Last night, I was in bed, sitting against the wall and playing on the computer.
I thought I felt something in my hair. I reached up, but didn't feel anything. I thought, "Oh, it must be an ant." I'd seen some on my nightstand a couple of weeks ago.. Ants are so tiny and fragile, I figured it was already brushed off of my head by now....
Then I felt it again. I shook my head and sat forward, looking back at my pillow. "Oh, it's a lizard!" I immediately thought. Without a tail. But that's not so unusual, considering most of the household geckos are tail-less, thanks to the cats.
Then it sunk in: Hey, that's a cockroach.
A cockroach. Was on my head.
I was pretty traumatized, and although I'll often kill the roaches when I find them nowadays, I couldn't deal with this one. I screamed for Balu, who came and dispatched it with a magazine while I looked away.
In Mexico you get the ones that love eating the diaphram in your second stage regulators. Talk about a surprise when you go diving...that you inhale a roach or that your regulator does not work anymore. Thats a lot worse than having them in your hair.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
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