That's right: two in one god damn night.  They both looked like brown recluses to me, but let's face it: everything looks like a brown recluse to me.  I justify my arachnicidal paranoia in that, well, if you look up the Wikipedia page on necrosis, you can see a picture of the result of their bite.  I know that guy.  His experience was unfun.  I ( Read more... )

 9: In the bathtub, just now, as I was brushing my teeth.  I saw it.  It was big, like maybe a quarter's diameter (legs included), and moving too fast for comfort.  I turned the water on and washed it down the drain with the shower head.  There's no way I was gonna have that thing surprise me in the morning.

 8: In the bathroom, in the god damn cloth box/drawer thing where I keep all my stuff.  Right in there!  With the deodorant and the toothpaste and such!  It crawled up the side of the box as I was gathering toilet paper, and that's where it met its white-tissued end.  Its crushed and mangled remains are even now on their way to a sewage processing ( Read more... )

7: Just now, in the bathroom.  I was brushing my teeth when I saw a spider descend into the bathtub from the ceiling, suspended by an invisible thread.  I tossed my cup of water at it, landing it in the tub, and turned on the bathtub shower to spray it into the drain.  There was no choice in the matter; it was large and spindly and shudder-inducing ( Read more... )

 5 & 6: I've been remiss in remembering to update this, but oddly, these two were both in the same area of the house and looked more or less alike: a compact, black-widow-lookin' thing on the wall of the stairwell.  Each were crushed in tissues and flushed.  I know I did this.  No one can tell me it's the same damn spider coming back for revenge.

 4: On the wall of the bathroom, about a nickel's diameter, moving quickly. It looked like a brown recluse to me, but I wasn't about to go in closer for a detailed examination.  The Sorry Stick is just inside the door to my bedroom; you can draw your own conclusions as to what happened next.  I had a dream this morning in which a spider woke me up, ( Read more... )

 3: In the hallway right by the door, enormous and spindly and just plain bad news.  Smashed it with the shoe I conveniently had in my hand and wiped up the remains with a paper towel.  It did not stand a chance when I was already properly armed.

2: This kill should have a name, something like The Battle of Jon's Shower.  I spotted it crawling on the wall of the shower, about a dime's diameter, and tried to wash it off.  It ended up on -- or more like in -- one of the loofahs we have hanging around.  Horror.  A combination of directed spray and the bottom of a shampoo bottle were employed ( Read more... )

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20: On the wall of my bedroom, of course, a little less than a dime's diameter across. Tissues were employed to end its existence in a swift and efficient manner. I'm kind of surprised it's been this long since a spider encounter; what are they up to. What.