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Sunday, February 6, 2011

trippin'. literally.

Now that I'm back on a somewhat normal schedule, I've been waking up at around 7:30 every morning, pleased as punch to be alive. The sun shines through the windows in my room as I roll myself out of bed and start boiling water for tea, usually planning my day ahead. Today started no differently, although the items on the agenda seemed even more exciting than usual: there was an open house for my DREAM APARTMENT, and I planned to be the first there!

I prefer to start my day in a leisurely, comfortable way--when I was living in Santa Barbara, I learned that I enjoy getting up and having a good half an hour of quiet time to check my email and drink some tea before showering or getting into the hustle of my day. I made myself a little breakfast burrito (with a bowl of blueberries on the side--YUM), and turned on my "2011 Slow Jams Mix #2" that came in the mail from the most generous person I know. Then, I took my glasses off, tied my hair up with a scarf, and hopped into the shower.

Now see, without my glasses, my vision is clear for the six or so inches in front of my face. After that, things start to get fuzzy, and my ability to identify what I'm looking at is watered down to deciphering colors and basic shapes. Usually, in the shower, this is not such an issue; I know what I look like naked, and the shower tiles aren't typically offering stimulating entertainment. Oh-ho-ho, so I thought!

Suddenly, today, there was something moving on the shower wall.

What is that?

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or maybe more like
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(...Ok, ok, maybe it was more like this, but whatever.)

Suddenly, I found myself letting loose a blood-curdling scream, tripping over my feet and the edge of the shower as I stepped away, and falling backward into the shower curtain (and taking part of the shower curtain out with me).

Sigh.

I think this might have been a bad omen. And the dream apartment didn't turn out to be so great either.


Stupid spider.

***UPDATE***



My reaction suddenly seems totally reasonable. Look at what could've happened to me!!!!
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3 comments:

  1. If it makes you feel any better, I found a slug in my shower last week. A slug. No idea how it got there, but ewwww.

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  2. tara, a slug!!!! how awful!

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  3. Seriously! Thankfully we have one of those removable shower heads and I was able to wash it down the drain without getting too close, but I still only have a general idea of how it could have gotten in there...our house is built over a crawl space so maybe it came up through the drain? Just thinking about it makes me shudder.

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