We live out in the country these days. This sign showed up on a fence by a house that I drive by "on the way into town". I don't know what it means but I really want to know.

Posted in: creepy things, funny things on Monday, January 03, 2011 at at 11:41 PM 0 comments    

Preface: I HATE BUGS!
I drove into the garage today and saw a giant bug on the ceiling. I thought it was either a roach or a giant spider. I couldn't tell. So I got everything inside and went back out with the Raid, because I did NOT want that thing on the inside part of our house. I sprayed it and it kind of fluttered down and landed on the window of the car. Repeat: I did NOT want that thing on the inside part of our house. So I backed the car back out into the driveway and sprayed it again. After it was most definitely dead, I got a LONG pole and flicked it off into the driveway. This thing was most likely Satan. For real. Like one of those insect creatures from Revelation.

If you can bear to look at it, notice it has red antennae and red back legs. It has this super creepy spiky wheel thing on its back. Horrible. It will probably be in my nightmares tonight.
Bonus points to anyone who knows what it is. I tried Googling "beetle with red antennae" and couldn't find anything except ladybug costumes.

Posted in: creepy things on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at at 10:13 PM 2 comments    

This used to be a bag of potatoes.

A peek inside.

The whole alien monster underwater plant creature of the deep.
Gross.

Posted in: craziness, creepy things, gross, ridiculousness on Thursday, March 05, 2009 at at 1:15 PM 5 comments    

1st Story:
I have a friend from church, Angie, who will be "substituting" for me at work while I'm out with the baby. The family had her over yesterday to meet her and everything. I had this conversation with C today after school:
Me: Did y'all meet Angie yesterday?
C: Yeah.
Me: Did you like her?
C: Yeah. She looks older than you.
Me: Well, I think she's like 30, so yeah she could look older than me.
C: You look like you're 18.
Me: I look like a pregnant teenager?
C: No, a tubby teenager.
Me: Great.

2nd Story:
So I have this bear that I got for a Christmas present a couple of years ago. It's the one featured in Jack: The Calendar: January -
I still have it out because I still have out decorations that can be classified as "Winter" and not "Christmas". So a few minutes ago I was putting laundry in the washer, Jack was sitting on the couch, and Jon was in the bedroom. Suddenly I heard something in the living room playing Jingle Bells. I walked in there to find out Haunted Winter Bear had started playing the song on its own. I didn't even know it played music! Weird and weird. The End.

Posted in: baby, C Man, creepy things, Jake on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at at 9:41 PM 2 comments    

I haven't shown you our backyard yet. Be sure to stay tuned to the end for the best part...

Posted in: creepy things, house, video on Monday, October 20, 2008 at at 7:27 PM 2 comments    

After an afternoon with the boys in the backyard and creek behind their house, I came home and took a shower. When I got out, I saw this on my foot...

GROSS!!! A TICK!!!

First, how did I not see that in she shower? Second, GROSS! I almost threw up on myself. That is so disgusting. People shouldn't get ticks. I promptly called the boys' dad and told him to check them tonight. Hopefully I was the only one who got one, even though I was the only one in long pants. Of course.

My mom's reaction: "You took a picture of it?!" ("Yes.") "You and your pictures."

Posted in: creepy things, gross on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at at 10:50 PM 1 comments    

Over the past two weeks the fan blowing the heat and air in my car has been going out. It wouldn't come on when I started the car, but once I started going it would eventually start up. It finally called it quits around Thursday. My brother-in-law-in-law (Jon's sister's husband) has been known to fix cars before. He sees it as a challenge to figure out what's wrong and make it right. The motor that makes the window go up on Jon's mom's car went out and Wes went to the local salvage yard, picked it up for $30 and repaired it himself. That would have been $600 just for the part if she'd taken it to a repair shop. So I thought I'd ask him first.
He found the problem was that the "heater fan motor" had gone out. He pulled it out and we went on a field trip...
...to the U-Pull-It. It's just rows and rows of old cars that you can just go in with your tools and pull out whatever parts you need, take it up to the front, give them the money and go. It's all really weird and kind of creepy. We found one car that was the model before mine but it was really hard to get the fan out and he wanted to try to find a newer one so that the fan wouldn't be as used. So we went down a few more rows and found one 3 years newer than mine.

Here he is digging in under this already-very-torn-apart-car's dashboard to get the new fan.

This is the beauty that my fan came out of. And Wes peeking out.

I then realized we could look around for a new H. My H had fallen off/was stolen off the back of my Honda last year. It was just gone one day. Funny thing is that almost every Honda there was already missing its H. Eventually we found one and popped it off for me to replace mine. We took the motor and the H up to the front and it was only $20. We took it back to the house and Wes replaced it. He loves my chocolate chip cookies, so that's how I'm going to repay him for doing that whole thing in about 2 hours, me not having to give up my car for a day, and not having to pay a repair shop WAY more than $20 for the work done. Thanks, Wes.

Posted in: car troubles, cheapness, creepy things on Sunday, March 09, 2008 at at 11:23 PM 0 comments    

Lightning is NOT awesome. I'm super scared of it. And this is why. The next door neighbors of the family I work for had their house struck by freakin' lightning last night. It shook the ground in both houses, singed the hair on the arm of the guy who lives in the house, knocked out the internet, computer, and security system of "my" family, not to mention whatever was damaged in the house that was actually hit. The damage to the house itself doesn't seem to be very bad, and luckily it didn't catch on fire, but it sure did damage in its vicinity.

This is a piece of the roof that flew pretty far from the house.

Then a few different angles on the same thing. I couldn't get too close to their house without being in their yard:

Posted in: creepy things on Monday, December 10, 2007 at at 11:50 PM 0 comments    

I was coming up the stairs tonight at our apartment and, only moments after screaming when a giant roach ran over my foot as I was trying to hop over it, I saw probably the biggest moth I've ever seen outside of a display in a museum or in a science textbook. This is it next to my size 10 1/2 shoe. Yuck!

Posted in: creepy things on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at at 10:41 PM 1 comments