I was on time to work today!
Yeah, yeah, I know. I’m 5-10 minutes late every day. It’s true. Returning from Spring Break, I made it my new goal to be on time from now on. I mean, I have been in the workforce for the last 5 years, it’s about time that I face it like an adult. This whole thing is seriously humiliating to admit. I just can’t get myself out of bed. But I am trying now, and I was 2 minutes early today. This afternoon, I can leave on time without guilt.
I can’t even actually believe I am recording this, but it’s too funny of a thought not to mention. As you know from an earlier entry, I have struggled with what to call the piece of jewelry in my nose. It’s not an earring or a ring at all. And having a stud in my nose… well, that’s just not where I would choose to have a stud… you know, if I had a choice. (More of my 8th-grade humor shining through.) Well, last night at dinner, my friend Mel referred to it as my nose bling. I am not sure I can ever say that with a straight face, but considering it is a little fake diamond, I guess it’s rather apropo. My nose bling….
I just got back from a 4-miler and I have to point out one major difference between my St. Louis neighborhood and my Milan neighborhood. Hills. Big fat fecking hills. OY.
I’m sure my parents will be more than a little unthrilled about me writing a blog entry on this, but it isn’t like it’s their fault.
Our beautiful Milan house has a plague, a REAL plague. Ladybugs. It may sound crazy, but it is really an epidemic in this part of the country right now and particularly bad in my poor unlucky home. The computer/laundry room, the family room and the conservatory are the worst. And since I spend so much time on the computer, I have to say I have nearly lost my mind with all these buggers crawling around. EVERYWHERE! Across the keyboard on the mouse even, not to mention all over the countertop, floor and windows. The article I linked above mentions “vacuuming and discarding” the ones that get into your house. Yeah, right.
I actually got a natural high earlier when my dad pulled out the vacuum and we commenced sucking up the bastards all around the room. It was a full 10 minutes of “there’s one” “oh look, there in the corner” “there’s another one on the wall” etc. This was after I had obliterated about 30 yesterday with the handheld. But it was more fun hunting them together.
Unfortunately, I have to report that just 3 hours later, the room is infested again.
Sure sure, they are just harmless little ladybugs, but you have no idea how they grate on you when they live their crawly little lives all over your HOUSE! And actually, this article says that the asian beetle, which they are sometimes called, might possible cause the extinction of the North American ladybug. The bastards! How dare they??!!!
Well, there. That’s it. I have aired my family’s big secret. Try not to think less of us. Afterall, we are the victims here.
So, I’m driving home tonight from hanging out with a friend. (Now, when I say home, I mean my parents’ home because I am still on Spring Break and in the Quad Cities.) And anyway, I pull into our neighborhood and realize I can’t see well. (We live sort of on the outskirts of town.) And it always takes me a minute to remember that I can turn my brights on. I mean, in St. Louis, I pretty much never turn on my brights. I am hardly ever out that far in St. Charles – so on any street or highway there are too many cars to ever think about uppin’ the wattage. So, I get psyched for the 3/4 of a mile in my parents’ neighborhood that I get to use my brights.
This is sort of an embarrassingly stupid thing to get excited about, but it’s been this way for years, so I am coming out of the closet with my weird thoughts.
Every time I finish a book, I write a blog entry with a little review. Afterall, “Kommentary by Kritter” is subtitled “Movies, Books, Art, Theatre, News and General Observations.” I mean, that’s my thing. And I LOVE books.
On March 12, I commented on Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones. Freaking check out the comment on my entry! Is that not the COOLEST THING EVER!
If you happen by here again Tayari, thanks for making me week (at least). I really did enjoy your book!
