Get over my fear of spiders

Out of all of my goals i am most pestimistic about this one. I will probably learn Spanish completely before i will rid this fear. I literally will freeze up and sometimes cry at the sight of these 8 legged freaks. I want to get a one bedroom by this time next year or after I graduate next May but I don’t know what will happen if i’m alone in my apartment and nobody is there to kill the spider. I don’t even want to type “Arachnophobia” into a search engine because i know pictures of spiders will pop up. I’m going to need a lot of support on this one…

I have a job interview tomorrow for a job which pays reaaaaaaally well for dressing up like a rain forest adventurer and going to schools in london encouraging kids to touch and learn about snakes, lizards, frogs…and gulp spiders!! the rest I love!! what can I do to control my nerves other then think of the pay check? I reckon I will be asked to demonstrate my abilities at the interview

in my line of work (cable technician) i go under a lot of houses and in a lot of attics, there are lots of spiders. my trick was learning which spiders were harmful in my area, and there were only 2 (brown recluse and black widow). now i have a pet tarantula named fluffy and i hold him all the time. :)

I’m angry that I’m not proceeding with this goal so I’ve been thinking what I can do in order to change it. I played Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets game five years ago or something and I didn’t finish it because among other creatures you were to fight there were spiders. I guess it’s good to start that way because even in the game I have tears in my eyes whenever I see them. I started playing it yesterday and screamed only once which is all so embarassing because even children at the age of three are allowed to play the game…

I am starting college in September, and i am doing an animal care course. part of the course is breeding, feeding and looking after terry the tarantula. i can’t even look at him without getting shivers. there is no way i can stick my hand in his cage, never mind hold him.

im 11 years old and i hate spiders i hate small ones ones with long legs and one that are just ugly but i dont understand because i have held a trantular before but now i get it.
every time in see a spider now i just think it aint going to hurt me so i shouldnt be sceared and i just cvatch it some way and put it out!!!now i dont care

I guess I can now mark this goal as completed. I woke up with my favorite spider of all (hint of sarcasm here), a daddy long-legs in my sink. Again, I didn’t want him to be murdered by the jet of cold water that would have appeared had I turned on the faucet in that instant. Instead, I inched him along the walls of my sink, coming to find out that he (why are all these spiders “Hes” to me?) couldn’t climb up the sink walls. I dared to do what I hadn’t before. I cupped him along all sides of his legs so that he had no other place to go but on my hand. Holding my breath and feeling my heart jumping out of my shirt, I let him settle on the back of my hand. Once he was there, it wasn’t so bad. I let him sit there for a moment until I transferred him to the counter. There he sat. Another spider life saved.

I saw a spider today;
Usually a “step on it!” thought pops into my head straight away.. but today it didn’t.

I let it walk all across the table. [[outside table ^^ ]]

Wow, just one day after I added this goal to my list, my grandfather invited a friend over who just happened to be a spiritual healer. I was quite impressed when how he offered to heal me from my spider-phobia and did it very strangely.
It’s weird…it’s probably all Placebo, but I can actually look at spiders now without freaking out! I could actually touch a little one today and I actually considered it to be kind of cute :)
I think it might take some more time until I can let them crawl all over me, but that’s not actually what I was aiming for. All I wanted was to not freak out, and I’ve done it!

Whew! There he was in the shower and I didn’t have the heart to just flush him down the shower drain so I inched him along until he could find a good spot to settle.