bug report

[chocolate_chip]

As every fall, we're swarmed with these at work. And they do not look pleasant once squished, let me tell you. But they have the most adorable little bug feet that tickle when they walk on your arm~

I also had one of these try to crawl up my sleeve last night. I'm very lucky I didn't get bitten. But does anyone thank me for catching the freaky poisonous bug with my bare hands and taking it outside? No, of course not.

Speaking of centipedes, I still remember the first time I ever saw one. I was about 6, and I had heard the term centipede before, and knew it meant a bug with lots of legs, but I thought it referred to caterpillars or pill bugs. Then one night I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, turn on the light, and there's a huge one of these on the bathroom floor. I'd never even seen a picture of a centipede before, so of course I screamed my head off and woke up everyone in the house. Ah, fun times.

Oh, I have a chance to go see Max the Crystal Skull. I don't buy into all the New Age mystical powers hokey stuff, but if it really was carved thousands of years ago, it would be interesting to go see it. (The British Museum did some tests on Max and three other "ancient" crystal skulls, and proved that two of them were actually modern. But for Max and the other skull, they refused to divulge the results of the tests! Mysterious!) However, it costs quite a bit more money to see it than I'd like to spend. Gr.

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[sailorstarsun.livejournal.com]

So that's what that thing I found under my bed was.....

.>_>

Poisonous??

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

^^ Well, the bite of a house centipede is roughly equal to a bee sting in terms of pain and toxicity. But a bite from the larger varieties can be quite serious.

Icon~~~~~ *glomps it*

[sailorstarsun.livejournal.com]

Bleeeeheheheh! =( They're disgusting!

A few weeks ago I was changing rooms in the basement (to one much larger than what I was in .^_~ ), and so we took my bed apart to move it, and discovered one of those...those... things had been living under it. >( And nobody knew what it was. I dubbed it the "crab-centipede-monster-thing" and flushed it down the toilet.

Bleh... Just thinking about it living right under where I slept gives me the heebie-jeebies. D=

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

But they eat worse bugs, like spiders and cockroaches!

[sailorstarsun.livejournal.com]

I don't mind spiders nearly as much. I think 8 legs is my limit.

I've never seen a cockroach in my house, and I've been living there (off and on..) my entire life.

...of course, now that I've flushed that centipede, maybe I'll start seeing cockroaches..... .>_>

[tamchronin.livejournal.com]

I'm going to turn 32 in a month, and the *first* time I'd seen a centipede was this summer, when we went to Pennsylvania. I had no idea what they were...I just thought they looked icky. We were collecting firewood and one log was infested. So, come to think of it, Anakin was six when he saw his first, too. It didn't phase him though. Boys. XP

/random rambling reply

[chocolate_chip.livejournal.com]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. That sounds like way too much concentrated wriggling to be able to handle at once.

Now that I think about it, I must have been four or five.... Yes, I definitely could not have been six, because first grade was when I had chicken pox, and we had already moved to the other house.