Tag: The Interesting and the Amusing in My Daily Life Page 9 of 10

These days, this is my favorite household product:

Not only does it kill these, which are our constant companions almost every day of the year,

But it also kills these, which like to jump out of the kitchen cabinets at me.

And most recently, it’s very useful for killing these:

Yes, they are definitely as bad as they look. 

And the night before last, Sam woke me up at 4 in the morning because one had just stung her in her bed. 

*shiver*

*double shiver*

You got that right. 

It stung her through her shirt, so it wasn’t worse than a bee sting.  But it was in her bed!  I got my can of Doom and we searched the room for 20 minutes but couldn’t find it, so finally she just slept the rest of the night in my room.  Twice I’ve found them in my kids’ beds….thankfully the kids weren’t in them at the time.

And this morning, there was one under Grace’s backpack. 

And that’s why Doom is my favorite product. 

For now and all eternity.

(Pictures of bugs are not to scale.  Mosquitoes are, well, mosquito-sized.  Cockroaches are two inches long, and centipedes are 4-5 inches long.  *shiver*)

I don’t know what a “Highest Facial” is.  I’m afraid to ask. 

Imagine buying everything with cash.

ev.er.y.thing.

Food

Gas

Electricity

Car Insurance

Internet

Clothes

Major appliances

Furniture

Restaurants

Doctor’s bills

Phone credit

And THEN imagine that the highest denomination of currency was worth about $7.50.  No $100 bills, $50….not even a $10.  Only $7.50.  That’s what 10,000 Tanzanian shillings is worth.

Yep.  That’s a lot of cash.

To carry around.

In your purse.

On a regular basis. 

Yeah, that’s my life. 

(I exaggerate only slightly….the main grocery store did start accepting credit cards in recent months.  BUT you can’t use it with the cashier…you have to leave your groceries (and children in the cart) and go over to the manager’s desk to pay separately….so unless you are totally out of cash, it’s not really worth it.)

I’m a fan of Charlotte as much as the next person (or Pig) out there, and I know all the good things they do, but unfortunately, spiders this big just don’t belong in people’s bathrooms.  Especially not when they first wake up in the morning. 

It just goes to show how much I love my husband, and how tired I knew he was, that I did not go running and screaming back into the bedroom and wake him up to save me. 

Instead, I emptied half a can of bug spray onto the poor creature.  I practically asphyxiated myself in the process.  I don’t think that much bug spray is supposed to be released in a room that’s 8′ x 4′. 

I really am not that squeamish, and I don’t have a phobia of bugs or spiders.  This picture just doesn’t do justice to how large this creature was, with all of its legs extended.  At least four inches diameter, I would guess.

I don’t know if I will ever, ever be able to use the bathroom at night with the light off after this.

You knew the importance of your food being fat free, but I bet you never knew that your dishes, too, could be fat free. 

And shinny. 

It’s going to be the new weight-loss craze; I just know it.