Monster Hunting and Other Girl Things

Good morning! My plans got a bit derailed this morning. I woke to a dark shadow in the corner of my room. It was too big to be a spider. Too many legs. Body long and curved. I hesitated to focus on it, willing it to be a dark stain or something. But. 

Deep down I already knew. It was one of those things. A freaking humongous centipede. I continued to lay there for a bit, contemplating all the life choices I made that bought me to this moment. That wink in time where I share a low ceiling room with a miniature monster. 

Then I got myself together and left the bed to turn on the light. Steve had actually got me a bug spray before he left, which I found under the bathroom sink while I was looking for some generic cleaning spray to kill it with. Safe to say I sprayed it relentlessly. When it dropped to the floor I kept spraying. There was a trail of white liquid from too much spray leading to the final resting place it had dragged its many legged body to. Goodbye monster bug. May your kind never be spotted in my bedroom again. 

I got about seven strips of kitchen paper to gather the deceased. I put the tissue in a bag and sealed it shut. Then I threw the bag away in another bag and the deed was done. 

Things carried on as normal after that, though everything felt surreal and I was greatly shooketh deep down. Look, I know these little critters might be common in Ontario or Canada as a whole, but I’m from the UK, and anytime I see a bug that big, unless its a cute dragonfly, I get freaked out. All things considered, I think I handled it well. I’ve come a long way from my teen years where I would have just shrieked like a psycho. 

It was actually my year living alone in Prague that really made me get over my hyper-sensitivity to bugs. Ah, I still remember the pivotal moment. Waking up in the middle of the night and seeing a spider on your pillow, bare millimetres from your eye, and still not getting freaked out because the exam you have that next day is even more stressful – that really does something to a person. Puts things in perspective.

Anywho, I’m at the library now. I’ve got with me a thermos full of the coffee I made this morning at home with my new espresso machine. It’s great, but I’m still all out of cream. I’ll need to buy some later today. For now, I’m going to update my weekly to-do list, then read the syllabus for my next NCA exam. I’ve actually got two exam coming up, so I’ll be studying both concurrently. I’m pretty sure Canadian Law will need the most of my attention, so I’m doing that one last.

Let me just update my weekly to-do, then we’ll get onto studying. Ciao for now!

4:11PM, Mum’s House

Good afternoon! I finished my study tasks. They weren’t that many today but I wanted to ease my way back into studying after a period of absence. I went to Loblaws afterwards to get some cream, and ended up getting some fresh basil and chives too because the herbs were all on sale for a dollar! Can you believe that? I also got some ricotta and spinach ravioli to have today. Then I went to mum’s place to hang out with her, Biscuit and sis for a bit. 

They were excited to tell me how they went to their gym for the first time today. I stayed and made my ravioli lunch here (added some of the cream and basil I bought too, also cut some leftover chicken schnitzel mum had in the fridge for some protein) so I’ve pretty much had my breakfast, lunch and dinner in one. It was a quite a heavy meal, but I still managed some homemade banana bread as dessert afterward. My sister baked it last night and is was delicious. She’s a decent baker. Suspicious. 

I checked my old bookshelf while I was here and grabbed a couple of my legal textbooks to take back to my new place, but I didn’t see any Mandala colouring books. I thought I had some. Hmm. Shame. I wanted to try my new Muji colouring pencils. Oh well! I think I’ve got a set of five Mandala books at our cottage but I’ll have to wait till the next time we head up there to retrieve them. Or, I could use this as an excuse to go to Indigo and buy a new colouring book. Hehe. We’ll see. 

I suppose I should go home now but my place  is much dimmer than here. As in, it doesn’t get as much natural light, and natural light is soooo important to me. That’s not a new preference of mine. Natural light has always been a necessity to me. No idea why. Even at work I would only want an office with big windows. I would literally manifest it. It doesn’t matter for now, I suppose. My new place isn’t my forever home. It’s just a rental I’m using to have some more space for myself. Plus, my landlord is lovely. 

You know what? I’ll head home now. I’ve got dishes in the sink I could wash. I should hoover the house. Plus some errands I’ve been putting off. For example,  I want to clean the shower. Which means I’ll then need to take a shower. Then organise my gym bag. Organise my desk, etc. Sigh. I’m such a home body though. Specifically, a homebody for my mums house. I just want to stay here. But I’ve got several missions now. Let’s go!