October 13, 2012
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aaahhhh!!
This is what I spied upon my bed this morning!
Yup. I screamed. Like a girl.
One of the kids at school (and adorable little child who has discovered that I blush when I laugh, so he tries to make me laugh all the time) found a spider picture in a book he was reading and wanted to know what kind it was. I actually was successful discovering its identity on the computer. Wolf spider, for the record. So now I’m the expert on finding species names of random animals. The boys are constantly showing me pictures.
I guess I’ll be looking up this menacing sucker when my heart rate gets back to normal.
Comments (73)
OMG, I would be right there with you dear. eeekssss
and yet, she managed to take a photo
oxooooooooo
@Bels_Kaylar - you crack me up. spidey wasn’t moving. also, it wasn’t on my side of the bed.
@olwd - big enough to haul away a cat. ha ha.
@promisesunshine - good point; make the cave man drag it out
after you take a pic.
The pic makes it look so small. Every so often we’ll have one about that size perhaps a bit larger run across the floor and I’ll yelp and jump up on the nearest counter or desk. Jason will come running in and ask what, what? He’s done figured it out now that if I’m up on the furniture or kitchen counter that It’s not sex I’m looking for, it’s a spider. LOL
@olwd - omg. that was funny! ‘no, dear, not that, but kill the d… spider, and maybe
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@Bels_Kaylar - Well “maybe” later that night, but once a spider, it takes a while for me to even think of having . . . “that”. lol
@olwd - ha ha! dang. that made me laugh. i don’t scream about itty bitty spiders. i might exaggerate. you know.
@Bels_Kaylar - of course.
@olwd - heh. understood
@promisesunshine - No, lil ones I’ve got the gumption to take care of them myself. It’s the larger ones, like about the size of a quarter or half dollar. Those are the screamers, yelpers, or whatever it takes to get his attention.
@Bels_Kaylar -
@promisesunshine - @olwd - heh. when i lived in san.fran., i had friends, a gay couple, that had a tarantula as a pet. they had a lot of interesting pets. they gave me one of their boas. a real one (not the feather kind. they weren’t those kind of guys
@Bels_Kaylar - i don’t like spiders and snakes.
@olwd - little ones. oh. i need to stop that train of thought.
@promisesunshine - LOL, *wondering which train she got on this morning?* HMMMMM
@olwd - your fault.
LOL! That time of year for the critters to find someplace warm and toasty.
@songoftheheart - yup. we’ve had all kinds of wildlife this week.
@Bels_Kaylar - Tarantula, YIKKKKKEESSSS. That is just too big. Makes me think of that commercial where a girl and a guy were sitting in their living room and she sees this lil spider, so the guy goes over to whack it with a rolled up newspaper and all of a sudden the spider grabs the newspaper and flips the guy over on to the floor a couple of times. A big one like a tarantula would make me want to move away.
Oh and Ditto on snakes, no way, no how. Wait, what kind of couple are they? You said gay, my idea of a boa, that isn’t a snake it like them feathery scarf like things. I’m picturing a pink frilly one. lol
@promisesunshine - My fault? No way!?!
@promisesunshine - you’ll love this; one of the friends said, and it turned out to be kinda true: snakes or this boa, anyway, was like a cat without legs
@olwd - the mind does enjoy the fertile land with a train track . what the heck am i saying?
@Bels_Kaylar - still creepy. just saying
@promisesunshine -
Where are you going with that?
@olwd - i has naughty mind.
@promisesunshine - Join the club dear, but still was lost, less you were thinking of guys, but not sure how that could be when spiders was the subject. LOL
@olwd - heh. that’s why i made sure you knew i meant the real animal, not the feather thing. but yeah, they were guys. with a very interesting apartment, full of critters
@Bels_Kaylar - Right, but they were gay right. I’m sure one of them had a pink boa somewhere in their closet. lol So what did you do with the REAL BOA? You can’t possibly be a girl if you like snakes? lol Are you?
The screaming didn’t scare it off?
@leaflesstree - not at all.
When my wife notices a spider on the ceiling, it kills the mood of the moment.
I was bitten by a black widow spider in my 20′s and still have the surgical scars from all of the lancing—I hate spiders and scream like a girl.
frank
@olwd - yes, i’m anatomically female. i think erika_steele posted that test re how one skewed mentally, whether male or female. i’m right in the middle
yes, i kept the boa, as a pet. and my dear, just because both guys were gay, does not mean either was into the femme thing, like feather boas. granted, one was definitely the nurturing one, and the other was the one that would throw you up against the wall, if that was called for. but both dressed very male. 
