Things That Rightfully or Not Bug Me Showing 651-700 of 1,934

[Amy]

Those fines help keep people on schedule when their bosses or co-workers pressure them to work later. I think they're a good thing.

[Cynthia]

I agree. And the college-educated teachers at our preschool got paid overtime wages (time and a half?) for their late parents.

I worked part-time, so was rarely late, but when I was I always felt very sorry for the sad little boy whose mom was a doctor and was ALWAYS late. Why the dad couldn't pick the kid up I have not a f*king clue.

[Félix]

Arnulfo wrote: "It does not matter if your glass is half empty or half full, What matters is what is in your glass."

And who is buying the next round.

[Angela~twistedmind~]

@ Cynthia. The Dad couldn't pick up the kid because then he would have been terribly inconvenienced when he had to take care of his own kid by himself. I hate those fuckers. They have all kinds of excuses.

For the most part, if I have a late parent, it isn't because they had to work late (which btw, I totally understand). It's because they wanted to zip into Wal-Mart and do a little shopping without their kid in tow because it is just sooooooo much easier to get it done without having to worry about little gimmie. I've begun telling all new prospects that I will NOT watch their child overtime so that they can go shopping or run some other errand after work. Many daycares tell parents that if they have the day off, then they cannot bring their child (even though they still expect to get paid). I tell them, if they have a day off, go ahead and bring the young'un because I am getting paid for it after all. Then I don't have a problem with them shopping and running errands all day. I don't care what they are doing. I tell them to take a "Just Mommy Day"; we all need one sometimes. Just Be. Here. On. Time. I'm one of the most lenient daycares in town. Some of the rules and such that some of the bigger daycares have are just ridiculous.

[Cynthia]

Arnulfo, I have not a clue what you are talking about.

[~Geektastic~]

Things that bug me: condescension masking itself as profundity.

[Félix]

Profoundly condescending?

[~Geektastic~]

Indeed.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Do we actually have a bug thread? I couldn't find it.

My walls are covered in millipedes, or whatever those multi-legged large-antennaed wriggly things are. WHYYYYYYY???

[Emily]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Do we actually have a bug thread? I couldn't find it.

My walls are covered in millipedes, or whatever those multi-legged large-antennaed wriggly things are. WHYYYYYYY???"

Apparently they like humidity, so you could try some dehumidifiers, or even blowing fans to help dry out the air. Also make sure you don't have any woodpiles or cosy little damp hidey holes near the house that they can hang out in...

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Actually it's been really dry here for the past week. Also, I do have a fan going.

[Cheri]

Try a chicken or a lizard in the house. Either will keep down your bug population. Of course, then you will have a chicken or lizard problem..

[Emily]

Lizard sounds kind of fun! Not sure about chickens in the house though... maybe you could get some hungry baby chickens, they can eat the millipedes then they can go outside and enjoy the garden.

http://pests.getridofthings.com/get-r...
This has some natural treatments you can try like diatomaceous earth, wood ash and you guessed it, chickens :)

[Scout]

Ok. I'm imagining Lg with a house full of chickens and lizards chasing the millipedes. I'm smiling.

[Cynthia]

Do they have long legs or short legs, LG? Usually I see centipedes here in the basement, near the floor drain. They do seem to like dampness.

Millipedes have shorter legs and like the garden.

[Amy]

I have those centipedes in my basement, also. And I despise them. It's a never ending battle.

[Cynthia]

My daughters both freak out when I smush them and their long legs keep waving goodbye. I am the official centipede smusher around here. Sometimes Roxanne the cat will kill one.

[janine]

I ordered Tiktak the threelegged cat to kill a spider once. It bit him in the nose. Poor thing.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I'm just impressed that your cat takes orders.

I would say long legs, Cynthia. Longish legs. So I guess they are centipedes? I've seen the super shortlegged ones in my garden (should I be killing them, or are they good?).

Yeah, apparently they are called "house centipedes," if google can be believed.

::shudders::

[janine]

I had to poke the spider with a leaf to get it to move and it took a few tries to get the cat to notice it, but once he saw a moving, living thing he had to eat it.

[Phil]

janine wrote: "I had to poke the spider with a leaf to get it to move and it took a few tries to get the cat to notice it, but once he saw a moving, living thing he had to eat it."

A leaf??

I would have used a six-foot long pole.

::shudders at the thought of spiders::

[janine]

I don't mind them as long as they're not too big to be squashed by a shoe.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

As much as I hate spiders, I can't kill them. Part of it is being indoctrinated by Charlotte's Web, part being told that they are on the side of good in the animal kingdom.

