how to kickstart a Friday

[dchenes]

This morning I encountered a grillionpede in the bathtub. (A grillionpede is actually a house centipede, which is supposed to be a good (or at least harmless) thing to have. However, they're largish and brown and have way too many legs.) My immediate thought was, "Well, I don't REALLY need a shower this morning, do I?". I did, so I disposed of the grillionpede. I washed it down the tub drain, which really wasn't nice of me, but I couldn't think of any other way to get rid of it.

Having started the day off that way, it's got to get better. And it did, as soon as I set foot outdoors. This is the sort of weather I love, and it seems to have inspired almost all of the women in my office (including me) to wear skirts today.

Hooray, my two holdout SOP packets are finally coming together!

Comments

[sydneygb.livejournal.com]

Oh my God, those are the things I hate. I knew I shouldn't have clicked that link ... *uber-shudder* ... but now I know what they are. I've never heard "grillionpede" before ... around here we call those kinds of things "thousandleggers".

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

My father calls them grillionpedes, and I thought it was an adequate description.

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

See also: Bazillopede, water bug, creepy-crawly, and "cat-snack".

[scirocco.livejournal.com]

Hah, it just occurred to me. You made a funny. "kick-start" Leggy centipede. Ha. Ha ha.

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

You know what Mr. Twain said about eating live frogs each day.... Maybe this applies to finding a grillionpede in your bathtub?

MERP gosh darn it!

BTW, depending on how it goes, want some basil seedlings to plant with your tomatoes? Apparently they cohabitate nicely and the basil wards off certain tomato-loving bugs.