The Squirrel Chronicles...ft. Dawson and Tommy

In a follow-up to my most recent post I would like to add just a wee bit more. After our lovely moment with the squirrels yesterday morning, disaster struck at the Racek bathroom window. In addition to the Raceks 3 children, the children of their good friends came over. Tommy and Evvy are around the same age as the other children. Well... during nap time we were trying to separate the children so they would actually go to sleep. Since we knew Tommy and Dawson, both age 3, probably wouldn't sleep we set them up in the bathroom so they wouldn't disrupt the other kids. (Just in case you think this is cruel or unusual to put children in the bathroom the Raceks bathroom is the size of a normal sized bedroom so it's not too horrible.)

Anyway I was checking my email in Lisa's office which is across the hall from the bathroom. I was listening to the boys giggles and bumps. All of a sudden I heard a really loud BUMP! But afterward no one was crying so I figured they just knocked something over. Well Lisa came down the hall and swung open the door. To our surprise the boys had climbed onto the counter, opened the window, busted out the screen and had dumped all the bath toys onto the squirrels nest. We look out and the mama squirrel was looking pretty upset. When questioned as to why they had done this the boys replied, "We wanted to cheer them up so we were letting them play with our toys!" I had to vacate the room immediately before I broke into hysterical laughter.

We were all just happy the mama squirrel didn't attack the boys because they threw all the toys in the nest. We also had to check the house for squirrels in case the babies had come in. Joe retrieved the toys by attaching duct tape to the end of a stick (Lisa's idea) but kept dropping the big green plastic frog on the nest.

When all is said and done the mama and babies are doing ok a little shook up but hanging in there. Today we took a nature walk and had a picnic lunch in the botanical gardens at UCLA. I think the squirrels must be communicating because we were accosted by 7 squirrels who kept trying to get food. I know the mama squirrel must have told on us.

And now for something completely different. I was hanging out with two of my guy friends last night and surprise surprise we were talking about dating. I got into it with one of them about why he wasn't pursuing a relationship with someone and one thing led to another and well here goes...They both said it would be interesting if I put relationship (romantic) tips at the end of my blog entries so I can share with you all the sage advice I shared with them. now realize I clearly don't have a romantic relationship, but who cares...It's my blog.

Tanika's Relationship Tip#1: Consistency. When interested in someone of the opposite sex be consistent in your behavior towards them. If you are interested in them and would actually like to pursue them then make some APPROPRIATE advances or if they make advances toward you then respond. Don't respond one day then the next act like you aren't interested. All you'll do is complicate matters and make life difficult for the both of you. On the other hand if you like someone and aren't interested in pursuing them. Get out of the way and let someone else have an opportunity. If you don't have the guts to start a relationship with someone then move on. Don't act like you like them today then go "Oh my god! what did I do?" Then act stone cold the next time. That's sophomoric and annoying. (I'm talking to both guys and girls here.) Unless you are particularly close treat your same sex friends the same. Unless it's understood don't single out one person for special attention. That's confusing. As I said unless it is understood what is going on. If you are good pals, fine, but please make sure all parties know this. DTRs can be a good thing. That's it for today and as always enjoy.