Yesterday’s reading ended with Schizophrenia or being caught between a rock and a hard place with me thinking that nothing else but sleep could happen before I went to bed.  How wrong I was!  As I was preparing for bed I spotted a massive huntsman spider on the ceiling above the bedroom door.  Link to image of about the size is in this article. 

Normally, I would call my husband to relocate it down to the creek.  When I was single I used to just leave it, but it was right ABOVE THE BEDROOM DOOR!  And like in the article mentioned above, they’re safe but they do jump at you if you want to get into an argument about ceiling space.  

My hard place was I wanted to go to bed and didn’t want to open the door because he might go into the bedroom and wake my husband.  It’s also been a few years since I had slept with a spider in the room.  I’d be a hypocrite to say that I don’t kill spiders, I just don’t kill ones this size and besides it’s not lethal.  Just scary.

The rock was the spider and its location.  I did not want to be jumped!  So, I took a deep breath and let go of going to bed just at that moment and let go of trying to capture the spider but simply decided to wait until it moved.  That illusive third option.  

It moved.  Over the dining table, then over the glass table where our small table top Christmas tree sat.  The tree’s base was surrounded by cards, family photos, unwrapped presents and a bowl where my husband kept his wallet at night.  Basically, not gettable, although I got the back scratcher and flung a few cards off the table. 

One of our cats (Dobby) showed up, and thought he would be my rescuer.  The cat would do what it would do and the spider would do likewise.  It was an interesting game to watch.  The spider knowing that hunters typically need movement to trigger the hunt, was amazingly still for quite some time.  

All my attempts at trying to get Dobby to see the spider came to nought. To Dobby’s credit he did eventually spot a movement.  Interestingly, the spider when it saw Dobby’s head turn toward me chose that moment to make its move.  

Unfortunately for the spider Dobby turned back too quickly.  Then the cat and spider chase was on.  The spider won the battle, especially through the glass table – it was always on the other side of where Dobby was.  It was really quite funny!

Of our two cats, Dobby is the better strategist.  He lay himself down by the glass table and was content to wait.  It was near midnight and this was like noon for him.  On that note, I went to bed.

When my husband woke I warned him about sticking his hand in the bowl to grab his wallet – just in case spidey wanted to make a home in there during daylight hours.  Turns out spidey lost the war, because by morning he was no more found dead on the floor.

For this reason, I am contemplating writing the days events before I deal the cards for the new day.  This will give it a proper 24 hour cycle.

Anyway, today’s activities were focussed around my website again.  This time more about how I could improve the image I had.  There was a comment made on the image that I agreed with and it had been troubling me since I created it. There was just something missing.

So during the day I drifted from element to element and decided that I would obtain the services of a professional to help me round out the page.  Realising that when I started this venture a year ago, that because I hadn’t started I hadn’t clearly identified requirements for the site.  To some extent I still don’t, but by going live and posting, I’m discovering my real needs and can now put something together.

Another thing I started was doing either an “about me” page or rewording the text on the “home page”.  This I will need to chat to an expert about.  Nonetheless, I wrote the text and in the writing I discovered what was missing from the logo.

So today, I sent off the tweak to the logo to the designers for a quote to adjust it to fit.  But I can tell you I’m so happy it ties in all the elements and a sense of who I am both in the text and the tweak to the logo. So happy even if I am opening by life up in it! But that’s the whole purpose of the blog isn’t it.

Okay, let’s see what the cards had to say.