Nude with a Spider (Bug Magnet)
Jul 02 '06
The Bottom Line Quit bugging me!
Sheesh! I can't get any privacy. I just tried to take a shower in peace, when a nasty looking, black spider showed himself. What is a girl in distress to do? I turned up the heat on the shower head (Thank God it is removable!) and fired away. Yep, soaked the ceiling and wall paper. I don't care. The darn thing went down the drain - may it rest in peace. Of course, now, I am thinking this spider will come back through one of the sink drains to pay me back.
I am a bug magnet. I managed to have some of the nasty critters stay away for many years, only to be confronted recently with them-- Up close and personal.
Once, I had a dream about a spider crawling on me. Woke up. Hello, yep, a spider crawling on me. More swearing. Squashed with a book.
I had a spider's egg sac hatch in my bedroom, when I was maybe 11 years old. What fun! Hundreds upon hundreds of these tiny spiderlings coated my ceiling, making a white ceiling look grey stained. I rolled Duct tape on them and left it sit for months. (Bet you never thought of using Duct tape for that!)
I have had lice thanks to my daughter attending preschool. Yes, we both had/have long hair. It wasn't fun.
My daughter, while curling my hair, recently found a tick having dinner in my head. Yes, it's head or whatever was in my scalp. Ugh! Luckily she managed to pull the whole thing out with a tissue and her nails. We placed the nasty thing in a ziploc baggy and googled him. An adult female American Dog tick. Off to the doctor for meds. Boy, was I ticked!
Fleas, yes, have had them in my apartment while in college. I didn't have a pet. Apparently, it was a bad outbreak in the area and they could fit through the screen in the screen door. They love the taste of my blood. While house hunting, I knew when sellers had fleas.
Another fun bug, wasps or bees, I was first stung by a sweat bee. Good thing I was stung by such a small one as I am allergic to them. Later in life, I attended one of my daughter's cheerleading events. It was my first time attending one of hers because of having conflicting plans. A wasp stung me in the webbing between my thumb and pointer finger. I swore, which is not like me, because I did not have my EpiPen and had only been at her event for 5 or 10 minutes. Hubby tourniqueted me and we were off. Oh! I forgot to mention the numerous times where the wasps or bees have hitched rides in my car with me. That is always exciting. Ask my kids.
One of my favorites is yet to come. I moved into one of my college apartments and woke up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. Put the light on, apparently I had thousands of new roommates. Cockroaches. It was awful. The landlord said I was imagining things. Her property didn't have cockroaches. I stood at my buildings entrance with 1 jar of cockroaches. Quite a few tenants later, there was a notice sent around that our building would be chemically treated for the roaches. I thank those fellow tenants to this day.
I try to coexist with nature. I don't go in their homes. I wish they would stay outta mine.
P.S. That fairy garden I recently talked about in a review, came with a FREE bonus slug. A big thanks to my daughter for removing that too. Sigh! I can't win. Probably won't sleep either.
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Member: Kyra
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