i fondly called harry a ‘rotten little jarbl’ the other day and when i realised what i had just said i wtfed myself.

i love all of you!!!

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

i left an empty wine glass and found 10 flies playing inside it

my soon-to-be-roommate’s name is rossbl

see what i mean?

rossibly

i hope he is not irascibl

jaq otm, but i vehemently wag my finger at you, estela

in that case i have changed my hope.

why is there never a giant delicious stash of chocolate or caramel hidden in the desk when you need one?

tried port and caught another 10–12 hard to tell when they are all clumped up in a tiny glass

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.

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.

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.

there was a fruit fly putting on an aviation show inside the refrigerator.

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.

i am not a very avid cleaner, cooking is the only domestic activity i am enthusiastic about.

the only solution to my domestic woes is arson

squalor is better than ashes, i think. also less dangerous. and less illegal.

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!

i saw the first fruit fly of the year

since it’s just the one maybe you could make a jarbl out of a thimble.

in related news we are having a problem with sugar ants :-(

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.

of course now i feel guilty.

lol @ victim

^ ban iirc

okay it’s not working. the victim has freed himself after gorging on syrup, and none of the others seem interested. just 6 ants wandering aimlessly around the countertop.

jergins swiped up the wanderers with a sponge, and the experiment has thusly concluded.

jergins otm as usual

There are tiny ants in my office. I find them on the whiteboard during meetings. Its weird but they are mostly harmless. We have those liquid trap things that worked ok last year but not so much yet this year.

they sound cunning, i wouldn’t relax if i were you.

i had them in another apt and used traps that were like little homes they would crawl into to get poisoned before crawling away to die somewhere. they worked pretty good.

so i guess not traps, they went in and then out

For healthier, happier fruit flies: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/04/18/teen-scientist-says-fruit-flies-prefer-organic

uhhh, ant problem maximized itself over night. gross.

now i’m sort of terrified to leave for a week, because what if they take over??!!!

if I spot your furniture parading slowly down the street, I promise to make them put it back before you get home.

thank you, neighbor!

Bumpy arsed pan makes omelettes stick and makes me outrage

there are baby birds in my kitchen exhaust fan what do I do??

oh god

i think it’s time for a jarbl. so many of these little guys and there’s not even much food around. also windows are closed.

i had to ask someone what a jarbl was

lol who did you ask? what answer were you given?

lol! just some lady at the grocery store i imagine

i asked a sandboxer, since i assumed the name was sandboxish and might be different in other realms

i was told it’s to do with the punishment of fruit flies

alternatively you could’ve read the thread. in fact, i would recommend it, on account of it’s fucking funny.

;)

Mookie, were you embarrassed to ask here?

I bought a pre-marinated pork loin a while ago because it was on sale for $5. I stuck it in the freezer for whenever. Just cooked it and it is inedibly salty :( I am outraged.

it’s jarbltime

always

:(

i have another sandbox confession and this time it’s almost certainly a yellow card minimum

:(

it’s much worse than when i voted for discouraging harbl, which didnt in any way reflect my true feelings on that subject

o dear

i googled the right term and i am trepidatious

so i stayed up and figured out a guitar lick or two nbd right

YouTube Video

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my rice was infested with tiny ant-like things, ewwww! :( on the plus side this led me to discover that farro is great in soup!

rice weevils?

i cried when i found weevils in my oatmeal.

(i was 6 years old, but i would probably cry if it happened now, too.)

i googled and that seemed like the most likely culprit :(

i’ve gotten those before. so unsettling. the main problem in my old apartment was carpet beetles which imo is even worse because they like any organic material, not just foods. huge domestic outrage.

a fucking stray fucking bobby pin in the fucking load of fucking laundry i did yesterday has just cost us $400 for a new fucking washing machine!!!!!!

i guess it jammed in one of the holes around the tub, horizontally, and during all the spinning it just stripped the plastic outer tub and then my whole kitchen got flooded with a full load of water.

Oh no!!! So sorry :(

that’s the worst bobby pin I’ve ever heard of in my life.

argh!!!!!

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/1030/483478-dublin-households-facing-water-disruption/

i ask you

yr link has been disrupted

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.”

^^^ 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