4.28.2003
ick!
ok, so let me preface this story by telling you just how much i hate spiders. i hate spiders... like, they make my skin crawl to the point where i want to take a shower in boiling water and scrub my entire body with a brillo pad. since moving into our new house, we've had some pretty nasty spiders in the basement - and we expected that since we disturbed so much land and such in the building process. but these are not spiders like i'm used to seeing. growing up, we always had those wispy daddy-long-legs-y spiders that hang out in corners with dust bunnies. but the ones we have are big, fat, crunchy, black spiders that i'm pretty sure could come out on top in a fight with a small rodent.
anyway, we (adam) killed them as we (i) saw them, and we've only come across two or three in the past few months. however, i knew this was too good to last. with spring finally arriving, we were bound to see more (ah, the joys of living in the woods).
and so today when adam and i got home (we drove in to work together today because my car got a flat yesterday; long story - yet another joy of living in the woods) and i spotted this nasty spider on the side of the house by our door. after a stifled whimper, i asked adam to kill it. as he walked over toward it, i saw another one on the other side of the door. this is where the real horror began. as i looked around, there were spiders everywhere. i mean, fucking everywhere. there must have been at least fifteen spiders on just that small side of the house. i just about lost it. i am so incredibly grossed out i can't even explain it.
so i have barricaded myself in the house, and if i start seeing them in here, i'm moving in to a damned hotel. alright, so maybe that's a little drastic, but i cannot express to you how disgusted i am.
if anyone has any good spider-exterminating ideas, let me know. in the meantime, i'm going to be scouting out all of the corners and hiding places. this is my house and they are simply not welcome.
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