ninja spider

[potato_head]

Okay so first of all yesterday was such crap, you guys.

I have some low iron issues going on right now. Last week it manifested as me getting dizzy spells all over the place, but I thought I took care of that. Then yesterday I got a terrible headache and was really hungry and eating wasn't actually helping, and eventually I figured out maybe it was the iron problems again? and after having a headache pretty much all day was able to get it to back off a bit by eating a shrimp and broccoli stir-fry. And then I had some Whonu's (they're like oreos but they have a ton of nutrients added to them) for the iron and vitamin C (which helps you absorb iron) which helped A LOT. And in retrospect I was actually in a pretty bad way. Because I hadn't realized how bad my vision had gone (I woke up yesterday barely able to really see) until after I started digesting the first cookie.

Anywaysss, ummm...thing about the Whonus is I really shouldn't be eating them, because (as I keep forgetting) I've got some sort of allergy to the black food coloring they use in oreos, and also in these. When I first bought them I ate like half the box in one go because they are tasty (better than oreos!) and then was SO ILL the next day. Not intolerance sort of ill, I know what that's like. I was weak, feverish, and fairly disoriented. It passed though. I didn't eat that much this time - only a little over a serving (three cookies) - and seem to be okay, although I can tell my insides are a bit irritated/gummed-up, which happens pretty much immediately. I am going to have a few more before class though, just in case, and then after class am going to CVS to pick up some vitamins and iron supplements that I am not allergic to.


Also, weird fucking ninja spider: this actually happened over the weekend, but it was so ughhh that I have to share. So in my parents' house we have yellow sac spiders, right. They don't make webs, they wander around at night and hunt their prey like little wolves or something. And during the day they make little cocoons out of their webbing to hide and sleep in.

So I go into the bathroom, and glance at the toilet paper...the bottom square is partly torn off, and folded over itself, and there is A SPIDER SLEEPING IN THERE. FML. SPIDER, THAT IS NOT WHERE YOU BELONG. WHAT IF I HADN'T LOOKED FIRST AMKFDMSFKSMFKS

I gently removed the spider-nest paper and dropped it on the floor, because apparently I am some kind of saint and don't squish sleeping spiders.



ALSO ALSO, there's been some weird shit going down. Most of it happened to Paige and Nikka at parents' house though, so I'll update you guys this weekend when I've got there and can talk to her about it/scope out the situation. In the meantime, does anybody know of any animals in the MA area that make a sound that sounds like a pissed-off monkey scream? My thoughts are fox and fisher cat, but it was WAY too loud to be a fox IME, and fisher cats usually make more of a crying sound.



ETA I learned things today!

1. Iron supplements do not come in chewable form. Probably because your daily dose of iron in a little supplement tastes pretty bad.
2. If a tablet is not meant to be chewable, do not try to chew it anyway.

Comments

[sugar-for-sugar.livejournal.com]

My first thought re: pissed off monkey scream was raccoon, they can make some BIZARRE noises that are also hella LOUD, when they're fighting.

Sorry for your health misadventures! But I'm glad you worked out what was going on. I hope good things for your tum in future. <3

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

Raccoon! That seems pretty likely. They're oddly rare around here, which would explain why I had no idea they could make sounds like that.

[velum-cado.livejournal.com]

Oh god, spiders! D: We had this HUGE cellar spider in our bathroom recently and he (I've decided it was a he) was the most useless creature ever. I saved the life of the ridiculous thing no fewer than three times in one day.

1. He couldn't climb out of the tub because it was too slippy. I scoop him up in a plastic tub and deposit him on the wall.
2. He had gone back into the tub, was covered in old bubbles and looked dead. He started wiggling his legs when I turned the shower on, but he was definitely in bad shape. So I scooped him up on a piece of paper and left him on the bathroom floor to dry out and recover.
3. He was BACK in the tub, so I scooped him up and put him out in the hallway in the corner.

The last time I saw him he was on the wall, heading for the bathroom. Spider, if you die this time it's your own stupid fault. I usually kill them indiscriminately, but I have a soft spot for this one because he seems unusually daft.

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

Oh god, poor cellar spider. We used to have a pair of them that lived on the ceiling over the shower, they're generally not the brightest creatures...I'm not even sure how they survived for so long, there really aren't enough insects in our second-floor bathroom to sustain two spiders. The yellow sacs all go down into the basement/walls to find food at night. But the steam seems to attract the cellar spiders for some reason.

[portraitofafool.livejournal.com]

What about screech owls? They don't make me think of monkeys, but that may be a matter of perception, too. However, they are LOUD and will scare the ever-loving shit out of you. Also, mating barn owls or something of the sort... had a pair of them courting outside my bedroom windows a couple of weeks ago. While they may've been "making time" with each other, they gave me the worst case of the heebie jeebies I have had in a long time. It was too damned creepy for words. Finally, coyotes, if you have them. The countryside here is rife with the beasties and the range of sounds they make is really extraordinary. Even used to them as I am, they can still come up with something to startle me.

And that is all for my wildlife special.

Lol @ toilet paper spider. No, they do not go there and what an awfully unpleasant surprise that would've been. Ewww. :(

Iron stuff is shit, sorry that's going on. I eat red meat (dunno if you do?) and that tends to help if I'm feeling kind of yucky.

[poto-heart.livejournal.com]

We have plenty of coyotes, and I know all their noises - Tripper chases them off our property regularly. This definitely wasn't a coyote.

Might have been an owl...but whatever it was tried to (very ineptly, apparently) attack/fight with our cat. I don't think that's typical behavior for owls? Raccoon seems more likely.

I eat red meat sometimes - I don't digest it very well (no gallbladder). I would have had some for this, though, but there's none available on campus, except in the form of hamburgers, which pretty much do nothing but make me sick, and considering it's school food, are probably like 50% soy (not that there's anything wrong with soy, but AFAIK it's not exactly known for its iron content). But I get most of my protein, iron, etc. from seafood and occasionally pork, which are luckily available in stir fry form here c: