Ants in the pants
Posted by Mike
Ants in the pants? ANTS IN THE PANTS?! YOU SONOFABITCH! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO GET ME THE RED MEGAMAN YOU CHEAP PIECE OF CRAP I HATE YOU! -Cartman (Damien, 1998)
My very first exposure to SouthPark so many years ago was this episode; Damien the son of Satan comes to earth to herald he arrival of Satan. It also happens to be Cartman's birthday. This episode and "Pinkeye" were on a VHS tape that was a birthday present from my sister Theresa. I think this particular tape was given to me sometime in 2000... yeah, I got on the SouthPark bandwagon kinda late.
Let me start by saying I'm not normally a light sleeper. Certain things (my cat, gym trips, hurricanes) have changed that for the worse. You would think I should sleep better with a cat constantly walking on me but somehow, that's just not the case. Last night I had another issue: ants. That's them in the picture up there.
You know that state of sleep, right as your about to fall asleep? Where you always think you're about to roll off the bed and you jerk, waking yourself up? Yeah, that one. I couldn't manage to get past that because every time I'd doze off, I'd feel like something was ever so slightly brushing against me. My arms. My head. My leg. I'd swipe at it and doze back off, only to have it happen again. I finally stumbled out of bed at 3am and turned on the light. Sure enough I hadn't been dreaming something was definitely touching me. Ants were crawling all over my comforter and me and I had been swatting them in my sleep. I can't begin to describe the level of "freak the fuck out" that hit my sleep addled brain at 3am in the morning.
Now I don't have anything against insects in general, but anything that bites pretty much gets nuclear winter declared inside my house. I got pushed into a fire ant bed as a kid and had too many "lawn mower meets ant hill" incidents while growing up to be nice to ants. Luckily California ants don't seem to bite much, and are generally just looking for water. Call me an ant racist, but I smashed all the ones I could see (black ants on a dark wood bed half asleep at 3am!), threw my comforter in the corner, and dragged my mattress, pillow, and a blanket off to sleep on the floor. I've only been here 10 days and had my own bed for the last 4 days and now somehow I'm back to sleeping on the floor. I was just drifting back off to sleep (Wifecat curled up at my side of course) when I heard the little voice in the back of my mind say the Cartman quote. I managed to scare the cat into finding somewhere else to sleep by laughing my ass off.
I'm coming back from work with Raid though. No mercy!
Moving Day
Posted by Mike
Editor's note: This photo is from a previous incarnation of the site; I had just packed sans roommate to move out of the awesome loft apartment we shared. I decided to include it here because it's the only chronicle I have of the move before this one. I've come a helluva long way since then, and learned a lot about people thanks to the roommate I had at the time. I actually have real furniture now and luxury items like hangers.
Breakfast of Champions
Posted by Mike
Editor's note: This photo is from a trip to Atlanta back in 2007. They seriously need one out in San Diego. This is not a bad picture for a camera phone, and it even got included in some Atlanta hotspots book/brochure thing.
I got introduced to the Flying Biscuit when I went up to visit Chioke in Atlanta in January. I didn't believe it was worth the two hour wait in 30 degree weather, but when I saw the line of people waiting on either side of the street, I began to reconsider. It was ENTIRELY worth the wait. Their menu is totally organic food, all fresh made. I think I need to order their cookbook.
Atlanta
Posted by Mike
Editor's note: This photo is also from the Atlanta trip; I honestly had never tried to picture DL Hughley as a bouncer before that. It's suprisingly effective.
Atlanta at night as we drive around trying to find some new Chinese place in Atlantic Station. Turns out it wasn't in Atlantic Station, so we ended up going to Outback instead. That's not to say we didn't find a Chinese place, we were just turned away at the door by the bouncer because I was wearing shorts. He was very apologetic, but it wasn't enough to overcome the uncanny resemblance to DL Hughley.
Sleeeeeeeepy cat
Posted by Mike
Editor's note: This is one of the early photos of Wifecat. She was a stray that followed me into the house one day and never left. The first 6 months she was weirdly attached to me; she would follow me from room to room but never "cuddle" or curl up with anyone. She's only slightly warmer towards me now.
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