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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 seems Carl had some month end mayhem going on, but not much.
I've seen worse, and he'd tried to do laundry.
It's not often he ends up with the belt at the bottom of the clothes in the sink.
As i chivvied him to go to his sleep chair for his extra hour of snoozing, he stopped to decide which pillow to take with him. He stood there feeling up the pillows like a granny squeezing the produce to get the best bargain and finally chose one.
Once he was safely ensconced in his blanket, i was able to do a more thorough assessment.
He'd had a dental visit. That means it's time for me to start keeping my eyes peeled for the appointment card for next time. Handing it to his mother as soon as he walks in so she can put it on the calendar would be too easy and logical.
Although he did do something logical and make several sandwiches this week. He's getting a bit better about it.
But it's not often i find grocery bags in the freezer. This one had a frozen meal in it, so at least it landed in the right place.
He had his usual dirty items where clean ones should be, and some of his "clean" clothes smelled questionable and got put in the dirty pile, but it didn't take me long to get his clothes in the bathroom for him and have him set up for his shower.
I'd made good headway when he came in about an hour later and grabbed the dental floss. It would be easy to tell his dentist he uses floss all the time. The problem isn't getting him to use it, it's getting him to remember to cut the piece of floss off of the roll, then actually make sure it lands in the garbage when he's done.
Trust me, you do not want to clean the vacuum brush roll after vacuuming his room. Most homes, it's hair wound around it, here, it's floss.
We discussed the clothes i'd put in the bathroom for him to wear for work and he decided i'd chosen wisely. He showered and actually remembered to throw the dirty clothes out to me so i could get the laundry started.
Then he started his breakfast and i packed the rest of his lunch.
He'd added this to his breakfast menu. Carl is supposed to cut down on sugar, but it's hard to tell him that.
I took his keys to open the car and get his ice vest out.
Yes, his Easter bunny ears are in the back of the car. He's a big kid at heart, always will be.
While looking for lunch items, i found a bucket with old popcorn in it in his cabinet and with no lid.
I took it to the big kitchen where he was eating and reminded him leaving open food in his room was the reason he was always battling ants. I also told him it was stale and i was throwing it away.
"But it's buttery and good!" he protested. "One more bite!"
Carl grabbed the one more bite, and as i thought, it was stale. He spit it right back out, and the contents of the bucket went into the trash.
"But save the bucket, it's a good one!" he said, so i washed it and saved it for him.
While eating, Carl tells me about his weekend. He'd seen a movie, and gone bowling, and then he told me about the game he'd played.
Sometimes he's hard to understand, and sometimes he mumbles, but as near as i can tell he told me, "It was a game where they give you a random weapon and a random dance move, they shot me down with machine guns, and we had plasma weapons, way cool, you can whack people, and I put down agents that don't seem to do anything but it had fun dance moves including Thriller, and I had teammates,oh, and I put down land mines, also there was a frenzy with zombies!"
If you followed any of that, good for you. I just know he had fun at whatever it was.
He'd gotten totally ready to leave when he realized he had one more minute before he absolutely had to go, so of course he had to sit down to look at his tablet one more time. That's why i had to chase him down with his hat and his sunglasses, of course he can't keep a hold of them once he sits.
And i did finally find the dentist appointment card, i paper clipped it to Ms. V's calendar in the office, she'll know what to do with it.
How about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Agricultural Reform Day -- Sao Tome and Principe
Ask A Stupid Question Day -- teachers wanted to get students asking more questions, so they started this day, telling them to ask even if the questions were stupid; now, it's a holiday on the last school day of September each year!
Celtic Tree Month Gort begins (Ivy)
Day of Liberation of the Republic of Abkhazia -- Abkhazia (disputed territory on the Black Sea)
Do Something Wacky With A Grandparent Day -- just not the monkey bars, please; old bones don't knit fast enough; whatever you do, take some pictures!
Eleusinian Mysteries -- Ancient Greek Calendar (the Greater Mystery Rites, date approximate; mystery rites of Demeter and Persephone at Eleusis, one of the most sacred times of their year)
Independence Day -- Botswana
International Translation Day -- International Federation of Translators www.fit-ift.org
Kokkeisetsu -- Chinatown, Yokohama, Japan (Chinese National Founding Day in the largest Chinatown in Japan; through tomorrow)
Medetrinalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival fruits offer to the goddess of medicine)
Monkey Bars Day -- a day to go see if you can still do tricks on the monkey bars, because the internet wants to kill us and let the machines that would never do anything so silly take over
National Hot Mulled Cider Day
National Mud Pack Day -- give yourself a facial
St. Gregory the Enlightener (or Illuminator; Patron of Armenia)
St. Jerome's Day (Patron of archaeologists, archivists, Biblical scholars, librarians, libraries, school children, students, translators; Saint-Jerome, Quebec)
also an Apache celebration of Geronimo, the Native American who was named after this saint
Truth and Reconciliation Day -- Canada
Anniversary Today:
Haleakala National Park is established in Maui, Hawaii, 1960
Birthdays Today:
Dominique Moceanu, 1981
Marion Cotillard, 1975
Jenna Elfman, 1971
Crystal Bernard, 1964
Eric Stoltz, 1961
Fran Drescher, 1957
Deborah Allen, 1953
Victoria Tennant, 1953
Marilyn McCoo, 1943
Z.Z. Hill, 1935
Johnny Mathis, 1935
Angie Dickinson, 1931
Elie Wiesel, 1928
W. S. Merwin, 1927
Truman Capote, 1924
Deborah Kerr, 1921
Buddy Rich, 1917
William Wrigley, Jr., 1861
Rumi, 1207
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Millie's Book: As Dictated to Barbara Bush(Publication date), 1990
"Murder, She Wrote"(TV), 1984
"Cheers"(TV), 1982
"Love Child"(Single release), 1968
"The Flintstones"(TV), 1960
"Tea and Sympathy"(Play), 1953
"The Red Skelton show"(TV), 1951
"Porgy and Bess"(Opera), 1935
Little Women(Publication date), 1868
"Les pecheurs de perles/The Pearl Fishers"(Bizet opera), 1863
"Die Zauberflote/The Magic Flute"(Mozart opera, K. 620), 1791
The Gutenberg Bible(first section, publication date), 1452
Today in History:
Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate the Guide of the Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew, 1199
Anesthetic ether is used for the first time by Dr. William Morton, who extracted a tooth, 1846
German scientist Hermann von Meyer announces the discovery of the first fossil of an archaeopteryx, 1861
The first Portuguese immigrants arrive in Hawai'i, 1878
The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States, 1882
Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner, 1901
The first manned rocket plane flight, made by auto maker Fritz von Opel, 1929
The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations, 1947
The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time, 1947
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel, 1954
James Dean is killed in a road accident, 1955
Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers, 1962
James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying segregation, 1962
General Suharto rises to power in Indonesia after an alleged coup by communists, and massacres over a million Indonesian people suspected of belonging to the Communist Party, 1965
BBC Radio 1 is launched and Tony Blackburn presents its first show, 1967
Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation, 1980
The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa, 1990
The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo, 2004
The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, 2005
A 315-billion-ton iceberg named D28 calves from the Amery ice shelf, Antarctica, 2019
Canada observes its first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, honoring victims and survivors of residential schools for indigenous children, 2021
Land, including the world's oldest living rainforest, Daintree National Park, is returned to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people in Far North Queensland, Australia, 2021
The UK becomes the first major economy to give up coal for electrical power, 2024
