{"id":240,"date":"2007-07-01T09:32:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T14:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=240"},"modified":"2007-07-01T09:32:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T14:32:17","slug":"my-brush-with-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kaitlyn-marsue.net\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"My Brush with Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pool is blue (finally not green) and the weather is hot (hello, it’s finally summer)… so this afternoon we had friends over to go for a swim. Everyone tried to get me to go in… but I wasn’t buying it. Kaitlyn was so cold I swear her lips were turning blue. They tried to convince me the pool was \u0093refreshing\u0094… but I’m not stupid. I could see them shivering and hear their teeth chattering. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Instead of going in the water, I decided it would be safe enough to sit in one of our lounge chairs and lounge with a glass of wine. Todd sat out there for hours and never once did I see him flail his arms and scream because of a bug.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We don’t know why, but suddenly our yard is the place to be for flies of all sizes. Especially big. I now understand that a horse fly has nothing to do with a horse… it’s simply that darn big.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So I’m sitting on the lounge chair when I feel a bug on my leg. I figured it was one of the massive flies that won’t leave us alone, so I swatted it away. That was when I realized I had mindlessly risked life and limb. That was no fly. It was a wasp. I screamed and made someone else stomp it out with her shoe. (well, it was already mad at me!)<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My leg hurts a little bit. Bill says I didn’t get stung. Maybe not. But that wasp did something to me. It bit me or it brushed me with it’s stinger as I was flipping it away.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He says I should now be less afraid of them. I faced one. I’m undecided. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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