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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.
Even before i got into the house at Carl's, i knew it was going to be a morning.
I always have to give him credit for trying, although i doubt putting the open Wet Ones single wipe under the sticky cover of the hand sanitizer cloths packet is doing much good for any of the items involved, especially as he left it on his car.
The laundry was in every stage of done and not done it is possible to have.
Walking into his room and heading for his sink, i felt something catch my legs.
Yes, he had left the floss spanning one side of the galley kitchen to the other, and it took me a moment to sort out which of the two floss containers it was actually attached to.
It looked like he'd had a hard week. I also found pants which would have been clean if they'd had no lotion on them, as he has been festooning his chair with lotion again in his haste to put down the bottle. This time, his aim was formidable as he'd gotten a trifecta, the chair, the pants, and as a bonus, one of his blankets (which went in the first load of laundry).
Just as i'd gotten the first load into the washer, he showed up and said, "Shower!"
This early? i asked.
He mumbled something about feeling like he needed it now and i told him his clothes were already in there.
"Putting this back on, want more sleep," he said.
Put on your clean underwear and your robe and sleep in that, i told him, and let me wash the rest.
He looked a bit confused at first, then nodded and did it. Meanwhile, i ran out to the sleep chair, changed the pillowcase and grabbed the pajamas wadded up there, putting a clean pair on the chair. He wouldn't wear them, but he would wrap them around his pillow. I still can't convince his mom, Ms. V, to buy him pillowcases with that material, so he wraps the pjs around the pillows. Works for them, i guess.
Also, finally, all the wash would get done, i thought.
Upon exiting his shower, he told me, "Hard week last week. One day my phone said I did 30,000 steps one day. That's miles and miles!"
No wonder his room was a higgle piggle.
After informing me of this, he muttered something about already being fit and not having to go to the gym on work days, then went back to his sleep chair and i carried on, finding two sandwiches in the fridge, one wrapped, one wrapped after i got my mitts on it, scrubbing the bathroom, and keeping the laundry going and going and going.
Once he got up for breakfast, he dressed and i told him where to find his apron, admonishing him to put it on properly (which he did not, i had to tie it for him later), and i packed his "hearty lunch." He talked away and i actually caught some of it.
"Politics is worrying right now..." he started.
I asked if he had a specific concern at the moment. He answered, "War...it's all scary."
After agreeing with him, he turned to a lighter subject. "Sister-in-law went to San Antonio...said she had fun...Sam wants to go to Houston..."
He stopped there and started eating again. Later, he told me, "I found the programs I want to sign up for!"
I still haven't worked out if they are library programs or park and recreation programs, but either way, he will enjoy them.
As i was about to mop and he was about to leave, he came running back into his apartment and said, "Gas pills?"
All you have is Beano, i told him. You seem to be out of gas pills, but i think there are some in the medicine cabinet.
He ran off, and as i was going to the laundry room to get what i hoped was the last load, the towels, and get them folded he met up with me again and said, "Can you wash this? It's starting to smell..."
He handed me one of his blankets (not the lotion covered one i'd already washed) and i told him i was also about to finish up and i'd finally caught up on all his other laundry, but i'd put it in the wash if he'd remember to put it in the dryer when he got home.
Carl solemnly promised to put it in the dryer and left, and i wasn't long after in leaving.
How much you want to bet his mom, Ms. V, ends up opening the washer in a day or so to do a load and finding his blanket?
