Creepy crawlies
I detest bugs and rodents and yet they seem to follow me no matter where I go. I’ve lived in a lot… a LOT… of places in my life. I spent a large part of my childhood in a country that, while it has no native poisonous spiders, makes up for it with seriously gross grubs and insects. I was taking a shower once and an enormous bug decided to join me. Ack! Later I moved to a mid-Atlantic state and got stung twice in weird places by bees - once when I was playing piano in the dark and two bees crawled up my pants leg to sting my inner thigh and once when I was sleeping, some bees flew in the open window, got tangled in my hair and stung my neck. During a summer fishing trip, an eel or some kind of water snake bit my leg! In DC, it was crickets and rats that plagued me. The crickets were rampant in my basement apartment whenever it rained (again, in the shower!!) and Georgetown sewer rats somehow got into the fancy house above me and were running around on top of the drop-down popcorn basement ceiling above my room. YIKES!!! That was fixed quickly, thank God, but the exterminator made me hold the garbage bag as he pulled a huge, dead rat out!! My final scary story is of the tarantula that crawled across my hand during a late-night visit to an outhouse in a third world country a few years ago.
Why am I sharing all of this? Because I just went down to my kitchen to get a snack and a cockroach the size of my fist (okay, that could be exaggerating a bit) flew out of my spice cabinet. AAHHHH!!!! Of course Chapin is not home right now so I couldn’t scream at him to save me. I just sprayed my cabinet using the closest can of super-powered bug spray and will wait for Chapin to get home tomorrow to remove the offending beast before I wash and/or dump the contents of that cabinet. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I know I’m just a big old girl wimp, but these things REALLY freak me out. 
Can’t wait until Pumpkinhead is big enough to tackle this type of problem!
