It's Time to Wash or Buy New Underwear, 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.  

It's easy to gauge whether Carl had a good week or a hard week by the state of the laundry.  Please remember, too, as a special needs adult, it doesn't take much to make a week a hard one for him or throw him out of whack.

I've not seen it this bad in a long time.

Between the cleaning cloths from last Thursday which ended up needing to be rewashed due to Carl getting to them before Ms. V, the wet but not quite clean laundry, the dirty clothes that got hung back up and the clean ones pulled out and left to get dirty again, i did five loads of laundry in just over 5 hours.

He has almost 2 dozen pair of underwear, and he'd pulled out every single once since last Monday, including his "athletic supporter" (which he probably did not wear, just tossed it aside to get dirty on the floor).

As one of my college friends used to say, "Time to do laundry or go buy more underwear so I'll have some clean."

He further threw me for a loop when he popped up to take his meds and said, "My throat hurts."

Carl has allergies, so has a constant light "clearing his throat" cough and like his parents with their allergies, is always looking for a tissue.  When he says his throat hurts, it's hard to figure if it's just his usual or if something more is going on.  For the moment he was going back to his sleep chair, so we could defer the question and see if rest made a difference.

When he did get up later he came in the room where i was sorting more clothes and said, "Temperature?"

Not knowing if he meant his own or the weather, i waited a moment and he added, "Do you want to feel my forehead?"

I noted it wasn't a good way to tell if he had a fever and suggested a thermometer, which he decamped to look for without success.

When he came back, though, he said, "Gums hurt," and brushed his teeth, then told me, "I'm going to work" and went for his shower.

It seems it was his usual allergies making him feel a bit draggy after all.

Once he was dressed and eating he seemed to feel much more chipper.

"The prayer request part of the website is broken," he told me.

The church is revamping the website, i told him, a whole new one should be up soon.  Meanwhile, if you have a request, i can call Ms. Laurie and let her know to put it on the list.

"There's a list?" he asked.  "Where?  What kind?"

I made a trip to the car to grab one of the previous prayer request lists and gave it to him (i tend to keep them an extra week, see if any of the needs are ongoing).  He was quite pleased to see there's a list, so i promised i'd bring him one each week.

He'd been at church the previous day and said, "I tried to catch a few people to talk to them, only got some..."

Many were on their way out of town, it's the start of summer vacation season, i noted.

"The pastor talked about volunteering..."

Do you mean for Vacation Bible School? i asked.

"No, food, um, Food Bank!"

Yes, the Food Bank always needs volunteers.

"How would I get there?  Uber?"

You could take Uber, if you have the money in your account.

As he so often does, he suddenly switched gears.

"Looking at summer programs..."

There are some fun things to do at the parks and libraries in the summer, you always find some of them and do them, don't you?

"Splash pads!" he said with his huge, child like grin.

Yes, i told him, you need to do the splash pads this summer.  Everyone should do a splash pad in the summer.

He finished his breakfast and later, back in his room, soberly informed me, "There was a spider on my mouthwash bottle!"

Spiders go where they want, i told him, they come in to catch and eat the bugs we don't want in here.  I'm sorry one got on your mouthwash bottle.

He went to work soon after, leaving me to wonder at the state of his refrigerator.

No food to speak of, but at least i found the top of his toothpaste tube.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Abolition Day -- Guadeloupe; Saint Martin

Buttercup Day -- an internet holiday that just sounds fun

Cellophane Tape Day -- patented this date in 1930

Children's Day -- Nigeria (a school holiday)

Mata Tirtha Aunsi -- Nepal (Mother's Day, or literally "Mother Pilgrimage New Moon")

Mother's Day -- Bolivia

National Grape Popsicle Day

Pop-up Toaster Day -- Charles Strite applied for his patent on the first pop-up toaster on this day in 1919

St. Augustine of Canterbury's Day (Roman Catholic Church observance; Patron of England)

St. Melangell's Day (Patron of hares)

Sun Screen Protection Day -- an annual, and unsponsored, reminder to use that SPF protection, every day!

Throw the B*st@rds Out Day -- originally directed at politicians, (and if you want to do that, too, great!), and celebrated on various days on various sites, but whomever is making your life miserable, toss them out!  or at least, toss them out of your thoughts for today.

Birthdays Today:

Chris Colfer, 1990

André Benjamin, 1975

Jamie Oliver, 1975

Jack McBrayer, 1973

Joseph Fiennes, 1970

Jeremy Mayfield, 1969

Todd Bridges, 1965

Pat Cash, 1965

Adam Carolla, 1964

Peri Gilpin, 1961

Richard Schiff, 1955

Bruce Weitz, 1943

Louis Gossett, Jr., 1936

Ramsey Lewis, 1935

Lee Meriwether, 1935

John Barth, 1930

Henry Kissinger, 1923

Christopher Lee, 1922

Herman Wouk, 1915

Sam Snead, 1912

Hubert H. Humphrey, 1911

Vincent Price, 1911

Dolores Hope, 1909

Rachel Louise Carson, 1907

Dashiell Hammett, 1894

Isadora Duncan, 1878

Arnold Bennett, 1867

Wild Bill Hickock, 1837

Julia Ward Howe, 1819

Amelia Bloomer, 1818

Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1794

Debuting/Premiering Today

From Russia With Love(Film). 1964

The Three Little Pigs(Disney animated short), 1933

Today in History:

Habeas Corpus Act, codifying how the writ of habeaus corpus is to be used, passes in UK, 1679

Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg, 1703

In Bolivia, the Battle of La Coronilla, in which the women from Cochabamba  fight against the Spanish army, 1812

In Canada, American forces capture Fort George, 1813

Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California, 1907

The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight, 1919

The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public, 1930

Richard Gurley Drew receives a patent for his adhesive tape, later manufactured by 3M as Scotch tape, 1930

The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon  The Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?", 1933

In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, , 1937

Toronto's CHUM-AM, (1050 kHz) becomes Canada's first radio station to broadcast only top 40 Rock n' Roll music format, 1957

Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census, 1967

In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition, 1995

Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire, 1996

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milosevic and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity, 1999

The May 2006 Java earthquake strikes at 5:53:58 AM local time (22:53:58 UTC May 26) devastating Bantul and the city of Yogyakarta killing over 6,600, 2006

Scientists in Canada bring 400 year-old bryophyte specimens left behind by retreating glaciers during the Ice Age back to life, 2013

The director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde calls for "tougher regulation and tighter supervision" of the banking sector, 2014

Commercial space company SpaceX is approved as a contractor to the U.S. military for satellite launches, 2015

A research team from University of York publish a study based on 711 samples from 72 countries that shows the world's rivers are widely contaminated with antibiotics, especially in Africa and Asia, 2019

Ringo Starr's fifteenth All-Starr Band debuts in concert, 2022