uggghh

ok, i promise this will be the last spider post--unless something really drastic happens anyway.

so i'd mentioned before that my worst nightmare is the charlotte's web thing... millions of baby spiders parachuting all over the place--or into my room, really... so in the past two days, i've found several--like at least a dozen--tiny little spiders in my room... tiny is good, right? less scary. not scary at all, actually. especially when compared the ridiculously oversized ones that live outside my window. except that lots of little tiny spiders can really only mean one thing, right? ...yep, MORE little tiny spiders, parachutes and all... *sigh*

though, like i said, they're better than the huge-ass ones outside my window. i don't know what to do about those. i mean, they're outside. they're ALLOWED to be outside!!! but i can't open my window--and it's gorgeous outside! so not fair!! but i mean, they're really big, and there are at least three of them. (i think two of them were trying to mate the other night, but i'm not going to get into that...) and the germans don't do screens, so an open window is really an OPEN window...and an open invitation into my room. not cool.

every time i turn around, i see spiders. it's gotten to the point, where i walk into a room, and the first thing i do is inspect the walls and floors for spiders.

i got home last night a little after midnight, so it was completely dark out--the street lights are turned off at midnight here. though, really, they could turn them off at 9. that's when people around here seem to go to bed. *melodramatic rolling of the eyes* ...so i get home, and the motion sensor light comes on, illuminating the spiders crawling on the side of the house. i shudder. don'tthinkaboutitdon'tthinkaboutit. go inside. turn on every light i possibly can. do the usual sweep of the room. only a couple of ants in the bedroom. nothing in the hallway. one of the little tiny ones in the kitchen. i get it--i think. i can't seem to find it, and it's no longer on the wall. greeeeaaat. i'm looking on the ground, because it's got to be there somewhere... i look up. BIG one about a foot away from my face on the window sill. holy shit. i almost screamed--but had somehow, instinctually i guess, clapped my hand over my mouth in time. it's not that it was THAT big or even that scary. i just wasn't expecting it. i'd already looked--i always look. and thought i was safe. and then there it was. i just don't need this kind of stress in my life!! =)

ugggh. back to the window ones, really quick. so there's this other thing about windows in germany. they have these things that are kind of like mini-blinds--except not at all, and they're on the outside of the window--and you let them down at night to block the light or whatever--though given the aforementioned streetlight situation and my inability to go to bed before midnight...??? well, evidently, i killed one of the big spiders when i let the thing down. so what's worse than a ridiculously large spider LIVING outside of your window? a ridiculously large DEAD spider stuck to the blind things, so that when i let them down at night, it's just all squashed up and DEAD and right there... sweet dreams, right? i rather morbidly thought about taking a picture of it to post for y'all, but i couldn't bring myself to do it, and besides, that's just mean. not to mention gross...