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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
I suspect your job would be easier if Carl didn't even try and do the washing. Which is a shame.
ReplyDeleteLove the funnies.
Why does he try to do his own laundry. It would be best if he just kept a huge pile of it all so you could do it for him. At least at this point you know him and his oddities so it is easier to deal with. To start fresh with a new person would be tough.
ReplyDeleteI think I can understand Carl's wish to do as others do...why he attempts laundry. I know that you and his Mom have surely told him single pieces in the washer aren't the way. Maybe more emphasis on that from his family. But you have surely already thought of that. He's happy. That's the best thing. :-)
ReplyDeleteLove the Tuesday funnies and enjoy hearing about Carl's lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteWow! Carl is a mystery and you definitely earn your pay and then some ~ great funnies ~ thanks,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
I love Carl. Yikes on that messy watch and I'm glad you found the PJs. They were out and about I'm sure. I always chuckle reading about Carl.
ReplyDeleteLove all the funnies.
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Have a fabulous Happy Tuesday. Love and hugs, my friend. ♥
Let's hope Carl doesn't have too many long vacations. This one really got him and his belongings a bit discombobulated:)
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Carl worked really hard to make more of a mess and he was successful. Good funnies too!
ReplyDeleteYou sure work hard at Carl's house. Maybe he was using the graduation robe as an apron? XO
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the graduation robe could be gently hand washed in cool water?
ReplyDeleteGreat funnies! And Carl really does NEED you.
ReplyDeleteAlways enjoy your posts and the funnies.
ReplyDeleteCarl keeping you busy once again! Great funnies especially the one featuring Dame Maggie Smith who sadly passed away 3 weeks ago - I hope she saw it, she had a great sense of humour!
ReplyDeleteCharlee: "Wait, so, a box that used to have dirty clothes in it? Is it still available for sitting in? Asking for a friend ..."
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