{"id":36,"date":"2010-04-15T14:52:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T14:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viciousgrin.com\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2011-12-12T14:09:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T19:09:03","slug":"squirrel-tales-an-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viciousgrin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/squirrel-tales-an-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel Tales: An Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nuts<\/a><\/p>\n

Soooo, yeah. How to start explaining this one? Well, I’m already outed as a big nerd in the fact that I am over 30 and have an entire room in my house dedicated to my and HTB’s comic book collection and the fact that I’ve been playing World of Warcraft for 4 1\/2 years. How can this admission possibly be nerdier?<\/p>\n

I also used to LARP. That stands for Live Action Role Playing. Whenever questioned in public as a group what we were up to, we’d say “Impromptu Theater” which was technically<\/em> true. It is all improvised and vaguely theatrical when people aren’t being dumbasses. I shouldn’t dig on it too bad. It’s how I made all my friends and significant others. Who I all adore. But it’s still somewhat embarrassing.<\/p>\n

What does any of this have to do with squirrels? In one game I played a kind of magical creature who was part animal. That animal? Squirrel. No fur suits were worn. Ever. Ew. Not that kind of squirrel “roleplay”. Really it was an excuse to be loud, obnoxious, immature, and occasionally adorable. So. . . . I was myself with a character sheet \ud83d\ude1b basically. I wasn’t ever a very good LARPer. I do find squirrels incredibly cute.<\/p>\n

Yes, I know they are vermin. Yes, I know they are a nuisance. And yes, I recently discovered, they are really aggressive in my neighborhood. So, squirrels subject to the natural selection of neighborhood Volkswagons is a blessing not a sadness. I still think squirrels are awesome.<\/p>\n

One day, while browsing around Modcloth<\/a> a few months failing to find a dress to wear to my rehearsal dinner, I started looking at the house stuff section of the website. That is when I came upon the glory of the Nuts About Snacks Dish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But it was OUT OF STOCK! NOOO!!! So, I did what any reasonable person would do. I put in my informations in the little box that begged, pathetically, for them to tell me when this epitome of squirrelly glory would be available again. And then I promptly forgot about it. How often does something out of stock come back in stock again? Really?<\/p>\n

Oh, me of little faith. For shame. I got the e-mail yesterday that my beloved (and utterly forgotten about) squirrel candy dish was back in stock waiting for me to purchase hims. And purchase hims I did. He has shipped and soon will be here for me to store snackable noms within and serve to guests and woodland creatures.<\/p>\n

Thank you, Modcloth. You are <3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soooo, yeah. How to start explaining this one? Well, I’m already outed as a big nerd in the fact that I am over 30 and have an entire room in my house dedicated to my and HTB’s comic book collection and the fact that I’ve been playing World of Warcraft for 4 1\/2 years. How … <\/p>\n

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