Shelves and Shuffling, 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.  

Last week, Carl had off so he and his mother and younger brother could go out of town to visit the place he hopes to be living someday.  They were leaving Thursday, but for some reason he needed the whole week off.

I arrived to clean the rest of the house last Thursday to kitchen chaos.

Yes, i got the shelves back in.  There was more chaos as Ms. V and Carl were packing, lots of back and forth to find "all the things" so they could go.

There's no rest for the weary.  I arrived yesterday to find Carl had the day off.

Not the whole week, mind you, but they didn't schedule him for Monday.  Lucky me.

He'd also tried to do laundry.  Note the word tried.  He didn't succeed this time.

Yes, i like Carl and enjoy having him around, and i will miss him like crazy when he moves.  It's still easier to clean his room when he goes to work.

Once we determined he'd be there, he got his bedding to go to the sleep chair, then spent a great deal of time shuffling and padding back and forth to the room like he was pacing the train station platform waiting for his train to come in.

He finally went to the other room and i was going into the laundry room again when i heard him ask his father, "Which bathroom should I use?"

I stuck my head around the corner and told him to use whichever one had toilet paper, which would be the hall bathroom.  He nodded and decamped for it, and i managed to get all the partially wet but not actually washed clothes out of the washer.

A short while later, he shuffled back in to get his medicine.  He did, and i sent him to take the pill box into the kitchen where it is usually kept.

He has started to hang clothes on the bar again.  His mother encourages him to pick clothes ahead of time, so he does, then when it's time to dress, he forgets they are there and grabs other items.  These simply got hung up.

The suitcase was empty but he had a backpack full of things which i left for him to sort, since none of it was clothing or toiletries.  Speaking of toiletries,

he'd just tossed all of them in, and in other places.  It took a bit of sorting.

Because he's going to be living around other people who are not family, his mother is trying to inculcate modesty in him.  It's not something which comes naturally to him, it seems, and yesterday he was trying.  He was wearing his pajama top and underwear, and his bathrobe.  It would have worked, except the bathrobe wasn't tied and billowed around him creating a breeze wherever he went.  He finally discarded it at some point.

One of the times he was shuffling in and out of the room (brushing teeth, looking for things, brushing teeth again) he talked about an upcoming trivia night at church.  He was wondering if he could attend that on one night and still go to the lecture series later in the week.

I told him it was possible, but to remember you have to register for the lectures that Friday evening and Saturday morning, since they are serving snacks and want to know how many will attend.

He nodded and wandered off again, i think to eat a second breakfast and then go back to sleep.

Also, he has a new toothbrush.  He's nothing but a big kid.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Black Cow Root Beer Float Day -- the ice cream and root beer combination was supposedly first served on this date in 1893 by Frank J. Wisner, owner of Cripple Creek Brewing, and he named it after the local Cow Mountain  

Hanawa Bayashi -- Kazuno City, Japan (parades and music in the merchant's quarter, through tomorrow)

Hot & Spicy Food Day

Ibumin Earoeni Day -- Nauru (Day of the Tribes)

Jeshen -- Afghanistan (Independence Day)

Manuel Luis Quezon Day -- Quezon City, Philippines

National Aviation Day -- US

Potato Day

St. John Eudes' Day (Patron of Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada)

St. Sebald's Day (a/k/a Sebaldus) (Patron of Bavaria, Germany; Nuremburg, Germany; against cold weather and freezing)

Vinalia Rustica -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Festival of Ripening Grapes)

World Humanitarian Day -- UN

World Photography Day

World's Fair of Money -- Chicago, IL, US (the greatest money show on Earth, including dealers, exhibits from around the world, family activities and educational programs; through Saturday)

Birthdays Today:

Snuffleupagus (year unconfirmed)

Jennifer Morrison, 1979

Matthew Perry, 1969

LeAnn Womack, 1966

Kyra Sedgwick, 1965

Kevin Dillon, 1965

John Stamos, 1963

Adam Arkin, 1956

Cindy Nelson

Peter Gallagher, 1955

Mary Matlin, 1953

Jonathan Frakes, 1952

John Deacon, 1951

Gerald McRaney, 1948

Tipper Gore, 1948

Bill Clinton, 1946

Jack Canfield, 1944

Jill St. John, 1940

Diana Muldaur, 1938

Franklin Story Musgrave, 1935

Willie Shoemaker, 1931

Don Ho, 1930

Gene Roddenberry, 1921

Malcolm Forbes, 1919

Jimmy Rowles, 1918

Ring Lardner, Jr., 1915

Philo T. Farnsworth, 1906 (forgotten inventor of television)

Ogden Nash, 1902

Coco Chanel, 1883

George Bellows, 1882

Orville Wright, 1881

John Dryden, 1631

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Animal Clinic" and "Acrobat Ranch"(first Saturday morning children's programs, on ABC), 1950

Today in History:

The Roman Senate is compelled to elect Octavian, later Augustus Caesar, Consul, BC43

Augustus Caesar dies, 14

Crusaders defeat the Saracens in the Battle of Ascalon, 1099

Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith to assume the throne, 1561

Five people are executed for witchcraft in Salem, Mass., 1692

Presentation of Jacque Daguerre's new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences, 1839

The New York Herald reports the discovery of gold in California, 1849

The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio, 1934

Hurricane Dianne kills 200 and does about $1 Billion in damage, 1955

Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, 1990

Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events which began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989

A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities, 2005

A team of divers discover the wreck of a Swedish warship, part of King Erik XIV's fleet, that sank in 1564 in the Baltic Sea, 2011

The monsoon rains finally ease up in Kerala State, India, where flooding has already claimed 350 lives and left 200,000+ in relief camps, 2018

Apple becomes the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion, just 2 years after it reached the value of $1 trillion, 2020

The drought in Europe uncovers river "hunger stones" which were set in rivers in warning of famine; the one in Děčín on the Elbe River, with an inscription dating from 1417, simply says "if you see me, then weep," 2022