Um...maybe we should move?

So Monday, I kill a black widow spider--yes a freakin' BLACK WIDOW SPIDER. And yes, I'm SURE that's what it was because it had the little red hourglass thingy on its back, plus I have a picture of one in my classroom! I was hanging some shelves in the kitchen (the kitchen is also my sewing room, office and schoolroom so we have to stay major organized in there!) and I had my head underneath the shelf adjusting the bracket and my eye glanced up and I thought, I didn't realize I'd splattered the paint when I painted them (they are painted black) and then after I readjusted my focus I saw it wasn't a paint splatter but a spider--a freakin' BLACK WIDOW SPIDER!! I about had a heart attack! I can handle anything but spiders. Other bugs (yes I know a spider is not technically an insect), snakes, even rodents--none of these things I am particularly fond of but at least when you see one you have a fighting chance! Spiders are sneaky and those are deadly.

I grabbed my nearest flip flop and smushed it (gross, it was so nasty!) and dumped it in the garbage. I had to call Jeff. I was having a panic attack, seriously. Then I found some spider spray in the garage (we get those wood spiders in there all the time) and doussed it. But I was still scared! Jeff is talking to me on the phone thinking the whole thing is funny because I'm still scared of something I squished and poisoned, like it would come back to life, crawl out of the trash can and seek revenge on me. Well...it could!

Oh and then I had to spend an hour sanitizing the shelf, the flip flop (and I still haven't worn them yet) and everything else. Eeewww!

So today, I'm emptying the dishwasher and putting away my glass bowls and I turn around--the cabinet shelf falls. One of those little notches fell out and the weight of the bowls made it give way. Huge crash, scared the girls and now I have no more glass bowls. We'll be eating out of rubbermaid for awhile.

Is my house telling me something? I guess I'll wait for the walls to start bleeding and then I'll be outta here!