This is Why Amanda is a Genius

(subtitle: or at least thinks she is)

I have this crazy ant problem at my house right now. I say crazy for two reasons. One: they are in the innermost part of my house, the corner where my house joins to the three around me. It is not even close to the outside, so where did they come from? Two: the day I found them? Yes, the same day that I was over at my friend's, Shelly's, and she had an ant problem (the only difference between us is that she had to suck them up with the vacuum and I was smooshing them with my fingers!)

But, I have solved this ant problem with a purely genius plot. See, they were into my cats food (gross!) and I would kill them and empty the bowls, but they would keep coming back (hence, the term "pest.") So, after a few days of this, I decided to set the food bowls on top of other bowls turned upside down so that they were harder to get to. Then my brain was struck by lightning (that must have hurt (random Hook reference)) and I made the upside down bowls into little moats by filling the sides with water. (To get the full picture: these bowls are cat food bowls that have a circle for the base and then the bowl comes up and then dips down in the middle to hold food and water. Does that make sense? So, when they are turned upside down, they have this little crevasse between the outside and the actual bowl part. Did that make you confused? I kind of made myself confused!)

Voila! Ant problem fixed. And that is why I am a genius.