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[snicks_chan]

I like to consider myself a fairly held-together young woman. I can change a tire, handle minor plumbing issues, strip paint, stain furniture, balance my checkbook without the help of e-checking, move house without actual movers, assemble furniture and some electronics, wrangle problem landlords and keep up an apartment after four other people.

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[darthneko]

#_____# What is it about BUGS this year? eeeesh! Me and my roommate took about twenty minutes between us to get some freaking three inch black beetle thing out of her room late last night, both of us on tiptoe and armed with raid and whacking things, jumping at every little rustle and skitter. UGH!

[snicks_chan]

PA is lousy with centipedes. My poor little sister has been scared to death of them ever since one shot right up her leg when she was folding laundry in our basement. I'd hoped to leave them behind when I moved across the state, but it seems I have no such luck.

I need a stick. A really big, flat stick. A 2x4.

[darthneko]

Centipedes. UUUUGGGHHH. (Was in Indonesia, at a hotel. nice german lady in the room next to us came knocking, very timid, to ask me and my mom if we could help her with a bug. The "bug" was a TWO FOOT LONG centipede. X_X We had the men at the front desk come down with big logs and smash it.)

[snicks_chan]

AUGH WHY WOULD YOU TELL ME THAT?!

[halofire]

YOU BROUGHT THEM DOWN WITH YOU IN APRIL!!

I swear, I have only ever seen the itty bitty tiny inch-wormish 'pedes that curl up in balls when you poke them. But two nights ago?

On. My. Bedroom. Wall. No cats in sight so I had to run and get a cup and papertowel, knock it down and do the pansy dance while I relocated it on the carpet, scoop it into a cup, break the soundbarrier running to the bathroom, and FLUSH the icky two inch long thing.

I BLAME YOU!

[snicks_chan]

If I had, in fact, brought them down in April they would have made themselves known LONG before now!

Now you know my terror! Were its legs so long that it was almost as thick as it was tall? Did it have hairy butt antennae? THOSE ARE MY BANE!

[angel_vixen]

Nngh, we used to have those at my parents' house, nastyickyhorrid little buggers, and then we got infested with crickets. Crickets are symbols of good luck in some countries, but oy, we should have been kajillionaires with all the creepy-crawlies we had.

On the other hand, I made a trade-off and now live on a hill; we see the occasional ant, and that's about it.

<.< >.> <.< *knocks frantically on wood*

AngelVixen :-)

[snicks_chan]

Shaune, you've been to my house in Boiling Springs. We are on the tiptop of the tallest hill around, and our place is still crawling with them.

They're there, you just haven't seen any yet. Check behind the Transformers.

[angel_vixen]

Butbutbut...everything's concrete an' I haven't seen....eeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww...

*does the dance of "ohewgross, dun wanna touch" around the living room*

AngelVixen :-)

[spazztichero]

Fortunately, we do not have nearly so many centipedes here. I have seen one in my entire time living here and it was dead when I saw it. Halo's sighting is the only other one I have heard of. However, should any bother us when you arrive here, I have no qualms squishing them. Or dishwashing them to death, as it were.

You know...you can actually do a lot more than me in that list. O.o I have not learned how to change a tire, handle minor plumbing issues, wrangle problem landlords, keep up with a crowded apartment, and I don't keep a checkbook any more. (I used to though so I know how...I just sucked more and more at keeping up with it until now I just look at my numbers online.) I also fear stripping paint.

Um..I know how to change my oil and air filter in my car though? *hangs head in shame*

*A Space Ghost Zap for the Centipedes*

[snicks_chan]

What if Halo's right and they follow me?!

Also, the dishwasher incident was gross. I try to think about that as little as possible.

By 'minor plumbing' I mean clogged drains, leaky faucets, and replacing fixtures. I don't know if that's impressive or not. And my mom showed me how to change a tire! Mom is tough like that.

[spazztichero]

Then I'll kill them. *matter of fact*

I'm not even good with all of that stuff. I'm sure I could learn, though.

[muffins_of_god]

AUGHGROSS.

XD So...is that were you were last night? Hijacked onto your bed by a 'pede?

[snicks_chan]

I was out shopping for a futon with Katherine, whose air mattress exploded. The pede thing happened after I got home and showered, and I had to go to bed just after we inspected my room because I had to be up at 8!

[halofire]

Speaking of umbilical attatchment to computers, is anyone on tonight? Like, before the workweek sneaks up on me an whacks me over the head and sells me to a circus, gypsy band, or pirate crew?

[snicks_chan]

I should be on sometime between 11 and midnight. I'm doing dinner and movies with some friends right after work, but we usually wrap up early because some of us work Saturday. So I'll be there!