Mashed potatoes & mosquitoes

I like to put lots of garlic in my food whenever possible, but I'd never tried that with mashed potatoes before, so tonight I gave it a shot.  In short, don't do it!!!  It just doesn't contribute anything to it.  It doesn't make the mashed potatoes unpalatable, it's just a waste of time.

The best mashed potatoes I've ever tried though were made by a friend from Puerto Rico.  But you can't go telling people what's inside cause the long list of extras he puts would make you feel kind of guilty.  After mashing the potatoes, aside from the traditional salt, milk and butter, this guy puts a lot of mayonnaise, Velveeta cheese slices, and I think even white pepper and nutmeg.  Truly mindblowing, but not something I could eat everyday.

Unrelated to the mashed potatoes, when I moved into this new apartment I thought I'd have little or no problems at all with mosquitoes because it's on the 18F.  But soon afterwards, I started to get bitten.  I couldn't see them, but I could feel them biting me and sometimes even hear them.  Some friend came one night for dinner, and she said she saw one flying.  So I bought mosquito coils.  I was careful to get the one with the highest concentration of active ingredient.  It even had a drawing of an upside down mosquito, rather than a mosquito flying away like the other boxes.

When I started burning it, it smelled terrible, gosh this gotta work I thought!  Yes, I didn't get bitten, but the room would end up stiking, and the following day if I don't burn another coil, I get bitten again; which means the mosquitoes were only hiding somewhere until the fumes dissipate.  Gee I tried that for so many days, and I really hate the smell of these coils.  And the manufacturers (Bayer) even have the nerve of claiming their coils are lavender scented!  Yeah, lavender my ass!!!

Tonight while I was doing the dishes, I was lucky enough to finally get a good glimpse of the damned mosquitoes, and slapped two of them with my bare hands.  I don't have puddles of water nor anything near my 18F apartment, so maybe this is the end of the story for quite some time!