I HATE spiders. Ever since I was a girl and a spider egg sack hatched in my open window, delivering hundreds of itty bitty spiders right above my poor little reading-in-bed-really-late-at-night face, I have hated them. (I sprayed an entire can of Raid in my room that night. I couldn't even go in there for days afterwards because it smelled so bad). And that movie--Arachnophobia, that came out when I was a kid--scariest movie ever. At least, that's how it seemed to my 10 year old self.
Anyways, back to the spider issue. I have found FOUR spiders in my bathroom in the last few days! A couple of days ago, I was about to step into the shower when a big ugly black spider jumped out at me from the drain. I made Kevin kill that one. Then, a few seconds later, I found ANOTHER spider on the shower curtain (I killed that one myself)! This one was light brown and smaller. Then, the next day there was a long spindly spider on the wall by the toilet (also killed by me). And today when I went to take my shower, there was another furry black spider in the tub! (Not quite as big this time though). What is going on? Did the Spider Association of America decide my privy would be the location for this year's annual convention? Now, I know spiders are helpful for killing bugs that get in the house, so I'm not on any crusade to go out and find them all, but they darn well better stay FAR away from me (and my bathroom) if they want to live another day.
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Ewwww!!! I watched that movie for the first time in the town that it was filmed in. YIKES! But spiders I can handle--it's COCKROACHES that freak me out. Good luck with your privy spiders. Time for another bottle of Raid, huh?
I only looked at the picture on your blog (didn't read anything yet) and just shuddered. I honestly didn't have problems with spiders growing up. But South America changed that for me. And now I'm on your level of paranoia.
But here's the thing that made my nervousness into a full fledged neuroses: They follow me. I am NOT making that up. If there is a spider to be found, it will be 2 feet or closer to me. OR it will crawl up my hand while I'm on the phone with a client. Or crawl inside my mosquito netting and try to sleep in my bed with me all night with the netting tucked in around me. Or it will be on the door knob to my HOUSE and refusing to let me get inside and get the bug spray because every time I try to get close to knock it away, it rears up on its hind legs and sticks its too front legs in the air in its "fighting" stance. If that is its defense supposed to scare away predictors, well, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!! I'M PROPERLY SCARED OF YOU! IT WORKS!
Ugh, I'm crawling just thinking about it. I need to go to the store and buy some more bug spray now.
I can't say I love spiders, either, and I'd have to say that all those different kinds of spiders hanging out in your bathroom would definitely make me nervous. We get them in our basement in the summer, but that's the basement in the summer! Totally different than a bathroom. Yikes. And one was hairy?? Yikes again!
I remember thinking Arachnophobia was probably the scariest movie ever made, too. Never did see it. And I'm okay with that.
Mindy, I miss you! What are you up to? Can we get another blog update?? :-)
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