Friday Randomness

It’s the last Friday of NaBloPoMo, and look, I have more stupid randomness for you. I am sure you’ve been waiting all week, right? Let’s dive in. Before we move on, though, the cartoon above is for Nicole, who loves the Wham! song, Last Christmas, and does not understand nor participate in Whamageddon. I may or may not be participating this year, though Ted’s company Christmas party usually throws me out pretty early, and I can just enjoy the song if it pops up somewhere.

Last Sunday, Maya wanted to go see the new Wicked movie, and she wanted to go to Chilis and have their Wicked themed margaritas. This is what they are supposed to look like.

And this is what they actually looked like.

The green one is apple flavored, and the pink one is passion fruit flavored. Were they good? No. Well, they weren’t horrible, but I would not have ordered a second one. Maya did, so she ended up having one of each. The movie was good, though if you didn’t see the first one, don’t bother, and if you didn’t like the first one, don’t bother. We enjoyed ourselves and I had popcorn.

It’s officially that time of year, when the heater is on. I really enjoy the shoulder months, when our electric bill is under $200 a month.

You guys! I bought myself a new round hairbrush, and it is a GAME CHANGER. I’ve been using the little wood one for decades. I probably bought it when my hair was shorter. My hair gets all tangled in it and I lose a lot of hair in a painful manner. So I went to Ulta and bought the plastic/metal one, because it looks like what my hairdresser uses. NO TANGLES. The hair is staying on my head where it belongs! Drying my hair, which I used to HATE, I no longer HATE. Why I didn’t do this years ago, I don’t know. I guess when we know better, we do better.

Thanksgiving was lovely! I made our traditional cranberry sauce and sweet potato pudding, and I tried a new mashed potato recipe, Ina Garten’s goat cheese mashed potatoes. If you think that recipe will not be my post tomorrow, you don’t understand what it means to limp to the finish in NaBloPoMo. I enjoyed them, though they are very goat cheesy. I was thinking that maybe next time I might make them with 1/2 the goat cheese, but maybe not. They were a hit just as is.

I decided to give my set of Narnia books to Ted’s cousin, for her kids. Will I regret that, and want to read them again? Perhaps. Maya said when the apocalypse happens and we are stuck inside with no TV or electricity, I may regret cutting too deep on the books. Next up – considering giving away my set of My Brilliant Friend books. I loved them, but will I read them again? Am I indeed cutting too deep? I almost gave away While I Was Gone, which this post tells me I got from a Little Free Library 2 years ago, but I couldn’t quite do it.

My email inbox is out of control. I am on too many mailing lists, either from stores or spam. I wish I had set up a dedicated email just for junk, but I didn’t. This is the unread emails from 7 or 8 days. My goal is to have an empty inbox, but clearly I am failing at that. My Facebook feed is equally clogged. I post my Wordle score there every day, to a limited audience, but then I go and delete the posts because I don’t want Wordle scores showing up in my memories. I think the last time I cleaned it out was about 6 weeks ago. Clearly I have some cleanup to do. Can I count these things as part of my ‘one thing a day’ decluttering project?

This was our Thanksgiving wine selection. Three Cabernets, a Chardonnay, and Champagne. All delicious, though the BV cab was old (2000) and had a very short lifespan. Open it, let it breathe for a few minutes, and drink quickly.

Do you like old wine? Do you have a favorite hairbrush? Do you like goat cheese? How many unread emails are in your inbox?