all this time I thought I was imagining that the skeeters loved me and it turns out I'm their favorite blood type!
Nah, we are just particularly tasty morsels. DH and I both are O+ and they chew on me and ignore him.
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laura - Sep 09, 2009 12:02:23 pm PDT #22424 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Miracleman - Sep 09, 2009 12:24:03 pm PDT #22425 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Eat garlic and spicy foods. Works a treat, I swear. I still get bit occasionally by skeeters (living, as I do, in Mosquito Mecca...there's a "mosque" "mosquito" joke in there, but I can't quite reach it and it's probably more trouble than it's worth anyway...) but nowhere near as much as I did as a kid before I developed the love of garlic/hot sauce that I have today.
Gudanov - Sep 09, 2009 12:28:29 pm PDT #22426 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
You could also inject 100% DEET into your veins*. Sure, it might kill you, but at least insects won't feast on your festering corpse.
- The procedure is not endorsed by Gudanov, the FDA, or Major League Baseball.
Miracleman - Sep 09, 2009 12:29:03 pm PDT #22427 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Also, GOD! Am I a fucking horrible friend or what?!
All you Miracleborn Family (you know who you are) in SoCal...Jesus, I hope you make/made it safe through the fires.
What the hell? I move away and I suddenly forget the feeling of watching ash settle on my car like snow?
Agh.
Laga - Sep 09, 2009 12:30:42 pm PDT #22428 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Eat garlic and spicy foods.
Yeah, no. They still devoured me when I worked in the Spanish restaurant and ate alioli and romesco sauces on a regular basis. My solution was moving to California where the skeeters are rare and about 1/5 the size of the midwestern buggers. (that's not really why I moved to CA but it's nice to remind myself of the perks when I am missing Chitown.)
omnis_audis - Sep 09, 2009 12:31:19 pm PDT #22429 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Meeting dragging on. Don't they know Beatle Rockband is in my car, waiting to go home and be played?!?!
Gudanov - Sep 09, 2009 12:32:16 pm PDT #22430 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Don't they know Beatle Rockband is in my car, waiting to go home and be played?!?!
Fools. You'll have to show them, show them all.
omnis_audis - Sep 09, 2009 12:33:30 pm PDT #22431 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Does that mean I can leave early? There is still one more hour to go!
erin_obscure - Sep 09, 2009 12:34:25 pm PDT #22432 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I am starting to feel very bad for one of our more annoying frequent fliers. He calls for an ambulance every day (sometimes twice) and every day (sometimes twice) goes to the hospital. I can't even wrap my head around that kind of ongoing bill. Now we're having to send police along with the ambulances because his neighs are threatening to hurt him if he calls for an ambulance again....so today he hobbled down the street to nearest mini mart and called from there to avoid reprisals. The guy is annoying, but he clearly has a serious problem that is not being treated.
Miracleman - Sep 09, 2009 12:34:36 pm PDT #22433 of 30000
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Michigan skeeters are as big as Chinook helicopters.
Well, let's see...my blood type hasn't changed. If it isn't the spicy foods then it must be the beer.
Okay: Drink beer. Lots. Even if it doesn't keep the skeeters away, who gives a fuck? You've got beer!