One evening early last week my husband hollered at me from the
bathroom. He yelled at me to bring him a shoe."Huh?" I wondered.
"He's in the bathroom, why does he need a shoe?" But I am
(occasionally) an obedient wife and pulled a shoe out of the
closet. Our bathroom has two doors, one going into the junk
room and one going into our bedroom. It's not an ideal situation
but I didn't design the house. I took the shoe to him at the junk
room door. He was just standing there in the middle of the bathroom.
He took the shoe and pointed at the floor. There, on the carpet in
the middle of the doorway was this gigantic spider. It had to be at
least a foot wide - well, maybe two inches. He was brown and had
black markings on his back. With shoe in hand, Abe took one small
step toward this creature. The little monster freaked and high-tailed
it out of there. He ran right under our bed and disappeared! Abe
and I just stood and looked at each other. And Silly hadn't been
there to go after it.
That night I moved onto the couch. I have a nice, comfortable
couch. The seat is as wide as a twin sized bed and a little
longer. It's very soft and to lay on it you sink right down
in. It's bliss. Abe kept telling me that the spider wasn't
going to bother me but I wasn't convinced. I'm not sure he was
all that convinced either. For some reason if there's a spider
in the room it will search me out and come bite me. I don't like
them. I'm not arachnaphobic but I don't trust them.
I stayed on the couch almost a week. Every morning when I went
into the bedroom to get dressed I checked all my clothes. I had
to have shoes on when I made the bed. I didn't want that monster
pouncing on my toes and turning them into chew rags.
Sunday evening Abe took me out to dinner. Normally I don't eat
much. I'm living on Slim Fast and have lost 72 pounds. (Breaking
my arm here to pat myself on the back....) But I hadn't eaten in
a couple weeks and I was hungry. I wanted a hamburger. So, we
went to the local Sonic and I pigged out on half a hamburger. (My
stomach is too small to comfortably hold a whole one.) While
sitting there I gasped and jerked my head over at Abe. He looked
at me wondering what was going on. I said, "Oh, no! Ethan's on
his way up!" Normally I love my son's visits but not this time.
This meant I had to give up the couch and go back to the bed. (Our
spare bed is in storage and our guest room has been turned into a
junk room.) Abe knew what I was thinking and he just laughed at me.
When we got home he pulled me into the bedroom and made me watch
while he took the bed apart and lifted it up so I could see under
it. Well, I didn't see any big, hairy, brown spiders but it could
still be in there hiding under the dresser or behind the bookcase.
So, I've spent the last two nights in that bed but sleeping very
little. Anyone have any suggestions?
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O.K. so you haven't heard anything from me in half a year. I'm
really frustrated with this web site. I started it because I
wanted to learn HTML and I did pick up quite a bit of it in the
year and a half I worked with it but by now I've forgotton most
of it. There are so many things I want to do with this site and
don't have the expertise. Abe is gone 13 hours a day during the
week then does radio on the weekend. (You might be able to catch
him some Sunday morning between 6 and 7 o'clock. It's a 50,000
watt clear channel station, AM 1090 KAAY in Little Rock. Their
broadcast area is from Cuba to Canada.) He simply does not have
the time to work with me and I am frustrated.
I threw in the towel and quit working with the site. It seemed all I
was doing was adding fonts and I want so much more for this site than
to just offer free fonts. So, I simply quit working on the site. I
did eventually get around to putting a notice on there that the
site would be closing. The domain name was scheduled to expire
in July and I decided to leave it online till then. I actually
called Mindspring and had the site scheduled for termination at
the end of June.
I had no idea this site was so valuable. So many of you wrote
asking me to keep it online. I read every letter and appreciated
every one. You can thank a man named Derek who lives in Detroit.
His letter convinced me that I needed to keep this site open. So,
Mindspring reactivated the account without a fee and Dotster let
me renew the domain name even though I had already told them I
wasn't going to. The site will remain online, at least for a while.