My biggest fear is spiders…don’t ask me why.  I HATE them.  They freak me out and they never fail to make me jump at the site of them.  I’ve always been deathly afraid of them and I don’t really have a traumatic story as cause for my fear.  I’ve just always been terrified of them…even the ones that pose no harm to humans.

Of course it’s my luck that my new house is CRAWLING in them!  Well…I should technically say “was” because Terminix has been out three or four times in an attempt to get rid of them.  Hopefully there won’t be a problem with them anymore because I may not be able to retain my sanity if there continues to be a problem.  My new house sat vacant for almost a year and there is a field behind it.  So of course all kinds of creepy crawlies were able to take over undisturbed.  It’s a really nice house and only two years old so it’s not like it’s run down or drafty, etc.  It’s just that it was the perfect place for these bugs, insects and arachnids to make their home.

The first time I viewed the house my boyfriend calls me into one of the bathrooms to “see something.”  He’s quite evil.  In the toilet was possibly the largest spider I’ve ever seen outside of an aquarium.  And yes…it was alive.  Come to find out it’s called a Sun Spider and it’s quite beneficial because it eats tons of bugs.  But do I care?  NO.  And of course the garage and exterior were housing loads of Black Widows.  Luckily after the first treatment by Terminix most of the spiders and other various bugs were killed.  I had the wonderful job of cleaning all their dead, shriveled bodies up.  Yay for me.  There were still a few spiders roaming around but luckily they’re pretty much gone now.

It doesn’t stop at spiders and your usual bugs and insects.  The other day we were working on some landscaping and I go to throw something away and I almost step on a snake in the driveway!  I jumped back because I wasn’t sure what kind it was.  It was small and last thing I needed as to be bitten by a baby rattlesnake.  But I checked the tail and it wasn’t a rattler so all was safe.  I called my boyfriend over and we watched it cruise around for a while.  Funny thing is I’m not afraid of snakes at all…I just don’t like the way that they feel so I don’t like touching them.  I’ve held a few but it’s just not my thing.  I’m just cautious around them in the wild because I’m not familiar with which are poisonous and which are not.  I used to work at a gun range in the canyon and we had tons of rattlesnakes around which has caused me to be extremely cautious around them.

So going back to the spider nonsense…it just makes me laugh that I’m moving into this amazing new home and it contains my BIGGEST fear!  Home is not a place you want to feel fearful…it’s a place that you want to relax in and enjoy.  Luckily it’s something that can be controlled by pest control so I’m sure that all will be fine on the homefront from here on out.  I will always hate spiders and be deathly afraid of them but I guess there are worse things to be scared of.

xo

j