I’d like to think I’ve made an eight-legged friend! Well maybe not, but the evidence may suggest otherwise…
So I woke up one drizzly morning and hanging above my head was this.
Some might say, “Eww gross it’s nasty and it’s a dust bunny with a hair stuck to it, suspended by a web from the ceiling” but I think it’s artistic. Especially for a spider. The way the dust bunny was carefully placed on the end, how it was hanging from the middle of the ceiling, and how it seemed to be perfectly balanced. I’m impressed to be honest! But could it be a sign of gratitude?
A few weeks ago, I noticed a big brown spider on my wall. I think it was a mouse spider or a wolf spider . I’ve handled these spiders many times as a young nature boy and I really hate killing spiders, so I let it out. A few days later, it started raining heavily in Los Angeles. Then one rainy night I noticed what seemed to be the same big brown spider sitting upside down on my ceiling. I walked up and stared at it for a while, contemplating taking it out… But I didn’t let it out because I was lazy, and it was raining. (Not the spider, the sky.) And I’m not going to get wet for some spider! And I guess it’s kinda mean if you are an animal lover. So I fall asleep with the spider sitting on the ceiling near sliding door. When I woke up laying on my side, I could see right under the pillow next to me, it looked as if a spider had set up shop there for the night! Cobwebs were connecting the pillow and mattress cover but the spider was nowhere to be seen. I was actually a little appalled at the fact I was sleeping with a spider so close to my face and that its current location was unknown. Not to mention the urban legend about the spider bite! After composing myself and avoiding a wig out, I turn toward the ceiling and see the dust bunny and hair dangling and spinning like a mobile right above my mug.
Call me crazy but this is how I put it all together… I let spider out nicely one day, and it comes back for shelter in the rain. I let it stay the rainy night, and to show its gratitude, it hauls up a hair and a dust bunny and makes a mobile for me above my head. After that, it drops down and sleeps next to me. Isn’t that sweet? Thank you spider friend! Can I call you Charlotte? Yay for good karma.
God this pimple is getting BIG.
