What is that?!

Late the other night, I was picking up the house while walking around barefoot. I had momentarily put on Jer's flip flops to quickly walk out to the garage and back. Upon my return, I was beginning to lay out the kids' clothes for the next morning. Jeremy comes over to see what I'm doing and immediately says, "Um...Don't Move!" First, I HATE comments like that! Don't you realize the first thing I'm gonna do is jump to the ceiling and scream?! Second, that's exactly what I did...while also doing the wiggly dance and brushing off every part of my body before he could even finish his sentence. He muzzled his laughter to point out this nasty creature lurking behind me.

Excuse me MR. DISGUSTING SCORPION, What the HECK are you doing INSIDE my house? Did you happen to forget that the Bug Man just came 2 days ago and pulverized all of your little friends? You have your domain outside and I have my domain inside. If you happen to get confused and cross into enemy territory, you will be severely punished. No humanity for creepy crawly poisonous scary things will be spared. AND because of you, my dreams will surely be tormented by your likeness tonight.

While I was hanging from the chandelier, Jer ecstatically ran to get his scorpion flash light (YES they really do make such a thing and YES my husband bought one). He then proceeded to turn off all the lights, to my harsh dismay, and shine the flash light on the gross lil bugger. I was beyond shocked at what I saw. Yes, so I knew they're supposed to glow under the light. But honestly, I have about a million more important things to do than to have ever found this out first hand. Well, today I was enlightened.

WOW! These little arthropod guys are like their own night club party. I could almost hear the thumping beat of the techno music. Well at least if I wasn't 50 ft in the hair still clinging to the chandelier I could have definitely heard it. Jeremy continued to inspect it in awe....while it would occasionally take off running (or whatever they do with all those legs) thinking it could flee the human's laser beam. That's when I put down my foot...literally. I threw Jer's flip flop (that luckily I was still wearing!) at him and told him to terminate the party. The Katie Cop had arrived.

After Jer's new friend was properly disposed of (and yes he did freak himself out and took a LONG time to get the courage to kill it), I continued my preparations for the next day. This time however I was in my snow suit and moon boots. No creatures were getting me tonight! I braved up and went back to the garage to get my walmart shopping bags out of the car from earlier that night. Somehow they weren't in the car. Hhmm...so I rummaged through the house some more. Still nothing. Honestly, who goes shopping and forgets to bring their grocery bags home?! Wow, I really am losing my marbles.

At that point, I realized it was time for bed. This was just way too much excitement for one night. It was clearly time to doze off and dream about marbles covered in scorpions.