Friday, April 17, 2009
Of Heebie Jeebies and a Flying Child
Ok. So living in this new house seems to be drawing in some eight legged unwanted guests! I guess with the foundation being 30 years old even though the house is new, these creepy crawlies are starting to make themselves at home! Just in the few days we have been here I have killed 4 spiders already. now that may not seem a lot to you and living in desert area you would come to expect that, but in our other house, which was just up the street, I killed maybe 3 spiders in the 10 months we lived there! So to get to the story... I gave Delia here usual nighttime bath, wrapped her up in a new big, soft towel and took her into her room to rock her and snuggle, something we always have done. When I went to go and prop her head up by my shoulder, what do I see currying from my shoulder down my back?! ....That's right a GIANT spider! about the size of a quarter! Freaking out like I usually do around spiders, especially when they are crawling on me, I toss Delia on the floor, not even thinking as she goes flying through the air (luckily she was not hurt, she had a soft landing) and me frantically brushing the thing off me and running to get a shoe to kill it before is dissappeared!! All Delia did was look at me weird look like "what the heck is wrong with you, seriously" look. Even after the supposed attack of the GIANT spider was over, it still gives me the Heebie Jeebies just thinking about it. If you haven't noticed by now, I have severe Arachnophobia..I have to close my eyes during the spider scene in Harry Potter! I told Christian that we are going to have to get the house sprayed, hopefully within the next year because it is not going to get any better apparently! I would probably consider this close to a near death experience! j/k ;) Well, that's it. Hope you had a good laugh at my expense, and if you too have had a near death experience with an eight legged feind, please do share!
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I hate spiders!!!!! I have been bitten by a few and had reactions to it. So I have a HUGE fear of having spiders on me. I am ok as long as they don't surprise me. I say get your house sprayed as soon as possible and they also have sticky spider traps that you can put behind things as long as they are next to the walls or in the corners. That is where the spiders like to be. Any ways they usually do a really good job. But make sure they are behind things so that Delia doesn't get stuck in them. Good Luck!!!!!
I feel your pain! When Sean and I first moved to Florida, I was just finishing taking a shower, and I reached out and grabbed my towel off the hook, and when I brought it into the shower and began drying myself off, out of it fell a GIANT spider, probably about 3 inches long (the south has not helped my arachnophobia, bugs here are HUGE), and the spider landed on my foot! I ran, screaming and naked into our bedroom, yelling for Sean to go and kill it, which he did. To this day, I shake out my towel before I dry myself off with it!
I'm with you. Spiders are definitely in the near death category. I also fast forward the spider part in Harry Potter. I'm getting the Heebie Jeebies just thinking about it.
Last year I woke up one morning, pulled the covers back, and moved my leg off the side of my bed and WHAM! Ken woke up with me saying "Ow... something just bit or stung me". He jumped up, turned on the light, and there it was... a SCORPION! It stung for about 1/2 an hour and went away. But the horrid part was I had this red mark on the back of my calf for about 2 weeks and the skin died where the venom had entered my skin. Sick... so we were paying for a pest control service to come by monthly and spray but we found the same chemicals used by the companies online and Ken is now our own pest control company. I'll email you the info. BTW your new home is beautiful!!!!
I hate spiders! I freak out anytime I see one! YUCK!
My thing isn't with spiders, it's with cockaroaches!!! They freak me out. That would be so freaky though to catch a glimpse of a huge spider walking along your shoulder!
Yuck! I'm not super scared of spiders but I would freak out if a huge one were crawling on me too! Good luck with those things!
Oh, I did get a good little laugh, but I am truly sorry about the spider problem! I hate them as well-I don't even dare to squash them. My best friend is the vacuum with a long hose attachment! swoosh-it's gone!
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