What an odd way to wake up

July 9, 2007 (313 days ago) at 12:03 pm
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Oddly enough, the first thing that popped into my mind this morning when I woke up was this phrase: “There’s a spider on me!”

Weird huh? I woke up to Dylan standing next to our bed (Josh had already left for work) and he was saying something that I couldn’t understand - partly due to his developing toddler dialect, but mostly due to the fact that I am always incoherent and confused for the first few seconds after I wake up in the morning. Anyway, I could tell he was upset nonetheless. I was lying on my right side with my arm underneath the pillow. I shot up in bed and looked down on my right shoulder and there it was - an icky little brown spider just chillaxin’ in one of the folds of my nightshirt!!!. I FREAKED out. I tried to flip him out of my shirt onto the floor or anywhere for that matter, but he wasn’t going anywhere, and he started to crawl rather quickly up toward my face. OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG, I was panicking at this point so I just tore my shirt off and ran out of the bedroom. The hair on my arms were standing up and it felt like I had spiders and every other little creepy-crawly known to man crawling all over my body. It sucked.

Later, I went back in the bedroom, found the spider under my shirt where I last saw him, and killed it. I googled the different types of little brown spiders and I believe that the spider that had been resting on my shoulder for God knows how long during the night was a brown recluse. It looked exactly like this, and I know that because I made sure to observe it’s size, color, and markings before I killed it. :shock:

It gives me chills even thinking about it now *shudder*. It’s weird because I’m not even scared of spiders all that much…if they don’t bother me then I won’t bother them. But just the thought that this thing could’ve been crawling all over me while I was asleep and could’ve bitten me or anything else…eeek! Honestly, I don’t know how I didn’t manage to get bitten. I toss and turn and change positions all throughout the time I’m asleep. Just ew. The covers and pillows are definitely getting shaken out tonight before I even think about laying down. :dead:

Today is Josh’s 23rd birthday! Man he’s getting so old…:P (I only say that because I know he will read this). :P I’m going to fix him one of his favorite meals for dinner and then some major sexing will more than likely be taking place. *hump* :heart: However, some of the time I’ll have to be on the lookout for approaching spiders! :P