Ah yeah. I constantly keep a big can of Raid handy too...This is Texas so we always have roaches here no matter what, thanks to other neighbors who have very dirty apartments - the roaches from their apartments come into our clean apartments through the vents, and no matter how well the pest control does the job to get rid of the roaches more still comes back because all the central AC/heating vents in my apartment are not closed off from other apartments like they should be - all the air in the vents travel freely between all through the apartments in the entire building via the vents. I think this building was built in the 60s or 70s so I guess they had not thought to make all the vents in each apartment closed off from each other like in newer buildings. Rather annoying. And the roaches are sometimes very scary because of their size, I have seen some that are an inch long and are very fat! Ugh, but at least not all are that big, most are no bigger than my pinky fingers - those are less scary. I attack them with my Raid can every time I see one. I think we would have been better off with a box AC in the wall rather than central AC so there would be no vents. That's how it was in Minnesota when I lived there before I moved here.
Guess what? We get other species crawling in our apartments here too. Last week an Texas Alligator Lizard (or it looks like one) got into my kitchen from under my front door! It still lives there. I know he is still there cause he pissed on one of my chairs the other day and I can tell because lizard piss is white and not clear, unlike human piss. I've been trying to catch him but he is a newborn so he is so tiny and he is so fast! He is only less than 2 inches long and really thin! It'll get easier to catch him when he is a bit bigger. I want to catch him so I can set him free or take him to a wildlife center. Small lizards are pretty harmless and I also know how to handle large lizards as I used to have a large iguana in the past. We also have wild iguanas here in Texas, I've seen them around. I have seen several different kinds of lizards here, one of them is yellow, too! Very yellow! Their colors remind me of the exotic frogs in the rainforests in South America.
At least I do not live way out in the country because that's where you're apt to get scorpions and snakes in your houses! 
Life in Texas is quite interesting! I don't think I will ever leave Texas. I really like it here. It's fun to see different species that I don't ever see in the midwest. It even feels like I moved to another country, practically. It's very different, and I like that. Midwest was so boring for me, I was so bored all my life ever since I moved to Milwaukee, and I always had a goal to get the fuck out of the midwest states and go live somewhere interesting. and I did it, I'm here now, yay!
