domestic outrages chronicle

tsk-e bah-a

earlier i heard a gecko doing some clicky singing in the roof, i couldn't tell if it was singing, won't someone come and have some babies with me, or, hey gecks, here's some wires we can chew on.

gecko bro

you could save 15% or more on your car insurance by switching to geico

are you sure it wasn't an ecko

if not, i spose it was right from the gecko

little sir gecko

i might have needed a 15% car insurance discount because--and this is a domestic outrage on a giant grand scale--i was driving home from the grocery store a couple of nights ago when i realised a very large spider was in my car, on the the windscreen, moving towards my bare arm. it's something i've always dreaded might happen ever since i moved to australia because the spiders here are horrendous and sneaky and i always fretted i could not guarantee my driving behaviour if it did. however i stayed calm, pulled over, got out of the car very swiftly, whipped off my shoe and leaned in and whacked it. and when i got home i emptied a can of bug spray into the car and then left it closed up for 24 hours. and then today i sprayed inside the car some more with a new can of bug spray and then i closed it up again for an hour and then i drove it with trepidation but without incident.

vehicular outrages chronicle

i was forever scarred by the tarantula in dr. no

v. proud of estela for proper driving behaviour!

i dont like bugs in my car but the stakes have never been so high
estela has nerves of steel

tbh i'm uneasy about making a call on this without hearing the spiders pov

This reminds me of the time in college i saw a centipede in my bedroom and sprayed every inch of the perimeter with raid to try to protect myself from them. it was really not very lung healthy in there...

my car still reeks of laboratory eucalyptus from the bug spray. i'm not a fan of using bug spray but this was a triage situation.

Eu sure calyptus wings

that is a pretty good pun if you can ignore its heavy reliance upon not very sound arachnology.

You spider problem?

*whips off other shoe*

Is barefoot wise with all these creepy crawlies about idk

that is a very sensible point.

“Although finding fruit flies in your wine or beer can be a bit annoying, I hope people will pause to admire the tenacity of these clever little creatures,” Dickinson said. “They are really just hungry animals looking for something to eat, and have no intention of ruining your happy hour.”

http://i60.tinypic.com/vilj88.jpg
^^^ hungry animal looking for something to eat

uhhh rotate that in your minds

carrots = outrageous

is that a humidifier?

Wait why was photo not rotated on phone but is when I view this on ipad??

Harbl, it's an air purifier.

I like carrots. They add a nice crunch.

i want an ipad but i don't need to spend more time on the internet. every morning i waste 20 minutes reading blogs and the baltimore sun on my phone! i need a real alarm clock and to leave my phone in the bathroom at night. outrage.

i also need a humidifier bc i wake up with a sore throat and my cat's a little dandruffy.

B always sleeps near the space heater and she got outrageously dandruffy. My neighbor recommended fish oil and/or coconut oil so i went coconut to start cause it's cheaper. It made a big difference in like two weeks!

i want that natural light alarm clock thing bc the number of times i hit snooze on my phone every morning is also an outrage.

science tells us that snoozing makes things worse, but i can't help it

ugh I know, it's the worst!

my cat clears up a little if i give her wet food. she loves to eat coconut oil so i keep meaning to put that on her dry food.

i caught her dipping her little paw into my mason jar full of water which was on the floor by my bed. what a rotter.

disgraceful®

my thermostat isn't working! I changed the batteries but I think the touch screen died because it won't let me adjust temp and is stuck on some random program so I only get heat at random times and I have to drag my giant space heater from room to room (or just stay in bed). I could get a new one but I don't want to dig out my car.

I don't even know if there's a shovel in the basement! I will probably end up attacking the snow with my ice scraper (pathetic).

A/C broken. Dudes couldn't fix it after three hours but did manage to leave black fingerprints all over my ceiling.

we had an outrageous storm last night :(

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/1000s-Without-Power-After-Storms-in-Md-Va-DC--263789541.html

aw terez, are you okay? is your domicile okay?

Aside from the fact that my air conditioning still doesn't work, I am fine! The neighborhood is a hot mess and at least one building and a few cars were hit by trees but I think overall we were all extremely lucky. The weirdest thing is that no one beyond my neighborhood experienced anything remotely like we did! Everyone says, "yeah I think I saw a little lightning in the distance" but I swear it felt like a hurricane outside my window! Lightning hit a tree that came down a few feet from my window so for a while i considered hiding in the closet (so not hardcore!).

dag <3

glad! how's our harbl?

my a/c still doesn't work :(

that's outrageous!

Oh awesome the power is out again so now we don't even get fan cooling O_o

pepco amirite

dominion. stupid lightning :(

My a/c works!

I'm cold.

tsk<3

;)