I did it!

Yay!
Today, I cooked dinner... all by myself!!! Now, as everyone knows, I am deathly afraid of raw chicken. I think I paid too much attention in middle school cooking class when we learned about e-coli and salmonella. But, today Bledi was at work and I was hungry so I tackled my fear. Bledi had bought a whole baby chicken downstairs at the market and some potatoes. I put on my rubber gloves and needless to say I touched the raw chicken, rubbed a nice oil/salt/pepper mixture on it and sliced some potatoes and into the oven it went for an hour and a half. And let me tell you... it came out so tasty! Woo hoo - I think I finally made Bledi proud. ;)
(The fact that I then proceeded to throw out my gloves and disinfect the entire kitchen afterwards is irrelevant, haha).
While we are talking about fears, we all know that I have had a lot of those over the years! Elevators, aquariums (yes, you can have a nightmare about aquariums)... but I have since gotten over those. However, for some reason there are a few things I am still deathly afraid of.
1. Mold! 2. Spiders 3. Heights
And for some reason, I seem to encounter numbers one and two incredibly often despite all of my efforts to the contrary. For example, Bledi's mother had never seen a spider in this apartment in 3 years... until I came here! Since then, we have killed about 5. Hmmm.
Also, just today only, I have found moldy bread and also that my backpack (of all things!) decided to sprout nasty green and white mold. Of course, I noticed it only after I had put it on my bed. Yuck.
I swear, if I wasn't so afraid of mold or spiders I would never encounter them!