Odd Things Happen In That House, 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.  

All good things must come to an end, and so it is with Carl's vacation.

Yesterday was back to work day.  He'd been trying to do laundry.

As always, doing very small loads and only drying half.

Once i'd relocated him to the sleep chair, i perused the room.

At first glance, i thought this box he uses to bring things in from the car when his mom wants him to clean it out was full of dirty clothes from the car.

Nope, i even did the sniff test, he'd emptied the box of items brought in from the car  to who knows where (or he'd snuck them back into the car when his mom wasn't looking) and had dropped some clean laundry in there.

He told me he'd been to Camp Sunny Day and had fun.

Obviously, as they'd done arts and crafts. I'm not sure what it's supposed to be, but i'm sure he enjoyed making it.

It must have been a busy week for him.  I've never seen this.

All the drawers open?  Usually it's only 2 or 3.  He'd really been doing multiple small loads of laundry and had a terrible time putting it away.

He's back to stuffing it in the top of the closet, even.

They'd made little to no headway on the alarm installation.  Ms. V is probably now going to wait for the next time their other child, the rocket scientist, comes.  He generally takes care of such things.

I never did get a good explanation for why his high school graduation robe was lying around with food smears on it.  The instructions on it say, "Do Not Wash or Dry Clean."  No, i have no clue what i'm supposed to do with that.

While tidying the drawers, i thought i spied a familiar shape beneath the fabric.

No wonder we can never find all the dryer balls, they leave with his clothes.

At least with this pair of shorts, he'd tried to get it on a hanger.  Tried a little too hard, actually.

As always, there were bags with questionable contents lying around.

I pulled the watch and tube of antibiotic cream out of the bag and threw the rest away.  At least the goop, whatever it was, came off the watch, which is cheap and water resistant.

It's obvious he's taking his dentist's last fussing about his lack of flossing habits seriously.

He will not be without floss for the foreseeable future.

Once he was up, he ate and chatted as i packed his lunch and ice vest.  He told me his Friday was awkward, but i couldn't quite make out why.  He'd had a date on Saturday.  He also said something about church.  I think he's enjoying the Bible class for special needs adults.

Yes, at least he'd thought ahead and made a sandwich.  He still inspected his lunch and asked, "Where's the cheese stick?"

After two weeks of him being home, i'm off my game.  A cheese stick was immediately procured and put in with the sandwich, fruit cup, carrot sticks, peanuts and nutri-grain bar.  He also grabbed a third drink to add, while telling me about how there's a job at another store, a garden and hardware type place.

It's hard work there, too, i told him.  But you and your parents have to decide if you need to make a switch.

He left, and i noticed this on this counter.

Dimes, nickels and pennies.  He'd taken only the quarters.  No messing around with small change for Carl.

One final funny incident has come out of the vacation turned stay-cation.  Several years ago, there was a storm and his brother the rocket scientist and sister-in-law the vet tech came to stay at the house, as there's a generator here and they'd lost power where they live.

Carl moved into the spare bedroom, which is his former bedroom from before the apartment was built.  It's now primarily used for storage but with a spare bed.  While in the spare bedroom, he'd lost the top to one pair of pajamas and the bottom to another.  Since all of his pajamas are the same material and mostly match, i'd simply put the remainders together and, off and on, searched for the lost ones.

I'd figured long ago they'd been thrown away by accident, or gotten ruined, or gotten mixed into brother and sis-in-law's luggage somehow.

Since the last time i was there, they've shown up again.  Heaven knows where they were hiding out, but odd things happen in that house.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Abu Simbel Festival -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (along with Feb. 22, the day when the sunlight fell perfectly on the statues of Ramses, Ra, and Amun at the temple complex)

Caps Lock Day -- celebrating life in screaming CAPITALS (i'd include a link to the promo site, but it's rather annoying)

Clean Up the Earth Day -- begun because having only one Earth Day a year doesn't give enough emphasis to the amount of work that needs to be done

Color Day -- a day to consider how color affects your life, health, and world

Eat a Pretzel Day -- unclaimed sponsorship; does anyone else suspect that pretzel makers know how to spread stuff around the internet, too?

International Stuttering Awareness Day

Jidai Matsuri -- Kyoto, Japan (Festival of the Eras or Festival of the Ages)

National Knee Day -- take care of your knees, and they will take care of you!

National Nut Day -- UK & US (also now celebrated around the world) (launched by Liberation Foods CIC, a fair trade nut company, urging us to celebrate fairly traded nuts and swap out a nut based burger for a meat based meal, at least for today, or grab a handful of nutritious almonds or walnuts or your own favorite mix; if you don't like nuts, you can just choose to go be one, instead)

Smart is Cool Day -- and i don't know who started this one, but i'd say someone tired of being made fun of for being a bookworm

St. Mary Salome's Day (Patron of Veroli, Italy)

Anniversaries Today:

John Paul II is inaugurated as Pope, 1978

Toastmasters International founded, 1924

The first Metropolitan Opera House in NYC opens, performing Faust, 1883

Birthdays Today:

Carlos Mencia, 1967

Valeria Golino, 1966

Brian Boitano, 1963

Jeff Goldblum, 1952

Deepak Chopra, 1946

Catherine Deneuve, 1943

Jan De Bont, 1943

Annette Funicello, 1942

Tony Roberts, 1939

Derek Jacobi, 1938

Christopher Lloyd, 1938

Timothy Leary, 1920

Joan Fontaine, 1917

Robert Capa, 1913

Curly Howard, 1903

George Beadle, 1903

N. C. Wyeth, 1882

Sarah Bernhardt, 1844

Franz Liszt, 1811

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Me and Bessie"(Musical), 1975

"Take Me Along"(Musical), 1959

"The Far Off Hills"(Play), 1928

Today in History:

The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire, 362

Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto), 794

Battle of the Southern Fujian Sea, Ming Dynasty wins a victory against the Dutch East India Company, 1633

Princeton University is chartered, 1746

Andre-Jacques Trim becomes the first sky diver, parachuting over Paris from a balloon, 1797

Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas, 1836

First telegraph line linking US east and west coasts of the US is completed, 1861

First concert performance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1881

World's first automobile dealer opens in London, 1897

President Hoover gives the "American system of rugged individualism" speech, 1928

The FBI ambushes Pretty Boy Floyd, 1934

First commercial flight from the mainland to Hawai'i, 1936

Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor, 1964

A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada, 1964

The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus, 1975Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it

is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs, although the dye is still used in Canada, 1976

Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms, 2005

A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama, 2006

India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, 2008

North Korea gives the US permission to search for the remains of American soldiers killed during the Korean War, 2011

Six Italian scientists are convicted of manslaughter for their failure to predict the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, 2012

The Parliament of the UK approves the Brexit deal to leave he EU but refuses the legislation to fast track it to meet the Oct. 31 deadline, 2019

Goldman Sachs agrees to pay a record $3 billion to end the probe into its role in the 1MDB corruption scandal, 2020

Italy forms new coalition government, choosing Giorgia Meloni as their first female Prime Minister, 2022