@ANVRSADDAY - this is why i don’t wear glasses to bed.
@Bels_Kaylar - ooh. i’d like to take that test. i hypothesize that i’m in the middle too.
@ANVRSADDAY - OMG, that sounds painful.
@Bels_Kaylar - hehe, I guess it is quite apparent I don’t have any gay friends. A few Bi ones though
My mindset is that gay people are two guys, whereas two bi people are two girls.
I wonder if I’m on the right train here . . .
@promisesunshine - http://personality-testing.info/tests/BSRI.php (when she linked it, it was called the Berne Sex Role Inventory) i think i hear a blog coming…
(yours,not mine. i’m still trying to fini the writing prompts before they finish me.)
@olwd - uh, not exactly
but, that could just be the effect of your experience, of who you know. i.e. the girls might very well be bi, or they might be strictly lesbian, and only interested in women. men are bi, when interested in either gender, too.
@Bels_Kaylar - Wow, Xanga can be educational!
Oh they’re bi, since they’re married. But then again . . . hehehe
@Bels_Kaylar - writing prompts. dang. i should play with that today. right after i do ever other darn thing i need to do today (once i start on that list). thanks for link. no post about that coming up.
@olwd - heh. i enjoy xanga for that very thing, the bright and beautiful ones
like our sunny-shoed one, here. <3
@Bels_Kaylar - Agreed, on both counts.
@Bels_Kaylar - today i’m girly. must be the spider incident.
for gosh sakes, i’m sitting right here.
@promisesunshine - silly. go take the test and then we’ll talk about girls
@promisesunshine - lol
@olwd - My leg was paralyzed for two weeks. I saw the doctor daily including Saturdays and Sundays. He chagred me $20 for all the treatment. lol
OMG, that is scary. What part of the world did you live in at the time?
Only $20 for the entire process? Oh wait, this was when you were 20 years old?
@Bels_Kaylar - i did take the test. i’m girly.
Eeeew! Yeah, I’d be screaming too. Luckily I’ve now got the courage the smash the living daylights out of spiders in my room. My bulky iPod does the job well.
@promisesunshine - well, there you go. that explains those shoes
(i’m teasing! oxoooooooooo)
@Marica0701 - we had to relocate him. (so he can come back in)
@Bels_Kaylar - what a great idea!! i’m going to go to goodwill, buy some man shoes to paint. i may even do this today. might even be worth taking a shower and dressing for the day. ha.
@promisesunshine -
YIKES!!! Thanks for totally creeping me out this morning. Now I’m searching my little apartment for possibilities considering I ran into a spider web coming out of the bedroom this morning. These guys are very prevalent in Cali and particularly in the desert. I think it’s all those eyes on their heads that make my skin crawl. Well… that and the fact that they can move faster than any spider I’ve ever seen. I make sure to shake out shoes and clothes before putting anything on and keep a pretty close eye on my front room since they seem to come in through the front door.
@MzSilver - sorry about that.
Should I scream at the vagina or the spider?
OMG Carrie! I will wake the neighbourhood with my screams if ever I found something that looked like that on my bed. I will never go to that bed again to sleep in it. OMG! You cannot see the goose bumps I have on my arms.
@ZSA_MD - i was glad to be vertical at the time. i’m putting it out of my mind. i don’t what i was thinking putting it in to everyone else’s. i’m just not nice today. i’ll put something up more pleasing soon. but not real soon.
@PrisonerxOfxLove - whichever scares you most
@promisesunshine - Let…me…think…
@PrisonerxOfxLove - one of them is a registered democrat.
I have never seen so much conversation about a (as you call them) random insect! All I know is that it is good to avoid at all cost the brown recluse. People die from their bites. http://www.brownreclusespider.org/
@vexations - it’s my incredible popularity that makes the topic fascinating. i’m kidding, of course. it’s because i’m silly. following link to see if my spidey friend was a brown recluse. not likely.
Eh! I thought you were a girl!
@promisesunshine - That would make the vagina an affront to mother nature.
And you do a great job looking up the names of creatures. (Like ny butterfly) I woulda screamed like a girl too. Amazing how the small can scare/frighten us…
I would’ve screamed too
Eeek!
I don’t like spiders. At all.
spiders and snakes of any size turn me into a world class sprinter
Apparently spiders in general are more scared of us than we are of them.
I have arachnophobia. I won’t kill them, but they really freak me out. Your post reminded me of this movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1WhVnLahvM