Monday, March 30, 2009
So a Fly-like insect flew in my glass the other day. It must have been attracted to the cactus cooler and vodka. I tried to get it out without killing it, but I accidentally did anyways. I kept thinking- how could i have saved it? My finger didn't work but i bet the edge of a piece of paper would have. So I kept thinking about it for a few minutes while I moved to go lay in the sun.
While I was laying there I kept feeling things fly on me, it was the same kinda bug that i was just thinking about that i accidentally smudged in my glass. I had seen these types of bugs before, but only every once in a while.
I counted how many flew and landed on me in the few minutes that followed and there were 2 green ones, and 13 black ones! I was thinking, this has never happened before, and I go in the back yard everyday. This day was no different.
I guess the strangest part was how i was thinking about the bug so much, and THEN 15 more landed on me. It's like the "law of attraction" which says if you think of something, it is attracted to you.
If that wasn't anachronistic enough, the next day i went in my bathroom and there were two wii tiny beetlessitting right in the middle of the shut toilet seat. Exactly where.. well you can see an old post about it here: http://derekbair.blogspot.com/2007/12/im-still-bug-whisperer.html
So after I got the two beetles off, and in a tissue. I noticed there was one in the bottom of the toilet, in the water. I was like, oh damn, It's happening again, how would i save this little guy? I wasn't going to put my hand in there, and I figured it would have already been dead since they most likely can't breathe underwater. So I just thought about it, but didn't make a rescue attempt.
Then! I found 7 more hiding around in my bathroom. How would they have gotten in there? One could have come in on my clothes, but to have 7 in there at one time is interesting.
I guess the point, if there is one, is that I was realizing that even if you tried very hard to save something, sometimes you're just not good enough to. Or that to these 1/2cm sized bugs, I am a "god" so much so that even if i were to try my damnedest to save one, I still might end up killing it. You can have the best intentions, but implementing them can do more harm then good. hmm
This has been a bug whispererer update.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2007
I'm still the Bug Whisperer
"In a previous post I wrote about being the "Bug Whisperer" cause these bugs kept showing up and doing the strangest things. Maybe it's cause I don't kill bugs anymore?
This was the latest and most bizarre. I walked into my bathroom and this little guy was laying on it's back, in the exact center of the lid, just wiggling there! What the hell? Maybe it's trying to tell me something, but what? I have absolutely no idea what a bug could have to say to me.
Most of the time when someone has bugs in their house you would assume it's trashy or not clean. And although I could live and thrive in complete disorder and filth, my Mom doesn't. We have a maid service, Gardner's, and even these people that come out every two weeks to spray for bugs and check rap traps in the yard! So these guys are little survivors!
And truth be told, whenever I see them running around, I just say hi and leave them alone hahaha. I feel kinda bad cause I know my Mom doesn't want them in the house, but i'm not going to be murderer! Cause i'm not a bug murderer, I am the bug Whisperer!
Thursday, September 27, 2007
"A couple of days ago I was in my back yard tanning when I saw a cricket laying on it's back, but still twitching a little. I went to look at it up close to see if I could help it. I was like, if it's alive why doesn't it turn over? So I helped it up and over, but it just kinda stayed in one spot. I went to go get a piece of bread and got it wet and put it in front of it. It went up to it and ate a little bit but then just kinda wandered away and down into a crack in the cement. I got a leaf and covered it so the sun wouldn't kill it and let it be.
LAST Night, I was coming home at night and walked into my kitchen, there was a HUGE at least 3" long cockrock running away as I came in! I was like, bastard, I'm going to put you outside! (We have had bug people come out, I dont live in a ghetto house at all, they are just stubborn) So anyways, I saw it run under this small marble table thing in there so i got a paper towl to catch it and put it outside. I turned the table over and I couldnt' see it so i draged the table out to the atrium so it could just run away. Once I did that I even sprayed some water on it with a hose to get it out, but I guess it wasn't there.. So whatever, it must have ran away!
TONIGHT. I'm getting ready to go out and went into my bathroom to take a shower, (I had just been in there maybe 5 minutes before) and RIGHT in front of the door in the bathroom was that same cockroach on it's back!!! wtf? So I was like, Mom moM! you've gotta go look in my bathroom! (I had told her about the cockroach the night before and stopped her from spraying it) She was like, woww. So I was like - do you think it's dead? and she moved it a little, and it was definitely still alive but didnt' turn over, it just moved it's legs a little. So i got an empty toilet roll, pushed it in there and put it outside.
I am the bug Whispererer"