My love/hate relationship with things that drink blood- July 3, 2010

If I were in a room of 1,000 people, (I guess it’s a big room) and someone released a mosquito, it would find me. Greyson did not believe me when I told him of mosquitos’ affection for me. I had to prove it to him with a photograph of me in college on a week long backpacking trip with more than 125 bites on my body. (Yeah, the group counted them. We were in the woods for a week. It gets boring. Weird stuff happens. And no, I don’t have that picture.)

So the bugs love me. This point was proven again this week when I found a tick on my neck. A tick, ya’ll! Ugghh! My sweet husband got the tweezers and removed this little offender and we saved it in a Ziploc bag.

I couldn’t even look at it. Ewww!

The next morning I immediately called the OB’s office. They said there’s nothing really to do but if I had any symptoms at all to call ASAP. Apparently Lyme disease and other tick borne illnesses are not fetus friendly. Oh, and get this, the next morning that little bugger was STILL ALIVE in the bag even after smooshing it! I can’t wear insect repellent because it has Deet. The Doc said Deet was pretty toxic for the pregnant type. I couldn’t find Deet-free stuff at the drugstore, so I got this little OFF fan thing. I figure as long as I don’t have my face in the fan inhaling the thing, I’m good.

It was just blowing in the other direction, not sure how effective it was on our hike yesterday.

My week with blood suckers continued. But, this time, it was great! So, I’m an almost 29-year-old year old mother-to-be but, I freakin love Twilight. (This isn’t your blog! Don’t judge me!) Anyone who says those books are just for high school girls are insane. Granted, there’s plenty of teen angst to go around in Forks, Washington but, all that vampire lust is worth the whiny rantings of Bella. So, Sara, Colleen, and I got to the theater early to escape life for two hours of vampire-werewolf-adolescent-love-triangle-bliss.

Sorry for the blurry pic, not sure what was up with my phone. It’s a tradition, to take our pic in front of the Twilight movie poster after the movie. (Yes, we have Twilight, and New Moon pics too.)

I’d call the Twilight thing a guilty pleasure, but I really just don’t feel guilty about it. Oh, and the fan wasn’t that great. A mosquito got me anyway. I told you the blood suckers love me.

I only love some of them. Here’s one I could look at all day…..