If I ever found a live mouse in my house I would freak out. If it was in my bed, climbing my body? You wouldn't see me sleeping in that house again without a glaring of cats, traps, and every door and window locked shut forever!! *Shudders* I freaked out and cried when I found a dead mouse in my boiler cupboard, and struggled to dispose of it's corpse. And to think I complained about small house spiders, woodlice and slugs. ETA: Call me fussy, or soft, but I don't believe in sharing the house with other creatures unless they are pets.
Hahaha. I dunno if it was due to how poor I grew up but I used to see mice as pets and would, to the disapproval of my mother and grandmother, feed them regularly. Even played with a few. Some had names, like spotty and squeaky.
The closest I ever had was a hamster, and I can't say that I bonded with that greatly either. A Staffie on the other hand...
Annoying dream. Had another week off from exercise as I pigged out on junk food the day I hit town to buy some shit. Body was aching and fatigued...suspected culprit, almonds in far too many Ferrero Rochers. Feeling better on sunday, monday morn did 3 cali sets and had a good run to the village...1:01 in, and my best return of 54 mins...wasn't even pushing hard and had slight head wind. What I'm doing now is reduced effort on larger hills and standing up longer for the small ones and powering up on flats thus overall increase of average speed. But of course, way sore and tired after the shower. Noonish settled onto me bed and watched Superbowl XLII and other vids, played some RDR, but by late arvie I was too mentally frazzled so took a siesta. Had this dream of attending a lecture by Jordan B. Peterson, we ended up walking out together and had a discussion, and I like me some indepth lengthy discussions, but in the dream, in his responses, he just wouldn't shut up. He was relentless and I ended up trying to jog away from him, but he kept up and wouldn't shut up. Seems like I'd been jogging for hours and yet he was still with me nattering away. Eventually pissed about the dream, I awoke, saw that it was only 7pm, and it turns out JBP was playing on me flatscreen I got hooked up to me earbuds as I chose to play the psych vid folder on the usb stick as I went to sleep. I suspect indepth psych stuff is not good when mentally fatigued.
I think it's just personal preference, what we like and dislike, what gives us the creeps etc. Eg - If someone serves me a fried egg and it has even the smallest amount of clear uncooked white yoke on it, I won't go near the thing, I won't even eat it if I mix the egg up. That stuff creeps me out big time. Wild animals though, I loves them all, even the ones that creep me out. The main thing for me is if I have 100% proof they won't harm me, I'd be okay with close contact with any creature. I treat the wild mice like pet cats, furry and adorable, just way smaller, and their claws are far less dangerous and their shits are hard and don't smell at all, and they don't leave hair stuck all over your blankets and clothes.
I just ate the Strawberry rhubarb pie I brought. It tasted freaking amazing. Tell no one. Especially little blonde haired shrimps who take my dollars if I swear....
Rejoin discord they said. It'll be fun they said. Make new account, accept invite - BAM, political debate sexing up with ad hominem like an orgy. "Yeah, think I'm out"
That's...true. Maybe the developers are actually Illuminati who intend to sow the seeds of Discord on the internet, just to fuel some plot my mind hasn't made up yet. Need some more tinfoil and isolation.
......that looks painful. Laying here on the phone as allways. Wacthing youtube, avoiding mabye awkward texts, and probably going to bed soon.Got some little things done today but rested for a good bit of the day. Not bad to actually spend one of my days off off I guess. Was doing pretty allright at first but kept getting interrupted by pointless phone calls. Something im figureing out about myself is that I need to keep my momentum throughout the day. Once I stop it can be very hard for me to get back to actually doing something. Part of the needing structure, and routine I think. Still in the adjustment period with adapting to the new job and thus new schedule and routine. Think its going pretty allright.
Mice? Okay. I trap them - I don't want them in the house, but they don't creep me out. Giant huntsman spiders? I could not live in a country where such terrifying alien hellspawn exist. I draw the line at terrifying alien hellspawn. I visited Australia back in the mid-80s and spent four months there. I had a great time. I even made it over to Tasmania (they didn't tell me it was closed on weekends, so there was nothing to do). Had I been aware of the existence of giant huntsman spiders at the time, I would not have made that trip. I would have stayed home, thanking my lucky stars endlessly that I was in Canada where it's too cold for such terrifying alien hellspawn.
Yeah, I'm sorta like that about places like Florida (where I have many friends AND family now.) Just ...no. Gators on the roadways and in ditches. Poisonous snakes lurking in the water and the puckerbrush. Imported mini-komodo dragons (illegally released) biting people's hands who are trying to work in their gardens. Large boa constrictors (also released illegally) FIGHTING alligators in the swamps—do I give a shit who wins? no I do not—nasty fish that inhabit the waterways and eat anything that falls in—never mind the hordes of tourists seeking Disney nirvana. Just no. Barracudas. Sharks. Bull sharks lurking in rivers. Just no. I do love Scotland, though. Nothing that will eat you alive except midges.
Honestly the few months i stayed in Florida' our biggest animal problem was armadillos constantly tipping over and getting into the trash cans.
Armadillos? I thought they lived in the Southwest and Texas, etc. I didn't know they lived in Florida. Well, I wouldn't mind them. Probably. But there's this: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/04/28/135740951/mysterious-leprosy-cases-linked-to-armadillos So much for armadillo chili, then. To be fair, Scotland also has ticks, which, like any other tick, can give us Lyme Disease. And we also have horseflies (cleggs) that can give a nasty bite that often gets infected. (I've had this happen to me twice.) And chiggers (berry bugs) in some places (like my garden.) And wasps. Etc. But nothing bigger than an insect that you need to look out for. Well, okay, maybe adders ...the only poisonous snake in Britain ...but they are rare and very non-aggressive.
"Home Office" or, as it actually is, haunting the forums as I wait for my pizza to be done because work doesn't work and I don't have the brain power to fix it.
I'm practicing drawing flowers for a birthday card to my mother. At that I'm also practicing using watercolors rather than watercolor pencils. I prefer the pencils, but I guess it can't hurt being able to use both.
Sent out a few job applications and now I'm surrendering between chores and lunch for the bf and I. He's working from home today.