I was going to blog about my plans for Sunshined.org’s new layout, but something actually happened today that was far more interesting than what color palettes I thought looked nice, or whether I was going to use Georgia as a body font for the layout. (I’ll save that for the next post…)

Today, while I was calmly fiddling with Photoshop on my laptop, I heard an odd buzzing noise above me. No, it wasn’t the whooshing sound you hear electric fans make. Nor was it the soft humming of my laptop fan. It was a buzzing, yucky, twitchy noise. The kind that makes you cringe a little.

And whaddayaknow, flying above me was a bug! Not just any bug, but one that looked like a cross between a stick bug and a mosquito. Does that make any sense? Actually… maybe it WAS a mosquito and I was just in denial.

Well whatever it was, as with any kind of insect, I freaked out. It was all twitchy and I was all staring at it, frozen.

Once I unfroze, first thing I did was dim my laptop screen so that it wouldn’t hover around me. But that was pointless because the “thing” looked a bit trippy. It seemed as though someone had already tried killing it. That didn’t make it any less dangerous, right? Anyway, next I took the one thing all bugs are afraid of: my mom’s pink house slipper.

I took a couple of throws at it with the slipper (I was too scared to get any closer). And a couple more after that. But unfortunately, luck wasn’t with me and my aims were pretty shabby to say the least. But it DID sense the slipper’s presence and flew to the next wall which was in a better position. So as quietly as I could (do they have ears?) I went a bit closer, and threw the darn slipper like I was playing some crazy game of shot put.

Instead of crushing the bug like it was supposed to, the stupid slipper went here instead:

Just goes to show how good my aim is.

Oh, and no, I didn’t end up killing the thing. I need some more practice…