along came a spider and sat down beside her

Except the spider didn't really sit, it more dangled from the ceiling in front of the back door.

I thought it was a fly and tried to swat it out of the door, as I had been in the process of letting the cat in. When I swatted it, spider legs made contact with my hand about the same time HAH yelled "SPIDER!" and I realized it was very much not a fly. I shrieked and backed up, knocked over my mother's prized Christmas Cactus, shattered the pot it was planted in, fell over backwards and rolled through the rubble to a stop just to the side of the dinner table, much to the delight of those in the dining room (though I don't blame them, I bet it looked pretty funny).

After picking myself up and helping clean up the mess I mostly just felt stupid (and still a little scared).

And I thought the pizza incident was bad. :)

Sorry Mom!!!

Top three reasons not to get a blog:
1) One more thing to feel guilty about not updating.
2) I think the word blog is ugly.
3) Thinking of a snazzy title is hard.

Top three reasons to get a blog:
1) I like to type in pretty colors.
2) I can't figure out how to comment on other people's blogs without an account.
3) All of the cool kids are doing it.