in the small victories department

The other morning I had to get up at 4 am to make it from Des Moines to Waterloo by 7 o'clock. As I was stumbling to the bathroom I grabbed my shoes from the floor just outside the bathroom. It made me smile because they were sitting right by the heating vent and that made me remember his unfortunate encounter with a snake last fall. I think it's funny that he's so afraid of snakes. Yes, not fair of me to make fun, I know. Anyway, so I go into the bathroom and there on the rug is a large beetle. My first instinct was to smash it and then just tiptoe around the yucky guts. But then I got thinking that I need to start thinking about bug karma because pretty soon I'm going to be in an environment where they're going to be able to get me back big time. Long story short I spent 15 minutes trying to coax this beetle out of the corner so that I could get ready for work without having to kill him. This was a big deal for me. We co-existed.