Hygiene and Sugar, 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's bathroom light was on when i arrived yesterday, but he was dressed and still had the lights off in the room.

I suggested i'd put his lunch together while he went to get breakfast as i switched on the overhead lights in the room.

Instead of heading to the kitchen, he grabbed the trash can and scissors and said, "Toenails!" sitting down to start clipping.

I left him to it and searched the main kitchen for lunch fixings, as his fridge was empty of everything but a sad looking salad.

When i got back to his room with lunch, he asked, "How was your weekend?"

I told him it was good and asked him about his.

"They were doing gaming at the library!" he said excitedly.  "And I watched the video about 3D printing, and it makes a noise like vrrr-woosh and it makes these things..."

He stopped and thought a moment, then said, "Sydney!  Never got in touch with Sydney," and he wandered off to find breakfast.

Later, i went to the kitchen to dispose of the sad salad in his fridge and noticed he had dried sugared mangos on the table.

I thought your mom said no more sugar, i said.  You're not supposed to buy anything with sugar in or on it.

"But it's for my cereal!" he said and snatched up the bag.  "I have to have something on my cereal."

I'm just the hired monkey, i don't run the circus.

Later, after his mom was awake, she asked me, "Did he have everything picked up off the floor?  I told him to pick up everything, it's a trip hazard."

He did have most of it, and that's one reason i found this.

He'd taken most things off the floor and shoved them into drawers until they couldn't close, but without sorting.  Some was clean, some was dirty, most everything got rewashed just to make sure.

He'd also used every single towel and dropped clean clothes still on a hanger in the hamper.

It's much easier when his mom doesn't say anything, but i get why she does.  He really could stand lessons.

As he came running through his room to ask if he needed a coat (no, a light sweater will do, it will be hot before you finish for the day), he stopped to try grabbing more stuff off the floor and sighed, "So much to do!"

It's my turn to do it, now scoot, i told him, and he did.

How about some funnies?

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Commemoration of the Victory over Kadhafi -- Libya

Corn Dog Day -- some sites say the 20th; #2 Son will celebrate both days, if i can afford that many corn dogs

Greater Dionysia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (largest festival to Dionysos, lasting five days; date approximate

National Agriculture Day -- US (if you eat, thank a farmer!)   agday.org

International Read to Me! Day -- a day for children to remind the adults in their lives to read to them often  

Kashubians' Unity Day -- among Kashubians in northern Poland

Let's Laugh Day -- a holiday spread by ecard companies, because any day is a good day for a laugh

Mojoday -- Discordianism

National Chocolate Caramel Day

Oil Nationalization Day -- Iran

Pet Passport Day -- today in 2000, the UK passed the pet passport law, allowing pets into Great Britian without quarantine if they met certain criteria

Poultry Day -- a day to honor the role poultry plays in our lives

Quinquatria -- Roman Empirical Calendar (celebration of Minerva and Mars, especially the birthday of Minerva today; through the 23rd)

Swallows Return to San Juan Capistrano Day -- despite what you think, the bird you saw there yesterday was not a swallow, the natives will tell you

St. Joseph's Day (Patron of bursars, cabinetmakers, carpenters, civil engineers, confectioners, craftsmen, dying people, emigrants, expectant mothers, families, fathers, happy death, holy death, house hunters, immigrants, interior souls, laborers, married people, Oblates of St. Joseph, people in doubt, people who fight communism, pioneers, protection of the church, social justice, travelers, unborn children, wheelwrights, workers; Universal Church; over 50 cities, diocese, and countries; against doubt and hesitation)

     As Patron of fathers, his day is also Father's Day in Belgium, Bolivia, Honduras, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.

     Valencia, Spain has it's biggest day of the Las Fallas Festival today, with the fireworks.

Time Zone Day -- US Congress passed the Standard Time Act to sort out the fact that different states and cities used different times, with no rhyme or reason

Birthdays Today:

Michael Bergin, 1969

Bruce Willis, 1955

Glenn Close, 1947

Clarence "Frogman" Henry, 1937

Ursula Andress, 1936

Phyllis Newman, 1935

Renee Taylor, 1935

Phillip Roth, 1933

Ornette Coleman, 1930

Patrick McGoohan, 1928

Brent Scowcroft, 1925

John Joseph Sirica, 1904

Earl Warren, 1891

Edith Nourse Rogers, 1881

Charles M. Russell, 1864

William Jennings Bryan, 1860

Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1847

Wyatt Earp, 1848

Sir Richard Burton, 1821

David Livingstone, 1813

Thomas Mckean, 1734

William Bradford, 1590

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Kate and Allie"(TV), 1984

"A Child of Our Time"(Oratorio), 1944

"Amos and Andy"(Radio), 1928

"Faust"(Opera), 1859

"Die Braut von Messina"(Schiller Play), 1803

Today in History:

A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China, 1279

Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men, 1687

The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000, 1863

Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not recognized as a planet, 1915

Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history, 1916

The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time, 1918

Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today, 1954

Gumby makes his debut, 1957

The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction, 1965

Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup, 1966

India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty, 1972

The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN, 1979

Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating the Falklands War with the United Kingdom, 1982

Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election, 2002

A cosmic burst, GRB 080319B, that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed, 2008

After two decades of being closed due to civil war, the Somali National Theater reopens in Mogadishu, 2012

The papal inauguration ceremony for Pope Francis is held in St. Peter's Square, 2013

The world's last male northern white rhino, 45-year-old Sudan, dies in Kenya, 2018

American Karen Uhlenbeck becomes the first woman to win mathematics' Abel Prize, 2019

The Icelandic volcano Fagradalsfjall erupts for the first time in 800 years, 2021

In a deal brokered by the Swiss government, Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, agrees to buy its rival Credit Suisse to help ease global financial panic, 2023