Last night, Dan and I were getting ready to go to bed, when a very scary thing happened. I had gotten all settled with a book I was reading, and Dan was starting his usual campaign of trying to talk me down from my usual 30 minutes of reading to 10 or 15 minutes. I was really tired, so I decided I would skip the reading and go to sleep right after I got up and got a glass of water. Then, I walked around the corner of our bed just in time to see a centipeded that I KNOW was six inches long slither its way under OUR BED! Now, you have to realize that even though the centipede was pretty gross looking, I probably wouldn't have freaked out so badly were it not for a little-known fact about me: one of my greatest phobias is that a bug will crawl or fly into my ear. The mere thought that this will happen in the middle of the night when I am sleeping is just too much for me to handle. So I immediately started doing the "Dan, come kill the giant bug!" dance, and because my husband is a good man and he understands my deepest most neurotic fears, a 20-minute hunt for the Nuclear Centipede ensued. This was not a small undertaking, because we have three Tupperware containers of winter clothing stored under our bed right now, but Dan did it all, while I sat on the bed and shivered in terror. If I wasn't so scared, the sight of Dan pointing our bedside lamp up under our bed while brandishing a giant can of Raid and a pair of kitchen tongs would have been very comical, but I was not in a laughing frame of mind. Eventually, all the light and kitchen tongs drove the centipede out from under our bed, and he was dispatched with enough Raid to kill a small mammal. Dan picked the bug up with the tongs and flushed him down the toilet. The Tupperware containers of winter clothing are still sitting in our guest room because between the trauma of the whole experience and my overall exhaustion right now, but we slept in our Raid-fresh scented room last night. And once again, I knew that the man I married really does love me, no matter how high-maintenance and crazy I am.
That's a good thing to remember right now.