11.14.2011

SCORPIONS!!!!

Guess what I had to what I had to wake up to on a Monday morning!?!
Okay, maybe my title sort of gave it away.. but AHHHH! 


I may be brave about a great many things. However, something that always gives me the creepy crawlies are spiders and, as I recently learned from moving to Texas, SCORPIONS! Until this morning, I only encountered one scampering across the kitchen floor last month. Of course, in an undignified fashion, I jumped on the chair I was on and screamed. Thankfully, my uncle killed it and when he mentioned that it must have come in with a bunch of stuff he brought in from outside, it relieved me to think this must be a one time thing.

So, explain to me why there was one crawling up my bathroom wall on the SECOND FLOOR! And it completely matches the carpet, the bathroom tiles, the bathroom rug... everything around me! If it wasn't on the wall, I would have completely missed it! Ack! Definitely something I will not get used to being in the desert!

To make matters worse, my aunt had told me that the tenants in their former home had even mentioned how once was once crawling on their ceiling, upside-down, above the bed!

Thankfully, this morning, I managed to hold myself together and not scream at 6 in the morning. Somehow, I managed to breath and find a long thing to hit it with. I had to try 3 times before getting it since it had crawled that far up the wall! I don't think I hit it hard enough to kill it, but it landed in a bucket of water. Poor thing drowned in the water.  Okay, maybe not so poor since it still gives me goosebumps to remember the incident.

dead scorpion in my bathroom

Okay, I'm gonna stop writing about it before I get an anxiety attack! haha. Guess I'll be saying extra prayers at night and looking around my room before turning off the lights now. Let's just hope they do not come out from the vents since there happens to be one right above my side of the bed!