Hello, My name is Sandra and I am a catastrophizer
.When bob needed help after knee surgery with drying off the backs of his leg and back, I stood drying him off, he turned and said LOOK!
LOOK? Where? What?
He points and says Behind the Chair!
OMG OMG OMG!
wolf spider photo from google photos
He was a good 2 inches across. Unreachable by human swatter.
My wild yelling scared him to death and we watched in horror as he slid under
The Pink Chair.
OUT OF SIGHT!
My first thing out of my mouth,
I hope it was a HE because if its a She she will have Babies!
If you step on her or kill her zillions of tiny spiders will flee from her dying body
I know this because I did it once when I was 8 and never forgot.
Let the catastrophizer Begin
The pink chair is the one the bed pillows and blanket reside in all night
also the one I sit in to read,
Also the chair is below the curtains that I tie back each morning IN THE DARK and untie at bedtime.
He could Jump on me
IN THE DARK while reading or tying.
What if he gets in one of the pillows and I put that pillow on the bed the next morning and he crawls out on me while I am reading and taking afternoon nap.
Each time I pick up a pillow now I CHECK IT THROUGHLY,
I feel him crawling on my shoulder or face.
When brushing my teeth I have felt him crawl on my foot and once up my leg.
Each time I tie back the curtains, or whip off the ribbon, I FEEL it crawling on my leg
I am afraid he will be on the toothpaste or heaven help me, the tooth brush. I open the bathroom cabinet expecting him to leap out of the trash can or be in the roll of toilet paper I pull out.
I sit on the throne and watch for him, he might be on the shower curtain, or in the shower, sitting behind the shampoo and when I reach out with soap in my eyes to get the conditioner he might ride it into my hair.
You too can be a catastrophizer!!! Just take one thing and FOCUS on it!
20 comments:
I would be doing the same things. And Phil would be tearing the house apart looking for him. I could not stand not knowing where it is, and having to go to bed. We would probably have to go to a motel if we didn't find it. Really and truly. I don't know how you managed to sleep, in the dark, unconcious!
Hari OM
Spiders have never bothered me - even the ornery ones. But once they are spotted, it's hard to not see them I suppose! YAM xx
I'm in the same club... and to see such a monster in our crib is THE reason to leave and to call the ghost busters...
I would be doing the same thing with a spider like that.
Hello,
That is a big spider. UGH, I have seen the babies and it was a icky sight to see. Spiders and Wasp, they both spook me. I hope you found this spider.
Have a happy day!
I hate all things creepy crawly!!
I have experienced one of those spiders before. I was sitting in the chair and my Fuzzy Pomeranian was in his doggy bed when I saw the biggest, "fuzziest" spider I have ever seen walking across my living room floor. Its legs were not all fuzzy looking, but thin and spindly. It's body was bloated and fuzzy looking. It was just leisurely walking across the room toward me, (severely pregnant spider walk) so I picked up my shoe from beside the chair and got up and squashed that big fluffy spider. As I picked up the shoe, I saw the dead spider and what looked like a dark shadow spreading out on my hardwood floor. I screamed, which woke Fuzzy up, luckily he didn't walk through the shadow of baby spiders, but he could smell the odor that all of those spiders emitted. I real quick went in and grabbed the dog and cat flea tick spray from the lower kitchen cabinet, and flea, tick, & mite spray soaked the whole area with it, hoping it would kill those spiders and then I went back to trying to smash the miniscule little creatures with my shoe. I think I got them all killed or nearly all of them, but it was like a damn tidal wave of teeny, tiny spiders spreading out into a wider and wider area. It truly was the stuff of nightmares. I went back and washed up all of the tiny dead spider bodies that I could see. My Fuzzy Pomeranian, couldn't get enough of sniffing the trail of the original Big Mama spider. For him that was Big Game hunting. Since then he still alerts me if he smells any spider, or bug of any kind crawling on the floor. (Sometimes a random sow bug will come in under the front door in wet weather). I think he was expecting all of that excitement like we had with the Bib Mama spider and all of its babies, with me screaming and running around hitting the floor with my shoe, as I continued to let out smaller screams. I cannot even imagine how many baby spiders that Mama Spider was weighed down with, but it was a lot. What if they would have just hatched inside the house with no one to spray and mash them?
