An ant cemetery and a lot more

Soon we will have to give over our house to the ants. Every year when it gets warm, these critters invade our space. It doesn't matter how much we sweep or how much ant poison we put down, they always return. Today, after it rained outside, it was worse than it's ever been. These ants were swarming around two corners of a little 4-foot alcove of our family room, and marching back and forth between the two corners.


Before this, we were noticing dead ant corpses scattered around this area. When I was trying to figure out why, I found out that ants actually have cemeteries (although they're not called that) where they dispose of their family members' bodies. It's crazy what these ants are capable of, but it made sense! It's definitely NOT a cemetery now, though, as you can see.

Onto a more personal topic, I've finally been getting back into the swing of things after being on vacation, being depressed (vacation being over), and being sick with a cold. I worked out today and felt like I was going to die. I went to a group fitness class at my gym, where the room was full of about 20 women (mostly middle-age). I think I was the weakest one there. I was the only one I could see who stopped for a rest here and there. My arms were burning! I could only do about 2/3 of the ab exercises. Maybe if I keep going to this, I'll start looking more toned?

I've also read a couple more books: Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Where are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark. Stardust was pretty good. I didn't get extremely attached to any of the main characters, as the narrator had an aloof, storytelling kind of voice. Where are the Children was sort of a typical novel that follows a popular reading recipe. Kind of predictable, not written in any superior way, but good for entertainment and the value of the story alone. It's about a woman whose children are kidnapped, and it reveals that she had children 7 years ago who were kidnapped and killed. She is accused of being their murderer. It really was an OK book. I read it in about 2 hours.