For the most part I really enjoy living in Arizona.  Of course my number one choice would be to move back to Southern California but it’s not happening until we can at least sell our house.  But Arizona is definitely my second choice.  Some of the drawbacks include 1.) 115 degree heat  2.) the Rednecks and 3.) the lack of Diversity.  The biggest drawback by far though is my extreme fear of scorpions and the fact that they live in abundance here.  Thankfully in the four and a half years that we have lived here I have not seen one, ever, that is….until today.  Not only did I see a SCORPION today but it was IN MY HOUSE!  Yep that’s right, in my very own place of refuge there it was, the satanic looking creature.  I went to put my shoes on in the laundry room when out of the corner of my eye I saw something scurry from beneath one of them.  I thought it was a baby lizard but wasn’t sure so I very carefully turned over the other shoe that the demon thing had run under and there out it ran, making his escape across the desert colored tile on my laundry room floor.  I quickly grabbed my husbands huge ass shoe and smacked the crap out of that thing until it lay a still, flat, mess.  Then I screamed, and screamed, and screamed some more all the while staring at it for fear it might come back from the dead and crawl up my leg {shudder}.  Finally my showering husband came running, soaking wet, in his towel to see what the emergency was.  Then, he kept watch while I grabbed the bug spray and dowsed it for good measure.

Here is a picture of the little creep resting peacefully.

These freaks of nature have caused me so much anxiety in the past and I have had many sleepless nights because of them.  All it takes is to hear about someone being stung in their own home for me to shake the sheets out ten times before getting in bed and then jumping out and doing it all over again every time I have the slightest bit of nerve sensation.  My husband LOVES this by the way.  Poor guy I don’t think he’s getting any sleep anytime soon after today’s shenanigans.