Breakfast, Zip Bags and Preparing for the "Prom," 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.  

The light came on in the washroom at Carl's!

And this was the sight which greeted me.  Oh, well, you can't have everything.  At least i could see the mess and decide, except what was in the dryer, it's all dirty and just take it all to sort.

I'd barely gotten into the room to start gathering everything and Carl was back in there.  I asked if he had work and he said yes, then i asked why he was in there and he said, "Tooth!"

Yes, the word was in the singular.  He'd probably decided one tooth was still fuzzy after an earlier brushing, and we all know how he loathes fuzzy teeth.  He'll keep coming back to brush over and over until he's satisfied.

The cotton swabs he bought have ended up just as i predicted.

In other words, all over the place.

His fridge contained quite a breakfast, with leftovers from two places.

All of it was consumed before he left for work, along with a bowl of cereal.  The man loves to eat.

His mother took his car keys and told him he had to pick up his room.  there were still things on the floor, and then this.

As long as there is a Carl, there will be powder.

Once he was awake and showered (and powdered), he had plenty to tell me as i fixed his lunch.

"Toby Mac is coming!"

Yes, i told him, he's on tour again, but i don't know if he's coming here.

"He is!  Sixth, they said volunteers..."

I smiled.  They do request volunteers at these events to help people find their seats and those volunteers get to listen to the concert free.  He may try to volunteer, but there's about a zero chance of his mother letting him drive downtown for a concert at night, especially on a work night.

Speaking of work nights, his next bit of conversation was, "I have Thursday and Friday off, getting ready for...dance."

The gears started turning in my mind and i asked if he was talking about the same one he'd done the year before.

"Yeah!  Gotta get ready."

The Tim Tebow Foundation puts on "Your Night to Shine," a type of prom for special needs teens and adults.  Carl goes every year and just loves it.  It's dancing, what can we say, the man loves to dance.  Yes, i would imagine it would take him having a couple of days off work to be sure he's ready for the big night.

"I saw an old friend at church," was his next announcement.  "Hadn't seen him...he's a, what do you call?"

Not being sure, i waited and he then said something which sounded like, "fired."

Did someone get fired? i asked, as he sometime switches topics in the middle of a conversation.

"No, it backfired!"

Oh, dear, i muttered, having no clue what had backfired but that's never a good thing, right?

While making the lunch, i couldn't find the smaller sizes of zip bags.  Carl had put them on the wrong shelf, then when he couldn't find them, pulled the large bags out for his own use.  He uses whatever he finds, whether it's the right thing or not, as long as it's the almost right thing.  Zip bag order has been restored, and maybe Ms. V and i need to discuss keeping the ones he isn't supposed to use in another spot.  Time will tell.

Soon it was crunch time, meaning he runs around asking me where stuff is as i try to get him out the door.

"Nail clippers?" he asked, and i looked right where they should be, by the miscellaneous label in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom.  Imagine that, they were where they should be.

Of course, later i found them elsewhere, but when i find them they are always returned to their spot.

"Vest?" he asked and we hunted up his last work vest.  Or, the last one in the house.  He had four of them in the car, which i dug out from under all the winter clothes he seems to be stashing in there "just in case."

He asked about lunch, it was packed, he was satisfied and left, and i turned back to laundry.

There are fewer clothes hangers in there now, his mother may have taken some for her closet (she does that once in so often).

A while back, she'd bought him more and i'd hidden half of them for when i knew they'd be needed.  Miracle of miracles, i found them and pulled them out, and he's got plenty again for a while.

God is in control.

He must have made this at the Sunday school for special needs adults he attends, and it sums things up nicely.

Another miracle, i went to my follow-up eye doc appointment and my vision is getting better.  The doc said it's healing, the rest of the itchiness, discomfort and bruising should resolve.

How about some eye exam funnies?

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Biezputras Diena (Porrige Day) -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (date unconfirmed, some sites suggest it's always on a Sunday before Feb. 23 instead)

Create-A-Vacuum Day -- an internet generated celebration of the nothingness of vacuums

General Thaddeus Kosciuszko Day -- Poland (birth anniversary)

Homemade Soup Day

Independence Day -- Sri Lanka

King Frost Day -- London (Celebrated yearly until WWI, in remembrance of the frozen River Thames on this day in 1814.)

Liberation Day -- Angola

National Stuffed Mushroom Day

Spoiled Cats' Day -- internet generated, and isn't this every day?

St. Andrew Corsini's Day (Patron of Carmelites; against civil disorder and riots)

St. John de Brito's Day (Patron of Portugal; Sivagangai, India)

Thank A Mailperson/Postal Worker Day -- because someone decided it would be a good day to do that, and put it on the internet

USO Day -- US (founded this date in 1941)

World Cancer Day -- International   

Anniversaries Today:

United Service Organizations (USO) founded, 1941

The University of Wisconsin is established, with one classroom and 20 students, 1849

Birthdays Today:

Natalie Imbruglia, 1975

Oscar De La Hoya, 1973

Gabrielle Anwar, 1971

Michael Goorjian, 1971

Rod Corddry, 1971

Clint Black, 1962

Lawrence Taylor, 1959

Lisa Eichhorn, 1952

Alice Cooper, 1948

Dan Quayle, 1947

George A. Romero, 1940

Jhn Schuck, 1940

David Brenner, 1936

Gary Conway, 1936

Betty Friedan, 1921

Ida Lupino, 1918

Rosa Parks, 1913

Clyde W. Tombaugh, 1906

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906

Charles Lindbergh, 1902

Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 1746

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours"(Album), 1977

Today in History:

The Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta, 211

The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries, 960

Maximilian I assumes the title Holy Roman Emperor without being crowned, 1508

Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for the first time near Prague 1600

In Edo (now Tokyo), The 47 Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) after avenging the death of their master, 1703

The worst earthquake in 8 years in Calabria, Italy, leaves 50,000 dead, 1783

The first Anglican bishops of New York and Pennsylvania are consecrated in London, 1787

George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College, 1789

The French National Convention proclaims the abolishment of slavery, 1794

An earthquake in Quito, Ecuador, kills 41,000, 1797

J.W. Goodrich introduces his rubber galoshes to the public, 1824

The Mormons of Nauvoo, Missouri, leave to go west, eventually settling in Utah, 1846

The Codex Sinaiticus is found at the Greek Monastery of Mount Sinai, 1859

The first rolling lift bridge opens, in Chicago, 1895

The first Winter Olympics games close at Chamonix, France, 1924

The first tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks open, in New Orleans, 1930

Radium E is the first radioactive substance to be produced synthetically, 1936

The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops, 1941

Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft, 1967

After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections, 1997

Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg, 2004

The Federal Court of Australia's ruling in Roadshow Films v iiNet sets a precedent that Internet service providers (ISPs) are not responsible for what their users do with the services the ISPs provide them, 2010

The remains found the previous year in a dig at Leicester are confirmed to be those of King Richard III of England, 2013

Morocco's Mohammed VI switches on the world's largest solar plant near Ouarzazate, 2016

Denmark approves plans for world's first energy island in the North Sea to provide power to 3 million Europeans, 2021

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, whose crackdown on violent crime has taken El Salvador from being one of the most dangerous countries in Central America to one of the safest, wins re-election in a landslide, 2024