Can't Avoid Them!

I walked straight from the car, across the gravel road, and planted my chair in the short grass.  I was right on the fence line by home plate on the baseball field at TT.  I avoided all trees, shrubs, tall grass, ANYTHING that a TICK would call home!  But, even with my most stealth like navigational skills I still managed to get in the car after the game and see one crawling on my pants!  At first glance I thought it was just a small spider.  I am not afraid of small spiders.  I quickly grabbed a napkin and proceeded to kill it!  It did not die!!  It did not even remotely look as if it had been even somewhat injured in any way!!!  I knew, even before the dot on its back registered in my brain that it was a TICK!!!  I was now itching all over and crying out that I had a TICK on my pants and Ed needed to TICK CHECK the boys when we got home!  I trapped it in my napkin since I had no way to kill it and waited quite impatiently for us to get to Sams Club, our next stop.  I hated throwing it away in the trash can knowing it wouldn’t die in there, but I couldn’t carry it around with me while shopping….I thought of hiding it in the freezer section……so it COULD die……but that just sounded wrong…….sooooo I gave the TICK one last squish with my fingers through the napkin hoping to at least break some of his legs and hamper his travels before tossing him in the trash can……I will be itching until November…… 

EWWWWW!!!!

I know, I know, I know, i mention my hatred of bugs often, especially spiders!  But, they are here, everywhere, and so they must get into my blog periodically.....more for my sake...i am trying to overcome my fear....unfortunately for Spiders, i will never overcome my wanting to kill them to ease my fear of them....


I came home at night and IT was on my front door.  I smashed my foot, in a shoe, into door.  Fear overcome by death!



It actually took a couple of days before i could face the aftermath on the door and clean up the guts...

Oh, That's What That was...

No Photo Due To Graphic Nature of Creature

I need to first go back to the fall of 2002……we lived in the Bellatrix House on USMC Air Station Miramar (Sand Diego, Ca).  I had heard about these horrid bugs referred to as Sewer Roaches, yes the name says it all!  I have ALWAYS been VERY bug conscientious!  I hate them, I loathe them, and I curse their VERY existence!!  Okay, maybe that is a bit dramatic, but I do know that I am VERY happy to have NOT been Noah’s wife, I might not have gotten on the Ark with those creatures, or at least some of them would not be around today…..I do think I would have discreetly thrown some overboard when no one was looking.  I have wondered if there are less bugs on the earth today due to someone on the Ark who just might have done what I would have done……but, anyways……….back to the Sewer Roaches of Miramar.  I had only ever seen glimpses of these giant creatures heading to their crypts in the late evening hours.  They would be wobbling as they walked down the gutters towards the sewer entrances.  They are very ugly and about the size of my remote for the TV.  One horribly, horrific evening I saw one in MY house!!!  Again, I am VERY bug conscientious and I bomb my house regularly so there will NEVER be any bug invaders thinking they can take up residency in my place!!  I totally freaked!  IT was upstairs.  I grabbed Ryan who was 1 and Ty was 2 and went screaming down the stairs to the living room, yes, I was screaming like I was on fire and hyperventilating.  Ed was a Drill Instructor back then, so yeah, he wasn’t home and he had duty so I knew there wasn’t even the possibility that he could come home and kill it!  Vicki and Jorden were there too, they just got themselves downstairs by themselves because they saw me screaming and running with Thing One and Thing Two.  I explained to them what we were up against.  Jorden and I each put on a pair of Ed’s big ole combat boots from the garage and armed with a can of bug spray we proceeded back upstairs with Vicki guarding the little boys downstairs.  We came around the second corner on the stairs and grabbed hands and tip toed up the last set of stairs where we froze scanning the landing looking for movement.  There was none.  We headed towards the bedroom it had been closest to when I fled screaming my bloody head off, nothing there.  We turned around to check another room and YIKES!!!  It was on the landing coming towards us!  I don’t know who shoved who but Jorden and I were both determined to get out of this creatures way and we screamed and ran for the stairs!  I turned back and it was following us!!  More screams, me grabbing Jorden and pulling him back up the stairs and telling him to step on it!  He said I should because I weigh more and have a better chance of killing it!  True, but I told him he had the steel toe boots on so he could kill it if he ballerina twirled on it!  There was also discussion on me paying him 20 bucks and him telling me I could be 20 bucks richer if I were to step on it…as I pulled him back up the stairs with me.  The bug was gone again!!!  We began looking for it and out it pops!  It either was really enjoying its effect on us or it wanted to die.  I than remembered I had the bug spray and right when I was about to spray it Jorden asks if it can fly…..Fly?  I don’t know if it can fly…..should I spray it and hope for the best?  I sprayed it, it didn’t fly….it just now proceeded to follow me while I kept spraying it and screaming and Jorden yelling step on it Mom step on it Mom!!!!  It began to crawl slower and slower and was now pulling its body sideways and still coming at me.  It was a dreadful moment in my life; this hideous creature was still coming towards me and the poisonous toxins I was spraying in its face!  Jorden was yelling, “Kill it NNNNOWWWWWWWW  Mom!!!!”  (Looking back, it totally sounded like how things in the movies sound when it is shouted out in slow motion and all distorted sounding)  I let out an amazing battle cry, charged forward, and stomped on this heinous creature!!!  My battle cry immediately shifted to screaming mommy cry as I heard (and I swear could feel) all the crunching going on as I squished the life out of this beastly creature!!!  Jorden was soooo proud of me, the kids were now safe and I had the unpleasantries of cleaning up the carcass that seemed to be all legs and antennas that were still wiggling.  Yes, I screamed while I was getting it into the dustpan and flushing down the toilet!!  I flushed 3 times to be safe.  We also slept downstairs that night…..well the kids slept, I had dreams of them crawling through the vents and invading our house.  I kept waking up thinking the ceilings were covered with them and they were now dropping on us.  It was a HORRIBLE night!  I actually considered going to a hotel, but was still too petrified to go back upstairs and get the things needed to leave the house with 2 babies!  The next time Ed was home I told him about our gruesome night and he says, “Oh, that must have been what was in my boot……”  I came unglued and said “WHAT?!!!”  He told me the other morning he had gone out to the garage to get a pair of his boots and when he reached in to get his boot bands something crawled up his hand and he flicked it off, put on his boots, laced ‘em up, and left for work!!!  He had been sitting on the bottom stair…..that ghastly creature had made its way upstairs and had been hanging out all day before I saw it!  I was soooo sick to my stomach and told him flicking a giant insect off of you and leaving it in the house with your family is grounds for a divorce.  He laughed and said it was 3 am; he was exhausted and wasn’t even thinking straight.  I let it slide that time, but he better not ever let a creature that dreadful into our house EVER again!!!  hahahahahah 

