Arrrgggh!!! MOSQUITOS!!!!
THEY MAKE ME WANT TO SCREAM! Seriously. I know this is crazy, but I really really don’t like mosquitoes. Some people don’t like spiders, some bees, for me it is mosquitoes.
I can not effing stand them!
I was standing in the doorway talking to my deck-building, hard working, husband {WIDTA} and all of a sudden, I had that feeling. That hot, itchy, tingly, want to scratch a hole through my skin feeling. No ladies, I was not hot for my sweet man, I had been bitten by a mosquito.
Just writing this is making it itch even more. I was bitten right between the shoulder blades, the one place on my body I can not reach, and I am not impressed. I saw the mosquito fly away too, and it was smiling. Ok, maybe not smiling, but buzzing happily to itself for the split second before I smashed it into the glass and watched it fall lifeless to the floor, wings and stinging itch-causing needle of hate still in tact.
OK. Now I feel bad.
I just totally let my rage and anger totally consume me. I killed something. I should have gently waved the mosquito into a paper bag, or held up my honey covered arm to let him land, and then returned it to the forest where he belongs. I am in his territory right? I am the one that put my house in the area where thousands of mosquito generations have lived, long before I was ever around.
Who am I kidding? That mosquito attacked, and what I did was pure self defense. For all I know, he was trying to kill me, by allergic reaction or pure out mental distress…ok, on a side note, if someone or something did try and kill me by pure out mental distress, it probably wouldn’t be too hard….my point is, although I had a split second where I regretted killing one of God’s creatures, I cannot help but feel that if God did not want me to kill these awful bugs, he would have not made my palms so flat. I will most likely stand by my decision at three o clock in the morning, when I am awake to feed Isaac, and I still have a very itchy back.
So, my wonderful man {WIDTA} just saw me doing my tribal “I’ve been bitten in the middle of my back and I can’t quite reach it so I will hop around on one foot screaming while I try to reach it anyways” dance, and so sweetly gave me his Steve Yzerman Detroit Red Wings jersey. This is a big deal.
He’s working really hard outside, in the dark, alone except for the bugs that surround him, and told me “here, if you want to keep the bugs away, just wear this.” So I feel better already. Kind of like a high school girl who was just given the coolest guy in schools shirt to wear….thump thump thump goes the heart….
I suppose I should mention that he had previously covered the jersey in all natural citronella bug repellant. That is why it keeps the bugs away. It’s not that the jersey has magical powers…or maybe it does….while I am sitting here in the jersey, practically itch free, listening to my children sleep, and watching my husband build me a sun deck, I am starting to get another feeling…only this time, there are no mosquitoes involved…
*Liz
PPS I have heard from a friend, and also just read online that dryer sheets in pockets keep mosquitos away. If this is true, I am going to make a coat of of dryer sheets. I will buy some as soon as I can, and I challenge you to try too! Let me know how it goes, and I will let you know what I discover too. :)
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