My morning is not going well. I thought the one tiny spider hanging beside my computer was bad enough, but it actually got even more disgusting. First, I was watching Fresh Prince in my room, and this fairly large spider came slinging down a web right in front of me. So I left my room to escape it. And coming towards the dark living room, I saw what I thought was a mouse. That turned out to be a spider, too. So I killed him, and then I found another. And then another. And then another. And then, when I was coming inside from the porch, my mother swatted yet another one off the doorframe towards me. Blegh!
And of course the bathroom doesn't have electricity. Damn. Anyway, now whenever I blink I see a spider-shaped shadow. And whenever I see a hair, I want to pass out. Long story short, I have seen more spiders today than I usually do in a month; and it's not even 7 AM. I really, really hope I'm done seeing spiders for today. Well, for life would be great, but that's just not going to happen...
How the heck do you live in a house where the bathroom doesn't have electricity?! Do you guys do everything by flashlight?? :o
ReplyDeleteSeven spiders in one morning ... yikes! Something seems to be wrong with your house ... :(
We did have to do everything by flashlight, until Lorne fixed the bulbs.
DeleteIt's just our typical summer infestation.
... Oh, I thought you meant that your house just wasn't equipped to have electric light in the bathroom. But it's great that you have it all fixed now — I sometimes have to do stuff by flashlight in our bathroom, too, because we get random power outages, and there isn't a window in there. It sucks.
DeleteThe last few years, we've been getting fruit flies like crazy. I can hardly do anything without a black cloud of the little assh*les in my face, landing on me the instant I get my hands wet and/or soapy ...
They're like a tiny plague; there are so freaking many of them. :(
We have fruit flies, too. Turns out they like alcohol.
DeleteOur bathroom does have a window, but in the summer it doesn't really get light here before 7 AM. Even with all those flashlights, I hated going to the washroom in the dark.
So would I! :(
DeleteI've tried lots of things to get rid of pests here ... some things work, some don't ... :|
It's kind of impossible to hit fruit flies with the swatter, though. I always get so cocky, and then they fly out of one of the holes.
Deletelol, yes ...
DeleteI've learned lots of tricks —
1.) - Put about half a cup of Mr. Clean in the bathtub and then add several inches of hot water, at least enough to cover the bottom of the tub. Here, I can kill hundreds of the little pests at a time; the bathtub ends up ringed with dead flies. Yucky, but effective.
2.) - If you leave a bottle of hand sanitizer open, they'll fly in, but of course this kinda ruins the sanitizer, unless you WANT fly bits on your hands. Eew.
3.) - If you want to be a human fly-catcher, put Vicks on your skin and walk around a little; fruit flies seemed attracted to me when I was sick last summer :p
4.) - They avoid Tiger Balm, this thick cream I've been using on G. when he hurts his back — I'd expected flies to land all over him, but I haven't seen any!
I don't know if you can use any of these observations, but the first one (Mr. Clean and water in the bathtub) is VERY effective. I don't even remember how or why I tried it; sheer desperation, I think. :p
I think I've honestly killed a thousand at a time with the bathtub trick; thousands altogether because I end up doing it pretty often.
DeleteWhich is kinda weird, since fruit flies weren't a problem here before two or three years ago :p
Thanks for the tips. I'll definitely have to try them, especially the Mr. Clean one. We do have Mr. Clean! This morning I killed three in just the bath-room sink. Normally they're all over the mirror and shower curtain.
DeleteOh, I know - they get everywhere! I'm constantly batting them out of my face and trying to keep them out of my food and drinks.
DeleteG. actually choked on one the other day. Ick. I was afraid he would throw up. I can't wait for winter, when all the bugs crawl back into hell or wherever they come from every year.
Yucky! I've had to throw food away because a bug landed on it the second I was done making it. I sometimes don't even get to put the cutlery down.
DeleteEw, ew, EEEWW! What was it, a spider? Disgusting! I'm keeping an eye out for a wolf spider Lorne calls Speedy. He said it made it from the door to the toilet in one second. I know he exaggerates sometimes, and I hope this is one of those times.
No, it was a fruit fly - I think he would have made himself throw up if he accidentally swallowed a spider! (He gagged, anyway; the fly got stuck in a bad place.)
DeleteI had to throw out a full cup of pop about two weeks back because a fly somehow got into it despite my napkin. I'm back to drinking out of a plastic bottle ...
I hope he's exaggerating, too! Oddly, I've only seen one spider this summer ... it seems that the spiders and regular flies have left, and the fruit flies have taken over.
:(
I would love to not be dealing with spiders.
DeleteSucks about the pop, too. A waste of a nice treat. :(
Ewww! Lorne just told me about a spider he saw last night. He said its body was bigger than his coffee cup, but including the legs, he measured it to be bigger than my foot!!!!!
DeleteIt sure does ... bottles are so nice :)
DeleteWhy did he waste time measuring that monster? I would have run out of the house screaming like a baby, lol
He claims he only has to look at something to know how big it is.Says his eyesight is better than 20-20. I know I would have been in Mexico within the day!
DeleteI forgot about his superpowers, lol
DeleteI wish my eyesight was 20/20, but I'd settle for 5/20 or 10/20, lol ... I know mine have gotten worse from a few years ago when the optometrist said one eye was a 2 and the other a 3, which kinda scares me.
Not Mexico, lol ... if you have to run away, run here! Or up north ... smaller spiders up there :D
I thought you were up north. :P
Delete... Really?
DeleteI'm a tiny bit north of you, but I'm mostly just east of you, lol
I have been able to find your house on Google Images. But I've never gone from here to there before, lol.
Deletelol, I know :p
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