Where Do Things Go? We'll Never Know, 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 was back to his regularly scheduled working and was in his sleep chair for some extra Z's when i arrived, so i dug right in to the laundry room.

Ms. V had bought a new bottle of laundry stain remover spray, so i figured the old bottle was AWOL and she'd forgotten where the extra bottle is hidden.

Why is there an extra bottle of laundry stain remover hidden in the house?  Because of Carl, of course, he absconds with them regularly, usually to take them out to his car.

Does laundry stain remover work on car upholstery?  No, it doesn't, but Carl got in the habit of grabbing it when they were out of upholstery cleaner and once he gets in a habit, breaking it is just about impossible.

The clothes in the washer were a bit off and the dryer was empty.  Too empty.  From five dryer balls last week, it was down to one.

I figured they were all in his room somewhere, but only found one more.  Where do they go?  We'll probably never know, unlike the laundry stain remover, but more on it later.

Carl has also managed to lose one of his pajama bottoms again, and i've searched everywhere.  The last time they disappeared, they were gone for over a year before they showed back up and i have no clue where they spent that year.  Maybe wherever it was, was better than his room, and they skeedaddled again.

He also had no clean white socks, which means he managed to wear a dozen pair in one week.

Almost all the dirty clothes from his week off were work clothes.  When i was there last Thursday and asked him why he wasn't wearing one of his not-allowed-at-work t-shirts instead of a work shirt, he looked confused.

He's certainly a creature of habit, and one of his bad habits is pulling things out to wear, then not wearing them.

Sometimes in multiples.

Bowling league is over for the season, apparently, and he got a trophy.

Once Carl was up for the morning and he'd showered, he started telling me about his weekend.

"There was an event at church and they had ice cream sandwiches!" he told me, relishing the memory.  "And I can't find my Beano, and I left my glasses at Dave's house..."

Here he trailed off and i asked him about his missing ice packs for his cold vest.

"They're missing?" he asked.  "Where'd they go?"

That's what you need to tell me, i said. 

He is missing several of a very specific size, he had 8 of them last week, now down to 3.  I also can't find his newest vest.

Of course, he has no idea where they went, he may have left vest and packs and all at work, which means they won't be coming home.

He continued to talk.  "We watched a show about autistic people dating.  And they showed them kissing!"  Here he blushed a bit, yes, really.  When it comes down to it, as a special needs adult, he really is sheltered a lot.

As he chattered, he said something that sounded like, "chapter 32 lands," and at one point muttered, "I need to make sandwiches for the next couple of days," as i was fixing his lunch.

I asked him if he had time to make more sandwiches and he said, "Well, you could do it!" quite hopefully.  Yes, i did, he had two sandwiches in his fridge for later in the week when i left.

We finally got out to his car where i did find the laundry stain remover bottle but no ice packs or vest, and two ice chest tops but no bottoms.  Where those went is anybody's guess.

He had opened the car and pushed the button to open all the doors (he lost the remote key a couple of years ago, of course), and then when we were heading back in the house to help him get the rest of his things, he reached over and locked one door only.  No wonder i sometimes arrive to find his car has been unlocked all night.

After a final check, he left, mumbling about fitness and google sharks.  Sometimes i ask, and sometimes i just figure it's a Carl thing.

Oh, and he always finds some new to way to do something which surprises even me.

It takes talent to try to throw away the dental floss and get it dangling from the mirror instead.

How about some bowling funnies, in honor of Carl the bowler.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is World Pet Memorial Day.  The American Veterinary Medical Association began it as a way to honor the special bond between people and pets and remember our beloved pets that have passed away.

Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.         

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Today is:

Abolition Day -- French Guiana

Alcoholics Anonymous Founders Day

   

Army Day -- Jordan

Ball Point Pen Day -- date, in 1943, Biro patented one of the early models of a ball point pen (it was as awful as the other early ones, though!)

Celtic Tree Month Duir (Oak) commences

Dia de Portugal e de Camoes -- Portugal (National Day)

Herbs & Spices Day

Magic Circles Day and Magic History Gathering -- marking the founding of The Magic Circle, a society of amateur and professional magicians 

National Black Cow Day

National Iced Tea Day

Rape of Lidice/Lidice Memorial Day -- Czech Republic and Slovakia/New Jersey, US (in one of the most-remembered atrocities of WWII, the small town of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, was invaded by Nazi troops who murdered every man, burned every house, and sent all the women and children for "reeducation.")

Reconciliation Day -- Republic of the Congo

St. Brigid of Ireland's Day (Patron babies/infants/newborns, blacksmiths, boatmen/mariners/sailors/watermen, cattle, children whose parents are not married, dairymaids/dairy workers, fugitives, midwives, nuns, poets, poultry farmers, printing presses, scholars, travelers; Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Ireland; Ivrea, Turin, Italy; Kildare, Ireland; Leinster, Ireland)

Where the Wild Things Are Day -- birth anniversary of Maurice Sendak

Anniversary Today:

Alcoholics Anonymous is founded, 1925

Birthdays Today:

Joey Zimmerman, 1986

Tara Lipinski, 1982

Leelee Sobieski, 1982

Hoku Ho, 1981

Shane West, 1978

Doug McKeon, 1966

Elizabeth Hurley, 1965

Linda Evangelista, 1965

Jeanne Tripplehorn, 1963

Michael Burger, 1957

John Edwards, 1953

Jeff Greenfield, 1943

F. Lee Bailey, 1933

Maurice Sendak, 1928

Nat Hentoff, 1925

Judy Garland, 1922

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1921

Saul Bellow, 1915

Frederick Loewe, 1904

Hattie McDaniel, 1889

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Tales from the Crypt"(TV), 1989

"Paperback Writer"(UK song release), 1966

"Tristan und Isolde"(Opera), 1865

Today in History:

Frederick Barbarossa drowns leading his troops across the Saleph River to attack Jerusalem in the Crusades, 1190

The first American log cabin is built, at Fort Christina in Wilmington, Delaware, 1639

Bridget Bishop becomes the first person hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692

Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef, 1770

A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China, 1786

The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris; a year later, it becomes the first public zoo, 1793

The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place, 1829

Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered, 1838

The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate, 1854

Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces, 1886

Americus Callahan of Chicago patents the window envelope, 1902

The inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, is held in Toronto Arena, 1925

Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson, 1925

Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire, 1967

Apple ships its first Apple II personal computer, 1977

The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, 2003

Twenty inches of rainfall in Escambia County, Florida damages roadways and bridges, and leaving parts of the Florida Panhandle and coastal Alabama under water, 2012

German authorities are forced to evacuate 10 villages as heavy rains swell the Elbe River, breaching its banks, 2013

Heavy monsoon rains cause the collapse of a partially-finished building on a residential block in Mumbai, India, 2013

Juan Felipe Herrera, age 66, is named by U.S. Congress as this year's national poet laureate, the first Latino to be given the title, 2015

According to a DNA study published in the science journal “Nature Plants”, grapes grown for some types of wine in modern France are genetically similar and, in some cases identical to grapes grown 900 years ago, 2019

The European Space Agency announces a new probe, the EnVision, to study Venus, 2021