I think of you everyday . . .

On the evening of Thanksgiving, Jer fell asleep on the couch at about 10:00. I decided to go and get ready for bed before waking him up to move to the bedroom. So, I walk into our master bathroom and spend some time at the sink. I didn't look around. Then I walked over to the medicine cabinet, and the hugest spider I've ever seen outside of a cage was less than five feet away from me!

You have to understand that ever since seeing "Arachnophobia" when I was ten, I've been really really scared of spiders. I'll be brave and kill a spider when I need to, but this thing caused me to hyperventilate! So I ran out to the living room in a state of panic. Poor Jer woke up and didn't know what was going on. He thought I was being dramatic. That is, until he saw it, too.



Jeremy didn't know what to do. He certainly wasn't going to touch this thing, even with several layers of paper towels between him and this monster. So, he grabbed the broom and tried to kill it from a distance. It turns out this thing has size AND speed. I couldn't believe how fast it went. It tried to hide in our linen closet. Jer finally tracked it down and beat it enough that we were sure he was dead. The broom was broken, but we were safe. I went and got the camera and took the shot below. Jer just needed a break!



So, we leave the room to get the huge volume of paper towels we think we need in order to transport this thing outside. We don't want its carcus in our trash. When we get back, we realize that the spider had been faking its own death, and it was now climbing up the wall. Out came the broken broom again, and we smashed that thing to smithereens. Jer took it outside, and even crossed the street before dropping it.



That night all I could dream about was this spider. I was sick that day, so I even had a dream that the spider was really a doctor spider who was just coming by to check on me. Poor spider. Mostly, I dreamed about that thing attacking me or my baby. I was so beside myself. What if I had been home alone with Lex? I would have had to kill it on my own.



In the two months since then, every time I walk into that bathroom I look to the exact spot where that darn spider was, half expecting him or family member to be waiting to attack me.



Please don't let this deter you from visiting Florida. We do have pest control. This was a one-time occurence. Or so I keep telling myself . . .