Oh, my, I might not freak out as much but I certainly would want the spider removed. I had a lot of fun reading the comments.
Best not to turn the light on in our kitchen at 2 AM. Cricket City! How do they get into the house and why ours? If the neighbors also have crickets, they aint sayin.'I hate crickets. Spiders are OK, as long as they're small and harmless.
No thank you. I've spent a lot of time doing that but I pushed myself over the edge and now I'm better! hahahaha! I hate spiders too. I would spend my time finding him and disposing of him. Hope your day goes well! Hugs!
I agree - I don't like spiders at all - any bugs really - and I HATE not catching them. Was it poisonous?
MS I 100% agree about insects in the house...any kind. I don't like bugs in my house. Once I see them and am not able to convince them to vacate my space my mind's eye multiplies them.
LOL Our method of getting bugs up high (our downstairs ceilings are 9') is to get the vacuum cleaner out, attach the long hose nozzle and suck them up. But you gotta be quick as greased lightning.
Hugs cecilia
I never knew there was such a thing as wolf spiders until Tom and I moved to Arizona. He thought my screams were hilarious then told of the time his young son and daughter caught one and kept as a pet, "Wolfie." (Ish!)
What a gruesome thing, all those baby spiders coming out. Like the Trojan Horse? Double ish!
Now, inquiring minds have to know. Did you ever find him/her? I'd be the same way as you.
Yuck! 😲
Not "fond" of spiders either....
When we were in Haiti we saw many Wolf spiders.
The first time was when I opened a not very secure plastic tub...there it was staring back at me..All of us ladies in the kitchen screamed and one of our team named Ed came to our rescue..disposal done!!!
We were warned that before we used the Outhouse to always slam the wooden door a few times to warn the critters we were coming in. Huge Wolf spiders on the "Throne" makes one "hold IT" and not want to use the outhouse.
All I can say is THANKS FOR THE MEMORY ...haha
Sue
Wow you really set em off today. We've made careful notes on how to cat-astrophize. Is there a dog version of that? F loves spiders. We would be overwhelmed by all the worlds nasty biting, blood-sucking insects if spiders weren't out there doing their job. We need more spiders.
Oh my goodness, that's quite an experience. I never knew that about baby spiders. I do remember Gregg building a bookcase when we first got married, of planks of wood and old cinder blocks. When they were brought inside from the cold, not long after the heating produced recently hatched, what seemed like, a thousand itsy-bitsy spiders blowing on teeny itsy-bitsy threads all over the apartment. I was in a deep state of, shock, then fascination and then horror. Now I would remember to get my camera out. I am not sure what I would do if I saw a huge spider like the wolf. Thankfully, none have been seen that large in here. We did have black widows in the garage when we first moved in, but also thankfully haven't seen one of those in many years.
I am definitely a member of your club. I wish my mind wouldn't do that! So you haven't seen him since? OMG!!!!
I would never be able to go to bed and sleep, if I knew one of those were in the same room with me. My hubby would have to find it first and Kill it. When I was 13 or so, my Mom and Dad and I would go to a cabin up North to go fishing.The cabin had an out door toilet. I would never enter, unless it was checked by someone else first for spiders. Then I would not go to bed until we had to check under the bed for spiders. To this day, I still have that weird feeling. I am definitely a member also of your club. Wish I wasn't..
The shock of seeing a very large spider on my bed made the hairs on my arms stand up, so I did what my husband used to do I turned a bowl upside down covering the spider, then called for help, "and bring a glass and some paper"! Once inside the glass you could get a really good look at it. Later my late husband used an empty jam jar, and made tiny breathing holes in the lid,in case I wanted to photograph whatever insect he caught. By this time the jar was outdoors of course.
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