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It's time once again for a random and happy Tuesday, linking up with Stacy's Random Thoughts at Stacy Uncorked and Sandee at Comedy Plus.
First, a bit of an announcement:
This Is My Post #6,000!
It's one of those weeks, and yesterday proved it. Carl had the day off, and will be off Thursday when i go back to clean the rest of the house.
As is always the case, he wanted to sleep, which is fine. He wants to sleep with half of the bedclothes and pajamas i should wash. That's not so fine, and i reminded him he would be responsible to wash whatever he slept with and in. He looked at me sideways, but i repeated my i can't wash it if you are wearing it or sleeping in it mantra and he seemed to get it.
Then i moved on to his room. Glory be, what do i see?
He finally got some new shoes! He's been wearing old shoes so broken down he has been using 3 or more corn/callous pads on each foot for a bit of a while, with those showing up in the washer, dryer, stuck to the floor, and everywhere else you can imagine.
His mess was as usual, the same old messes.
As i was sorting the washing and cleaning, Carl came in 3 times to brush his teeth, once to tell me he needed a razor, whereupon he went in the bathroom, rinsed his hands and walked out with no razor, once to tell me he needed more sleep, which he got, and once to show me where his fingernail split.
I also found this.
No, i do not know how you get a pair of pants on a hanger like this. Talent, pure talent, is my guess.
Nor do i know why one of his fiber pills was in the bottom of his cup. I'm pretty sure he knows not to dissolve it before consuming. If he didn't, he'd only make that mistake once.
His fridge was, um, interesting.
He's been told to stay away from so many sweets.
No, he's not doing it. Yes, most of what's in there is sugar in some form.
While he was napping, between rain showers, i also ran to Ms. G's house and took care of her cats.
Also yesterday morning, my Sweetie's music friend who is also an exterminator came to do our annual termite inspection. I had to be called and consulted as to payment, even though every year he sends the invoice to the same email and i pay online.
Just before i left Carl's, as i was mopping, he asked me if i could wash his pj's and whatever else he was sleeping with.
Sorry, i told him, the washing is done, you will have to catch these yourself, and the washer is empty so you can start them up now.
I guess i will find out on Thursday whether he did or not.
After Carl's, i went across the street to Ms. S. Once there, as if to prove life will lay it on thick this week, my phone hardly stopped ringing, or pinging, or whatever. The messes in my life are the same all over, too.
First it was #1 Son. He'd had to jump his car twice that day and once the day before, could my Sweetie meet him at Kevin and Lenny's and get him to work while they put in a new battery?
Sure, if anyone could get in touch with him. He'd decided Tripod SissyCat needed to go to the vet, and getting no answer to repeated phone calls, he drove over there.
Their phone system was down, but they told him to go home and get the cat, which he did.
Once he got back home with her, he saw #2 Son in the driveway telling him #1 Son had been trying to call him for almost an hour.
He had his phone turned off again.
Between them, they got #1 Son situated, he now has a new battery.
Sweetie called me to say they'd solved that problem, but Tripod SissyCat needs a tooth removed.
Did you make an appointment? i asked.
"No," he told me, "I wanted to talk to you first, you can call them an make an appointment, I'm going to be out of town with The Big Boss tomorrow, we have farm work to do."
While working for Ms. S, every time i turned off the vacuum cleaner, i tried to call the vet.
My Sweetie had forgotten to tell me their phone system was down.
I finally called him just as i got a text from Ms. Genie. I told him to call me back in a moment and read the text.
Last Thursday, Ms. Genie called all of us in the ladies' circle to remind us of our meeting (which is today). I asked what i'd signed up to bring. She said, "Nothing." I asked if she was sure, she was.
Then yesterday the text, "You signed up to bring the cards for the homebound this month."
Thanks, Ms. Genie. Good thing i was going to the store on the way home, anyway.
Back to calling my Sweetie about the vet. He finally told me they were having phone trouble, so he agreed to drive back there and make the appointment. She's having the tooth removed today. Otherwise, for a nineteen year old cat, she's doing very well.
Also while at Ms. S's house, her husband came in. He'd been at the casino, like he is every single Monday unless it's a major holiday, when it would be too crowded. (Ms. S and Mr. D have a system, they each get an allowance she calls their "sin money." She spends her on her card making, he spends his on cigars and a trip to the casino each Monday.)
Mr. D and i exchanged the usual pleasantries and he told me the boat had taken his money that day. "Of course, I only take the little I take, and I call it entertainment, so it's really okay."
I smiled and told him as long as he was entertained, that was fine.
"Oh, I was," he said, and then added, "I know! I'll borrow some money from you!"
Why not, i told him, my name is mom and it means 'made of money,' right?
We both had a good chuckle.
I stopped at two stores on the way home to get everything, and when i got home, things weren't done.
Brother-in-Law came, as he does each evening, and his news is not so good. His car probably needs a major repair. He's going to apply for a credit card, even though he's been out of debt for over 10 years. He figures he has to keep his car running and work at least 3 more years before retiring. Ah, well, it keeps him busy and out of mischief, and he's the only person in the library who knows how to properly catalogue any more, they don't teach the new librarians that part!
