Messages from abroad, not massages from a broad

I was sitting here minding my own business when I noticed an ant had made it’s way up to my arm and was finding a nice meaty place to bite me.  Well, I got the better of it and I squished it.  I went to the bathroom to wash it away and to clean my hands.  That’s when I noticed I just crushed half of it cause the other half was still moving like crazy.  I washed it down the sink with hot water and I sat back down, wondering if there were a lot of them in my place or if it was just a stray that wandered it’s way into my apartment by accident.  No later than five minutes later, I looked up and on the wall was a huge bug with a bazillion legs.  Here’s a picture of the giant thing:

I tried to get it to crawl into a water bottle that I had and it wasn’t cooperating so it fell to the floor and I threw the lid of a CD-R spindle over it.  The coin in the picture is a US half dollar which is bigger than a toonie.  I wanted to give you guys some perspective on the size of this friggin thing.  It was big!!  It’s kind of curled up in the picture so it’s not even fully extended.  Anyway, I’m a big pussy and I didn’t wanna grab a wad of paper towel to kill it, so I brought it over to the toilet.  This thing could tread water!  It made it’s way to the dry part of the bowl and it started climbing out.  Holy shit!  I’ve never reached for the toilet’s handle so fast.  That took care of the bugger (no pun intended, OK, maybe a little).  I just hope it doesn’t swim it’s way back up.  If it does, hopefully it ends up in someone else’s toilet.  I guess it was a centipede or something.  Disgusting! If I find one of those in my bed, I’m gonna flip out!

Friday night, some of da boys from work wanted to hang out and they offered to show me around Bethesda cause I hadn’t really explored any of the local watering holes and restaurants.  It’s kinda sad considering I’ve been here nearly 3 months and I hadn’t even sat down to eat at any of the nearby restaurants.  We started off at a couple bars and let me say that Brant is quite the social butterfly.  He knew someone at every establishment that we hit and we covered quite a few places.  I guess this shouldn’t really surprise me because he bumps into someone every where we go.  Anyway, we hit up Rio Grande, for some stellar margaritas and fantastic mexican food.  They had freshly made nacho chips and salsa for us.  They they brought out a giant platter of chicken and beef for our fajitas.  I wasn’t convinced that the beef would be good but it was awesome.  The meat was nice and tender and easy to bite into.  I think I only had three (maybe four) and I was stuffed.  We hit up another bar and after we picked up our first round of beers, we found out that a rep from Anheuser-Busch was on location giving away free Budweiser Selects.  Too bad they were a little on the warm side, but free is free!!  So we double-fisted our beers up to the outside deck to check out the scenery.  It didn’t take me  long to realize I was too full to drink.  The beer was battling with the fajitas for space in my stomach and I was feeling like crap.  I don’t think I was the only one feeling that way cause we all looked beat.  We called it a night shortly after and I was close to throwing up when I walked the two blocks home.  Fun times!!

The next night, we rounded up some of the Canadian crew to watch Knocked Up.  It was pretty good and although I’m totally sick of Katherine Heigl’s character on Grey’s Anatomy, she wasn’t too bad in the movie.  Has anyone seen the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly?  She’s on the cover of it and it doesn’t even look like her.  She looks exceptionally hot on that magazine cover.  Well, enough lusting over her.  I recommend the movie.  I thought it was better than the 40 Year Old Virgin although it was pretty close.  The summer movies are totally ramping up.  Every week until August, I think there’s a movie that I want to see.  This upcoming weekend is Ocean’s 13.  Next week, it’ll be Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.  I want to see if I see my fat ass anywhere on the screen.  Then I’ll be only a couple weeks away from Transformers, which I’m dying to see! 

I should note that it’s OK that I stay up late now because we’re on ’summer hours’ now.  This means I get to work an hour less; either come in late an hour or go home an hour early.  I choose to sleep in.  Alright, it’s time for me to get to bed.  I’m scratching myself all
over ’cause the thought of the bug encounter tonight is making me
itchy.  So night-nite, don’t let the bed bugs bite!

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