I have one of the best. This afternoon, after napping until 3:30 after helping clean up a local area, my mother-in-law calls to invite me and the hubby to dinner and we greatly accept.  Now this restuarant is near one of my favorite craft stores that sells great yarn.  So I'm complaining about wanting to go and getting yarn but don't need it.  She gets all excited and offers to buy me some yarn, yay!  So after eating we head over to the A.C. Moore craft store and we get looking around.  She tells me to get whatever I want. So I debate between two types of sock yarn, Moda Dea Sassy Stripes or Patons Stretch Socks?  She tells me to get both but I deside to get the Sassy Stripes and a set of size 1 dpns.  She still tells me to get both and the needles, so I did. (If she wants me to get yarn I'm not going to turn her down).  Then we find the clearence yarn and I begin debating on several different colors of Moda Dea Bamboo Wool that they had on sale.  Again she tells me to pick out whatever I want.  I deside on a nice green color.  I run into a S'nB girlly and we talk for a while and everyone disperces.  When I meet up with everyone again to check out my mother-in-law looks in the cart and then at me with big round eyes. 

 

"Is that all you are getting?  Didn't you want more colors in the Bamboo Wool?  Go, run get more before we check out." 

 

So at this point I am running back to the clearnce yarn to pick out other colors of the Bamboo Wool.  Hurray for yarn!  I was so stressed at this point though because I have never bought more than four skeins of yarn at a time with my own money and I am very frugal, so in a sence I was being forced to by what I wanted.  Weird to hear it that way.

 

So in the end I ended up with :

Moda Dea Sassy Strips- Green and nutral (2)

Moda Dea Bamboo Wool - Heather Grey (1)

Moda Dea Bamboo Wool - Celery (1)

Moda Dea Bamboo Wool - Blue Velvet (1)

Moda Dea Bamboo Wool - Boysenberry (1)

Patons Stretch Socks - Plum (2)

I was so excited and sad all at the same time.  Thing is I probably could have gotten two of everything and some more and she wouldn't have cared.  I have a great mother-in-law and I love her dearly.

 

So we thought that the spider from monday had an egg sac near by.  We believe we were right because now there are at least, sadly there could be more, five other, smaller spiders making webs in our door.  *sigh*  I got the nerve to look through a spider id site and I think that all of the spiders are orb-weaving spiders.  Good thing is that they are not poisionus even though their bright colors make them look so.  Bad thing is I hate spiders and having to try to dodge them when I go threw the door way.  So we are going to try to kill the little things.  Forgive me but I don't know what else to do because they will just come back after we swat them away thanks to the abundant source of moths our front light gives them.

 

Linked, but not really, since we have had this sudden spider doorway love I decided to look up some meanings to spider totems to see what kind meanings this little kritter has for us, just for fun.

 

"Spider teaches you to maintain balance - between past and future, physical and spiritual, male and female. Spider teaches you that everything you now do is weaving what you will encounter in the future.

The spider awakens creative sensibilities. It weaves a web of subtle fabric, as if to remind us that the past always subtly influences the present and future. Often the webs will take a spiral shape, the traditional form of creativity and development. The spider found within the web reminds us that we are the center of our own world. The ancient mystery schools had one precept inscribed above their portals: "Know Thyself and Thou Shalt Know the Universe". Spider reminds us that the world is woven around us. We are the keepers and the writers of our own destiny, weaving it like a web with our thoughts, feelings, and actions." ~~ Animal Speak, Ted Andrews

So the day after Labor Day (Tuesday)  Hubby and I go to leave the house and have a good time in this beautiful weather.  He opens the front door and we see this large black thing run across. 

 

This girl has a leg span of about 3 inches, to me this is a big spider.  We can clearly see her fangs and when Hubby attempted to get her out of the door way with a piece of cardboard she attacked it and left very clear fang marks o_O'  Thankfully she is no longer in the door way but moved to the area next to the door. 

 

She is amazing black with yellowish silver marks on her back.  Phone photes do not do her justice.  I just wish I could have gotten a picture of her markings, but she was on the other side of her web and I am not sticking my arm back there!

Not so bad so far.  School was school.  I got to help a freshman find her way to one of the buildings so I felt very helpful.  I had to switch two of my classes around and that made stuff crazy because I had to track people down.  I am glad that I have classes with people I know.  Hopefully I can get study groups together and pass these classes.  It is going to be a lot of work, some of the work I don't want to do. . . such as the family tree I have to do for genetics *ugh* But so far everything else seems okay. Just have to find a good way to study (somethings I have yet to figure out).  I can't wait for hubby to get home.