We’re in complete disbelief. More ice is on it’s way. ICE! On it’s way!!! How can this be? It’s a complete freak show in our house right now … people scurrying around trying to figure out the best things to do with all this electricity we have on hand right now. Should we vacuum? Should we just turn on every light in the house so we can remember what it’s like to be in bright light? Should we blog? Craft? Play video games? What’s the best thing to do with what could possibly be the last bit of power we have for a while?
We’ve got cell phones charging and laundry in the dryer and all fingers and toes crossed hoping that it just misses us this time. Wish it would miss everyone but that’s not looking like it’s going to be the case. Unfortunately.
So if it appears that I fall off the face of the earth again (and who would notice at the rate I’ve been blogging) … well … you’ll know the ice could be to blame … or it could be that I’m just still a lame blogger … in which case maybe I should be vacuuming right now instead of rambling on and on in this post … but since I’ve started with the rambling bit … I shall continue.
In more exciting news … I had an encounter with the hugest spider I’ve ever seen in my life today … while at a client’s house. That’s tricky. I’m sitting there in this beautifully finished basement (the last place on earth you would expect to see the creature I encountered) sorting through some papers. All of a sudden, out of the corner of my eye, I see something move swiftly. Very swiftly. I hop up and then peer cautiously around the corner … expecting to see a small bug of some sort. But instead … I see the hugest spider I’ve ever seen in my entire life and I’m completely terrified of spiders. Here’s the huge victory … I didn’t scream! Nope … not a peep. (HUGE victory.) Instead I said “Uh, do you have any bug spray?”
My client who had gone upstairs sensed the terror in my voice and sent in her son to … uh … take care of the furry (huge) fellow. Whew. He said it was a wolf spider … do a Google if you want to see one. It’d be the big furry one. (Her son said it looked like a small tarantula … I would have to agree.) I was going to include a link … but really … you probably don’t want to see it if you’re a spider phobe. And if you’re not you’re probably mad at me for having it … uh … taken care of. I’m sorry. It was really scary.
OK … clearly I have better things to do than to freak you out about spiders. But just one last rhetorical question before I go. How can I encounter a spider and an ice storm in the SAME DAY?
So, do you live in central IL because we were threatened with ice also. Didn’t get it, thank goodness. Oh, I’m a lurker if you hadn’t noticed.
Do you want me to send you a pic of the scary spider I encountered when taking out the trash? I am not a bug-shrieker, but I shrieked. I had NO idea that tarantulas really DO live in the great outdoors……
Aby, I seriously screamed FOR you when seeing a picture of that spider.
I am incredible impressed that you not only didn’t scream but didn’t jump up on her furniture and cry like a baby (which is exactly what I wanted to do when I saw the PICTURE!)
I recently discovered we have brown recluse spiders in our backyard – so now I have almost confined myself to the house until we can get an exterminator out here…
I know spiders are important and all… but really, can’t they live a little further away?
Christall
I lived in this apartment on the lake’s edge in college and we had those spiders everywhere! I literally had to go home and live with my parents, that is how scared I was of those things!
*chill* bad memories!
Sherry
Aby,
You can blame me for the ice…I prayed and prayed that God would just make this stuff move East, and I guess he did…although we were a balmy -2 (yes -2, not just 2) this morning, and we’re getting up to 9 today! FUN! Anyway it’s not just snow this time, it’s freezing drizzle. Don’t you just hate it when the weather casters predict freezing drizzle? I don’t care how good your tires are, nothing drives on ice! So I feel very bad for you. I’ll say a prayer that you don’t lose power again, and next time I’ll pray that this stuff just moves North instead of East!
Sorry I haven’t responded to your email, it’s just been crazy. And yes, we’ve been ok, but I have been stuck in the house more days than I can remember. I’ve felt so claustrophobic, that even I drove around in it, and I won’t even get in the car if there is ANYTHING on the ground, much less drive anywhere! But at least we weren’t stuck without power or possibly worse, stuck at the airport like those poor people at Christmas. After seeing what they went through, I won’t ever complain about a delayed flight again!
I’ll email and catch up soon. In the meantime, I’m sending warm vibes your way…as warm a vibe as I can send when the temperature is 9. But, hey, the sun is out today, and even though it’s 9, when the sun is out it feels like 19…very nice!
Happy Saturday!
Lisa
Hi! I just signed up for your bucket class on BPSB. I haven’t had time to get started yet, but am so excited about the help it will bring me. I have some big time goals to get my life more simplified and under control. And I think this class will help me get focused.
From there I found your blog. I read your story about spiders. LOL! I was reminded of a neighbor I once had who was a police man with a spider phobia. His story goes…
He was at a friends house taking a shower and encountered one of the furry creatures. He yelled to his friend that there was a spider in the bathroom and his friend said to kill it. He said, you don’t understand…He’s BIG! His friend said just kill it! So he pulled out his gun and shot it.
:-O
Holy cow! Wolf spiders really are huge…I can’t believe you didn’t scream! I like spiders, but even I would have screamed if I saw one of those next to me:):)
Yikes. I am normally not afraid of spiders but I encountered one several years ago in the basement in my bedroom and screamed for help. The bug spray did not kill it and what was worse, I was coughing from the fumes.
Ice-ick!We have had our share of strange weather out here on the West coast and we are just skating with our cars with the ice. Luckily, we had not had trees in our neighbourhood come down. We have had storm after storm hit us which never happens here.
Now off to organize…or attempt…I wish you were here to come and organize for me!
Ice and spiders…not a good combination. Hope you’re surviving!