WHAT MADE YOU GRIMACE & GRIT YOUR TEETH TODAY?

In Brazil I used to have one that flew around my bedroom like a nut when I turned off the lights. He came from the attic.

When I finally decided that his flapping wings did not outweigh the benefit of his mosquito appetite I just put some rat poison in the ceiling and never saw him again.

If you have hordes of them, like I did there, you can always put a bolt on a string and attach it to a pole.

Then you go outside and swing it around real fast. The bats try to catch what they think is an insect and get smacked.

There would be dazed bats lying all around me when I was done....

heh.
u'd think they'd stop coming around after seeing their friends all dazed + confused (and poisoned!)...
buncha friggin' dingbats...

well, i haven't see our uninvited guest since tuesday night --
must've accidentally scared it away when i yelled

Yesterday an act of meanness made me grit my teeth and speak my mind. You see, we have a coworker who has what appears to be a sticky genitalia problem. Every time he stands still he does a little knees out bounce to free things up.

Yesterday I caught several of his coworkers imitating him and laughing to each other. Now, admittedly, I had a giggle when I saw him do it the first time, but come on people! Ten men standing around imitating him and laughing is not good. Sooner or later he'll see it and have his feelings hurt.

Now I feel bad for giggling.

Listening to a friend of mine, at her most malicious, gleefully gossiping about the goings-on in Chicago concerning the passing of John H. Johnson, founder and publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines. According to gossip, his daughter didn't take care of the funeral arrangements as urgently as she should have and now things are kind of a mess and instead of feeling some compassion for this only child trying to handle her father's last bit of business, people, including my friend, are snickering and almost gleeful in their badmouthing. But in the meantime, trying to figure out some kind of way, through hook or crook, into these "screwed up" services because of the many entertainers, athletes and dignitaries expected to attend.

Just one more reason that I'm glad to have gotten out of such a nasty, backbiting environment.

Yeah, I hate backbiters. Those that can't look you in the eye while taking a piece of you.

A two hour wait at the DMV to renew my driver's license, ugh.

getting up at 7:45 to let in the window replacer guys.

A particular child, in a particular class ......

Computers - and patronising tech-types!
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Want to know what's really making me mad at the moment? The way bossess & coordinators, etc, etc, keep piling on extra jobs with incredibly short time-lines. Like, when am I supposed to do this extra stuff, I ask? Why, on my weekends, my evenings, of course! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Aussies losing to England ....

THAT made you grit & grimace, G?
I would have thought you'd be delighted!

Spit - ptooooiii!!!!!!!!!

The Australian cricket team makes me shudder! I don't think I'm fit enought to take any more of these 4am finishes. Why can't the English play cricket during the day - like any normal country!?

hey - we've gotta beat you somehow!

Stop grumbling, margo.
I hear it's "good for the game"!

The sound of the guy next door making love with a fairly loud girl, this morning. Weird, I normally dont hear anything from there. Must admit, he kept it up for quite a bit. Who woulda thought.

Monster got engaged.

Ooooo. Ouch. Bastid.

If youre feeling resentful, you got all my sympathy. {}

i'm feeling depressed, strangely enough. or maybe it's normal, who the hell knows. i want to go out and drink. any takers?

Sounds normal enough. Would go for a drink but, seeing how i'll still be working for a coupla hours (we have a country report launch tomorrow), i dont think ill make it to vienna tonight...

Then again, whatcha doin this weekend? My birthday is this Sunday

(So we're both Virgos. And yet so different, eh.)