USELESS TRIVIA

It was late in the afternoon when my husband Steven walked in the front door. “I'm home!” he called as he dropped his keys on the foyer table.

“I'm in here!” I called from the living room where I was sitting on the couch, still in my pajamas with my laptop propped up on a pillow on my lap.

“What have you been up to today?” he asked picking up the pile of mail from the coffee table and leafing through it.

I was busy scrolling though some news-feeds. “Did you know Jim Carey was also a painter?” I asked as I turned the screen around to show him some of his paintings.

Steven looked confused. “Jim Carey? You mean the actor?”

“Yup.” I turned the laptop back to facing me and began tapping on the keys again.

“What made you look that up?” He dropped the mail back on the table and sat down next to me.

I shrugged my shoulders. “A friend of mine posted a video on Facebook of him painting. At first I thought it was a role he was playing but then I realized it was his work.”

“So you've spent all day looking at paintings he's done?” Steven looked at my pajamas. “When I left here this morning you had a whole list of things you wanted to get done.”

“Not just paintings he's done.” I pulled a blanket over my bare feet. “Once I saw what he'd done it got me thinking if there were any other actors who like to paint.”

“Really?” I could hear by his tone he wasn't impressed.

That didn't stop me from sharing more of my new found knowledge.“Did you know Sylvester Stallone likes to paint in the nude?”

Steven shook his head, giving me a look of disgust. “Why would I want to know that?”

“No reason.” I said shrugging my shoulders again. “I'm not a big fan of his work but I thought the nude thing was pretty interesting.”

Steven laughed as he took a pillow and placed it behind his back. “So who else paints?”

“See...I told you it's interesting!” I went back on the site I'd found earlier. “Did you know Anthony Hopkins started painting when he was in his 60's!”

“I did know that one.” Steven said.

“What about David Bowie?”

Steven nodded his head. “Knew that one, too.”

“Well...” I scrolled through the site. “What about Johnny Depp? Or Stevie Nicks?”

“Nope didn't know about either one of them.”

“See!” I smiled as I as I shut off my computer and placed it on the table. “Now I've given you some useless trivia you can feel free to share with friends and family!” I stood up and stretched.

“Thanks.” Steven got up and headed into the kitchen. “What's going on for dinner?” He opened the refrigerator and looked inside.

“Well...I got so busy with my research that I didn't get a chance to go to the grocery store.” I admitted.

“So we're ordering out?” Steven was headed for the drawer we kept the take-out menus in.

“Nope!” I opened the freezer and pulled out the frozen pizza I liked to keep on hand for just such emergencies. “Dinner will be ready in twenty minutes!” I turned on the oven. “Once I get this in the oven I'll have just enough time to jump in the shower and put on a clean pair of pajamas before dinner!”