Last week hubbie and I had turned in for the night.  LF was in her crib sleeping.  Hubbie and I were laying there watching television and he fell asleep.  I continued watching whatever it was we were watching.  Out of nowhere hubbie woke up out of a dead sleep flipping out and flailing his arms and hands about around his head.  He was specifically flitting his ears.  I pulled away from him not knowing what the heck was going on.  It is a secret fear of mine that while I’m asleep a spider will crawl in my mouth so I could only imagine a spider had started to build a home in hubbie’s ear and that’s why he was freaking out.  After assuring my safety from the situation, I asked hubbie what was wrong.  But before he could answer I was overwhelmed with a smell like no other I had smelled ever.  It was horrid and awful and I had to pull the covers up over my nose to shield my overly sensitive nose which makes me feel nauseous and makes my throat close up when I smell an unpleasant odor.  When we were able to compose ourselves from the hysteria, hubbie was able to tell me that it was a lady bug that had crawled into his ear while he was sleeping.  Apparently a ladybugs self defense mechanism is to emit the most God awful odor from its little crunchy body.  Words can not properly convey how terrible this smell was.  Please go piss off a ladybug and find out exactly what I’m talking about.  Messing with the adorable little red bugs with cute little black spots yields a result of nasal torture.  We’ve had lady bugs living in our house since we moved in.  My sister had the same problem in her house that she built in Pennsylvania years ago.  Our problem is not nearly as bad but these little bugs piss the heck out of hubbie and make the dog puke when he eats them, now I know why he’s puked for the past few years after eating a lady bug.  It’s because the lady bug odor is so nasty, he had no choice.  I would’ve puked too.  Thank goodness this scenario didn’t play out when I was pregnant.