Like it couldn't crawl outta the toilet on it's broken little legs and bite your butt!!!!!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Megangirl!!!! I feel your pain!!!

You know first-hand how wooded our yard is... when we first moved here the house hadn't been occupied full-time so we had them, too. And lots of spiders to boot! Despite having quarterly visits from Western Pest Control, I would find spiders all over the place. Several different varieties. I only ever found those other creepy things in the bathroom, so they must be attracted to water. Totally freaked me out!!!!

So...

I bought a bunch of plastic fly swatters and kept them handy in the halls (spiders seemed to like dark places) and bathrooms where I would usually see the critters and spiders. The swatters have long handles so you don't have to get too close, and since they don't move as fast as a fly I could usually get the buggers. Then I would catch them up in a paper towel and throw them in the garbage while saying an 'I'm sorry but we just can't live together' prayer to the Karmic Gods.

Thank goodness they are long-gone now. In the spring I sometimes see a spider or two, but I feel better knowing that I'm bigger than them... and I have the swatter!!!

Hopefully with cold weather coming you won't have to worry about them. May the Force be with you!

HUGS

Oh I totally should get a big long fly swatter. But I'll have to be leaving the pieces around for my padre to pick up cause I won't even go near them when they're dead. :p

Still no sign of my bathroom buddies. EEK! I'm so freaked out haha. I went to the kitchen to get a snack. Have to walk past one of the bathrooms (the one that usually has them in the bathtub) to get to the kitchen, and right off the kitchen is my parents' room, which is where the bathroom is that houses the current residents. I was doing the yorkie shuffel the whole time...except I was looking for bugs. :p

Sherry lynn!! Girl!! Hi! I don't think my email to you sent. We should meet up some time. :)

Yuck! I hate strange bugs that you can't get rid of. We have those little earwigs in our house all of the time and I hate those things! They like to get in the clothes hamper.:mad: Then they get on you and pinch and it HURTS! It makes me feel like my house is dirty, even though I know it's not.:rolleyes:

The clothes hamper! Well that should make Megan feel so much better, Bama. :rolleyes:

Meggers, they are CENTIPEDES!! We get them in the summer but thank god not in the winter. They like damp places like bathrooms, bath tubs and sinks. They are disgusting!!!

I make Jim kill them and if he isn't home, I scream and cry and them put a glass or bowl over them until he gets home and can kill them.

They are SMART and will chase after you (I know this from personal experience lolol) and they are freakin FAST FAST FAST!! So move quickly and put something over them before they run away!!

Here ya go (LOLOLOL!) ... http://cordially.narod.ru/album/inse...-centipede.jpg

HAHAHAHAHAHA omg I just about fell on the floor laughing!! LOLOL!! ;)

Oh and Meggers, don't spray them w/ raid or hairspray because one, it doesn't work lol and two, it just PROVOKES them, pisses them off and makes them chase you like demonic little bugs!!!

Well, that is one place Megan doesn't have to worry about. Thanks Bama, now I'll NEVER get her to do laundry.

Btw, Teri...I notice Sherry Lynn didn't sign up to come visit ya'll either.

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww :eek::eek:

I hope you find a twitching leg when you hit that floor! ;) :p :D

OMG that would freak me out, definitly gave me the chills! I feel the same way about garbage cans, you have to make sure they are dead (completly smushed) and flush them..make sure they are dead though so they don't swim back up through the toilet! I'm aracnophoic, and my mom would get so mad because if I saw a spider and she was sleeping, I would wake her up. So one time I tried to set my fears aside and kill one I found. Of course, you don't want it to come through the toilet paper, so I grabbed like a whole rolls worth...when I went to flush it I clogged the toilet! So in the end, my mom still had to wake up because the bathroom was flooding, so now I just make other people kill them since I'll apparently need help at some point!