Change of Mail Destination

After much delay I finally made it to the ever so busy post office to mail some thank you letters (long overdue) and a few packages. This mail run was quite international compared to the average shipment, at least compared to where I normally mail. I sent two letters to Norway, one letter to the Netherlands, two packages to Canada and will be sending one more package to Lesotho (hint, hint N, N and C). I also sent one very important packet of envelopes to my final recommender for graduate school. This last package was domestic and a bit of a disappointment to my post office guy who was hoping that I would be doing my entire transaction abroad.

I only wish I were able to delivers these things in person...but my mom would kill me if I even mentioned traveling anytime soon!

Attack of the Squirrels!

Now that my niece is old enough to run around I decided to take her to the park. Little did I know that our picnic at the park would turn into Auntie Shayla vs The Squirrels! There we were on our picnic blanket enjoying our snacks and up walked a squirrel. I did not think anything of it until he kept walking up to our blanket. When he was about a foot away I was on full alert. I kept thinking he would jump on our blanket or worse jump on my niece since she was munching away on one of her cookies. After shooing him away a couple of times another squirrel decided to join our party. We played the “inch closer – shoo away” game for about ten minutes before I decided to move our blanket from the shaded area to a less tree filled spot.

Of course this did not sway these determined squirrels one bit! They knew that humans provided food and were determined to get some from us. Unfortunately I was not going to feed these squirrels and was not humored by their determination or friendliness. We were joined at our new location by the two original squirrels plus a third squirrel. Also these squirrels decided to team up against me so as I shooed one away another would creep up from the other side. I was so irritated by these attacking squirrels that I was actually kicking at them at one point. I just kept thinking about this article I once read in the paper about squirrels that attacked and killed this man in England. I was not going to be front page news because of some squirrels. Of course I probably looked plenty crazy to the other people in the park.

In the end the squirrels did a good job in running me off. I took my niece to the swings and decided that I will just have to learn to ignore the squirrels if I want to go back.