Tuesday, October 27, 2015

It's a bit less complicated.

But still.  Those middle of the night phone calls from your kids can throw you.

It started, this time, with a knock at the bedroom door.  Now, believe it or not, the cats know how to knock at the bedroom door, and they try to do so and get us to get up all through the night, acting as the human turnstiles for them.  This knock i recognized as not being "cat," so i dragged myself up and opened it, bleary-eyed and probably looking worse for wear.

It was #2 Son this time.  "Mom, I locked my keys in the car, can you give me the spare?"

Sure, i said as i started to root around for it in my nightstand drawer, just don't forget to bring it back.

"I'll leave it on your computer as usual," he said, then disappeared.  Sweetie and i had fallen back asleep a bit later when the phone woke us.

"Mom," #2 Son was saying, "I left my headlights on and my battery is dead!  And the friend who drove me to your house to get the spare key just left.  Could you or dad come give me a jump start?"

We don't have jumper cables, i said, and i have to be up very early for work, so your dad will come get you, you can go to one of the 24-hour Mall-Mart stores and get some cables, and he will jump you off.

"That'll work," he said, and Sweetie pulled on his jeans, looking as grumpy as i felt, and headed out.  They found the Mall-Mart on that end of town is no longer 24-hour, but across the street is a gas station/convenience store that sold jumper cables, so they didn't have to traipse all over town looking.

Sweetie was back within the hour with the spare key, the car had jumped easily.  Sleep, however, didn't come so easily, thus i was bleary-eyed all day Monday at both jobs.

"Why does this stuff always seem to happen to our kids?" Sweetie asked.  "My dad used to say the hardest part of raising kids was mostly over when they were 18, but in our case, that seems to be when the bigger problems start!"

Indeed.


Today is:

American Beer Day

Big Bang Day -- London, England

Boxer Shorts Day -- ???????

Cernova Tragedy Day -- Slovakia

Cranky Co-Worker's Day -- because we all have occasional bad days; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays

Feast of Osiris in Abydos -- 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)
     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

Good Bear Day -- on Theodore Roosevelt's birthday, celebrating the stuffed toy created in his honor

Independence Day -- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines(1979); Turkmenistan(1991)

Lakshmi Puja -- TR, WB, India (Hindu celebration during the Festival of Lights)

National Potato Day

National Tell A Story Day -- Scotland; UK (preserving the heritage of traditional stories)

Navy Day -- US (on T.R.'s birth anniversary)

Radio Day -- US (US Commerce Dept. issued the first broadcasting license this date in 1920)

St. Frumentius' Day (Patron of Abyssinia; Ethiopia)

Sylvia Plath Day

Tunch Puddling -- Fairy Calendar (a contest of throwing twigs in a pond -- awards are for artistically thrown twigs and throwing style, among other things)

World Day for Audiovisual Heritage -- International 

World Occupational Therapy Day -- International 


Anniversary Today:

The NYC Subway begins operation, 1904


Birthdays Today:

Zadie Smith, 1975
Marla Maples, 1963
Simon LeBon, 1958
Roberto Benigni,1952
Jayne Kennedy, 1951
Fran Lebowitz, 1950
Carrie Snodgrass, 1946
John Cleese, 1939
Ruby Dee, 1924
Roy Lichtenstein, 1923
Bette Babray, 1920
Nanette Fabray, 1920
Dylan Thomas, 1914
Emily Post, 1872
Theodore Roosevelt, 1858
Niccolo Paganini, 1782
Captain James Cook, 1728


Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Lettice and Lovage"(Play), 1987
"Beyond the Fringe"(Revue), 1962
"Walt Disney/Wonderful World of Color/Wonderful World of Disney"(TV), 1954 (the show had several different names over the years, but even when it switched stations, it was still the same show)
"You Bet Your Life"(Radio), 1947
"Nocturnes"(Debussy orchestral compsition), 1901(first performance of all three parts together)



Today in History:

Constantine the Great is said to have received his Vision of the Cross, 312
Founding of the city of Amsterdam, 1275
Founding of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1682
US Navy forms, 1775
Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated, 1838
R.H. Macy & Co. opens its first store, on 6th Ave. in NYC, 1858
Boss Tweed is arrested, 1871
The first underground New York City Subway line opens, 1904
The first published reference to "jazz" appears, in Variety, 1916
Chuhei Numbu of Japan sets the long jump record at 26' 2 1/2", 1931
"You Bet Your Life," with Groucho Marx, premiers on ABC radio, 1947*
Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force, 1954
Mauritania and Mongolia join the United Nations, 1961
The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang, 1986
The U.S. prison population tops 1 million for the first time in American history, 1994
Gliese 229B is the first Substellar Mass Object to be unquestionably identified, 1994
Stock markets around the world crash because of fears of a global economic meltdown, 1997
The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years, 2004
The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, 2005

 
*(Ultimate result of this a few years later is, of course, the funniest line ever on tv, when a man with 8 kids admitted to Mr. Marx that he did indeed love his wife, and Groucho countered with, "I love my cigar, too, but I take it out of my mouth sometimes!")

8 comments:

  1. I guess such things happen, always good to have family to rely on, hehe. Thanks for sharing and greetings.

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  2. I remember these nights. Always seemed to be at night too. Kids are kids and it takes them forever to get it. It just does.

    Have a fabulous day. ☺

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  3. Even when they are older, kids have no respect for parents need to sleep.

    When my youngest was four he always played with the passenger globe in the back. Drained the battery several times.

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  4. Hopefully they are learning from this mistakes! If not, you need to set up some guidelines.

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  5. listening to your stories, i tend to agree with you.

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  6. I'm not sure these qualify as big problems. Your kids sound great and any problem that doesn't involve bail is probably a small one.

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  7. My youngest still wakes me up almost every single night. just to "put her back to bed". she goes back without any fuss and just wants that tuck in; but goodness it's hard having that sleep interruption every single night. I figure I have not slept through a night since my eldest was born 11 years ago, and I guess I can look forward to it not happening any time soon.

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  8. Kids! If we didn't love 'em so much we'd have to kill them! The sweet revenge part is knowing that they will likely get to experience their own joys of parenthood someday! :-)

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