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there’s a spider…

Every time I come down to the basement office , I can now almost guarantee that this spider will be waiting for me!

He hangs out in this little hiding spot under some flipped-up linoleum right beside the door. And as I approach the door and turn on the light switch on that side, he skitters backwards into his little crevice.

It’s become routine which is so not cool because a) ew gross, I hate spiders and b) he’s developing a bit of a personality. This is very bad because it’s much harder to kill something if anthropomorphism is involved. And as much as I loved Charlotte’s Web as a child, I’m sorry but no. My rule is that if we’re outside, bugs can have their space but in my own house they risk their own demise if there’s no easy (and sanity-preserving) way for me to catch them and release them outdoors.

If I find I’m unable to suck him up with a vacuum (my current spider elimination method of choice, as I discovered last week when a huge cousin of the office lurker scared me), then I guess I will just have to suck it up and deal with the creepy crawlies until I’ll no longer be down in this office. About a week to go really, before everything gets all packed up, including my computer!

It’s a toss-up, really. What’s more shudder-worthy: purposefully setting about to destroy a little creature who seems to show enough intelligence to hang out in a certain spot regularly and then vacate it when there is movement or light OR dealing with the phantom sensations of bugs crawling on me while down here?

I think I may go with option C, which is avoiding the basement office as much as possible until the moving transition is complete. Which means trusting my hubby to pack the remaining items in my craft area… Although scary in it’s own way, the sorting through of items that I didn’t pack might not be totally confusing. I’m sure I’ll be able to separate the cross-stitch patterns from the Today’s Parent magazines and spare page protectors.

And hopefully the only “bug” I will unpack in my new (non-basement!) home office will be my Cuttlebug.

our last house visit

Well, tomorrow will be our last “visit” to the new house… Because after tomorrow, we’ll be going back to it as home owners (with keys in hand to fling open the doors with no supervision to run up and down the hallways and turn cartwheels in the kitchen…riiiiiiight). It feels like it’s Christmas Eve, except that you’ve been waiting 6 long years for this Christmas and it’s your first real one.

Although my countdown has been saying our house will be ready next week, it should technically be ready now. At our Pre-Delivery Inspection in the morning, we will go over the house to make sure everything is as it should be. I’m slightly anxious about the kitchen backsplash since we threw something custom at them (with a little sketch from our designer), but that’s the point of the PDI… if something is not quite right, they have time to fix it up.

So, I’ve got everything organized and ready to go for this meeting. There will be lots of info to try to retain about how things work!! Hopefully the years we’ve spent living in a garden home condominium will be a good foundation of knowledge to build on (we’re good with the furnance/water/electricity stuff).

We also have managed to secure a family doctor for Avery (who may take on the rest of the family over time if he’s able) and a family doctor who will take on Harmony and I (although she’s a little bit outside of Barrhaven)… We have a new dentist and optometrist… Our home insurance is set up… Moving truck is booked… Some boxes packed…

Am I forgetting anything? Oh yes, I need to add “freak out over how little time is left” to my To Do list.

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