spiders and money

i don't know why i keep tripping myself up (yes i do, because i keep noticing that i'm tripping myself up!) but i was struck today by another abundance in my life. spiders.

i live in the uk. so do many many MANY spiders. oh they're all harmless, but they don't pay rent, so i'd rather they just stayed outside, thank you. also, it's no longer (and really was never) amusing to see my daughter go all scaredy-cat at the things. you know, the same daughter that looks at me, rolls her eyes and says "whatever." that one.

it started out by trying to change my view of the spiders. i figured once i stopped being creeped out by them, i could figure a way to ignore them. so i tried pretending they were lucky. i don't know why that came to me. let's google it : okay, according to prediction magazine (no, i'm not even capitalizing that! take that grammar cop! i mean, hi sandie! i miss you!) dreaming of spiders is lucky. that was just the first google hit. the second, from the equally esteemed committee for skeptical enquiry says spiders were associated with riches by the egyptians.

so now i have moved my thoughts from 'spiders are icky' (yes, and i'm someone's mother) to 'spiders are lucky'. this made me feel better about spiders. so, all you law of attraction-ers, what did i get?

"mummy, there are hundreds of big spiders in the utility room."

to be fair, the only way she ever describes heat is with the word 'boiling'. so i thought there might have been fewer than 100. there were in fact three, but they were not ones i'd want to meet in a dark alley with a full wallet. well, unless they were actually lucky spiders, in which case, "thanks for the dosh! bye now!"

but add these to the one under the table and the one between the bookcase and the wall, now we have a group of luck.

but yes, now what i have to work on is paying no more attention to the spiders. and i'll teach my daughter the same.

now what i'd love to do is replace 'spiders are lucky', which was really good for getting more spiders, with 'money is lucky'. now that would be good. actually any of the following would be good:

'happiness is lucky'
'clean clothes are lucky'
'clean dishes are lucky'
'my husband doing some of the chores is lucky'
'my daughter going to bed on time is really really lucky'

we'll see how that develops.

on the flip side, score one tonight for the 'paying no more attention to unwanted things' strategy! yes, folks, i used to be annoyed by my husband's habit of putting his coke bottle right in the middle of the counter. i'd put it at the back of the counter, he'd come, take a drink, put it in the middle. i'd come past it, see it, put it at the back of the counter. that was the cycle, although i'm leaving out some of the more choice words i may or may not have used, but no amount of nicely stated "would you put the bottle out of the way when you're done"s would change his ways. well, about a week ago i said to myself "you know what self? so what. if he really wants it there, then there it stays. i no longer acknowledge that space as existing." now the first couple of days, i was kidding myself. i really did acknowledge it still a bit, then a bit less then a bit less. tonight i noticed that the bottle is against the wall without my intervention. so i made sure i appreciated the h£ll out of that sight for a good 5 minutes! "mummy i'm hungry!" "not now dear i'm appreciating something."