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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 first week back at work after vacation is never easy.
Carl is no exception. Although how he goes through so much underclothing in one week is something i'm not sure i want to think too much about.
There's almost always at least one thing he does each week which is different. This week, at one point, he'd worn two shirts at once, then taken them off together, washed them together and dried them together. That's not something i'd seen before.
The family had been busy over the weekend. Mr. L's new special electric recliner that helps you stand up and will lay flat so you can sleep in it had been put together. The chair it was replacing in the living room had to go somewhere, and Carl's room is always elected for such things.
Carl actually got up about ten minutes earlier than usual and went straight for his shower. When he came out he was ready to talk.
I'd found this communion cup on the counter and asked him about it. (These cups are often used when taking communion outdoors or at large events, you peel back one lid and have a small piece of unleavened bread, peel back the other and there is unfermented wine -- meaning grape juice.)
"I went to Hope church and we had communion, and they had these and I took one," he explained. Then he went on. "After, I went to the other church with the good Sunday school class, and we did crafts with chalk!" He smiled at the memory, he really loves crafts.
Next he asked me, "How was the crawfish?"
I told him our Palm Sunday celebration was wonderful and those who eat crawfish had enjoyed it. I asked why he didn't come.
"I didn't get to sign up," he said, but I reminded him next time to come anyway, there are always a few extra plates.
"My brother and sister-in-law came and we celebrated my dad's birthday again, that was fun on Friday. Then my friend came on Saturday and we played video games!"
It sounds like you had quite a weekend, i told him, and he smiled, then headed for the kitchen.
I followed to make him a sandwich, only to find they were still out of mayo.
While making a sandwich, Carl asked about a cup of coffee. They have a one cup coffee maker, and he was standing there with the half full reservoir in his hands, trying to figure out how to attach it. I took it and attached it, he spent some time picking which flavor of coffee pod he wanted, and i put it in, plugged it in and turned it on.
It didn't work. At all. Nothing.
"Oh, we've been having trouble with that," he said.
Now, he tells me.
I boiled water in the microwave and did a pour over while also making a sandwich with ranch dressing instead of mayo, and the rest of his lunch.
After making the sandwich, i found the new bottle of mayonnaise, they'd put it in the pantry and left the empty one in the refrigerator.
Once Carl had his coffee and his lunch was packed, i went back to work in his room and saw him next when he came in talking about a buddy.
I asked which one, and he said, "Big Buddies. They do events. How can I get involved in that?"
I told him there is a Big Buddy program, but you have to sign up and get trained.
"Oh," he said, then wandered off saying, "gotta get my pills."
He brings Tums and Gas-X with him to work. He's got a sensitive stomach for someone who eats the way he does.
Next he pulled out his new bottle of lotion, and was getting it everywhere, including some of it on the skin he was trying to target. I shooed him out for work with just enough time to get there.
It's time for funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Celtic Tree Month Saille (willow) begins
Day of the Sun -- North Korea (Kim Il Sung's Birthday Holiday)
Fast Food Day -- the first franchised McDonald's opened this day in 1955 in Des Plaines, IL, US
Father Damien Day -- Hawaii, US (Patron of lepers)
Festival of Heru; Festival of Bast -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Fluff Appreciation Day -- internet generated; i guess as a distraction for Tax Day
Fordicalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (cow sacrifice to the earth mother, Tellus Mater)
Guangzhou (Canton) Spring Trade Fair -- Guangzhou (Canton), China (a month-long spring trade fair held the same dates each year)
Hillsborough Disaster Memorial -- Anfield at Liverpool, England
Income Tax Pay Day -- Philippines; US (most years)
related observances:
Freak Out Day
National Griper's Day (after all, you have to pay your taxes, and the Titanic sank today*)
Tax Resistors' Day -- good luck!
