Squirrelly Tales

Last night Brad and I went on a date to LOWES :) to pick out a bunch of light stuff (switches/ light boxes) for our basement, but when we got home we really didn't feel like unloading it all...so, he was going to do that today.  I woke up before him and thought it would be funny to put a note on all that stuff in the trunk of the van that said, "You (picture of a light bulb) up my life!"  SO, then I was really impatient...at about 10am I asked him if he had brought in the lights yet....then at lunch time I asked about the lights...then I thought, "I need to be discreet here or he will suspect I am up to something....so, I will wait until about 2pm to ask again"...haha!  So I asked him again and he said, "Heather, have you not noticed that I have been singing "You light up my life"...ALL DAY!???"  WHAT?!!!  He never brought the lights in, but he had run a quick errand and had put something in the trunk and noticed it.  I was so focused on those silly lights being brought in that I didn't even realize the serenade.  HA!

Meanwhile, at 11am...I had to pick up Savannah from a Youth Group fundraising event and I talked with a friend who told me all about why the power had been out today in Jackson.  A squirrel had managed to get into some fuses and cause a lot of damage...and she said the squirrel got fried in the process...this is a random story, but came into play later in the day.

Next, I was making a list for a grocery run and I was sitting at the dining room table kind-of talking to myself about it.  I had asked Brad to let me know if there was anything he needed, but I didn't know he was at the refrigerator looking at the items.  I guess I said, "Let's go to the milk...then the eggs...oh, do we need sour cream?"  AND, he thought I meant he should be pointing, in the fridge, to those items...like I was walking him through the fridge.  So, he gives me some suggestions from the other room and I tell him, "not yet, those aren't in the right order"...he got so confused.  Then I saw him peek around the corner with THAT LOOK on his face.  I told him, "I visualize myself walking through Meijer from the back to the front and I organize my list that way...it is just faster."  "There is a strategy for grocery shopping, you know!" He thinks I am really weird, but he learned something new about me today :)

Then I went to Meijer and when I was walking in....the automatic door didn't open for me....haha!  I would not say I faceplanted the door...but, I came very close (like within 3 inches) and laughed really hard as I thought, "Is this about my "closed door" thing from yesterday, Lord?"  I am telling you God plays tricks on me...this blog is serving as documentation for some of these pranks...it is amazing how much trust we have in automated processes :)  I got all my groceries and was checking out and chatting with the lady at checkout about the day...the time change tonight...the power outage in Jackson and I said to her, "Do you know how it happened?"  She didn't, so I told her it was a squirrel. Then she proceeded to tell me all about how much she loves squirrels and that she feeds them and loves to watch them play....that they are just the cutest animals....and I wondered if she names them. So, I determined I would not tell her that one got fried....BUT, then she asked me if the squirrel survived.   "UHHHHH, he didn't make it", I said....she looked SO SAD!  Then, I was a complete weirdo and said, "I didn't want to have to be the one to tell you that!"...as I left, I thought, "I can't believe I just said that about a squirrel!"