monkey nonsense

random update

the townhouse i moved into has a bug problem. specifically the area near my basement bedroom door seems to have an infestation of cricket/grasshopper/jumping bugs! the very first bug was within a few days of moving in. i killed one right on the stairs. the 2nd one was last week… he was hopping all over the area near my door when tina saw it. after half a hour of freaking out and an overturned sofa (he jumped underneath the sofa and disappeared in it!!!), talida finally got that sucker! THEN this past weekend, as i was walking into my room, another one of those jumpers was jumping all near my feet. i freaked out and ran outta my room. luckily, the bug was found and isaac shoe-ed it out of the house.

… THEN on sunday afternoon, julie and i were secretly practicing DDR when we both smelled something burning. after ignoring it for awhile (the heat vents some times smell when the heat turns on), we finally went investigating. we discovered it was coming from my room. great! julie suggested that maybe a bug flew into my halogen. i didn’t really think that would happen (my halogen is REALLY far into my room, nowhere near the door with the cricket problem. plus, what freak cricket can jump that high into a halogen) so i didnt think too much when i went to check so my nose was RIGHT next to the light… and yup, she was right. there was this HUGEEEEEEEEEE bee-like bug completely fried just sitting in my halogen… ewwww. my room stunk for a couple of hours afterwards.

work… i’m sure i shouldn’t be putting up exact quotes, but this was just too awesome to pass up. “The moves that are happening this year are ‘eviction’ moves – therefore they need to be done quickly.” … thanks for evicting me nameless company that i work for! even if you’re evicting me, i much rather you euphemize it just a little! … maybe call it an urgent move, necessary move to consolidate teams, i don’t know…! but evict!? who uses these words!? several friends have pointed out (not to give away too much information so that people know what nameless company i work for) that perhaps it was a “foreigner” who was writing this email and therefore didn’t realize the poor word choice when composing this email… hahah, i cracked up when they suggested that!

ddr… the DDR pads i purchased arrived last week! bryan lent me 2 of his DDR games (unfortunately, neither game included any britney songs :-()… i really suck at the game, but it’s been fun trying to learn it. i still prefer the taiko drum master game but DDR is better exercise!