What I'm afraid of...

I have been slackin on this whole blog everyday in May challenge. 

But today's was easy:

Day 7, Tuesday: The thing(s) you're most afraid of.

While I'm sure 90% of women (and plenty of men) will say the same thing, my big fear is spiders.  I really don't like bugs of any kind and will have a mini stroke if anything with 4+ legs gets on me. But spiders are on a whole nother level.

VIA

I can think of 2 situations where I was tormented by these demons.

1. When I was in college I worked at a furniture retail store, and it was time to do a floor set, which means working late and rearranging the entire store. It was a bunch of girls and a couple of gay guys that worked there, so when we moved a piece of furniture to find a HUGE spider, we were all a little panicked. Well our manager, trying to act all "no big deal, let's get back to work", stomps on it. Little did we know that the thing was huge because it was pregnant with 1,500,678 baby spiders!! And when she stomped, they went everywhere. The whole group of us (all adults, mind you) were on top of something in 2.5 seconds, screaming and acting like the floor had turned to lava and if we touched it we would die instantly. Pretty sure we waited until not another baby spider could be seen before we dared to get down, and then the rest of the night was a bust because we were all to scared to move anything.

Wussies.

2. After that job I went to work at a place that made granite countertops. The building was out in the sticks, surrounded by trees and not much else. It was here that I first encountered the wolf spider. Do you know of it?

If not, I don't want to terrify you or cause you to break your computer, so I won't post a picture.

But you can see one here:
Click at your own will

These spiders are huge. And hairy. And like all their little friends, sneaky as hell.

There is nothing like typing happily away on your computer, only to look down and see a mini tarantula inches from your foot. 

You WILL pee your pants.

I never got used to it (DUH!) and it was pretty high on my list of reasons to quit that job.

What's your fear? Are you as terrified as the creepy crawlers as I am?

250 words of me!

I recently found the Story of My Life, blog
(do you know it? Do you read it? Do you love it??)
and at the perfect time! She's doing a "Blog Everyday in  May" Challenge, and I just HAD to participate. Coming up with blog topics is hard, and any help I can get is much appreciated.
So I am going to try, really try, to follow along.
But let's just get through day 1 and see where it goes, shall we?

Day 1: The story of your life in 250 words or less. Here goes...
I was born on February 20th, 1984, in San Francisco, CA. Our home in San Fran caught fire, and we moved back to Henderson, KY where my mom is from. I had scarlet fever as a child, and that, other than child birth, is the only time I've ever been in the hospital. My mom remarried when I was 5 and we moved to Evansville, IN. My stepdad happened to have a daughter the same age as me, and that blond haired little girl is still my best friend, despite the fact that our parents divorced 12 years ago. 

I started working at age 14, at a local burger joint. From there I went to work for a pizza place, a telemarketer, a retirement home, an interior decorator, a card shop, a furniture store, a countertop business, doing marketing for a mall, and finally running my own business. Somewhere between the retirement home and the marketing job I got  degrees in Advertising & Public Relations, as well as a degree in Art from the University of Southern Indiana. I have used literally 0% of that education. But my freshman year of college I met this hot young man that would be my future husband, and 10 years later we are still going strong, with the addition of 1 dog, 1 cat, and 2 little boys. We are kinda hoping there are more babies to come, but I guess we will have to see what happens in the next 10 years!

 

Life's good.

Side note: I literally typed that out, copy and pasted into Word to see the word count, and it was 250 words on the money. I'm so money I dont even know how much money I am!!