AracHELLNOphobia

Dude, seriously, there are SO MANY freakin' spiders in our neighborhood right now, I'm in a constant state of heebie jeebie! Like I mentioned on Facebook recently, my last run (for a long time, seriously, I think this was the universe telling me that running is somehow inherently evil) was so traumatizing. Picture, if you will, me on my leisurely morning run in the fog - all zen'd out and enjoying my dance music on my ipod for about 2 minutes....which quickly turned into me shrieking like a banshee while frantically brushing spider webs off my arms and face. I was literally shrieking and flailing the entire run...all while keeping up a good groove, if I do say so myself. It was horrible.

Anyhoo - we've had a bunch of the suckers hanging out in the trees around our house which makes for a VERY cautious exit from our front door - as we flail preemptively in anticipation of the inevitable onslaught of facial web invasions. For some reason today I had the bright idea I'd do a little "flooding" therapy to myself to force me to get over the heebie and the jeebie by taking up close pics of some of the spidies. And apparently, I'm going to force you to face your fears right along with me. Enjoy...

I call this one: dinner by moonlight:
And for the uber creepiest one that'll send you straight to therapy? Check out this dude's fur! Yup, that dude is right outside our front door. Not in the Amazonian rain forest, not in some crazy island jungle but outside our.front.door.

And on a non-gross note...check out these cool pics of a praying mantis Rob saw in our backyard....cool, eh?

I feel like he's saying "put up yer dukes" here. He probably knows he pissed the wife off somehow and she's about to rip his head off.
Oh, and a random cool moon shot from tonight to finish the whole hodge-podge off and (hopefully) cure you of the heebies you caught from me.