I would ask all spiders to observe the following regulations concerning their presence in this flat ( Read more... )

On the LJ homepage where you see the community spotlight, this week they have TARANTULALOVERS which of course has a userpic of a tarantula.

Not fun. No fun at all.

OK, I had a whole gripe ready about how even if I'm a energy boost hor when it comes to FB Vampire Wars I'd rather spend my favor points on something that's NOT a big spider permanently attatched to my avatar...

WHO THE HELL CHANGED THE COMM BACKGROUND IMAGE?!?!?!?!

   Okay, maybe this has been said already, but I've only been lurking for like an hour and didn't read back very far... About a month ago I read that orange/lemon are natural spider repellents (they hate the smell and taste), so I took some orange-based furniture oil and have been dusting my furniture/bedposts and dousing my door threshold with it ( Read more... )

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/03/spiders-are-scary-its-okay-to-be-afraid.html :DDDDDD

SPIDER DANGLING FROM MY FAIRY LIGHTS

THEY ARE RUINED FOREVER

So, by the outside back steps of my grandfather's house yesterday, I noticed a webbing that upon closer inspection had hundreds upon hundreds of what could only be dot-sized brown arachneeds ready to grow to their full size and terrorize us all. I didn't scream or cry or jibblie at all, just calmly opened a bottle of Dasani on their asses. Problem ( Read more... )

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/03/spiders-are-scary-its-okay-to-be-afraid.html

I'm lying in bed, trying to relax and encourage this refusing-to-digest dinner to be on its way, when this black scurrying doomy thing of... doom goes across my ceiling. then the wall... I scream for my dad, and he smacks it BARE HANDED (my daddy is my hero!!), leaving a smear down the wall but no body to clean up. I sure hope there isn't some ( Read more... )

HUGE SPIDER DANGLING IN MY HALL
TOO BIG TO KILL
I AM ALL ALONE IN THE HOUSE

AUGH

EDIT: MY SISTER HAS COME HOME AND SLAIN THE THING
ALSO ANOTHER SPIDER THAT I HADN'T NOTICED