fruit flies are such focused little creatures, you can tell they only think about fruit and how to get closer to fruit and they wish you wouldn't wave them away from the fruit and they hope you will go out to the garden or the store and get some more fruit, etc. they never look at each other except at halloween and only then if they're dressed as plums.
― estela, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
one persistent fucker has been buzzing round my head for a couple of hours.
i should really get up and organize a jarbl but i biked like EIGHT AND A HALF MILES today (which is oh about 8 x further than i've biked in a really long time) and i'm not moving from the couch anytime soon.
― smoove operator, Thursday, 5 July 2012 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
oh harbl, i've been meaning to tell you that i made my jarbl from a vietnamese yogurt cup, with holes poked into the lid. it's rather brilliant, i think.
― lxy, Thursday, 5 July 2012 05:16 (eleven years ago) link
that's perfect! i need a container because i don't want to use a jar i want to keep around. they were gone because i went away for a few days. all i had to do was cut a tomato and they magically reappeared. ARGHHHHHHHHHBLS
― spite n ease (harbl), Thursday, 5 July 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
this is such a quality thread and
f. overheard me calling a kitchen implement 'fucko'.
― estela
is in my top five favourite posts.
my favourite thing about irl-estela is hearing her swear ^_^
― smoove operator, Saturday, 7 July 2012 02:20 (eleven years ago) link
i love this thread and that post too, ruby.
the season's first fruit fly appeared last night.
― lxy, Saturday, 7 July 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
<3 i've been thinking a lot about how much i loved seeing you all in april.
― estela, Monday, 9 July 2012 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
lately my sister keeps phoning me and calling various people cunts in a pleased defiant voice tone that i have always admired and so far her list has been spot on.
― estela, Monday, 9 July 2012 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
she's trying to finish a phd so she has my sympathy and my ear.
― estela, Monday, 9 July 2012 13:09 (eleven years ago) link
This 8 story office building in downtown Birmingham is seriously infested with fruit flies and needs, like, 1 million jarbls.
― jaq, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
Or, 1 gigantic one, suspended in the atrium.
― jaq, Monday, 9 July 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
imagine it. it might be quite artistic, if a bit serrano.
― lxy, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
I am imagining a peppery jarbl :)
― jaq, Monday, 9 July 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
haha 1 million jarbls :)
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
i hoarded a package of jaffas and now they're stale :(
― lxy, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
tsk.
― estela, Thursday, 19 July 2012 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
i am acquiring a roommate
he's an acquaintance and is a good dude, although his name does not really suitably accept a -bl at its end.
i am sure it will be fine and perhaps even good, but i don't really want to live with anyone except my ex and my her cat?
i dunno -- it's been quite a while now and there were reasonable reasons for us to have split but somehow it seems even more difficult now than it was a year ago
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 July 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
i had to read this a few times because i wasn't sure if you were talking about getting a new cat or a human roommate. i am very tired.
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 20 July 2012 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
we accidentally discovered the perfect jarbl concoction this week: whiskey soda with lime and ice, half consumed and left on the counter amidst myriad other neglected drinking, dining, and cooking accoutrements, till it becomes opaque and develops a thickish skin. the friut flies just dive right in and pickle themselves, even without the trickery of t-cut cellophane.
disgusting but effective.
we wondered why the invasion had abated mid-season, despite the unwashedness of practically every dish in the house, when all the while the wee drunks were quietly drowning their sorrows in a forgotten cocktail hiding behind a stack of plates.
― lxy, Sunday, 22 July 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
i found some camping inside a plastic bag i had left on the table because it had a tomato inside :(
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 23 July 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
i'm sorry that's not why i left it on the table. i left it on the table because i am disgusting. the flies were in the bag because a tomato was inside.
i'm not sorry that's not why i left it on the table. i'm sorry in general.
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 23 July 2012 02:01 (eleven years ago) link
<3
― lxy, Monday, 23 July 2012 02:55 (eleven years ago) link
it makes me laugh with such great fondness harbl
― lxy, Monday, 23 July 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
although his name does not really suitably accept a -bl at its end.
i simply cannot parse this
but i'm sorry, mookieproof, that you're feeling blue. breaking up is hard to do.
― lxy, Monday, 23 July 2012 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
me: i don't know why it makes me so happy to post about jarbls, but it does. jergins: not a bad thing.
― lxy, Monday, 23 July 2012 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
i fondly called harry a 'rotten little jarbl' the other day and when i realised what i had just said i wtfed myself.
― estela, Monday, 23 July 2012 06:26 (eleven years ago) link
i love all of you!!!
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 23 July 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
having a fruit fly problem what with the abundance of nectarines & pluots & plums & melons
left out my usual half glass of sherry (port is good too)9 drowned flies in less than 4 hours
― t. silaviver, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
i left an empty wine glass and found 10 flies playing inside it
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 11:30 (eleven years ago) link
my soon-to-be-roommate's name is rossbl
see what i mean?
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
rossibly
― jaq, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
i hope he is not irascibl
― estela, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 02:37 (eleven years ago) link
jaq otm, but i vehemently wag my finger at you, estela
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link
in that case i have changed my hope.
― estela, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 04:17 (eleven years ago) link
why is there never a giant delicious stash of chocolate or caramel hidden in the desk when you need one?
― jaq, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
tried port and caught another 10-12 hard to tell when they are all clumped up in a tiny glass
― t. silaviver, Thursday, 26 July 2012 02:22 (eleven years ago) link
i worked on cleaning the bathroom this weekend. my house is really cluttered and dusty. i always think "this weekend i will clean" and fail every time. so i am just going to work on going from back to front. bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, other room i don't know what it is. rowhouse apartments can feel like loooooong narrow studio apartments which makes it feel more overwhelming for me to clean somehow.
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 5 August 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
Otm. I cleaned out the bathroom cabinet - an entire bag of garbage was the result, v satisfying. Decluttered the living room a couple weeks before. Next is the hall closet, a couple weeks from now is the garage. I have about an hour limit on cleaning, breaking it down into small separate parts makes it more likely I will actually do it.
― smoove operator, Sunday, 5 August 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
yup an hour is about it. i took a long break to eat lunch. i need to get my shower curtain into the laundry while there is a thunderstorm and then go running. if i write it down maybe i will do it.
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 5 August 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
there was a fruit fly putting on an aviation show inside the refrigerator.
― estela, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 11:38 (eleven years ago) link
Blatant little bugger.
I let the sunshine and fresh air into the house on the weekend, and all it did was point out my slovenly housekeeping.
― jaq, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
i am not a very avid cleaner, cooking is the only domestic activity i am enthusiastic about.
― estela, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
the only solution to my domestic woes is arson
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 3 April 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
squalor is better than ashes, i think. also less dangerous. and less illegal.
― lxy, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
There is a small dog's worth of hair covering my apartment if i don't vacuum more frequently than every three days :( I try not to be outraged because i know she can't help it, but it is pretty darn outrageous!
― tehresa, Wednesday, 3 April 2013 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
i saw the first fruit fly of the year
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 12 April 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
since it's just the one maybe you could make a jarbl out of a thimble.
― lxy, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
in related news we are having a problem with sugar ants :-(
― lxy, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 02:04 (eleven years ago) link
i'm experimenting with a jarbl variation which is really just some pancake syrup on a piece of waxed paper. jergins reports that we have one victim so far.
― lxy, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link