Doors, Lights and Losing the War, 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.  

Napoleon Bonaparte's downfall was trying to fight a war on 2 fronts.  Never do that, especially with Carl.  And especially if there are 3 fronts instead of just two.

Carl's schedule has changed and he doesn't have to be at work quite so early during winter.  This means he's just getting out of bed when i arrive, not out of the shower.

He was standing in the doorway in his jammies when i walked in and i told him to get in the shower.  "Medicine," he said and wandered off toward the kitchen.  Later, he was still wandering when i told him again.  He was still looking for the medicine.

By the time he found the box on the kitchen counter, i'd gotten some clothes into the bathroom for him, including undies and socks.

Speaking of clothes, he's back to this.

He puts clothes out for the week , hanging them from the edge of his counter, but it does no good because he forgets they're out and pulls out something different.  He came out of the shower yesterday in just the underwear i'd set out for him, shivering.

Why didn't you put the rest of the clothes on before you came out? i asked him.  That's why i put them in there, i told him.

"You did?" he said, and dove back in to finish dressing.

Yes, he had to remove the underwear from the same hanger with the pants (i'd draped them on the hanger) and he still forgot the clothes were in there with him.  That's why having clothes out and ready already doesn't help.

As he got ready, he turned on his music and started dancing around the room.  He does love to bust a move.  He'd stop and do a few pushups, or grab his kettlebell.  I've learned to just keep cleaning.

"I won a tank battle yesterday!" he told me.  I told him that must have been fun, and he started talking about the things that exploded.  Then he told me, "And I bought cookies at the Save-On!  Yum!"  No matter how old he is, he's just a big kid.

He routinely loses his lunch boxes, so every time the cat shelter gets a shipment of refrigerated medicines in a small ice chest, i snag it for his lunch box before they can throw it away.  It was good i'd brought one.

"Where's my foot powder spray?" he asked as i searched for lunch stuff.  I found it, right where it belongs under the cabinet in the bathroom, in the area labeled "powder."  Imagine that, it was put away.  No wonder he couldn't find it.  

I handed it to him and he sat down with it, his socks and his shoes and started to put a sock on.

Don't you want to put the powder on your feet first? i asked.

The confused look on his face was priceless.  He sprayed both feet and then put on socks and shoes, by which time i'd found a sandwich in the fridge for his lunch.

This is where the war started on the first front.  Grabbing his keys, wallet, and etc. to stuff in his pocket, he snagged the sandwich on the way to go get his breakfast, stopping to run outside and put it straight in the car.  As i rummaged more for the lunch box, i couldn't find the sandwich. 

He and i went back and forth with this, me finding things to put in the box, him taking them before they could get to the box, until i finally put a stop to it by getting it all out of the car one last time and telling him to just go have breakfast and let me pack in peace.

That's when the door war started.  He kept going to the car, and leaving the door open.  It was near freezing outside.

I couldn't close the door often enough or get to it fast enough.

Then he kept coming in and turning off lights behind me while i was working.  Between running to shut the door and turning lights back on, it was pretty hopeless.

I didn't win the war, he just went to work when i was finally able to turn the lights on, shut the door, and not have to worry about the lunch which was packed and in the car and his responsibility now.

And guess where i found the foot spray powder?

Right where he'd never find it himself tomorrow.

Meanwhile, it'd cold around here, but we can warm up laughing with some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Appreciate a Dragon Day -- share stories of your favorite dragons from literature; begun by author Danita K. Paul

Concordia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (honoring the goddess of harmonious relations)

Day of Offerings to the Shemsu of Ra -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Inflatable Tire Day -- birth anniversary of Andre Michelin

International Hot and Spicy Food Day

Laurent Kabila -- Democratic Republic of the Congo (Heroes' Day)

National Day of Peace -- El Salvador (anniversary of 1992 peace treaty)

National Fig Newton Day

National Good Teen Day -- which really is most of them, isn't it

National Nothing Day -- created by newspaperman Harold Pullman Coffin in 1973 “to provide Americans with one national day when they can just sit without celebrating, observing or honoring anything.”

National Work At Home With Your Spouse Day -- internet generated; try if you dare, i won't, as much as i love him, i'd have to kill him.

National Religious Freedom Day -- US (anniversary of the passage, in 1786, of the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, a statute guaranteeing religious freedom to citizens of that state, and protecting them from discrimination for their religious choices)

St. Anthony's Eve -- Abruzzo, Italy (Fires of Saint Anthony -- Anthony the Great)

St. Honratus of Arles' Day (Patron for rain; against drought, misfortune)

Teacher's Day -- Thailand

There's No Business Like Show Business Day -- Ethel Merman's Birth Anniversary!

Uzhavar Thirunal -- PY, TN, India (Farmer's Day portion of the Pongal celebrations)

Birthday's Today:

Kate Moss, 1974

Sade, 1959

Debbie Allen, 1950

John Carpenter, 1948

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, 1947

Ronnie Milsap, 1944

A.J. Foyt, 1935

Dian Fossey, 1932

Dizzy Dean, 1911

Ethel Merman, 1908

Frank Zamboni, 1901

Harry Carey, Sr., 1878

Robert W. Service, 1874 (Poet, The Cremation of Sam McGee)

Andre Michelin, 1853

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Hello, Dolly"(Musical), 1964

"A Pastoral Symphony"(Ralph Vaughan Williams' third symphony), 1922

Today in History:

The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Casesar Octavian by the Roman Senate, BC27

The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison, 550

A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt, 1362

The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy, 1412

The first grammar of a modern language, in the Spanish language, is presented to Queen Isabella, 1492

Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia, 1547

English parliament passes laws against Catholicism, 1581

The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, 1605

The Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks, 1776

The Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson, 1786

The refrigerator car is patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit, 1868

The Pendleton Act creates the basis of US Civil Service system, 1883

The British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole, 1909

The British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland, 1913

Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia, 1914

The US ratifies the constitutional amendment on Prohibition, to take effect one year later, 1919

The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, 1920

The first photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Florida, 1936

Benny Goodman plays the first jazz performance at Carnegie Hall, 1938

Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard, 1942

Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk, 1969

Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects, 1970

The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt, 1979

First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force., 1986

El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City ending the 12-year Salvadoran civil war , 1992

The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban, 2002

The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107, but disintegrates 16 days later on reentry, 2003

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president, becoming Africa's first female elected head of state, 2006

New U.S. rules loosening trade restrictions with Cuba go into effect, 2015

The first ever flower grown in space, a zinnia, is announced; it was grown aboard the International Space Station using the NASA Veggie system, 2016

The city of Cairo, Egypt, is engulfed by a sandstorm, turning the whole city orange, 2019

Ten Nepali climbers become the first to reach the summit of K2 in winter, 2021