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
of course now i feel guilty.
lol @ victim
― spite n ease (harbl), Wednesday, 17 April 2013 02:13 (eleven years ago) link