Lotion Bottles and Busy Days, 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 has been busy.  I never did find out why his shoes were in the laundry room beside/behind the sink.

I arrived to find he'd not checked his pockets again and there was tissue in the washer and mess, well, it was inevitable.

After all, they have him work extra hours in December, so he gets even more in a muddle.

At least he was already in his sleep chair so i could start quickly.  First, check the fridge.

Ugh.  At least he had a sandwich.  The leftovers he'll have to deal with, or eat, himself, but i did get the messy bag with heaven-knows-what in it out and in the trash.

Oh, and he once again has a lotion bottle, with the requisite smears of lotion on the outside of the bottle.  Be afraid chair, be very afraid.  (For those who might not know, he inevitably leaves the lotion covered bottle on a cloth chair, and it is now stained with so much lotion there's no going back.)

As always, i had the bathroom set up so he could shower as soon as he woke, and when he did i reminded him not to come out of there until he was fully dressed.

He did pretty well, just lacking shoes and socks because he is still looking for the powder he has not yet bought.  Once again, he raided his mother's.

As he readied himself, he talked, a lot of it mumbling but some i could catch.  One of his friends wasn't available this weekend, but he did some shopping, and went to a movie with someone.  Presumably a different friend.

Carl was loading his car when i went out with a load of recyclables.  "What's that?" he asked.  I told him and he said, "Don't throw away any iTunes card!"

I reassured him it was all empty boxes, random paper he doesn't need, or empty bottles or cans.  I also promised i would never, ever throw out a gift card of any kind, as i never have.  He seemed reassured.

He came back in, picked up one of the Christmas cards from his stack and said, "Whose is this?"

Since i had no idea, before i could respond he opened it, named the person who was intended to receive it, and threw it on top of his refrigerator.  I'm not taking any bets on whether the person receives it.

Just before leaving, he was trying to change shirts.  At first i thought it was because he'd ditched his apron early and gotten it dirty, but it was actually just a bit damp.  No, he was trying to grab a long-sleeve shirt and i asked why.

It's going to be almost 80°F today, i told him, you do not want long sleeves just because it's a tiny bit cool this morning. 

He agreed and stayed in the short sleeves, and when next i saw him he was rummaging for sunglasses on a cloudy day.  He's out of sunglasses, he's gone through all of them, lost or broken.  He didn't need them anyway.

Now his phone, Carl needs that to sign in at work.  He asked me where it was, and of course, i had not seen it anywhere.  He found it in his sleep chair.

There's no being frustrated, though, with a big kid who has once again joined a bowling league, and loves gnomes.

He had so many dirty clothes this week i did an extra load, so once there was nothing left but waiting for the towels to dry, i went to my client across the street, did the work for her, and came back to finish up those towels.  As i told Ms. V, no way was i leaving them to Carl's tender mercies, they'd never make it to the shelf and he'd be rummaging in the hall linen closet by Thursday.

Always, by the time i'm gone, it's in good enough condition for him to start messing it up again.

More Christmas funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Christmas Festival in Salvador -- Salvador, Brazil (one fun party, with many different activities, that begins around now, lasts until New Year's Day)

Clean Air Act Day -- US (passed this day 1963; a day to give thanks for the air we breathe)

Cookie Cutter Day

Daniel the Prophet's Day -- Orthodox Catholic Feast Day

December 17 Anniversary -- Tunisia

Feast of Babalu Aye -- Yoruba/Santeria (celebration of the healer of deadly diseases)

Hagoita Ichi -- Sensoji Temple, Japan (sale of specially decorated paddles, called hagoita; through the 19th)

Icelandic Yuletide Lad of the Day, Askasleikir -- Bowl-licker, who hides under the bed and snatches bowls set on the floor to lick them clean

Kasuga Wakamiya Festival -- Nara, Japan (rarely performed traditional dances at a festival held every year since 1136)

National Day -- Bhutan

National Maple Syrup Day

Procession of Agnios Dionysios -- Zakynthos, Greece (one of the biggest festivals of the year, when the relics of this island's patron saint is honored)

Saturnalia begins (through Dec. 23) -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival for Saturn, the planter god)

Sow Day -- Orkney Islands, Scotland (ritual slaughter of a sow for the Yule feast)

St. Lazarus of Bethany's Day

Take a New Year's Resolution to Stop Smoking -- Tanyrtss, the annual campaign goes through February; make the decision now to improve your life and health next year     

Wright Brother's Day -- US

Anniversary Today:

Tiny Tim weds Miss Vicky, 1969

Birthdays Today:

Milla Jovovich, 1975

Duff Goldman, 1974

Sean Patrick Thomas, 1970

Mike Mills, 1958

Bill Pullman, 1954

Wes Studi, 1947

Eugene Levy, 1946

Chris Matthews, 1945

Ernie Hudson, 1945

Bernard Hill, 1944

Tommy Steele, 1936

Bob Guccione, 1930

William Safire, 1929

Willard Frank Libby, 1908

Arthur Fiedler, 1894

John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807

W. L. Mackenzie King, 1874

Joseph Henry, 1797

Deborah Sampson, 1760

William Floyd, 1734

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Simpsons"(TV), 1989

Turner Broadcasting System(Cable TV Network), 1976

"El Pessebre"(Casals' Oratorio), 1960

"On The Beach"(Film), 1959

Today in History:

The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome by bribing the Byzantine garrison, 546

Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur, 1398

Pope Paul III excommunicates England's King Henry VIII, 1538

Go-Yozei becomes Emperor of Japan, 1586

Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasants led by Amakusa Shiro rise against daimyo Matsukura Shigeharu, 1637

Congregation Shearith Israel of NY purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build NY's first synagogue, 1728

France recognizes independence of English colonies in America, 1777

Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mexico City, 1790

NYC traffic regulation creates first 1-way street, 1791

Opening of the first legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city, 1792

The US state of Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons, 1821

General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky, 1862

First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert, 1865

Violent riots in Montreal, as workers demand work or bread,1875

France declares Madagascar a protectorate, 1885

George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine, 1895

A first prize of 100,00 francs is offered for communications with extraterrestrials but Martians are excluded - considered too easy, 1900

The Wright Brothers make their first successful flights, 1903

First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane, 1935

Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy first appear on TV, 1936

The SALT I talks begin, 1969

Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years, 1989

SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight, 2003

NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field, 2012

French sailor François Gabart sets the round-the-world record for the fastest solo navigation of the globe in 42 days 16 hours, 2017

Astronomers announce they have identified the furthest object in the solar system, 2018 VG18 (nicknamed Farout); it is 120 times further from the sun than Earth, 2018

Scientists announce they've been able to extract human DNA that is 5,700 years old from a piece of birch sap that was used as a type of chewing gum, 2019

China's Chang'e-5 mission successfully returns from collecting rock samples from the Moon, 2020

The news of the discovery of the first true millipede (Eumillipes persephone) with 1,000 legs found down a drill hole in Western Australia is published in "Scientific Reports", 2021