Sunday night, 7:00pm- Joel got in the car for work. I had a "feeling" he didn't have his ID.
Sunday night, 7:10pm- Joel pulls in the driveway and tells me he forgot his ID.
Sunday night, 7:45pm- I got bit by the spider. Called Dad. Dad asks me if I'm sure it wasn't a brown recluse. I am sure. I wash my swelling hand with soap and water. Everything is fine but I keep thinking about spiders because I've never been bit by one before
Tuesday morning, 10am- I post about my superhuman powers from getting bit by the spider because I'm still thinking about spiders.
Tuesday morning, 10:30am- Silas and I go play at the pool while Micah naps. From more than 4 feet away I see a small piece of dirt or something stuck to the hem of his shorts. For about 5 seconds I disregard it until I realize I'm having the same feeling I got when Joel left his ID. I thought about how I was right about the ID, and this new feeling that I should get whatever is on Silas' shorts ("it might be a spider!"; because I have spiders on the brain) off his shorts IMMEDIATELY.
It's a spider. It's a suspicious looking spider. I'm not sure if he's dead or not so I flick him off and he lands in the pool. He's NOT DEAD!!!! I catch him a plastic container with a lid and think to myself that I'll look him up to see if he is indeed what I fear: a brown recluse.
Tuesday afternoon, 3:30pm- I look up brown recluses on the omniscent internet, but I can't remember what my spider trapped in the tupperware box looks like.
Tuesday evening, 6:30pm- I tell Joel about the "feeling" and the spider and we return to the box.
It was a brown recluse.
9 comments:
Alice you are amazing! this is just Signs! all these things leed up so you can save Silas. only spiders like water and aliens dont.
you need to look up the super hero quiz on the internet . I took it and i was the hulk...sigh...
i changes a couple of my answers and got super woman.
Alice between all your paragraghs I imagine that little sound effect on Law and Order, you know that dah dah you hear when its showing a city name or something like that.
OH MY GOSH! Alice, that is so scary! You really do have superhuman powers now!
And, the whole thing about the brown recluse was scary, too.
Alice, you appear to have a gift. I might of had a "gift" once, but it never saved any lives.
spiderwoman, spiderwoman... friendly neighborhood spiderwoman... (sung to the tune of, well, you know!)
Think of how your new powers can help you. "Don't answer the door - it's a Jehovah's Witness" (of course, I LIKE to answer the door when it's them... but that's another story). "We don't need the do-not-call list! I'll tell you who's calling" (personalized caller ID). "I think I'll play jeopardy and win a kazillion dollars so we can pay off Joel's student loans and go to the mission field that much quicker" (even tho' grandparent's might not like that option, since we're sure you'll insist on taking the boys with ya!).
And, you may not yet have discovered that you can make cool spidey webs. Work better to corral the kids than playpens, cribs, fences, or anything else. And it's bio-friendly (Al Gore will be happy) and can go anywhere. Plus, you can cut down on gas by webbing all across the country.
Okay, it's obvious I'm having a hard time focusing on what I SHOULD be doing right now...
On a more serious note - glad you and Silas are okay!
Alice..you may not know this but "IM a bit of a sicentist myself"...and I dont know how this whole spider bite thing is going to work.
I could have delt with this post much better if there hadn't been a picture of the spider. Moving spiders make me feel like vomiting (and I imagined the picture moving).
One time when we lived in Como we had a small spider problem (every one in como has spider problems in the spring time). One day I was so sure I saw a spider on Heath and screamed in terror but when he knoked it off not dead we couldn't find it. I threw all the pillows off the couch and left for the rest of the day. I was seriously going to check into a hotel but Heath thought it was a stupid idea. Heath thinks that the spider i saw on him was just shadow.
This is a very interesting story. Do your super powers think I'm going to get all the craft work done before vbs next week?
Anne- my superpowers tell me that you will, in fact, get your crafts done. Especially the painting crafts.
Anonymous- thank you.
Sara- We actually keep the water in the pool in case of aliens.
Pops- if only there were a way of using my powers to corral the babies.
Matt- we'll work it out somehow. Don't fret yourself.
Erin and Amy- never change.
Creepy. You are indeed getting super human powers.
Also, I like the new greyish blue background.
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