I've been seeing orb weavers with orange striped legs lately. They like gardens, and my back porch. I sometimes toss a leaf into their web and watch as they painstakingly remove the leaf and discard it.

[Amy]

We had an awesome spider who built a web across our deck every night. The size of the web was huge and I had to respect anything that worked so hard every night only to have it torn down each morning.

[Sally, la reina]

I like the idea that spiders are on the good side in the animal kingdom.

[Emily]

Sally wrote: "I like the idea that spiders are on the good side in the animal kingdom."

Spiders are totally on the good side! They eat all the annoying, bitey bugs and generally keep to themselves.

If they wander inside then safe spiders get relocated to the outside where they can maintain the mini ecosystem of my garden (the special tiny few get to keep their quiet corner). It is only poisonous spiders who may face the squishing boot.

In the war against mozzies, spiders are our friends!

[~Geektastic~]

My issue with spiders is that my reaction is visceral; my brain doesn't give me enough time to figure out if it's poisonous before I squish it. I usually feel bad afterward, but they make my skin crawl. I only kill them in the house, unless I have one on me while outside, then all bets are off.

[Scout]

If a spider's on me, I'm going to smack it. If I see one in the house, I'll get a jar and trap it and take it outside. If I'm outside and walk through a web, a whole lot of arm waving and swiping goes on. Every once in a while, I find a big web with a big yellow and black spider in the center. I capture him on the end of a long stick and then throw the stick over the fence into the mean neighbor's yard. Take that, mean neighbor!

[Angela~twistedmind~]

Ok, spiders? Nuh-uh. I don't do spiders. I don't give two shits how big or how little it is, whether it's poisonous or not or what it's eating. I don't whack them, though. Noooooo. I stand there and scream like a little girl and whoever else is in the house has to come deal with the demon upon my wall/ceiling/tub/floor. And, howdy do, I live smack in the middle of a little forest with lots of cool, shady places for them to hide. Yet, they still insist upon coming into my home!! I have seen so many black widows and brown recluses inside and upon the outside walls of my house that I check everything I pull out of the cabinets or closets. Ohhhhh, a pox upon all spiderdom.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Angela, they love you and your house. Embrace it.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I always have a lot of the little black and gray jumping spiders in my house. I don't mind them because they're only about 4 mm long. They hang out in, on, and near windows.

[Janice]

I had a subscription to Mark Lipinski's quilting magazine and in one issue, he featured fabric that had spiders on it. A couple women wrote letters to the editor, complaining about the spiders and saying they would cancel their subscription if he put any more pictures of spiders in them. One woman said that she turned the page, saw the picture, and threw the magazine across the room. That's quite a phobia if one can't even look at a picture of a spider.

[[deleted user]]

Amy wrote: "We had an awesome spider who built a web across our deck every night. The size of the web was huge and I had to respect anything that worked so hard every night only to have it torn down each morn..."

I like spiders too and love those big webs. But I hate ticks...they are too creepy.

[Cynthia]

Yesterday I saw a display of big spiders with red bodies and black legs at the ISU Horticulture building. The ISU engineers were studying the way this particular spider designed their webs. Very interesting.

[Angela~twistedmind~]

Lady Alice wrote: "Amy wrote: "We had an awesome spider who built a web across our deck every night. The size of the web was huge and I had to respect anything that worked so hard every night only to have it torn do..."

Ticks also have 8 legs. I have decided they are simply blood sucking spiders. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

[[deleted user]]

I recently read Biography of a Germ which is about Lyme and is a real horror story for Halloween. I also read part of Lab 257 or something like that which is about the escape of Lyme disease from that lab. I don't even like to look at deer now as they carry ticks. Those 8 legged critters tend to be scary but at least spiders make lovely webs and Wolf spiders have cute blue mandibles which look like eyes.

Biography of a Germ
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Germ Laboratory

[Angela~twistedmind~]

Lady Alice wrote: "I recently read Biography of a Germ which is about Lyme and is a real horror story for Halloween. I also read part of Lab 257 or something like that which is about the escape of Lyme disease from ..."

::runs, screaming, from the room::
CUTE BLUE MANDIBLES?!?!?!?!?!?!


And Lyme's Disease is nothing to sneeze at. I contracted it about 7 years ago and I was on antibiotics for a year straight. I have never been so sick in my life.

[Scout]

I asked the vet about Lyme Disease this year, and he told me that in the southern states it's rare because we don't have many white-footed mice, the main carriers of the ticks in their tiny nymph stage. And white-footed mice sound so sweet. Are you in the Northeast or Midwest, Angela? That seems to be where Lyme Disease is most prevalent.

