Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Heart Racing...

You know in the morning when you go through the motions of getting ready and all is calm and you've spent two hours relaxing and waking-up at your leisure (which I totally said "lezzzzzzure")...and you get in your car and head to work...again a peaceful commute.  The beautiful hymns wafting through the air.  You pull into your parking space at your place of employment.  Again -- still calm and collected.  You meander in to the building and swipe your card.  4 minutes to spare...(sigh).  Relaxing.  Peaceful. Tranquil.

A quick stop in the bathroom to check your hair and THERE IT IS...precariously balanced on the side of the bathroom sink...what? you ask.  A BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER...or what appears to be a BROWN RECLUSE SPIDER!!!  His spindle legs are flecked with gold and brown and had my heart not been racing and pumping blood at a rate in which I am sure was 300 beats per minute -- had that not been happening, I might have been able to fully appreciate this wonderful creature which was created by my Heavenly Father.  But nooooooo......rapid heart rate and all, I told myself outloud, "It's just a spider, Angie.  Remove your shoe!"  A quick apology to my arachnid friend, and I use the term "friend" loosely, and I sent him to the Big Cobweb in The Sky.  Ick!  Ick!  Ick!  

Spiders, flying grasshoppers, and moths...three insect-ish creatures that will always meet their untimely death if they happen to weaving their way, fly, and/or flutter in to my presence.  I have been known to flush many-a-spiders...  Step on and squish grasshoppers (also, I've gone running from them too!!!)...  And moths...ewwwwwww!!!  They usually will be greeted with a Kleenex and / or a random shoe...squish!  Those big moths...they are my nemesis!!!!

Needless to say - this morning did not afford me a meet-n-greet with any 'hoppers and moths...my heart has already received its work-out for the day.  Who needs cardio when spider will send your heart racing into over-drive?  :)

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