SPIDER?

My cat has been chasing what I can only assume is a massive spider (I'm too creeped out to check for myself) back and forth across the shelf in my room for the past hour and a half. My arachnophobia combined with the sounds of my dumb cat slipping off surfaces and running into walls is keeping me awake, which means all of you lovely readers get to deal with my rambling! HOORAY!

I am listening to a bunch of Disney songs on youtube and feeling nostalgic. The villains always have the best songs, especially Frollo's "Hellfire" in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Scar's "Be Prepared" in The Lion King (Jeremy Irons might not be a fantastic singer, but that part of the movie scared the six-year-old pants off me). The princess songs are pretty and all, and are really fun to sing at the top of my lungs if I'm alone in my car, but the villains' songs are just EPIC. Hellfire is DEFINITELY the best though. What other Disney song has religious hypocrisy and sexual frustration? And Tony Jay's voice...you could eat it with a spoon. I feel creepy saying that about an obscenely old (and dead) man, but it's true. The man had some serious pipes that he showed off in that song.

Okay, now my cat is looking around my room like something is flying, so maybe it's not a spider. Or maybe it is, and it's swinging around on its web. Fuck. I am NOT going to get any sleep tonight.

I'm leaving Saturday for my family's annual vacation up to northern Minnesota. I'm pretty psyched. Change of scenery, quality time with my sister and cousins, spending all day on the lake...it'll be great. We've been going there since we were babies-I'm pretty sure my mom went with her side of the family before she even met my dad- and I can't imagine spending 4th of July week anywhere else.

My cat has been staring at the same spot on the shelf for about five minutes. I think he's trying to kill the spider with his mind. Clearly, there is some Jedi shit going down in my room...or he just got lazy and is hoping the damn thing dies on its own.

Speaking of cats, I house sat for my aunts last week and they have the weirdest cat EVER. He makes sounds like a pigeon, gallops around the house like a pony, and knows how to play fetch.

I'm going to attempt to get some sleep. I really don't have anything interesting to write about (as I'm sure you've gathered by now) but maybe being away for a week will inspire me to write something decent.

Buenas noches!