[Angela~twistedmind~]

Scout wrote: "I asked the vet about Lyme Disease this year, and he told me that in the southern states it's rare because we don't have many white-footed mice, the main carriers of the ticks in their tiny nymph s..."

I live smack in the middle of the south. North-west TN to be exact. I don't know how prevalent it is supposed to be down here, but I've known of other cases. When I finally broke down and went to the er.....with a temp of almost 105.....the first thing the doc checked for was West Niles. They took 10 little bottles (similar to airline mini alcohol bottles) of blood, so they had plenty of it to start checking for other things. Lyme's was the second thing he checked for, though. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever seems to be more prevalent here. I hear about Lyme's Disease occasionally, but I've heard of RMSF more often. I don't care. I still freak the freak out when I see a tick crawling on me. I was sick as hell for the longest time and seemed to catch every little thing that raised it's nasty head for a couple of years.

[kogijiki (covered in mud)]

I have a small rant. First I will say that my level of irritation over this is probably due to my suppressed irritation for having jury duty Monday.

Okay, I watched Big Bang Theory Thursday and Sheldon (the actor is from Texas and has a real accent) had his mom for a visit. Her accent was so horrendous! A New York accent with a layer of twang...SLOW DOWN and add more vowels. Seriously. This should not bug me so much...

And yes I have to go to the Jury call. I cannot drive myself that far so hubby has to take the day off work to drive my sorry MS ruined ass. >.<

[Phil]

Sounds like jury duty has Kogibutt's overalls in a twist.

[kogijiki (covered in mud)]

O*O Yeah...lol

[[deleted user]]

I hate jury duty too. Oh, I happened to watch the same one and laughed and laughed over it. I also hate fake accents but hers did not bother me, however, I do live in Yankee land now ;-) I have a heavy TX accent..north Texas. People here pretend I don't exist.

I also cannot drive much. I may have ms too! I know I have EI (environmental illness) which causes my symptoms like foot drop, etc. Falling over and breaking my arm. I am raving and ranting tonight too but about Outlander as I read a neverending quiz question that got me MAD. I want to give it minus 5 stars. There should be a new rating system that goes minus stars. Maybe it should have black holes.....

Hope you feel better,
Alice


kogijiki wrote: "I have a small rant. First I will say that my level of irritation over this is probably due to my suppressed irritation for having jury duty Monday.

Okay, I watched Big Bang Theory Thursday and S..."

Outlander

[kogijiki (covered in mud)]

Drop foot and balance problems with EI? See a neurologist and get an MRI. I see MS everywhere so always check with the pros...LOL I can't drive far due to the vertigo. And my left (clutch) leg that likes to stop working for no reason.

I had a student from way outside of Waco from a ranching family and I called her on her accent. We bonded over when we go back everyone we know keeps saying "Slooooow doooowwwwnnnn" when we talk and hand us more beer. :P

And maybe they should rate it by the singularity. 1-10 singularities 10 being the worst. LOL

[[deleted user]]

kogijiki wrote: "Drop foot and balance problems with EI? See a neurologist and get an MRI. I see MS everywhere so always check with the pros...LOL I can't drive far due to the vertigo. And my left (clutch) leg ..."

I have had two MRI's looking for it and a neurologist in San Antonio told me I have it but I preferred to ignore her. I am in De Nile. When I stagger around it could also be celiac as I have that too now. (gluten ataxia) If I do have it, it is very mild but for years I was unable to drive. I have a CFIDS diagnosis too and they call my visual problems while driving spatial disorientation. I am glad they have a name for it as it got super tiresome trying to explain. I had severe vertigo in San Antonio but it has improved here in CO.

My temporary blindness in one eye is ocular migraine!

Glad you bonded. Guess I am a ten!

[kogijiki (covered in mud)]

They said mine was that too except now I wonder...My neuro said that folks who move from lower altitudes to CO can see it get worse. Maybe see another neuro anyway. I was diagnosed with CFS for years until I got good insurance with my husband and my brain is a mess.

[Scout]

Sorry you're not feeling well, kogijiki. Sounds like you could be excused from jury duty. Did you get picked?

[kogijiki (covered in mud)]

Thanks Scout!

I have to show up but have a note from my Doctor and I probably won't get picked. Then I get to teach Monday night...yay... >.<

Small gripes weigh big when you're tired LOL

[Phil]

Oh, great. Now I've got two more people to think about when I'm doing the MS fundraisers. They are usually fun events because the ones I do are bike rides. :)

[kogijiki (covered in mud)]

Awww, thanks Phil! <3