#BEDM - 14th: 10 random things

Today's prompt is home sweet home which I think deserves a proper post, so I'll move that to later in the month when I've had some time to take some photos!  So, instead, joining in with a few people (Gillian, Annie) here are ten random things:

1. When I wash up (and I genuinely love washing up) I never put matching cutlery in the same compartments in the cutlery drainer thing, so I'd never put forks with forks.  I like sorting things out, so if I put them together straight away, I wouldn't be able to sort them when they are dry.  I fully understand why this would infuriate people, though!
2. I hate surprises, and this is the main reason why I have always (as far as I am aware) read the ending to a book when I'm only about a third of the way through it.  This way, I am likely to have met all the main characters, and so the ending will make some degree of sense.  Then I can carry on reading, happy knowing what is going to come next.  There will inevitably some twists and turns along the way, so I don't already know everything, but I know the jist of it, and this makes me happy.
3. Similarly, if I don't like a book after a chapter or two, I stop reading it and move on to something else.  Maybe I'll come back to the book in the future, maybe I won't.  But there are far too many books out there I want to read (and more are always being published) that I really think life is too short to read books you're not enjoying.  I had to read books for English when I was at school, and unsurprisingly I didn't enjoy them.  Now I read what I went, when I want. 
4. I love the feeling of wearing new socks.  If I had all the money in the world (and had done things like found a cure for cancer, vanquished poverty etc and could justify being frivolous) then I would wear new socks every day.
5. Especially socks with owls on.  I have a lot of pairs of socks with owls on.
6. I really feel for apostrophes, they're forever being used in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong context.  I would like to go around with a big marker pen, drawing them in when necessary and crossing them out if they're wrong.  When I was in Durham there was a lovely lovely bar I often went to for lunch, with the menu advertising a range of 'tea's and coffee's' (it pained me to type that!).  Every time I saw that sign it made me wince.
7. We have a set of drinking glasses, two with spots and two with stripes.  Sometimes when I want a cold drink I specifically that I want it in the spots/stripes glass and it feels weird if I have it in the other one.
8. Today I walked back from school after invigilating some exams and it was sunny enough that for the first time this year I could walk outside in the evenings without a cardigan or jumper.
9. I hate hatehatehatehatehate the sound of people scratching fabric.  It makes me flinch and want to whimper.  People scratching their leg whilst wearing jeans is the worst.  If I have an itch when I'm wearing jeans then I move my hand downwards repeatedly in the same direction as that is the only motion which doesn't make a harsh (to me) sound.
10. I love lists.  Although sometimes lists are harder to write than you may think at the beginning!

I've loved reading other people's lists...feel free to add any links in the comments!