How about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Bonza Bottler Day™
Caregiver Appreciation Day -- US
Celebrate Your Name Week -- Tuesday: Unique Names Day, a day to appreciate friends, acquaintances, and loved ones with unique names
Day of Remembrance for Prince Igor -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan Calendar
Full Worm Moon -- also called Leaf Moon, Seedling Moon, Crow Moon, Crust Moon, Sap Moon, Light Snow Moon, White moon, Virgin Moon, Paschal Moon, or Lenten Moon; considered the last full moon of winter
Madin Full Moon Poya Day -- Sri Lanka
Taubaung Full Moon -- Myanmar
Heart-Accelerating Sodium-Enriched Cold Cuts Day -- internet generated by someone who has no intention of letting anything healthy past his/her lips
Hina Matsuri -- Japan (Doll Festivals throughout the country, where women and girls dedicate dolls to shrines which are then floated out to sea to take away evil and sicknesses that afflict women)
I Want You to be Happy Day -- a day to devote some time to making someone else truly happy about something
International Irish Whiskey Day
International Omega-3 Awareness Day
Joshi-no-Sekku -- Shinto (festival to honor girls)
Liberation Day/National Day -- Bulgaria
Martyr's Day -- Malawi
Mother's Day -- Georgia
National Anthem Day -- US (current US anthem adopted this date in 1931)
National Cold Cuts Day
National Mulled Wine Day
Peach Blossom Day - coincides with the start of the Peach Blossom Festival around this time of year in Hunan, China, where you celebrate the beauty of peach blossoms, and girls celebrate being girls
Purim -- Judaism (through sundown today)
Sportsmen's Day -- Egypt
Stop Bad Service Day -- spread around the internet by someone who got lousy service
St Casimir' Eve / Kaziukas Fair -- Vilnius, Lithuania (traditional craft fair dates back to the 17th century, celebrating Lithuania's patron saint; through tomorrow)
St. Cunegunda's Day (Patron of Bamberg, Germany; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Poland)
St. Winnal's Day (First comes David, Next comes Chad, Then comes Winnal, roaring mad! -- Traditional English saying about the storminess of March 3; St. Winwaloe or Winnal was the Christianized version of the Teutonic Aegir, god of the sea and controller of weather)
Thanks to the Maple Festival -- Iroquois (date approximate, held when sap began flowing, usually early March)
Town Meeting Day -- Vermont, US (giving all citizens the right to speak out about local government, an official state holiday the first Tuesday of March allows towns to have a daylong public meeting of voters to elect town officers, approve budgets, and deal with town business)
World Wildlife Day -- UN (on the anniversary of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which was signed in 1973, to raise awareness of endangered animals and plants, and ways to fight against wildlife crime.)
World Writers' Day/International Writers' Day
Anniversaries Today:
Florida becomes the 27th US state, 1845
Colegio Militar of Portugal is founded, 1803
Birthdays Today:
Jessica Biel, 1982
David Faustino, 1974
Julie Bowen, 1970
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, 1962
Herschel Walker, 1962
Ira Glass, 1959
Miranda Richardson, 1958
Tim Kazurinsky, 1950
Caroline Lee Bouvier Radziwill, 1933
Doc Watson, 1923
Diana Barrymore, 1921
James Doohan, 1920
Jean Harlow, 1911
Matthew Bunker Ridgway, 1895
Norman Bethune, 1890
Alexander Graham Bell, 1847
George Pullman, 1831
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Moonlighting"(TV), 1985
"Goodtime Charley"(Musical), 1975
"The Lion in Winter"(Play), 1966
"Mr Wizard"(TV), 1951
"Time Magazine", 1923
"Carmen"(Opera), 1875
"Symphony No. 3 in A minor(Scottish)"(Mendelssohn Op.56), 1842
"Symphony No. 101 in D major(The Clock)"(Haydn), 1794
Today in History:
The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England, 1284
The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza, 1585
The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau, 1776
The first US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia, 1801
The US declares war on Algeria for taking US prisoners and demanding tribute, 1815
The Missouri Compromise, an attempt to keep the US half Slave and half free, is passed by the US Congress, 1820
The Battle of Pelee Island takes place, Ontario, Canada, 1838
Tsar Alexander II emancipates the serfs of Russia, 1861
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group, opens, 1865
The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in The Montreal Gazette, 1875
Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra Comique in Paris, 1875
Bulgaria regains its independence from Ottoman Empire, 1878
Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood becomes the first female attorney to argue before the US Supreme Court, 1879
The US Geological Survey is created, 1879
Anne Sullivan arrives to begin teaching Helen Keller, 1887
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create an elected assembly, the Duma, 1905
Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce discovery of insulin, 1921
Time Magazine begins publication, 1923
The United States officially adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem, 1931
Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia, 1938
In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India, 1939
Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as "the first rock and roll record", at Sam Phillips' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee, 1951
An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers, 1991
The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction, 1997
Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nation, 2002
Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling, 2005
A 2-year-old Mississippi girl born with HIV/AIDS is pronounced HIV negative after receiving treatment for the virus within 30 hours after her birth, 2013
The Dragon capsule from SpaceX successfully docks with the International Space Station during its demonstration run, 2019
Irishwomen Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamar, of Grafton Architecture, become the first women to share the Pritzker Architecture Prize, 2020
Great apes at the San Diego Zoo are given an experimental COVID-19 vaccine designed for animals after an earlier outbreak among them, 2021
Iowa's Caitlin Clark becomes the NCAA Division I all-time career scoring leader at 3,685 points and counting, surpassing "Pistol Pete" Maravich's career total of 3,667 points, 2024
