DIE! DIE! WHY WON'T YOU DIE?

[lynsangelic1]

Some may recall this entry about my joy of procuring a can of Itral: German Insekten spray to protect me from the eight-legged visitors.

Tonight I unloaded half a can (seriously.) on this huge huge huge spider.  My bedroom now reeks of chemicals, I'm choking, my bedspread is soaking and I'm afraid to open the window as I'm sure the spider armies are coming for vengeance. 

Damnit.  I was having a nice Saturday off.  I'm very sunburned from yesterday (It takes half an hour of mild sunlight to make me redder than communist China) so I just hung out in the shade, watched the two opening euro 2008 matches, wrote a little, saw friends etc and later was getting ready for bed (in between fainting over zee014's Kristen Bell picspammy return) when the artist formerly known as Big Fucking Spider dropped down from the curtains onto the bed.  I know, I'm such a child about these things.  It's illogical and it's stupid to be so afraid but I seriously can't help it.  I honestly thought I was getting better.  My puppy is no use at all.  She got very excited about me shouting 'DIE! DIE!  WHY WON'T YOU DIE?' (the sad thing is that is actually verbatim) but when I requested she attack the spider, she didn't seem to comprehend.  Useless.  She has started burying things in the back garden, which is extremely cliched and therefore chortle-worthy.

Anyway, my can was half done when it finally went towards the light (metaphorical light, not physical) so I got the dust buster to suck it up to a dusty grave.  Now I can't sleep.  Well, I want to, but I can't.  I'll probably sleep on my desk tonight, curled in a ball.  When I was a child I would always sleep in my sleeping bag.  Nothing could crawl up and get me if I was zipped in, nice and tight.  I may revert back to those days.

Oh, and speaking of China - re: Sharon Stones comments about Karma and the earthquakes in China - I thought the very same thing too.  It's un-PC, very cold and very inappropriate but I did.  It was the first snarky, sarcastic thing that came into my head when I heard about the earthquakes.  So, Sharon, you're not alone.  I, too, am a sarcastic bitch who made a joke (although, I don't think you were joking) about thousands of dead people, TIbet and karma.  But unlike you I don't think my career is buggered because of it.



Why must I post about the killing of spiders?

Comments

[lynsangelic1.livejournal.com]

Could you sleep? If that was me, I wouldn't have been able to sleep. If that happens, I usually have to pull out the bed or go and find a safe corner to curl up in.

As much as I love my puppy, I need a spider eating puppy. When she was a baby, she'd bat about Jenny Long Legs like they were toys and they were slow enough for her to catch. Spiders she's not too good with. You can point right at something and she looks about everywhere else *facepalm*

[carawj.livejournal.com]

Really no! I spent about an hour flapping around the room panicking and trying to find it, and had just given up and was about to go and sleep on the sofa when it ran out from under the bed and over my foot! I somehow instinctively stomped on it and squashed it flat. And then couldn't sleep for the rest of the night. ;)

Aww! Slightly useless puppy! Mine will chase spiders if they're big, but then just sort of growls at them and lets them go, so he's not much help either!

[lynsangelic1.livejournal.com]

Either the artist formerly known as Big Fucking Spider has a twin or he's come back from the dead. A exact duplicate was just sitting on my bedside table. Used the spray and it fell off behind my books.

I'm scared. *shivers*

Is that your dog in your icon? He's lovely, even if he's not so good at spider killing.

[carawj.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! Have you found it yet?? And do you always get this many spiders in your house? o.O

Yup, that's my Harry! Well, he's actually my mother's dog, but she got him when I was still living at home, so he feels like mine too. He's a big floppy twit, and I love him to bits. I think I need to make an icon of a picture where he looks slightly less demonic. ;)

What sort of dog is your puppy?

[lynsangelic1.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't find it yet. Argh! I hope it's died or flattened because I started throwing books where it disappeared. The annoying thing is, I was reading one of those books. Damnit.

My dog is a black labrador/border collie cross. She looks pretty much like a lab but has the intelligence of a border collie. She's a super ultra breed :) I've been trying to find a picture of her for ages (Computer crashed ages ago and I lost it all - I'll need to get them back from my dad when I see him) so here's one of her as a baby. (http://pics.livejournal.com/lynsangelic1/pic/00040azb/g11)

[carawj.livejournal.com]

Aww! I hope you flattened it too! Or maybe it left. In the going-outside sense, not the going-elsewhere-in--the-room sense.

The puppy is so adorable! And she really is a good breed combination! I've heard that border collies try to herd things. Does she herd things?

[lynsangelic1.livejournal.com]

Now you mention it, she does kind of herd things. On her way back from a walk, she walks round you in a square. I thought it was pretty bizarre but it could be herding! Weird. Mystery solved!