Lazy Sunday Randomness

I forgot to write about the wonderful flight attendants on my trip down to Ft. Lauderdale last week. I have to say they were the best, most relaxed, funniest crew I've ever flown with. They made everything extraordinary, including the "safety feature announcement".
First of all, our flight crew was late because their plane got stuck in Chicago. They got us all on the plane and we were waiting about fifteen minutes before the pilot came on board. When our head flight attendant spied the co-pilot coming down the jetway, she got on the intercom and said, "Here comes the co-pilot, everyone clap when he gets on board." Well once he got onto the plane, everyone burst into applause and laughter at his expression. Then he went into the cockpit and it was time for the safety feature announcement.

To begin with, the head flight attendent got on the mike and said, "I'd like you all to pay attention to my ex-husband and his current wife." The "ex-husband" rolled his eyes and that started me giggling. Then she said, "For anyone who hasn't been in a car in the last 50 years, this is how you operate a seat belt." After that she pointed out the seat card which no one reads, and then she said "If this flight becomes a cruise...you may use your seat cushion..." etc. When she gave the announcement regarding the air masks she started off by saying "We don't expect to lose cabin pressure on this flight or we wouldn't be on board, but in the event..." and she then gave the standard spiel until the end when they usually advise the parents about putting on their mask first when she said: "Those of you travelling with children...I feel sorry for you. However, please put your own mask on first and then your child's mask. If you have two children with you, decide which one you like best and then..." Of course I was snorfling so bad, I had tears in my eyes because it was much funnier in person than I'm describing.

But the best part of all was right as we were taking off. I was seated in the very first row and the flight attendants were now seated and ready for take off. One of them reached over and got a couple of bags of those little packages of peanuts out of the storage bin. As we were taxiing down the runway, he opened the bags and poured them onto the aisle. When the plane took off, they began sliding down the aisle and Teri said: "Here is your snack service." I heard her ask one of the other flight attendants how far down the aisle the peanuts got. That was too funny. When it was time for the real snack service, she got back on the mike and said that they had some "junior flight attendants in training" who would be passing out the snacks. It turns out they had recruited a couple of passengers--one guy looked like he had stepped straight out of GQ magazine and his partner was a tattooed "biker" type guy. They passed out the snacks to the whole plane.

It was a lot of fun and I think because of the way the flight attendants handled things, the passengers were not upset about the flight being delayed.
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I dragged out my long-neglected novel yesterday and wrote about a thousand words. I will finish it, and soon. I'm tired of it sitting there mocking me. I will find out if it is publishable.

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It's supposed to start getting cooler later this week. *sigh* The trees are already losing their leaves. I hate winter.

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The house situation has gone from bad to worse. It turns out the perk test we had done two years ago is not adequate. The guy who did the test did not document WHERE he did it and now they cannot get the land to perk properly again. They are going to try in another area of the property and they are working with us (meaning they aren't making us pay another fee) so hopefully they can get the test to work and then we can move on.

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We got Neil Gaiman's new book, Anansi Boys, on Friday and I will probably start reading it today.

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That's all for now! *Hugs her F-Listers*