO GO THROUGH THIS HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE – A BAT!
MYRN
ACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK! But have been loving the eye candy pics!!! Thought of you in a special way on your big day. xoxoxoxo
All I can say is “LIKE A CAT!!!!” That was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time, I love his little scream right after he catches it!
Please tell me where you live so I can make a point to NEVER live there!! Bats + spiders = my worst nightmare.
HAHAHA! That is one funny movie!
That is the funniest video ever. Thank you for ending my day perfectly. I know who to call if a bat randomly gets in my house.
EEEEEEEEcccckkkkkkkkkkkk! Scary! I wouldn’t have been that brave. I love it how you’re just sitting there documenting this aub. Great job kevin! What a courageous way to take care of the situation. Aubrey is in goood hands.
I can’t watch the video at work and I AM GLAD! Because I’m pretty sure that if there were a bat in my house I would faint. Seriously.