It’s How Old? 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.  

The light fixture still doesn't work in the laundry room at Carl's, but other than that the laundry room itself was in pretty good shape when i arrived.  The clothes in the washer smelled clean and checking the cycle showed he washed them on delicate.  A little overcautious, but at least it's a true wash cycle and the dryer was empty so i moved them and got it started.

Making my way into his room, he was dressed and ready to get breakfast as i opened the fridge to see if he had anything resembling a lunch to put in his cooler.

There were several empty grocery bags, one with a plastic fork in it, and the horrible looking remains of an avocado in a zip bag in the door.

Ugh! i said, grabbing the bag and Carl said, "Are you throwing it away?"  Um, yes, i told him, and we both went to the big kitchen.

Once in there, i noticed what he was wearing.  It wasn't a work shirt, it was a Sunday shirt.

Why are you wearing that, it's the wrong shirt, i told him, and he looked down at his shirt in confusion, then realized what i was saying and went back in his room.

I did not bother to tell him to hang up the one he was wearing, i knew it would fall on deaf ears, and i found that shirt later on top of the dresser and hung it back up myself.  Much easier.

Meanwhile, he returned to the kitchen with a work shirt on and i greeted him with an apron to wear, then hunted for lunch.  As i was making a sandwich, he opened the fridge and grabbed a deli container with one serving of cole slaw left.

"Should I take this?" he asked, and i told him it was a great idea, adding it to everything else i was gathering.

I took everything to his room and packed the lunch cooler and he came in soon after.  as he stood at the counter, muttering about something i didn't catch, i noticed he'd grabbed that stick of deodorant that keeps coming out of the actual container and was using it.  He made an attempt to put what was left of the stick in the container top, but it didn't quite stick the landing.

Then he asked me if he should put more money on his phone card.  Before i could formulate an answer, he'd moved on.

"I'm having health problems," he confided.

I told him i was sorry to hear that and he said, "Tummy trouble.  Do you think I should stop eating the gingerbread house?"

My eyes flew open and i looked to the top of his fridge, where he had stowed a gingerbread house two months ago.  I'd thought he kept it just to look at and didn't realize he'd been breaking pieces off the back and eating them.

Yes, i told him, you need to let me throw the rest away, it's what's making you sick.

"Oh, you think that's why I'm having trouble?"

I'd say old, stale gingerbread could do it, and the rest of this one got pitched.

He's never sure i've given him enough lunch, so he started to dig in his snack bin.  He came out with a fig bar, already opened.

"It's hard as a brick!" he said, and i told him if he left it open with a bite out of it, of course it was going to get hard and stale.

"I'd better eat it today," he said, taking it to throw in his lunch cooler.

No wonder he has "tummy trouble."

How about some funnies?

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Aspirin Day -- Bayer received its US patent for the medicine on this day in 1900

Day of Selene -- Ancient Greek Calendar (goddess of the moon, date approximate)

Equirria -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Cavalry Horse Festival)

Feast of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows/Gabriel Possenti (Patron of clerics, students, young people; Abruzzi, Italy; Catholic Action)

Independence Day -- Dominican Republic(1844)

Majuba Day -- South Africa (celebration of the Boers victory at Majuba Hill)

National Kahlua Day

National Strawberry Day -- no, i don't know why this isn't in June, when the berries are best; maybe the person who put it here had too much Kahlua

No Brainer Day - this day is for me! created by Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith, "America's Premier Eventologist"

Polar Bear Day -- as declared by Polar Bears International

Read Five Pages in the Dictionary Day -- internet generated, and am i the only one who likes the idea?

Runic Half Month Tyr commences (cosmic pillar)

Single-Tasking Day -- encouraging you to do one thing at a time, and not feel guilty; begun by Theresa Gabriel, who claims multitasking is inefficient and hurts your brain! she suggests it be on the 4th Tuesday of the month, although other sites list other dates

St. Galmier of Lyon's Day (Patron of locksmiths)

The Hop -- Fairy Calendar

Threepenny Day -- Eton College, England (By the last will of two Provosts in the 16th century, each boy receives a threepenny piece on this day -- enough to buy half a sheep back then.)

World Spay Day -- don't let your pets litter!  related observance     

     Spay Day USA -- sponsored by the HSUS; Sit! Stay! Spay! Good Owner!   

Anniversary Today:

African Burial Ground National Monument is established, 2006

Birthdays Today:

Josh Groban, 1981

Chelsea Clinton, 1980

Rozanda "Chilli" Thomas, 1971

Grant Show, 1963

Adam Baldwin, 1962

Michael Bolton, 1953

Alan Guth, 1947

Mary Fran, 1943

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, 1942

Howard Hesseman, 1940

Ralph Nadar, 1934

Elizabeth Taylor, 1932

Joanne Woodward, 1930

Ariel Sharon, 1928

John Connally, 1917

James Thomas Farrell, 1904

John Steinbeck, 1902

Gene Sarazen, 1902

Marian Anderson, 1897

David Sarnoff, 1891

Hugo La Fayette Black, 1886

Alice Hamilton, 1869

Ellen Terry, 1847

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807

Constantine I, 272

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"What Makes Sammy Run?"(Musical), 1964

"Road to Utopia"(Film), 1946

Today in History:

The first Russian Embassy arrives in London, 1557

The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland, 1560

Yuan Chonghuan is appointed Governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory against the Manchurians under Nurhaci, 1626

Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I, 1670

The Pacific island of New Britain is discovered, 1700

Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire, 1812

The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti, 1844

Composer Robert Schumann is saved from a suicide attempt in Rhine, 1854

Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland, 1861

The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships, 1870

Charlotte E. Ray becomes the first African American woman to earn a law degree, from Howard University, 1872

Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway, 1912

Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14, 1940

The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over, 1964

The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota, 1973

People magazine is published for the first time, 1974

U.S. President George H. W. Bush announces that "Kuwait is liberated", 1991

A Muslim mob kills 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya, 2002

The Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9%, the largest drop in 10 years, 2007

Central Chile is hit with an 8.8 magnitude earthquake, 2010

Wikileaks begins releasing 5 million emails from Stratfor, a private intelligence company, 2012

At Vatican City, Pope Benedict XVI delivers his farewell address, 2013

The smallest baby boy ever born who grew enough to be released from the hospital goes home from a Tokyo hospital, after an original birth weight of 268g (9.45oz), 2019

Doctors announce the world's second known case of semi-identical twins, a boy and girl from Brisbane, Australia, 2019

Astrophysical Journal publishes the results of a study of the largest cosmic explosion ever detected from a supermassive black hole in the Ophiuchus galaxy, 2020