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Eww. Eww. This reminds me of the time my aunt tried to kill a palmetto bug (think cockroach on steroids) she thought she sprayed it with bug spray and left it for dead. He and the uncle went to bed where she read her book. She put her book down, only to find the palmetto bug on the sheets about at her stomach, heading towards her. Yeah. Yuck!

Ha...

I'll give you credit though, you at least attempted to do battle.

Slick: I'll have you know that I was victorious! So victorious, in fact, that I had quite a mess to clean up once the battle was over. The mess is now in the garbage, waiting for chatty-Kathy to take out the trash.

No, you're the chick who takes off into the foggy spooky woods only to get hacked up by the hockey mask dude.

~Jef

Oh, I am SO that girl, too.

By the way, your last post inspired me to finally unpack my Sonicare - it rocks!

Jes, I hate to break it to you, but you've always been that girl. Love you for it though.

I have been the bug killer in the apt before- out of necessity, but now that Im married, its Jays responsibility to kill bugs. Its also his responsibility to fix things, check out strange noises, make chocolate martinis and ward off any pirates and/or ninja attacks- bc thats what good husbands do :)

Yes, I'm that kind of a girl, too. I can be at home washing dishes when all of a sudden my husband's face appears in my peripheral vision (after he's been in the office for an hour or so) and I'll jump and shriek and my mind sortof stops for a split second.. the second that is so crucial in which one responds to an enemy by either hitting and running, or shrieking and standing stock still. I wish I had Ninja-fast reflexes.

At least you went for it! If that happened at my house, I would have waited until my boyfriend was off the phone. No way I would face a cockroach head on.

Laurel:

I wanted to wait, but he didn't seem in a hurry to get off the phone and rescue me. Also, I was afraid the cockroach would run into a wall and hide again, and there was NO WAY I wanted that thing to stay alive.

::Warning, you may not want to read ahead::

The way it splattered all over the place when I killed it (my stomach is turning right now), I SWEAR it was pregnant and that I was smearing baby cockroach fetuses across the floor.

(Nice to meet you, by the way. I'm normally not this gross. Or, I try to convince myself that I'm not.)

I have to be the bug killer in my house. My hubbie is "that man" - Its fun to mess with him though!!! :)

Good luck next time the roach rages war!!!

I am on Michelle's team. Fortunately I have a dynamic duo of little creatures that are all too happy to EAT anything that crawls or flies that may wander into this house. Last night, we watched them eat the first June bug of summer. It was (almost) cute.

I *just* (meaning 2 minutes ago) spotted a large roach that had crawled in from the patio. It was resting on the handle of my DustBuster and I had a surge of bravdo in that I was going to shake it to the floor and stomp it to a pulp in my stocking feet. Until it flew. I forgot they can do that. I lost my nerve and ran for the Raid.

eeewww!!! roaches are just gross. but i'm sure it wasn't pregnant? do roaches give birth or do they lay eggs? :) anyhow...did you notice that its blood was white?!!!

LOL. Reading your first sentence made me shiver.

Cockroach is annoying. A fat well-fed cockroach is DISGUSTING.

Ki: I did notice something white, but thought it was just roach organs spewed across my floor. (Do roaches have organs? Must research.)

Fear not. I'm sure you totally scared that little bugger away - and we all know about the one-roach, one-house concept, right? So your house is probably clear now. :)

uuuuuughhh ew ew ew. I hate roaches. I had one fly on my arm once and I screamed bloody murder. I was probably seven and I will never forget it - I was THAT traumatized.

Roaches lay eggs and from what I've heard, when you kill them you spread the eggs. So you probably want to make sure you use alcohol or something that might kill roach eggs on your floor/wall.

Oh and what I do when I find a bug is put a glass over it so it's trapped. Then I wait for boyfriend to get home and take bug outside. It works well for spiders who tend to freeze. I don't know about roaches that tend to run. You might need something bigger than a glass - mixing bowl perhaps?? Just make sure he's not clumsy like my boyfriend who tends to drop the bug on the way out at least 4 out of 5 times trying to keep the cats from going outside too.

You bring back bad memories. I may never wear my slippers again, and I like them. But recently, they were used to terminate a supersized waterbug.

You squished it?????? GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I CANNOT handle the crunching sound. My bugs get shoo-ed outdoors. Or fed poison and then sucked up in the vaccum cleaner.

And nice work with the running into the wall thing. Sounds like something I'd do.

OH my gosh, I'd have freaked too. I'm that girl too, but I can disguise myself better at times. None of those times, however, involve a cockroach.

Even that name is disgusting. Ew.

I'd have made K get off the phone if I'd been in that situation. I'd have stood far enough away from the roach as I could be and still see it, and I'd have called for K until he saved me. Ew!

OH my gosh, I'd have freaked too. I'm that girl too, but I can disguise myself better at times. None of those times, however, involve a cockroach.

Even that name is disgusting. Ew.

I'd have made K get off the phone if I'd been in that situation. I'd have stood far enough away from the roach as I could be and still see it, and I'd have called for K until he saved me. Ew!

Vacuum cleaners. Vacuum cleaners solve everything. But you need a high suction one, because it needs to dismember the roach. Then you toss out the bag, just in case.

Oh, and house centipedes? Those bugs with a million legs that look like a moving dustbunny until you realize what it is?

Those are GOOD. Don't kill them, they eat other bugs (not your food, not your clothes, just other bugs) and they don't have enough venom to do you or a pet any real harm. They eat cockroach eggs, mainly.

Why do you care about Suri's hair? She is a gorgeous baby who just happened to be blessed with a beautiful head of jet black hair. Did you ever think that maybe something blew her hair to the side just before the pic was taken? If you weren't so ignorant you would realize that when its just a couple strands of hair it may tend to be a lighter shade than a full head of hair. I know...HARD TO BELIEVE. I don't know why people don't think she belongs to Tom and Katie...SHE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE THEM!

P.S. GET A LIFE!