Visits and Celebrations, a Random and Happy Tuesday Post

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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.  

Because yesterday was Christmas, i am cleaning Carl's place today instead.

Last Thursday, however, i cleaned the house.  As i got started, he was preparing to leave for work.

"I want soup for lunch," he told me.

That's not easy, i told him, reminding him he'd need a bowl, which might be breakable, and a spoon.  He still wanted soup, and i didn't see what he ended up packing.

I did remind him he'd need a cold pack to keep it fresh in his lunchbox.

If you think he walked out without going and getting one, you'd be right.

Bigger Girl made a whirlwind visit to see as many family members and friends down here as she could between early Thursday morning and late Saturday night.  She rode to NOLA with me Saturday, and among other things, she told me about her new phone.

"I just switched out the SIM card and got this new phone, which, well there was some concern about the biometrics, meaning if they steal your phone they're going to have to steal your finger, too, but turns out your finger has to be at human body temperature or it doesn't work, and that's funny to me that that's something they actually care about, right?"

That is an almost exact transcript of what she said, as fast as i could catch it.

She also told me about the way she and her roommate have decorated for Christmas.

"We decided to go with a dinosaur theme, so we have a tree-rex!  It's a 3-foot tall t-rex skeleton with decorations on it."

Little Girl, her boyfriend, and Coda also came on Saturday to visit Grandma and Grandpa.

Little Girl was telling us about a friend and said something which made it sound like she'd used a "naughty" word, although she hadn't.

Grandma, who'd been in a different conversation, stopped and said, "Did you just use a naughty word?  Somebody get the soap!"

Little Girl responded with, "You'd have to catch me first!"

Grandma said, "You'd be amazed how fast I can be on this walker."

Then Little Girl admitted, "Yeah, I believe it, I've been chased by an elderly person in a wheelchair before."

Meanwhile, Sweetie called me to ask a question, and after i answered he said, "Well, I guess I should have known that, but it would take common sense, right?"

My response was to ask if he was telling me he had no common sense, because if he was, i might agree with him!

Yes, we have fun when we get together.

Some funnies to cheer us the day after Christmas.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Awful Tie Day -- internet generated, go to the office and compare who got the worst tie as a gift

Blessing of the Wine -- Greiveldange, Luxembourg (winemakers parade to the church to have a barrel of wine blessed)

Boxing Day -- day on which boxes of goodies are given to the less fortunate or public servants

Coffee Percolator Day -- patented by James Mason on this day in 1865

Day of Goodwill -- Namibia; South Africa

Day of Our Theotokos / Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God -- Byzantine/Eastern Orthodox Christian

Family Day -- Namibia; Vanuatu

First Day of the Stanley Races -- Faulkland Islands

Full Cold Moon or Full Long Nights Moon (also Black Moon or Death Crone Moon)

     Bitter Moon -- China

     Mangshir Dhanya Purnima -- Nepal (special harvest/farming festival that starts off the month of Mangshir)

     Nattaw Full Moon -- Myanmar

     Strawberry Moon, Honey Moon, or Rose Moon -- Southern Hemisphere

     Unduwap Full Moon Poya Day -- Sri Lanka (began sunset yesterday)

Independence and Unity Day -- Slovenia(1990)

J'Ouvert -- Saint Kitts and Nevis (carneval-style street party for Boxing Day)

Junkanoo (Junkanoo Jonkanoo, Jankunu, John Canoe or Johnkankus) -- Carribean Islands, also on New Years Day (A special music and dance, mime and symbol that is an early traditional dance form of African descent.)

Kwanzaa, Day 1, Umoja (Unity)

Mauro Hamza Day -- Houston, TX, US (United States Fencing Association Foil Director)

Mummer's Day -- Padstow, Cornwall

National Candy Cane Day

National Thank-you Note Day

National Whiner's Day™ -- a day to encourage people to be happy with what they have

Proclamation Day -- South Australia (day South Australia was established as a Province in 1836 by royal Proclamation)

Recyclable Packaging Day -- started by someone who wants to remind us to gather up the reusable bags, boxes, etc., left from the holiday, and recycle the rest

Second Day of Christmas

Sports Days -- Falkland Islands (through the 28th, with the Boxing Day race at Stanley being the most famous part of the celebration)

St. James the Just's Day -- Orthodox Christian

St. Stephen's Day (Patron of casket makers, deacons, horses, masons, stone masons; Patron of over 80 cities throughout Italy; Kessel, Germany; Metz, France; Owensboro, KY; Toulouse, France; against headaches)

     Public Holiday in Alsace, France; Andorra; Austria; Catalonia; Croatia; Czech Republic; Germany; Holy See; Hong Kong; Ireland; Italy; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Poland; San Marino; Slovakia; Spain (regional); Switzerland (regional)

     Celebrated as Father's Day -- Bulgaria

     Day of the Wren -- Ireland; Isle of Mann (costumed mayhem)

Tehuantepec Festivities -- Oaxaca, Mexico

Thanksgiving Day -- Solomon Islands

Urdhyauli Parwa -- Nepal (a festival of the Kirati People, celebration of the animals annual migration down from the mountaintops)

Zarathosht Diso (Death of Prophet Zarathushtra) - Zoroastrian

Anniversary Today:

Rodney Dangerfield weds Joan Child, 1993

Establishment of Shenandoah National Park, VA, US, 1935

Birthdays Today:

Chris Daughtry, 1979

Jared Leto, 1971

Lars Ulrich, 1963

David Sedaris, 1956

Ozzie Smith, 1954

Carlton Fisk, 1947

John Walsh, 1945

Phil Spector, 1940

Alan King, 1927

Steve Allen, 1921

Richard Widmark, 1914

Mao Tse-tung, 1893

Henry Miller, 1891

Charles Babbage, 1791

Laurent Clerc, 1785

Juan Lovera, 1778

Thomas Nelson, 1738

Thomas Gray, 1716

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Do re mi"(Musical), 1960

"The Glass Menagerie"(Play), 1944

"Of Thee I Sing"(Musical), 1931

Judy Garland, as Baby Frances, makes her stage debut at age 2 1/2, singing Jingle Bells on the vaudeville stage, 1924

"Tragic Overture"(Brahms' Op. 81), 1880

Today in History:

Columbus founds the first Spanish settlement in the New World by leaving behind 36 men in what is now Haiti, 1492

The final trial of Louis XVI of France begins, 1792

A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable, 1811

The Erie Canal opens, 1825

Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years, 1871

King Mwanga of Uganda signs a contract with the East Africa Company, 1890

Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium, 1898

FM radio is patented, 1933

Time Magazine's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer, 1982

The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the USSR, 1991

A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 250,000 people, 2004

Brazil overtakes the United Kingdom as the world's sixth largest economy, 2011

China opens the world’s longest high-speed rail route, from Beijing to Guangzhou, 2012

After a journey of 54 days, American Colin O'Brady is the first person to cross Antarctica solo and unassisted, 2018
An annular solar eclipse is visible from South and Southeast Asia, 2019