on the road to find out

a closer inspection of the "unsquishable bug" in our bathroom yielded the following results:

-red shell with black semi-circle near the head
-semi-beatle like (until...)
-eight legs? wtf?

what groups of bug-like creatures do i know of that have eight legs? spiders... and what?

oh yeah. ticks. those things.

a deer tick, more specifically.

yes. a deer tick. i rapidly pulled up a picture of a female deer tick on google. yep. that's the sucker. and ours has been around. like a little blood slut. its little body is about 3 mm in width.

i reported my results to stella. she was more preoccupied in the fact that we have ticks in our house rather than the dire yuckiness of the situation. these aren't the ticks that you put a collar on your cat for, stella. these are the grandfather of all ticks. they bury their little heads in yoru skin and give ya lyme disease (possibly). you gotta burn those babies out.

cue my itching and scratching in all areas of my body. god. i hate ticks. too many memories of returning home from whatever naturey hike and having to have my daddy search my scalp for the little buggers.

i reported the news to maya. she didn't care.

psh. city girl

i reported the news to elaine. got the ideal response.

then we snickered about maya and stella's responses. conclusion: "whatever. they're from l.a." (yeah yeah, maya is from orange county. waa waa waa. the fact of hte matter is she didn't understand how yucky the deer tick was).

the tick now resides in a jar with no food, little oxygen, and a plastic-wrapped top on the front porch. we're killing it, either via starvation (which coudl take awhile) or asphyxation (haha, i love my spelling [which could take longer, as it was trapped for three days already with no air and no food]). no chance in us knowing what killed it, but we'll be happy with its death, nonetheless.