A Bit Crackers

Oops. I guess I left you all hanging on the rest of my Japanese trip. That was pretty uncool of me. Well, in case you didn't know, the rest of the trip was phenomenal and I, in fact, made it home alive. Since September I have been nannying in Iowa City a couple days a week and doing handiwork and/or house work and/or yard work for a couple people in Iowa City. The rest of the time I am in Des Moines doing crafts with sister Jenny and applying for jobs. Now, the real reason for this blog post is because of a terrible truth to which I just becamse conscious.
So, I just realized my family (myself certainly included) is actually crazy. It didn't hit me until I shouted down the block to the neighbor, that what I was doing was not an every day occurrence. Mom put her bird feeders out a couple days ago; she'd stopped feeding the birds for a couple months because the varmints had all taken over and the birds quit coming. So we carefully positioned this one feeder so the squirrels couldn't get to it. Well, she looked out the window this morning and wouldn't you know, there was a squirrel eating the suet. Without thinking, I ran to the front door and hollered at the squirrel. He ran halfway up the tree and stopped - waiting for me to close the door so he could go back to the suet. Well, I wouldn't have a squirrel make a mockery of me, so in my red union suit (yes, I wear a union suit to bed. Butt flap and all) I ran out and climbed up the tree after the squirrel (which I totally almost caught) to let him know he was not welcomed. I was just about to climb back down when I hear "KATIE WALTERS!" from the other end of the block. It was my mom's neighbor Janet. At this point I still did not see my actions as unusual. It was when I shouted, "Hey Janet! Just chasing a squirrel up a tree," that it hit me.
So yup, there's my big realization for the day. My family (I say family because Mom definitely did not think it was weird) is f-ing nuts.