Washloads and Lunch Box Blues, 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.  

Carl was awake and dressed, always a plus, when i arrived yesterday.

A quick peek in the laundry room, which still doesn't have a working light, showed this.

I had to use a flash to get the photo.  When i commented to Carl he'd overstuffed the washer, he said, "That's not overstuffed, look, most of it fits..."

I told him i'd take care of it, and he wandered off for breakfast while i got his lunch.  Once that was together, i asked for the keys to the car, telling him i needed to look for the top to his styrofoam lunch cooler.

"It flew away!" he said with a grin.  "At Starbucks, I turned my back and it was gone.  At least, I guess it flew away."

No, i did not bother to ask him why he took his lunch cooler out of the car at Starbucks so the top could fly away.  Sometimes it's better to just not know.  I jammed a different top over it that is too big but will work for now.

Then i needed to deal with the stuff on top of the dryer.  I asked Carl if it was clean and his answer was, "Um, does it matter?  If it's over on that side, it is, sometimes..."

The washer was set to rinse and spin again instead of a wash cycle.  The stuff on the dryer got washed again.  Or for the first time.  Doesn't matter, it's clean now.  No, none of us want to know how long it will last.

We also had another discussion about not washing on the rinse and spin cycle.

Ms. G is out of town again, meaning i would need to leave after Carl left for work and go take care of her critters (in the neighborhood across the road) then come back.  That means the faster i get the first load going, the better, and i couldn't find one pair of his pajamas.

When i asked him where they might be, he walked past me mumbling something about his relatives and not getting postage.  Since i assumed he did not try to mail his dirty pjs to his relatives, i just kept looking and finally found them under the dirty towels in the bathroom.

His mother, Ms. V, still wants me to throw away anything in his fridge that doesn't have a top.  He's blessed i found the top to the Parmesan cheese on the floor wedged between the fridge and the wall, and even though it's the kind of shaker top you don't have to remove to serve the cheese, how much you want to bet it will be missing again next week?

What i really didn't understand yesterday, however, was this.

Yes, somehow he managed to have the floss coming out of the bottom of the dispenser.  Yes, i managed to get it back out of the top where it belongs.  That's another "we wouldn't want to know," i believe.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Blessed Wulfric's Day

Cherry Pie Day

Clean Out Your Bookcase Day -- supposedly begun in 1985, but i can't find information on who started it; donate books you don't need any more to a local friends of the library group

Flying Car Day -- the Arrowmobile, the first flying car, patented this day in 1937 (and can you imagine, as bad as driving is, how many accidents we would have if these people were flying around instead?)

Hoodie Hoo Day (Northern Hemisphere) -- at noon local time, citizens are requested to go outside and yell "Hoodie-Hoo" to chase away winter and call in spring; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays

Love Your Pet Day -- a day to pamper pets, like they don't get pampered enough

National Handcuff Day -- at least, it was last year 

St Leo of Catania's Day (a/k/a Leo the Wonderworker, Patron of Rometta, Longi, and Sinagra, Sicily)

Toothpick Day -- first machine used to make them patented this day in 1872

World Day for Social Justice -- UN

Anniversary Today:

John Cleese marries Connie Booth, 1968

US Post Office, 1792 (George Washington signed the act which created it)

Birthdays Today:

Rihanna, 1988

Andrew Shue, 1967

Lili Taylor, 1967

Cindy Crawford, 1966

French Stewart, 1964

Charles Barkley, 1963

Ron Eldard, 1963

James Wilby, 1958

Patty Hearst, 1954

Gordon Brown, 1951

Ivana Trump, 1949

Jennifer O'Neill, 1948

Peter Strauss, 1947

Brenda Blethyn, 1946

Sandy Duncan, 1946

Phil Esposito, 1942

Buffy Sainte-Marie, 1941

Nancy Wilson, 1937

Bobby Unser, 1934

Sidney Poitier, 1927

Robert Altman, 1925

Gloria Vanderbilt, 1924

Carl E. Stotz, 1920

Gale Gordon, 1906

Ansel Adams, 1902

Joseph Jefferson, 1829

William Prescott, 1726

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Der Stellvertreter. Ein christliches Trauerspiel"(Play), 1963

"Barber of Seville"(Rossini Opera), 1816

"Giulio Cesare in Egitto"(Opera, HWV 17), 1724

Today in History:

King Christian I, ruler of Denmark and Norway, pawns the islands of Orkney and Shetland to Scotland so he can pay his daughter's dowry, 1472

An unnamed comet approaches withing 860,000 miles of Earth, the closest a comet has ever come to our planet, 1491

The first recorded wine auction is held, in London, 1673

The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington, 1792

Austria declares bankruptcy, 1811

Concepcion, Chile, is destroyed by an earthquake, 1835

The US Congress prohibits dueling in the District of Columbia, 1839

Luther Crowell patents a machine to manufacture paper bags, 1872

In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens, 1872

The first minor league baseball association is organised, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1887

King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra, 1913

A new volcano, Paricutin, erupts in a farmer's cornfield in Mexico, 1943

The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate, 1959

While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes, 1962

Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts, 1965

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands, 1976

Texas industrialist Ross Perot's U.S. presidential campaign begins, 1992

Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout, 2005

Estonia becomes the first country in the world to establish a national electric car charging network, with cars charging in less than 30 minutes, 2013

A 4-inch lock of John Lennon's hair sells at auction for $35,000 to a memorabilia collector, 2016

Famine is declared in Unity State, South Sudan, affecting 4.9 million, 2017

Venezuela becomes the first country to launch a virtual currency, the petro, to counteract their financial crisis, 2018

Englishwoman Jasmine Harrison (21) becomes the youngest woman to row across an ocean arriving in Antigua as part of the Atlantic Challenge after 70 days, 3 hours, 48 minutes, 2021