Odd Squirrel Moment

I don't know if this falls under squirrel moment or not.  We sat in the Emergency Room on Wednesday for 5 hours. My youngest son's twirling resulted in him fracturing his foot.  Apparently he comes from a long line of 5th grade foot fracturers - me, Pappy, Kevin. So these are my squirrel moments from the Emergency Room. 

All these people ended up here because of their choices, all be it, some of them had that choice made for them.

How a person behaves under stress can tell you a lot about them.

Yes, you can get so stinkin drunk you can't stand up. This actually caused my son to mention to me that HE IS NEVER GOING TO DRINK. Maybe a trip to the emergency room for observation purposes should be mandatory for tweens.

You REALLY shouldn't give Mountain Dew and Doritos to a toddler at 11 pm at night and not expect them to melt down.  SERIOUSLY!  I try not to judge but a wound up out of control toddler in crowded waiting room is a recipe for disaster.

I appreciate the holiday decorations even though the scotch taped garland was a little kitschy for me. However, the ER is suppose to be a safer place so the glass balls on the Christmas tree maybe not the best idea.  Did I mention there was a out of control toddler? 

Bouncing a toddler who has the potential to puke not a good idea.

This one is for Mrs EPI.  I tried desperately to NOT TOUCH anything.  That was extremely difficult. I admit it I am a toucher. There is really not enough sanitizer in the world for a ER visit on a cold night.

Lastly, there were so many times that during the night I wanted to help parent some kids.  It was extremely hard for me not to volunteer my help. 

Squirrel Moment # 1004

Oh I am a magnet for this kind of sighting according to Mrs Epi. 

Yes that is a giant fish on top of a car. I guess the car is actually a advertisement for prop 522.  Usually when I see these kinds of displays, I think "kook" not vote for something.  So, they might want to rethink how they spend their money.

Squirrel Moment # 1003

Lately, my local supermarket has been a great source of squirrel moments or sightings.  See here for a definition of squirrel moments. Some of you might of remembered the giant plastic cow in the dairy section.  Well this one is a little different.

That is toilet paper displayed in the frozen food section.  I don't know what they are trying to say exactly.  IT was just so unexpected.  It was almost(yes almost) a deterrent from buying a cheap frozen pizza.  As almost to say if you eat a lot of this frozen junk, you are going to need a lot of toilet paper.  I don't know what the marketing science behind locating the TP in the frozen food aisle. Just strange location for a toilet paper display is all I am saying.

You might be a homemaker if (day 9)

you routinely have squirrel moments

 

A squirrel moment is defined as random thought or idea not related to what is currently being discussed or related to the current situation that is randomly blurted out during conversation with another adult.

I am pretty notorious for this. I am usually visually distracted by something then I blurt out my observation. It is like I have conversation ADD.  We homemakers are multi-taskers even in our conversations. I have these type of conversations almost daily.

My most recent memorable conversation that has documentation actually had to do with this squirrel mask sold on Amazon.

Squirrel Mask via Amazon

This mask sparked a whole text messaging flurry between my sister and me and my best friend and I.
My conversation with my sister:

 

My conversation with my best friend:

 



Welcome to my crazy train or crazy brain. 

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31 Days of Little Things - Wild Kingdom and Squirrel Moment #1002

On Monday, I wasn't feeling the greatest and I was out and about grocery shopping.  I just wanted to be DONE! When I saw this car with the whole dashboard filled with mini plastic animal figures.  It cracked me up.  They had the whole animal kingdom ont heir dashboard.

Which leads me to my squirrel moment. 

Squirrel Moment - random though or idea not related to what is currently being discussed or related to the current situation or purely a chain of thought progression

 

What kind of person drives around with the whole Wild Kingdom on his dashboard. How do they stay upright?  Stick with me, then I saw this cool digital art project for kids at Mrs Knight's Smartest Artists.  Where you take pictures of plastic animals outside to practice your digital photography.  YOU KNOW I HAD TO GIVE IT A SHOT!

 

I know I am a little odd.  Something that made me smile actually ended up being a little inspiring. 
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Squirrel Moment #1001

We saw this Santa's Outhouse at Big Lot's .  Which brings me to a squirrel moment. 

Who in the heck puts this on their tree? What kind of OTHER ornaments are on there?  Go ahead and let that marinate in your brain. I know my whole blog is named after the view of a honeypot BUT does outhouse say Christmas to you.

Happiness Within

I finally completed my Alcan Highway book.  I had done one for Pappy and a mini for Chuckles.  It had been on my to do since July 2010 (YIKES)

It arrived in this box with this on the inside.

It made me pause for a moment. Maybe it was a little bit of a squirrel moment or just deep thought. If it was only as easy as opening a box to find happiness  All happiness has to come within ourselves, at least, that is what I think. It can't be based on things or people. If we seek in those things, we will be truly unhappy. So as I head into the Holiday season, I am going to seek happiness within.

Squirrel Moment #1000

It was freezing on Wednesday so I attempted to clean off my desk. There is hope that one day I will actually find the wood surface. Hope springs eternal. I found these torn off calendar pages that say, "You know you are a Redneck if......" Several questions came to mind. One, I never had a calender that was like that. Where did that come from? Two, why did I think it was necessary to keep these little slips of paper. Three, I think the Girl Scout Cookie one might actually apply to me. Does that REALLY make me a Redneck? I just read an article that roommates got in fight over thin mints. They are definitely REDNECK. Oh by the way, this did nothing to get my desk clean

For definition of a squirrel moment see here.

Squirrel Moment #999

This might need to become a regular feature on this blog. See here for a better definition of Squirrel Moment. Well, this week was not without the general odd moments that I seem to encounter. I was out and about with Mrs Epi when we literally saw a Blue Man. His skin was clearly blue. I don't even know what we were talking about when we saw this guy. Turns out he was once featured on the Today show. We were a little obsessed because we had to find out what happened to this guy. You know google is your friend.



Then once again we were out and about and we saw this KFC bucket on top of a chicken coop.
Oh so redneck and so funny. I wished I had my real camera instead of my phone but it gives you the general idea.

Squirrel Moment # 998

Don't laugh, I got those Squirrel Underwear as a Christmas Present. OK, laugh with me. LOL Ever heard of a Squirrel Moment?

Squirrel Moment - random though or idea not related to what is currently being discussed or related to the current situation

On Saturday, we visited the Police Memorial in Lakewood, Washington for the 4 Slain Police Officers. The memorial was outside the Forza Coffee Shop. We went in to have some coffee. The wait was a long time. This is where my squirrel moment happens. A man was reading/studying a Clinical Neurology textbook . The whole time I was thinking to myself, "The book he is reading isn't big enough to cover Clinical Neurology." It appeared to be a slender paperback textbook. Inside, I was secretly freaking out at the size of the book. Once again thinking to myself, "Please tell me that he has more books for this subject." My friend Ms Smarty Pants has a bona fide Medical mystery going on in her life. (Sorry Chica) She has visited several neurologist. None of them have been able to really figure out exactly what is going on for her. It is very frustrating. So I start thinking to myself, "This sure explains a lot of their gaps in their knowledge. " So instead of thinking about the Police Officers, the late Coffee, the other patrons. I was fixated on clinical neurology. So there you have my squirrel moment.