Ready for winter

According to Birds Amore, female chipmunks raise their chippies on their own, often fatten up for the winter, and they’re not social once they ‘grow up.’ With the exception of the growing up part, although many would argue that I haven’t grown up much, I believe chipmunks and I have a lot (at least three things, anyway) in common.

With chipmunks, as the winter approaches, they stock up on food, often storing it in their cheeks. I don’t store food in my cheeks, I barely store food in my house, but when looking in the mirror at my back the other day I realized I have a different type of storage: boob storage.

We’ve all heard about back boob and, even though it isn’t detailed on Wikipedia, it is pretty obvious what it is. When I spotted mine I immediately tried to make it disappear by standing up straighter. My attempt was fruitless. What was I thinking? I’m no magician, I’m a chipmunk and this is winter.

Well, it isn’t really winter anymore, but if it was, I’d be ready. Being that winter will be here again within the next six or eight months, I’m not a fan of working out, and I couldn’t find answers to my search “how do chipmunks lose their winter weight,” it appears I may be ‘winter ready’ year round.  Fortunately, this won’t get in the way of my being social. It may, however, impact what I wear.