kinda cranky...

[brightbluegirl]

We have bugs.

BUGS.

I hate this.

In the past couple of weeks, I've seen some bugs in the apt. Not cockroaches, not ants, but these... long thin ones. Not super long, no pinchers. (So not silverfish, I don't think). Not segmented. Not millipedes... I think.

I saw one in the pantry - little, and grey. Upset me to no end, so I put everything I could into tupperware.

A couple of days later, I saw another one in the pantry.

When I was picking up the bedroom, I found one.

Last night, in the workout room, there was one.

This morning, I found something I wanted to clean, so I went to the cleaning cupboard, picked up the soap and a sponge, and bigger BLACK one ran out. I, of course, screamed and dropped the sponge.

Sigh.

I keep a clean home, people. A CLEAN HOME.

At first Andrew kept saying "that's the problem with apartments, you can't tell how clean your neighbours are going to be", but when I think of dirty apartments, I think of cockroaches or ants. Not these things, whatever they are.

I hate living in a buggy place. HATE IT. I prefer mice, if I have to have something. Mind you, the cats would be in heaven, then.

So we're going to get bug chalk, I guess, and chalk everything up. It doesn't affect the cats. It works on cockroaches, I hope it works on these things, too.

I keep a CLEAN HOUSE.

*shudder*

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Yesterday was a really hard day for me, actually, for no good reason. There was a tense, stressful meeting at work for 2 hours, that made my stomach hurt. My stomach hurt a LOT. That shit tires me out, yo.

Although we DID get fake crab, and chili-garlic sauce (we were out), and some yummy green onion fry cake things, and some red bean pastries.

AND then we went to the Superstore (I know I said we wouldn't go there again, but... well... damn. It all depended on what the guy did this time - and it was a different guy, who was taping everyone's plastic bags closed, he taped ours but didn't do anything about Andrew's backpack (or mine), so... yeah, we went in), and wandered around specifically because I was looking for cute little jars to put jam for Christmas presents in...

AND we found some!! Little 125 ml ones, for $4.99 for a package of 12 (including rings and caps, of course), AND a coupon for $1.50 off if you bought 3 boxes!! So after tax it was $15. Amazing - ESPECIALLY considering Safeway is selling boxes of 12 for $11.

d00d.

>flex<

Anyway.

Then home, and I was drained, DRAINED by the hurting stomach, even though it had stopped by then. So I stretched to Canadian Idol, and then did cardio while we watched Season 1 of Kids in the Hall. I almost didn't, because I felt like crap, but I really want to start the Bill Pearl workout next week, and that means I NEED to be doing my cardio regularly first. Need.

Comments

[blowtorch-betty.livejournal.com]

What's this about taping bags?

[freakykitten.livejournal.com]

He taped closed shopping bags on the way in, presumably so people couldn't drop items in to shoplift. Walmart does it, with green stickers.

The thing that gets me is that it doesn't really stop anything... there is lots of space on either side of the tape to drop things in. Not that I shoplift... but if I were going to, it'd be from places like Walmart or Superstore.

[blowtorch-betty.livejournal.com]

Weird. Though I guess it's better than making you check them.

The school book store has a big wooden rack out in the hall where they want you to leave your bag. It's unattended for chrissake! I've always just worn my bag in and nobody has said anything. If they do, I'll ask them what their insurance coverage is like :) Between my laptop, my ipod and my camera my bag is pretty precious to me!

[freakykitten.livejournal.com]

heh. our school (University of Waterloo) had the same thing... mind you, that was 10 years ago. Very few people carried around expensive stuff - laptops were expensive and heavy, palm wasn't huge, Rim wasn't known... cameras weren't digital, really. I don't think I heard much about anything going missing, either. But then again, what's to steal... the bag itself? heh.

[pfloide.livejournal.com]

We have cockroaches the size of my thumb that come into the house from outside, and Iris chases them, catches them, hauls them around, then releases them to play again. Repeat until dead. Then she bats them around for a while trying to get them to get up and run, until I notice, and flush them. Happily, she doesn't try to eat them (though she does carry them in her jaws). I figure this is the equivalent of mousing, and keeps the house roach-free, but it is sort of creepy, especially as they get more and more damaged every time she plays catch-and-release.

Always releases them from the same place, too, no matter where she is when she catches them. Odd, that.

[a-narchist.livejournal.com]

Bit of an OCD kitty is she?

[freakykitten.livejournal.com]

that is kind of creepy... I know the kitties have been sort of stalking our bugs, but I don't think they've been killing enough, I don't know.

What would be worse is if they HAVE been killing lots, and our problem is bigger than I'd thought.

[estrojenn.livejournal.com]

your bug problem sounds like weevles (sp?). we get them every summer like clock work. they like on dry goods in the cupboard and are hard to detect. basically this weekend we have to throw out all of our dry goods (rice, barley etc) and buy fresh stuff and put them into glass jars. apparently glass is the best thing. so yeah, i would suggest cleaning out all of your cupboards, throwing everything away and starting from scratch.

adam woke me up this morning and said 'im buying a case of beer on sunday and we are having a weevle squashing party".

[freakykitten.livejournal.com]

Andrew's been checking bugs online, actually, and they aren't weevles, (I just called and told him what you said). He said they're probably either silverfish (earwigs have pinchers, I was wrong), or firetails. He's hoping for firetails, because they aren't a home problem, usually they just come in from outside, and they spawn really slowly, so all you have to do is get rid of the resident population and it's usually mostly ok after that.

I figure, that makes sense, because they've been in every room, and not concentrated in the kitchen. Well, I'm hoping, anyway.

[gruggach.livejournal.com]

Those bugs are simply your mock squid 'balls' hatching. Don't worry. Just get rid of all mock seafood balls in your home and you should be ok.

[freakykitten.livejournal.com]

k, that is super gross. The idea of eating bugs is the ICK.

I've been feeling creepy crawlies on me all day. It'd be ok if they were outside, but not in our home. *SIGH*

[zaftigvegan.livejournal.com]

i told you you lived in the projects!
ha!

i'm sorry. i kid. i am inappropriate. spank me.

[freakykitten.livejournal.com]

This is why you're supposed to be finding me the name and number of the rental person/super/whoever. :P