Legs of the South!

The spiders here REALLY creep me out!!!



Don't care for Mr. Leggy either!!!



It is officially Spring in the South!  We had our first dreadful spider IN the house!  Vicki was the lucky one; it was in her room up by the ceiling.  It looked like a biter and so we called Daddy in to kill the beast!  Yay, he is home this Spring when the creatures begin making their appearances!  He missed out last year being in lovely Afghanistan and so Jorden had to come to our rescue, and unfortunately Jorden and I still debate over who does the killing…..Jorden always has a very good argument on why I should be the one to do the deed……Ed just grumbled and went in there not even needing something to stand on and squished it in the Kleenex pile one of the kids handed him.  Our ceilings are high and me trying to kill them up there, well it is YIKESTERVILLE! I can’t scream because I am afraid it might fall in my mouth and if I miss it, well it might land in my hair, my back, well anywhere on my person would be just plain horrifying, not to mention me not falling from the stepping stool I am balanced on!!!  Next, an ugly centipede made its debut in the kid’s bathroom….   So, I bombed the house with toxins that say will kill everything!  Again, high ceilings, so smoke detectors went off since I couldn’t reach them to take out batteries, alarm service called while I was hanging out in the backyard with our pets.  They laughed and read out loud the history of when they had called last, October, and it was the same excuse this time  when I bombed my house last time.  I bomb in between the visits from the pest control peeps that come out and spray their stuff too.  I hate bugs….I wonder if I was traumatized as a child when we lived in the tropical country of the Philippines….?  Any who, the house is bug free and should continue to stay that way until next spring when winter goes away and everything comes back out….

Not Liking The NC Insects!

Plain and simple, i am just NOT used to all these bugs!!! Mosquitoes are everywhere, gotta spray foggers outside and ourselves with stinky repellant! There is a never ending appearance of flies as well! Discovered that we should NEVER, EVER turn on the porch light at night either! Well, unless we want to let in a million flying things when we open the door and spend the next 20 minutes with fly swatters killing the invading forces! I don't like those bugs, but i'm okay with them, but spiders, well that is a whole different story! Snakes, too, but haven't seen any of those yet near the house! I went to walk in the front door and this big hunkin', gruesome thing was above the door. I have a rule, no bugs allowed in or you die! I know it wasn't technically INSIDE the house, but above the front door is close enough, and so he died. It took almost an entire can of spider kill spray stuff, but he finally breathed no more! You know it is a big spider when it is dead and still looks big! I really hate these kind of spiders! They are pretty aggressive and i have had my share of fighting these guys. They fight back and charge you! I'll blog those maybe on a flashback Friday someday....but for now, my house has been sprayed inside and out as well as the perimeter! There is a reason that nothing will ever grow close to the sides of my house! LOL

Ticks, Ticks, Ticks, And More Ticks!

I am 40 years old and have NEVER had a tick or been in the general vicinity of someone who has a tick on them. So, I have absolutely NO experience in this department! Unfortunately we have moved to tick central!!! Ty, Ryan, and Tank have each had two ticks and Jorden and Jasper have each had one tick! UHG!!! Ed and I are still at zero!!!

Shake Your Shoes

This is why we have taught our kids to shake their shoes before they put them on! This nice little centipede was in Ty’s shoe! Hate these frickin’ things! Especially the really big ones I find climbing up my stairs! They come in during really rainy, windy days. I used to never know how they got in the house, but then, one time, at band camp, just kidding, really, I was by one of our windows and the wind was howling and it was raining really hard and I watched as this huge centipede came under the window and in the window sill. I watched as the water would swish under the window and then get sucked back out. The centipede would be almost in and then get sucked back out and then almost in, just back and forth. I was too intrigued to do anything but watch! During typhoons I usually put towels in all the window sills to stop the water and so I realized how I got these critters in the washing machine! UHG! They totally creep me out and like you can stomp on them a bunch of times and they just keep wiggling!!! And never stomp on them with flip flops, they don’t die and they just flip over onto your foot! Oh, and they also survive the wash cycle! Try getting one of those outta the washing machine! It sucks and requires lots of screaming and cursing. LOL! I use the Chinese chopsticks, since they are longer than Japanese chopsticks, and it is quite the challenge. Probably humorous to watch as I scream and curse the wiggly creature! Sooo, don’t forget to shake your shoes before you put them back on at my house!