open door policy

Catch This Y'all
This evening I have some down time to fill out postcards. I have the screen door open to catch any breeze passing by Joy's home, and so I can listen to the frogs and birds that welcome the night.
So have my postcard list, I have 17 cards and 20 names so I'm noting who should get one now and who later..blah blah..something brown slithers in my room from the bedroom door and under my backpack. I freak out, do I grab the bag or stay on the bed?!? We (Nick and I) had a fake snake scare at Naurelle and Alastair's. This thing wasn't that long, was it a snake or lizard ahh!! what if it gets in my bag. What if there are others in my bag and I put on my backpack and it bites and kills me!
I pulled the backpack towards me while I stay on the bed.
It's a millipede. Are they poisonous? If I had tv and watched the latest nature shows I'd know, damn my television theories!! It's going towards the dirty clothes in the closet, SFA, where did this thing come from? why does everyone leave the doors open in the land of poisonous pests?
Okay, I've determined that the millipede probably has a small mouth and I can herd it out the screen door. However at this point I'm terrified of all the other creatures that could be in my laundry and bags. No sooner have I comforted myself with the fact that I just put those clothes there an hour ago than a frog jumps up against the back wall of the closet. I hollered- loud. The millipede beast is trying to climb the closet walls, so I shoo him across the floor and through the screen door where i study the extension cord carefully for unnatural movement- it could be masking any number of slithery creatures. Back to the frog, just in case he's poisonous I grab a dirty shirt, catch him with it and out the door he goes too.
I had to share this because my heart was banging in my ears I was a little scared and still am... should probably check the bed for creepy crawlies. Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs paralyze you in your sleep :)
BT