In-Flight Entertainment

Kids are often entertaining, but sometimes adults are much more. In this case, it was definitely the lady in front of us.

We flew to CA last week and the flight was 4 hours long. I'm pretty used to that type of thing alone, so having Josh's help was great. I expect the girls to be exhausted, to not sleep, and to just sort of endure and try to entertain. Well the lady in front of us apparently had a different idea of how she wanted her flight to go.

Understandably, I envy everyone in the airport holding a book in their hand instead of a childs hand. We still carry books, usually big heavy ones that end up getting a page read and add to our lacking weight lifting regime. I seriously dream of flying without my kids so I can enjoy the luxury of just sitting for hours reading with nothing to do.

Anyway, I guess Hazel kept bumping her seat (she was on the ground coloring for a while) and the lady did a few different gestures that we could tell she was annoyed, but the best part was when she reached her hand over the back of her head rest and just held it there for like 5 minutes! It was hysterical!

I didn't have a camera on me but I desperately wanted to turn on my phone so I could use the camera. Josh really didn't like that idea (even though he's checked his email before in-flight...)No joke, she left it there until her arm must have been numb. I still don't get the point of it, to steady the chair? To say, "Don't touch, this is my chair!"? It was good solid entertainment for me to watch. Josh was nicer and tried very hard to keep her away from it after that (and we had been trying).

Afterwards I noticed she wouldn't look at us so I got her attention and apologized and said, "I'm sorry you got more excitement than you bargained for!" And then she looked uncomfortable and quickly said something about being used to it from her nieces and nephews and how she was trying to give us more room or something. I said sorry again. It was nice for her to realize we weren't out to ruin her trip. Really funny though, I couldn't stop laughing--good thing for the loud engines.

Q: Have you ever been entertained by another adult not meaning to entertain?

Wanna Play Ping Pong?

"Ping Pong." The words sound fun, sort of elementary, silly. Maybe they shouldn't even call this ping pong.

A word gone bad to ruin the song

Autumn, my sister, wrote about Rhianna today and how she wasn't able to tolerate her until recently and now she even likes her new song, "Take a Bow"--which happens to drive me nuts. Why does it drive me nuts? Well, aside from it being her and her whiney voice and plastic wrapped clothes cut with oversized air holes in places, her new song talks about how the guys looks so "dumb."

Now I tend to use that word probably more than I should, point being, I like the word well enough, but I thought it was, well, a dumb word for the song. In the middle of all her sass, it was sort of childish sounding. That alone just makes me think the whole song is dumb, and I can't seem to get past that--whenever that happens.

There is a country song out right now, I think it's Rascal Flatts, who knows, but in the first opening line or two, he happens to run out of words and fills in with a dramatic, "Yaa aaa" that again, just sounds so dumb. I don't mind the rest of the song, but having this in the beginning just sort of ruins the whole thing for me. (Gosh, I just looked all over and can't find that song, why did I waste my time doing that? Do any of you know what I'm talking about?) That said, it almost works in their favor sometimes because I've started making fun of it so much (just to myself or Josh or Hazel) that when it comes on I sing to it and sort of relish in how dumb it sounds. Do you know what I mean?

I wish I could remember the other songs out right now that I feel the same way about, but I can't think of them since I'm listening to Whitney Houston--who I have decidedly marked as the best singer EVER. Oh man, she just makes me want to stand on the table and open my arms and burst my lungs open. It's such a disappointment when I just burst out a really painful sounding voice instead, so it turns more into charades. Oh goodness, you guys have to listen to her to feel this.



Her voice is incredible, too bad she's nuts now.

I have to add that that one word or sound (you know what I mean, where they get a little too creative in trying to fill in space or a strange build up to the climax) in a song goes for movies too, that one scene in a movie just tends to ruin it for me. I'm not saying I like this quality, just saying. One more example. The other night we were watching, "So You Think You Can Dance" and there was a dance where Thayne was just terrible and there was this really awkward moment (to just choose one) in his solo where it looked like he hadn't planned anything and so he just ran around for a minute during what should have been this great climax to his performance to go with the song...oh but it was terrible. So terrible that I rewound it over and over again. This was just painful for Josh who wanted to rewatch the good ones, but those are far less interesting to me, I love watching awkwardness.

Check this out and tell me if you agree that he was thinking, "Oh I'll go this way...oh no, I think I'll go this way and oh boy, I'm so excited, I think I'll jump!"



Q: How about you? Do you care about dumb words in songs?
Q: What songs bug you?
Q: Were you loving Thayne as much as I was that night?