How about some funnies?
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Bathtub Day -- can't confirm this one, but it's as good a day as any to be glad you have one!
BOL Foundation Day -- Laos
Feast Day of Ma'at -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Full Hunter's Moon/Full Blood Moon/Full Sanguine Moon (some also consider this the true Harvest Moon, if last month's came too early)
Boun Ok Phansa and Ventiane -- Laos (end of "Buddist Lent" and a traditional boat race festival starting tomorrow with hundreds of decorated candle-lit floats made of paper set adrift in the rivers)
Kojagrat Purnima -- Nepal (end of Dashain)
Thadingyut Full Moon/"Buddhist Lent" ends -- Myanmar (begins at sunset, through tomorrow)
Vap Full Moon Poya Day -- Sri Lanka
If At First You Don't Succeed Day -- in honor of Frank Sinatra, whose CBS-TV musical variety show debuted on this day in 1950; it and the other two shows that followed didn't succeed, but he never gave up and had a great career
Lepanto Day -- Greece
Monkey King Festival -- China (a celebration of this popular character in East Asian stories, with the best place to see the rituals being the Monkey God Temple at Po Tat Estate in Sau Mau Ping, Kowloon)
Nagasaki Kunchi -- Nagasaki, Japan (harvest festival, through the 9th)
National Flower Day -- US (anniversary of President Reagan signing the bill, in 1986, that made the rose the US National Flower)
National Frappe Day
Nobel Conference 61 -- Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN, US (annual two-day symposium, this year, Sugar, Bringing Sweetness to Light)
Nones of October -- Ancient Roman Calendar; other observances
Festival of Juno Cutitis and Jupiter Fulgor
Victoria, Lady of Victories Day a/k/a Pallas Athena -- also celebrated by the Ancient Greeks
Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary -- Catholic Christian
St. Justina of Padua's Day (Patron of Padua, Italy; Santa Giustina, Italy)
Sukkot -- Judaism (began at sunset yesterday, through nightfall on Oct. 13)
Try To Start An Argument Over Which Is the Best Muppet Day -- Kermit, hands down (argue below, if you wish)
You Matter To Me Day -- because the phrase "you matter to me" can make a profound difference in someone's life
Anniversaries Today:
Larry King married Julie Alexander, 1989
Dow Jones makes the first report, in the Wall Street Journal, of an average of the prices of 12 industrial stocks, 1896
Birthdays Today:
Toni Braxton, 1967
Simon Cowell, 1959
Michael W. Smith, 1957
Yo-Yo Ma, 1955
Vladimir Putin, 1952
John Cougar Mellencamp, 1951
Joy Behar, 1943
Charles Dutoit, 1936
Thomas Keneally, 1935
Amiri Baraka, 1934
Bishop Desmond Tutu, 1931
Al Martino, 1927
R. D. Laing, 1927
June Allyson, 1917
Vaughn Monroe, 1911
Andy Devine, 1905
Niels Bohr, 1885
Thomas J. Wise, 1859
James Whitcomb Riley, 1849
Caesar Rodney, 1728(O.S. date)
Debuting/Premiering Today:
The Independent(Newspaper, first issue), 1986
"Cats"(Musical), 1982
"Route 66"(TV), 1960
"Your Hit Parade"(TV), 1950
"One Touch of Venus"(Musical), 1943
"Eve of St. Mark"(Play), 1942
Today in History:
The epoch of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar), BC3761
The first public burning of books in Louvain, Netherlands, 1520
Ralph Wedgewood patents carbon paper in London, 1806
The first chartered railway in the US, the Granite Railway, begins operations, 1826
Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba, 1886
Henry Ford institutes the moving assembly line, 1913
Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland college in the infamous 222-0 football game, 1916
160 consecutive days of 100*F+ temperatures begin at Marble Bar, Australia, 1924
Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco, 1955
U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits first ever photographs of the far side of the moon, 1959
Nigeria joins the United Nations, 1960
Oman joins the United Nations, 1971
Cats opens on Broadway and begins a run of nearly 18 years, 1982
The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, 1993
Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten, 1998
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins, 2001
A Southampton University research fellow discovers a long lost Antonio Vivaldi flute concerto at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh, 2010
Scientists Stefan Hell of Germany and Eric Betzig and William Moerner of the U.S. share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing 'super-resolved fluorescence microscopy'; the technology can be used to observe molecular activity in living cells, 2014
Jodie Whittaker debuts in her first full episode as the 13th and first female Doctor Who on BBC television, 2018
The Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology is awarded to Peter Ratcliffe, William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza for discovering how cells sense oxygen, 2019
Zanzibar born writer Abdulrazak Gurnah is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2021
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded jointly to the Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights organization Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organization Center for Civil Liberties, 2022
Hamas launches a major air and ground attack on Israel from Gaza, killing over a thousand people and taking hundreds of hostages, sparking a state of war, 2023
