Skittering Star

 It's an inarguable fact that the cutest thing a cat can do is pop its leg straight up, toes spread and start to lick itself.  They have little toe beans that make you want to risk the scratching and just hold them in your hand and kiss them. Then position itself exposes their little spindly star of an ass hole which in that moment is even cute.

So it makes no sense to me why when I see a spider scurrying across the floor, which is a mirror image of a cats anus, I am fearful. It's simply a skittering star across the floor. Yet I am afraid. We have been in our house for three months. This is how it's gone. 

The hot water isn't hot. The primer paint we bought was oil paint and we couldn't sleep in our bedroom for over a week due to the smell. The dryer had two birds nests in the exit vent. The heater didn't work. And our mulch we purchased to spread around the house was actually just $2 bags of wolf spiders that when dumped out scuttled around the house and up under the siding. Hence the skittering stars in our house. Now Ky said we should just put out bird feeders. Birds eat spiders. Slowly. I said we should poison the lawn and allow the chemicals to seep into the water system and kill fish 1000 miles away, but Ky pointed out that was a very different sentiment to my more eco friendly desires I had when we bought the house. Sure the poison may take out a wandering cat or two, and I would be remiss to not see them lick themselves, but that's what Google Images is for! I relented and opted not to drop a chemical war on our lawn because of a few hundred wolf spiders. Thank goodness our house is sealed! Oh. But it isn't. I forgot to mention the back door has a tiny spider sized gap at the bottom. 

Home expenses began to pile up quickly. The hot water heater was $2000 and unfortunately it seems the real issue was the plumbing. The toilet constantly sounds like it's swallowing and gasping so there is surely a leak there too. But it is our house! Our cold, blank house.