RIP Geiko Gecko

Yeah I have to blog, just so that every time my page opens I don't jump back from the screen and shudder. I don't even like looking at the picture of that lizard. Doesn't he look like the Geiko Gecko? Well...I suppose he died. I mean,...I flushed him down the toilet today. Mom wouldn't come upstairs and catch him. In fact she wouldn't even come look at him. She wouldn't even look at a picture of him. That didn't stop her from getting on to ME for not wanting to touch him."You want to work with animals" and all that. NOT THOSE ANIMALS. And especially not in my toilet. And now Ben and Will have gotten onto me nonstop for flushing Geiko down the drain. Then Dad was at work, and Mom told me to flush him. She said he wouldn't come back because he must have come in through the attic and somehow found his way to my toilet to hang out. Maybe it reminded him of a rock? I don't know. But she didn't think lizards liked water and that they wouldn't come through the pipes, so I should flush him. So around 1:30 pm today, I flushed the toilet....twice. He didn't go down the first time. There is still plastic wrap on my toilet and I flush it everytime I go by just because it makes me feel much better. I do not enjoy creepy crawley things.

That brings me to my next topic. Tonight, at Tom and Ben's house, we (Tom, Ben, Henry, Will, Travis, Josh, and I) were all sitting in the basement after Man-Thing(do not even get me started on this movie; I came in halfway through it and laughed the whole time). We were all hanging out when all in a sudden I see the MOST HUMONGOUS (sp?) scorpion (at first I thought it was a baby mouse) walking in the hall. I couldn't even talk because it scared me so much; I grabbed Tom's arms, my eyes about popped out of my head, and I pointed at it. He said "Geez, Meghan, what??" And then they all looked at where I was pointing and got excited and ran over to it. Ben started to hit it with his shoe, and Travis had a clothes pin in his hand and he threw it at me and said "Oh no, Meghan, it's still alive!" Now, I screamed bloody murder and started to cry. It sort of shocked me that it made me cry, and poor Travis, he hugged me and said he was sorry. I think he felt pretty bad, and I tried to quit crying so I wouldn't make him feel bad, but it really freaked me out. I didn't mean to make Travis feel bad though, because it was actually a pretty funny joke. I think that it just was so painful and all when I was stung that I didn't want to get stung by something that huge again, and then with all the frayed nerves I have from the lizard making me jumpy lately, I guess having what I thought was a huge bug thrown at me just made me unravel a bit. Tom asked me a few minutes later...."why did that make you cry?" All I could say was, "You haven't been stung by a scorpion." It is literally like having a needle jabbed into your skin, and then having poison make you sting and throb and hurt constantly in that area for the next two days at least. And right when I first got stung, it made me dizzy too. So I guess it shouldn't be so surprising to me that I cried, but it sort of was over the top for me. Turns out that the bug was just some huge ...what was it? An Egyptian Cricket or something weird like that. I don't remember, and I didn't see it close up after all. Ben, standing across the room, picked it up by its antenna, and the antenna was about 3 and a half to 4 inches long. That should clue you in to its size. YUCK.

By the way, Dana, if you read this......there is a scene in that movie that I wouldn't prefer, but Henry and Tom both covered their eyes or looked away for it, so you should be proud of that. The mark of real men- self control and consideration for how it makes other people (that being us) feel. *wink*

Ok, I need to go check on some clothes in the dryer. Goodnight!
Love,
Me-Han Sebastion (according to Ben)