That Sucks Day (appropriate, isn't it)
Jackie Robinson Day -- Major League Baseball
National Glazed Ham Day
Rubber Eraser Day -- today in 1770, Joseph Priestly described a vegetable gum which had the ability to rub out pencil marks
St. Hunna's Day (Patron of laundresses, laundry workers, washerwomen)
Swallow Day -- England (traditional date of the return of chimney swallows)
Take a Wild Guess Day -- sponsored by Jim Barber as a day to honor guesses, hunches, inspirations, speculations and other forms of “intuitive intelligence;” just not on your taxes, please
Tipsa Diena -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (celebration of the start of plowing)
Titanic Remembrance Day
World Creativity and Innovation Week -- always begins on DaVinci's birth anniversary
World Art Day -- because he was an artist as well as inventor
*If you want to add others reasons why today should be considered "That Sucks Day", please go share your horror story of the day at www.thatsucks.net
Anniversary Today:
Gallaudet University is founded, 1817 (first US public school for the deaf)
Birthdays Today:
Emma Watson, 1990
Ilya Kovalchuck, 1983
Seth Rogen, 1982
Patrick Carney, 1980
Anna Torv, 1978
Emma Thompson, 1959
Evelyn Ashford, 1957
Heloise Cruse Evans, 1951
Amy Wright, 1950
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, 1947
Claudia Cardinale, 1939
Roy Clark, 1933
Elizabeth Montgomery, 1933
Leon Schotter, 1922
Harold Washington, 1922
Hilda Simms, 1920
Hans Conried, 1917
Bessie Smith, 1894
Thomas Hart Benton, 1889
Sam Rodia, 1875
John Munroe Longyear, 1850
Henry James, 1843
Joseph E. Seagram, 1841
Charles Willson Peale, 1741(O.S. date)
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"In Living Color"(TV), 1990
"Driving Miss Daisy"(Play), 1987
Today in History:
Pope Innocent III refuses to grant permission to the Jews of Cordova, Spain, to build a synagogue, 1250
Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London, 1755
The first school for the deaf in the US opens in Hartford, Connecticut, 1817
The last day US silver coins are allowed to circulate in Canada, 1870
Harley Proctor begins producing Ivory Soap, 1878
General Electric Company is incorporated, 1892
The Titanic sinks, 1912
Insulin becomes available to diabetics, 1923
Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas, 1924
Jackie Robinson debuts with the Brooklyn Dodgers, 1947
White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city, 1957
Tokyo Disney Resort (and the Tokyo Disneyland park) opens in Tokyo Bay (Japan), 1983
Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China, 1989
Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization, 1994
Astronomers at San Francisco State University announce the discovery of the first multiplanet solar system besides our own, three planets around Upsilon Andromedaie, 1999
Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe, 2010
In a Schrodinger's cat experiment, researchers in Japan and Australia successfully teleport wave packets of light; this is the first transfer of quantum information from one point to another, 2011
Ceremonies and special events marking the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic are held around the world, 2012
Google publicly offers Google Glass for the first time in a one-day online sale at $1,500 apiece, 2014
Nokia announces that it will purchase Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6 billion, creating the second-largest manufacturer of mobile communication products behind Ericsson, 2015
Paris cathedral Notre Dame catches fire, toppling its spire and destroying its roof, 2019
Germany ends its use of nuclear power, closing its last three nuclear power plants, 2023
According to a report in Nature Magazine, AI systems now so advanced they nearly match or exceed humans in reading comprehension, image classification and competition-level mathematics, 2024
The aging like milk made me smile (and wince). I try not to get either.
ReplyDeleteThese all made me smile today! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteWho does the grocery shopping for Carl, it must be his mom. No matter what you are doing it is always a game of hunting to find what you need it seems.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I am aging like milk as well. Got to put some work into not.
ReplyDeleteOh Carl! Great funnies, the last one's a hoot!
ReplyDeleteI love Carl. It would take me all day to clean up after him. You're such a jewel with him.
ReplyDeleteLove all the funnies and my favorite one is the toilet one. Great advice.
Thank you for joining the Happy Tuesday Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Happy Tuesday. Love and hugs, my friend. ♥
You earned a Crown this week ~ I bow to you dear Queen for all you do for Carl ~ Great funnies too ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores ~ clm
aka (A Creative Harbor)
MOL MOL LOVED the funnies today
ReplyDeleteHugs cecilia
You're so wonderful to Carl. :) - My favorite sign was the "What if nobody was President and we all promised real hard to just be cool." If only it were that easy...
ReplyDeleteWe hope your Manic Monday with Carl doesn't set the tone for the rest of the week. How does that family survive without you and your help for the other days?
ReplyDeleteThe funnies are all so good, but we really liked the one about the stomach being f(l)at:)
Woos - Misty and Timber
Oh goodness, taht looked like hazardous duty pay was in order. Those were really good funnies.
ReplyDeleteI am always in awe of you when I see these photos and know you didn't run out of the house like I would. :) XO
ReplyDeleteTwo shirts at once and washed together. Makes sense sort of. Love the funnies, the Minion one reminds me of someone I know and I think I'll have that put on a coffee mug for him as a Christmas gift.
ReplyDeleteLulu: "I think our Dada has solved that 'first day back from vacation' problem by never going on vacation, but that might be a problem of its own ..."
ReplyDeleteGreat funnies!
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