10 Random Things I’ve Discovered this Week

Random Discovery #1

A security screen door with a deadbolt AND a sturdy wood front door with an additional deadbolt is NOT going to deter a serial killer from getting in our house if we are going to keep our front room window, which has a flimsy thin screen in it, open wide all night.

Random Discovery #2

Rice Krispies cereal from Mexico and the United States both “speak” the same language! I understood it perfectly! (You DID know that, when you pour milk on Rice Krispies, the cereal speaks to you, right? Just checking.)

Random Discovery #3

Drinking coffee from a chalky, boring styrofoam cup tastes vastly different than drinking it from your favorite ceramic mug with an awesome quote on it.

Random Discovery #4

After writing the first seven chapters of my first fiction novel, I have discovered that I don’t really know what in the world I am doing – but I’m doing it anyway.

(Note: I have included an awesome, inspirational TED Talk video at the end of this post about following your creative dreams…)

Random Discovery #5

The lyrics from Gene Autry’s version of “Here Comes Santa Claus” claims that Santa “doesn’t care if you’re rich or poor, he loves you just the same”. It’s a lie…

Random Discovery #6

Our local post office delivers on Sundays! I came home from church and three packages were sitting on my porch. Either that, or someone stole them from my porch this week and threw them back because they weren’t interested in bicycle inner tubes, a college textbook, or novelty socks.

Random Discovery #7

People who stamp expiration dates on bread hide it on purpose so that we stand in the aisle looking over the packaging for five minutes, squishing the bread half to death to find it.

Random Discovery #8

Banging your head against the wall for an hour burns 150 calories. Let’s go with this a minute…

How did they even gather this data?! Did someone really volunteer to be a test subject for this? I often feel like banging my head on a wall several times a day. If I acted on this impulse, I would be as thin and willowy as a ballerina.

Moving on…two more…

Random Discovery #9

Whatever line you choose at Walmart will be the wrong one. This is a well-known phenomenon that I have personally tested and found to be accurate. When you spy a short, fast-moving line, it is fact that, as soon as you join the herd at that register, your luck will evaporate. The next person in line will need a price check on an obscure item that none of the employees can find, will have 12 ads or coupons from other stores to show the cashier because Walmart has promised to match competitor’s prices, or the person paying has had their card denied and is searching frantically through their wallet for an alternative payment method.

Random Discovery #10

That husbands are so thoughtful. They never let their wives be sick alone. If I wake up coughing and feverish and need my husband to make some soup or just baby me for a day or two, he will inevitably be complaining of the same symptoms by that evening and my solo “pity party” has officially been crashed.

What did you discover this week?