Everybody Loves Random

So, you all are probably aware that it’s been hot lately.  Reeeeeeeeeally hot.  Especially if your AC breaks.

THANKFULLY, we were “only” without AC for 2 days.  But the damage was done:  my brain boiled away.  All that is left are a few random things.  I will give you the standard 10.  (By the way, the picture above is what you get if you image-search for “random” on Google, then shut your eyes and point to the screen.  Well played, Google.)

1.  Next song iTunes is going to shuffle up for me:  (*click click*) ”The Coventry Carol.”  Wha…?  Must separate Christmas music into its own playlist.

2.  Last show I watched on TV:  We are watching “From the Earth to the Moon,” done with the first six episodes.  I persuaded my daughter to watch it by saying “You can see rocket ships!  And men talking!”  So now she thinks it’s great.  Of course, now she’s also asking to go in a rocket ship.  Um, maybe later, honey.

3.  Last movie I saw:  Alice in Wonderland, the Tim Burton version.  He was at his Tim Burtoniest.  Not my new favorite movie.  (To become that, it would have to beat out The Mummy, and that is NOT HAPPENING.)

4.  The last movie I saw in a theater: ….oh.  Um.  Date Night, I think.  Was it?  Yeah.  Yeah, that was the last one. o_O

5.  How fast did I eat the bag of Jelly bellys that was supposed to last an entire week?  Two days, baby.  Don’t hate.  I was trying to keep my brain from boiling.

6.  Last thing I cooked/baked:  If you discount the microwave, I think it was tilapia.  if you count the microwave, the answer gets pushed a lot closer to the present time and it was about 4 cups of coffee in a row.

7.  Strangest thing that ever happened to me on an airplane:  Oh, this was great.  It was right before takeoff, and the flight attendant came bustling back to my aisle.  ”Excuse me, ma’am,” she said to the woman sitting across the aisle from me. This woman was in late middle age, very proper and friendly looking, like a retired teacher.  She was traveling with her husband.  APPARENTLY her carry-on had started buzzing and was freaking out the flight crew.  This was interesting enough to cause the senior gentleman next to me to take out his earbuds (I know, he was cooler than me) and watch the developing situation with interest.  The teacher-lady was getting flustered as she took down her carry-on and began unzipping and rifling through pockets.  By now the buzzing sound was audible to those of us across the aisle.  Finally she unzipped one last pocket, peeked in, and said loudly in a tone of relief, “It was my toothbrush!  Now, how did that get in there?”  The earbuds man next to me said, “Sure, lady.”  Then she put back her now-quiet bag and he put his earbuds back in, and we all had a pleasant flight.  earbuds and me probably more so than teacher-lady.

I never saw the toothbrush.  But, hey.  She said it was a toothbrush.

8.  Number of books in my TBR:  26.  Manageable, though I know some people could eat 26 books for breakfast and pick their teeth with 26 more.  (One for each tooth, if you’ve had your wisdom teeth out and then lost two more in a freak accident.)  But I have two shelves for the TBR pile, and if it overflows those it starts to seem more stressful than fun.*

*Perhaps it’s getting close to critical mass. The first time I typed that sentence I wrote “starts to seem more fun than stressful.”  Whoops.

9.  Am I caught up on the laundry?  Hahahaha. *grumble* Ok, no.

10.  Did I meet my writing goal for the week?  Well…I came closer to getting that done than I did with the laundry.

So.  Tell me something random about you!  Keep it clean enough for Google SafeSearch, please. :)