Getting ready for some Getchy

I just finished chatting online with Greg.  He is one of my life long friends.. since elementary school.  He is in the Navy and stationed out in California.  However, he is coming home very soon for a visit and I am really excited about it.  Having grown up with him, he is very much like a brother to me.  Of course I wish that it was my sister coming home for a visit, considering I haven't seen her in two years and she is my biological sister rather than a life long friend.

With her being in the Coast Guard, I'm sure she will come home when she is ready and/or when her schedule allows it.  In the mean time though.. I'm getting ready for some Getchy.

Getting older

You know you are getting older when a girls night out no longer consists of late nights filled with bar hopping and guy hunting. Instead, girls night out is now a pit stop at Panera before a mini roadtrip to IKEA and being completely exhausted by the time the store closes at 9pm.

Exactly what I needed

Things got a little bit better on Sunday, after my close encounter.  Tony and I got a visit from Uncle Brian.  It was great to see him again and catch up.

Yesterday was my last day of vacation.  I got to spend it at the beach with Tony, Annmarie, and the three girls.  It was so peaceful and relaxing.  Exactly what I needed.



Close encounter

Just a little while ago I was getting ready to clean the pool.  As I was leaning over, fiddling with the skimmer trying to connect everything, I looked up.  Gasp!  There it was.  About six inches from my face.  The biggest, fattest, hairiest, nastiest spider I have ever seen in my life!  I immediately backed away, while trying to catch my breath.  Tony was at work.  Which meant that I was on my own with this one.  This post is probably going to make me out to be the worst person in the world.. so I apologize to anyone who is reading this (if anyone is even reading this).  So, as I sat there, staring at this creature, the ideas began flowing through my head as to how I should get rid of this thing.  My first thought was to step on it.  I tossed that idea right out the window when I thought of the crunching sound that this sucker was going to make if I actually did step on it.  And what would happen if I did make an attempt to step on it, but missed.  It might crawl on my foot and up my leg.  I wasn't about to take any chances.  I ran straight into the kitchen and opened the cabinets under the sink.  The good old chemical cabinet.  I decided to try my Hawaiian Breeze Glade Air Freshener first.  As I stood there, spraying 1/4 of the can, I noticed the coating of white fuzz on the spider.  It was so hairy that all I was doing was putting a sweater on it.  It was time for something more powerful.  Lysol Kitchen Clean.. with Bleach.  I began spraying like I have never sprayed before.  After about ten minutes, the spider finally fell onto it's back and began twitching.

Another twenty minutes and it finally died.



 I still can't seem to figure out exactly what kind of spider this is.  Although, everyone who has seen these pictures so far seems to think it's a tarantula of some sort.  So if anyone can identify this thing.. please fill me in!!!

Say "hello" to my little friend

This morning, I did the same thing that I did yesterday morning.  I grabbed my morning cup of java and brought it outside.  The only thing that was different about this, is that there was no unannounced (but more than welcome) guest waiting outside for me this morning like there was yesterday.
I had sat down at the picnic table, yesterday morning, with my java in hand and looked down at the ground only to find this little cutie hanging out next to the pool...

Dust in the wind

"Don't hang on

Nothing lasts forever but the Earth and sky

It slips away

And all your money won't another minute buy

Dust in the wind

All we are is dust in the wind."

-Kansas



Not so lonely after all.

In contrast to my last post, today turned out to be a pretty good day.  I was surrounded by good company.  My neighbor, Annmarie, and her three little girls came over.  I managed to bounce back and forth between grown-up conversations with Annmarie and playing in the pool with the kids.  It turned out to be a not so lonely day after all.