The Ants Come Marching

After I made my post last week, I realized that I left out a couple of things that happened. So, instead of editing last week's post, I decided to save them in my noggin and share them with you all this week.

Since it's Spring, the weather has been getting a little warmer in New York and whenever that happens we start to get black carpenter ants around the house. I don't know where they come from, they must have a colony somewhere nearby. I don't love that they're around, and this year they came earlier than normal, but I prefer them over the teeny tiny ants because I feel like those guys usually travel in packs so it feels more like an infestation. Anyways, this is all just context for something else. So last week, I woke up one morning and went down to the kitchen to eat breakfast. I put my bowl of whatever in the microwave and then all of a sudden the microwave sparks like it blew a fuse. I got scared because I thought I had just broken our microwave and when I opened it, it spelled like burning plastic (so I was pretty sure I messed it up). Then my dad came into the kitchen so I told him about the spark, which he was relatively unconcerned about. And then he was like well we can test it out again because I have some coffee that I want to heat up, meanwhile I'm all worried that we're going to blow the thing up. So he puts his coffee in the machine and I went to go do something else. When he was done he comes and tells me that the microwave seemed to be okay but that when he put his coffee in the machine he had noticed this black crumb in it. And that when he went to pick up the crumb he realized it was an ant. So we came to the conclusion that the sparking sound had something to do with the ant. I don't know if I accidentally zapped him (would it make that noise though if I did?) or if he messed around with something inside the microwave but the noise hasn't happened since.

Also, the other day me and my brother were watching this ant crawl up our living room wall but it was too high to get so we just left it. And then as soon as it climbed onto the ceiling it fell from the ceiling and onto our couch. I don't remember if you guys remember this but that's exactly what happened to me last time with that water bug in my room (except that was more traumatic). And I'm just curious as to why these bugs go onto ceilings if they know they can't hang on? I just don't get it.

The other thing that happened last week was somehow my family and I started talking about this toy robot we've had since my brother and I were kids. His name is Ready Freddy and he lives in the basement. He's a talking robot and we like to joke that one day we'll go to take out his batteries and there will be no batteries in him because he's kinda spooky. Sometimes he just starts talking even when no one presses his buttons. I wanted to take a picture of him for you guys but I thought that might be disrespectful to him (wouldn't want him to get angry ya know), so y'all will just have to imagine him. But anyways, we ended up looking up how much he's worth cause we've had him for over a decade and apparently he's worth like $200. But, I told my parents we can't sell him because I think he'll get mad at us.

This week it's mostly been more of the same. I learned from one of my class readings that bees aren't supposed to be able to fly like scientifically and was amazed. Then, I realized that they say that in the bee movie and then I looked it up and found out that that fact is actually false lol. I feel like that sums up my week pretty well. Besides that, I've been watching the Harry Potter movies with my brother. We're on number six. They're still so good. Also, I'm excited to start the theme thing that Naoni came up with next week. I think it'll be fun.