Weird and Gross

Weird News Everybody,

You may be wondering why I posted this undramatic photo of my shower head. Well, there is an interesting story behind it, and I will get to that in a little bit.

First, I want to talk about the fun things that happen to you, when you are an artist. (Disclaimer: The picture below is not for the weak of stomach.) The beginning of last week I was working on some mailers I was sending out to a few galleries. In the process of working, I was getting tried and sloppy. It was about 1 am and my husband had fallen asleep on the couch. I was busy working away on printing and cutting down paper. When all of a sudden I looked away from what I was cutting and "OUCH"! I forgot to mention that I was cutting down the paper with a ruler and xacto knife. I jumped up and ran to the bathroom, putting pressure on my index finger. For the first time in my life I started to get faint and thought I was going to black out. I gently work my husband up and he help with the medical proceedings after that. Over the next first hours I tried to woke on my mailers and was able to finish most of them; however, I almost faint three time during the night. I have had surgeries and even stitches in my face and nothing hurt like trying to decapitate your own finger. Needless to say that is the reason why I have been very slow to finish the paintings I am currently working on. And hopefully everyone will over look are any errors. I have had minimum use of my left hand.

Well, enough with this gross story I will move on to the one behind the shower head. As my post mentioned yesterday we went to Yellowstone over the weekend and we were only gone for 3 days; which makes this story more weird. . .

Recently, we have been having a small sugar ant problem in our apartment. We have had quite a few in our kitchen, but that is understandable. Our apartment was built in the 1950's and as such we haven't really had to many problems with it. I have also seen one or two ants in the bathroom, but I never worried about them until now. Last, night I climbed into the shower and turn the tub faucet on the get the water temperature right. After doing so I reached forward and turned the shower head on. In doing so I received a shower not of water of pleasant warm water, but of tiny black sugar ants. I jumped out of the way and first thought it was dirt or something. But no, it wasn't. It was hundreds of ants and upon closer investigation larva. The crazy thing is that this colony all happened within the 3 days we were gone.

Well, there you have it a week in my life. Finger decapitation, Trips to Yellowstone, and home again for a lovely ant shower.