Totally Random Thought Thursday - #3

Did everyone have a nice Thanksgiving?  While your burning off all those extra calories surfing the web, enjoy my latest list of Totally Random Thoughts.
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Opposites attract - hubby would rather be scanned by one of the new full-body x-ray machines at the airport than be patted down by the TSA.  I'm sorry, but there isn't enough money in the world that could convince me to step foot in one of those machines. Never going to happen.

One large pomegranate will yield about 1 1/2 cups of ruby red juice-filled arils (seeds).

My mother walked in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade one year.  She had to wear an Indian costume with some sort of a canoe apparatus. Not exactly her idea of fashionable holiday attire.

I left my desk to get a ream of paper for the printer 3 times. I still don't have any paper, but I found my slippers, I loaded the dishwasher, and I ate the aforementioned pomegranate. 

I can remember the lyrics to thousands of songs, but I can't for the life of me remember what I made for dinner on Monday.

I was watching tv while working on my laptop the other day. Neatly lined up on the coffee table were 3 cell phones, 2 house phones, 2 remotes, and a cordless mouse.  Want to venture a guess as to how many times I tried to answer a remote or change the tv channel with one of the phones?

Maybe I'm just getting old, but when did the word invitation get replaced with the word invite?  The word invite is defined as the act of sending an invitation.  Which means "the invites are in the mail" is like telling someone, "the act of sending an invitation is in the mail" - wrong.  Just had to put that out there.

Aside from the obvious facts that I'm not a professional dancer or famous person, I could never be on dancing with the stars.  I once had a ballroom dance teacher tell me he could teach anyone to dance.  I challenged him to teach me a couple moves.  He quit after 5 minutes and we never talked about it again. 

I hate it when my favorite things are discontinued - Haagen Dazs Cappuccino Commotion ice cream, Ralph Lauren's Tuxedo perfume, my favorite Land's End clogs and slippers :(..., and the braided chocolate and caramel goodness that was once known as a Marathon Bar.  Curly Wurly Bars from the UK are a good substitute, but they're hard to come by in the US.  Come to think of it, there were hard to come by when I was in the UK recently... I never did find one.  Bummer.

I'm self-diagnosing myself - I have "edit-itis".  That's what I call my habit of editing anything I've written or typed again and again - a condition which I hold responsible for most of my typos.  Sadly, I think this is a terminal condition.

When it comes to storing leftovers in the fridge, I like to put everything in airtight containers (all matching if possible, and definitely stain free).  Honestly, I don't know why I ever bother buying plastic wrap or foil.  Hey, what's up with the price of foil lately???.  I digress.  Under no circumstances would I ever consider storing food in the fridge uncovered - which leads me to Nigella, the ravishing Brit and star of her own cooking show.  As much as I adore her, it absolutely pains me to watch her reach into the fridge for a midnight snack by raiding a dish full of food that was covered with skimpy piece of mangled foil.  Or worse, one that was sitting in there completely uncovered.  Or even worse than that, one that was sitting in there completely uncovered with a serving utensils still in it.  This would send me over the edge.

Special Request Time - I'd love to hear a totally random thought from each commenter today.  I can't wait to hear what you're thinking (keep it clean, please).