He Went as What? 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.  

When i left Ms. V;s place last week, Carl had told me he was invited to a Halloween party.  Ms. V explained that's why his graduation robe was out of the closet, he was going to go as a graduate, or a member of the church choir, depending on whether he could find his mortarboard.

Arriving yesterday, i found the following.

Ms. V, after assuring me she would remember to hang the cleaning cloths when they were done washing and not leave them to Carl's tender mercies, had forgotten and they were all over the floor, with dryer balls scattered among them meaning they'd been put in the dryer, then tossed to the floor and walked on.

They were going to get a rewash, of course.

Carl's closet had something in it, and i fished it out and identified it as his Halloween costume.  He'd gone as a Pokemon ball.

In various parts of the room i found the bag in which the costume had come, the cardboard insert telling how to refold it, and the elastics to hold it closed so it would fit back in the bag.  By the time i left it was reassembled and in the top of the closet.

Oh, and did it matter to Carl is was labeled as a child's size costume?  Probably not, and as he's a big kid himself, he probably would not have cared at all.

He'd put the lotion bottle, covered with lotion of course, in the chair.  When i pointed out to him, as he was readying to go sleep in his chair in the living room for a while, what mess it was, he waited until my back was turned to grab a clean sock and try to wipe up the mess.

A sock which i will now have to wash, i thought, shaking my head when i realized what he'd done.  I chased him out to go nap and tackled the usual organizing of the room and laundry.

His dentist must have really put the fire in him because he is back to consistently using floss, and i had to play the "find the ends of the dental floss" game in a couple of places.

While he usually sets a timer to get him up when he's in the sleep chair, he ignored it when it beeped and eventually i went in there to wake him so he wouldn't be late.

He was up and taking his morning meds, and he looked at me and asked, "What pill do I take next?"

I'm not sure, i told him, that's above my pay grade.  What do you usually take in the morning?

We looked at the now empty slot in the pill minder and i guess he figured he'd taken it already so he headed to the room to shower.

Your clothes, underwear, socks and shoes are already in there, i told him as i was gathering things to make his lunch.  When i got in there a few minutes later, he'd grabbed a different outfit, so i snagged the first one and got it hung up in the closet before it could end up walked over on the bathroom floor.

After starting the bedclothes to wash, i came back in to him in his mini-kitchen, jogging in place, barefoot.

Shoes, i told him, handing him his powder, and sent him back to the bathroom to take care of dressing his feet.

As i worked in his room and he gathered work things, he told me about thieves targeting his workplace, and some workers getting laid off as the cameras had caught them stealing, too.  He was very sober and troubled by it, he's as honest as the day is long and does not understand why people do such things.

While sorting his laundry, i found the keys to his car.  Handing them over, i reminded him he needed to be more careful with his keys, he loses them frequently and it costs him much time and effort to find them.  He didn't seem phased by my argument but said, "Hobby."

I looked at him with a questioning look and he said, "Need a hobby."

Laughing, i noted i'd just told him he needs to be careful about his keys and he was worried about needing a hobby.

"No, you.  Nagging."

Ah, he thinks i need another hobby than nagging him.  Duly noted, but as long as i'm dragged into looking for his stuff, my hobby isn't going to change, at least on Mondays.

By the time he was done with breakfast, i'd done packing his ice vest, ice chest and lunch.  He ran around his room saying "Jacket?" you don't need one, it's not cold; "Glasses?" i already handed them to you, where'd you leave them, ah, by the sink; "Badge?" haven't seen it in a long time.

He also kept opening his fridge, which uncharacteristically looked like this.

I reminded him i'd packed him plenty of lunch, why was he opening the fridge over and over?

"I am?" he asked, surprised.  He must open it regularly, hoping something will leap out at him.  If he opens the freezer, it will, and mostly likely it will be a frozen ice pack and it will land on his foot.  Yes, it happens.

After i thought he'd left, i went back into the main kitchen to find him on his iPad, muttering something about setting up a website.  That's the last thing he needs to do, but anyway, i next found him in the hallway, rubbing his left eye hard and saying it itched.

"Should I put lotion?" he asked and i told him to stop rubbing, if there was a piece of anything in there he could scratch his eye.  I also told him not to put lotion on it, it can run into your eye and it will burn.

I brought him back into his room to get him a damp washcloth to put on it and found him already putting the same lotion on it that he'd gotten all over his chair.  All i could think was, if he starts to perspire and that stuff runs into his eye, he's going to regret it, but he's going to have to find that out on his own.

In honor of Halloween costumes, some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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It's National Cat Day in the US!

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Today is:

Coronation Day -- Cambodia (anniversary of King Norodom Sihamony, in 2004)

Deepawali/Deepavali/Diwali/Divali(Festival of Lights) -- Hindu; Jain; Sikh (for the next five days; local dating customs and government holidays for this Lunar New Year/Festival of Lights can vary)

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Cumhuriyet Bayrami -- North Cyprus; Turkey (Republic Day)(1923)

Hermit Day / Hide From Everyone Day -- internet generated, for those who would rather have a peaceful day today than celebrate the other holidays listed; you can read up on how to be a hermit on wikihow

Internet Day -- it's predecessor went live today, see Today in History for detail

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National Oatmeal Day

St. Mary of Edessa's Day (Patron against sexual temptation)

World Psoriasis Day  

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Gabrielle Union, 1972

Winona Ryder, 1971

Joely Fisher, 1965

Randy Jackson, 1961

Finona Hughes, 1960

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Richard Dreyfuss, 1947

Melba Moore, 1945

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 1938

Dominick Dunne, 1925

Bill Mauldin, 1921

Fanny Brice, 1891

Charles Hercules Ebbets, 1858

Daniel Decatur Emmet, 1815

James Boswell, 1740 (wrote the biography of Samuel Johnson)

Edmund Halley, 1656 (O.S. Date) (yes, that Halley, found the comet)

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"Let's Face It"(Musical), 1941

"Don Giovanni"(Mozart K. 527), 1787

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The first Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans, 1811

Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia, 1889

The first intercity trucking service, from Colorado City to Snyder, Texas, begins running, 1904

Turkey declares its independence as the successor state to the Ottoman Empire, 1923

Israeli forces invade the Sinai Peninsula and push Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal, 1956

Cassius Clay wins his first professional fight, 1960

Syria exits from the United Arab Republic, 1961

Montreal's World Fair, Expo 67, closes with over 50 million visitors, 1967

The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid, 1991

In South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which condemns both sides for committing atrocities, 1998

Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space, 1998

In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution, 2004

The 3G wireless transmitters at Mt. Everest make coverage available to the summit, 2010

Random House and Penguin merge to become Penguin Random House, the largest publisher in the world, 2012

Turkey opens the first underwater rail tunnel linking Europe to Asia, 2013

China ends its one child policy after 35 years, 2015

New research is published indicating that the cacao tree was not first cultivated in central America, but in Ecuador by the Maya Chinchipe culture about 5,000 years ago, 2019

A new DNA study of dogs suggests they were the first animal domesticated by humans, about 11,000 years ago, 2020

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