it was gorgeous out yesterday. i think it was 70 sumthin’ degrees here. of course i didn’t step outside to enjoy it, because i’m shackled to my computer. but sometime around lunch i decided to open my window and enjoy the breeze and sounds of people who areoutside enjoying the weather. i spent the rest of the afternoon working, watching tv, and enjoying the fresh air. i kept hearing buzzing behind me, which is all too common because i get ladybugs. serious ladybugs. orange ones, red ones, black ones. they love my place. but they must have very short life spans because i find dead ladybugs all over. every time i sit on the carpet (the rest of my place is hardwood floors) i see little wings. this means that somewhere along the lines i’ve stepped on their body and been dragging parts of them around. it’s pretty gross. but i don’t feel bad because they’re really a nuisance. i know some of you are thinking, “ladybugs? bothersome? no way. they’re so cute and harmless.” but once i was deep frying something for dinner, and then was sitting in the other room when i heard “tssst” from the kitchen. i figured it was moisture from the lid dropping into the hot oil. later when i went to clean up i found a bug had deep fried itself. and then another night i grabbed my glass and as soon as i had it to my lips, i saw it. a ladybug had decided to gorge itself on my grape soda and subsequently died in it. glutton. i’m so sick of this.
so anyway, later that afternoon i finally decided to turn around to help the poor ladybug find a resting place, only to find that it was not a ladybug at all. it was a giant hornet. or yellow jacket. whatever, i still don’t know the difference. it was a big friggin thing that stings and scares the crap out of me. and it was huge. it was about the size of my thumb. it was everything i could do to not call M and ask him to leave work to come over here and kill it. i don’t do well with the killing part myself. and it’s not because i care. seriously. i don’t let people just invite themselves into my apt. to hang out and i definitely won’t allow bugs to do it either. so if i find you in my apt, whether you’re a person or a bug, i will attempt to kill you. afterall, i don’t know what your reason is for being here and my instinct is that you’re only going to hurt me. therefore if one of us is going to get hurt, i’ll do everything in my power to make sure it’s not me. so bugs that i can kill will die. but for some reason spiders and stinging bugs scare me. as in, i’m running around the room with a rolled up magazine in preparation for self defense. i do not take my eyes of these bugs for fear that they’ll sneak up on me and bite/sting me to death.
i turned my work set-up around. so now when i was typing, i was facing the side of the room with the stinging creature. i didn’t want it to get away from me. and of course it perched itself up on my curtains so i couldn’t just whack it and kill it. i was just waiting for it to hang out on a wall or some hard surface. it never did. at one point i saw it fly to the open window. i got up as fast as i could and slammed the storm window down. now it was stuck in between the glass and the screen. i was hoping it would find it’s way out the same way it found it in. but even if it didn’t, i didn’t care. i went over M’s that night and he said it would die in the window for sure. because it couldn’t live without eating for that long. so when i came home today i was excited about being able to open my window and enjoy the weather again. and as i pressed my body against the window to open it (it’s really old and difficult to open up) i saw movement. that little bastard is still there. and flying around.
so i guess i’m keeping my windows closed this year. or at least until this thing dies: )
stupid bees. hornets. yellow jackets. whatever.
~ today i learned… that mother’s day is NEXT sunday! i’ve been operating all week under the notion that it was THIS sunday. i sent out all my cards and everything. oh well. ~
