Black Widow Spiders and Scorpions!!! Oh My!

Black widow spiders and I have a long history or dislike. When I was 9 I went to visit some good friends of ours. They lived in an area that had problems with black widows from time to time. I was told (by my friends Brooke and Paige) that if I weighed 50lbs or more and was bitten I wouldn't die, but if I was under 50lbs there was a chance I wouldn't make it. I weighed 49lbs and spent the entire week trying to gain 1lb and failing miserably.

Well, ever since that experience, I have never liked the spider. The other day I walk out my front door and what do I see perched in it's web on the side of my door, but a black widow spider. If that isn't enough, my husband was on call last night and as I sat alone watching TV, what do I see cross my carpet but a SCORPION.

I've never been so scared in my life. I threw 2 remotes at it, and missed by a mile so I took Rebecca's shoe and hit it 4 times before it died. Then I took out the vacuum and sucked it up. I vacuumed the rest of the carpet, because I was now paranoid that scorpions were running all over my home. They are transparent little buggers and hard to see so I was sure that there were more I was missing.

Needless to say I called Terminix at 7am this morning, signed up for a year contract over the phone and a guy was at my house by 2pm. We will see what happens, but hopefully I won't ever see any more of these desert natives in my home EVER again. Ahhhhhhhh. Did I mention I don't like bugs?