Oh, What a Morning After, 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.  

The wedding came off with a hitch (hahaha) on Sunday evening, we were home and in bed by 11:30pm, and the rental car needed to go back to the dealer by 7am because Carl didn't have to be at work until noon.  

Otherwise, if he'd been going in to work early, i'd have gotten him off to work, then returned the car, then come back to finish.

Don't worry if you don't follow this, i have a hard time keeping straight myself, which is why i'm a bit loopy right now.  It was a very long weekend and it made for a difficult morning after, but not as difficult for us as for a couple of the guests who imbibed a little too much.

There are a few in every crowd, right?

By 7:45am i arrived at Carl's to find him already asleep in his chair (of course) and a mess on my hands.  When he told me later, at breakfast, he'd had a hard week the week before, i believed him although he did have last Monday and Thursday off.

The morning continued to be hectic.  Carl walked in wanting to take a shower just as i was about to clean the bathroom.  I changed my plans.

While i was gathering things to pack for his lunch, i came back from the kitchen to find a frozen entree on the counter, so i hunted him up at the kitchen table.

Why is this frozen entree on your bar?

"I want you to pack it with my supper."

You don't want a sandwich and all the fixings?

"No, I want supper supper."

Works for me, he got "supper supper" for supper.

Carl seemed unusually quiet, and finally was dressed and saying he wanted to leave early so he could go work out before work.

Five minutes later i noticed him wandering aimlessly and asked what was up.

"Phone!" he said.

If you can't find your phone, i know your dad can call it and don't you have 'find my phone?'

He looked startled, but left the room.  A bit later, wondering if he'd left yet, i went out to find him still looking for his phone.

I told Ms. V, who was up by now, and she said, "He better not have lost the new phone."  He hadn't.  "You have your phone," she told him.  Why do you need the other?

Carl couldn't quite articulate the need for the second one, so this was a poser.  He finally mumbled something about needing it to get online and his mama said, "No, you only need the one you have.  The other is broken."

"I need to return it," Carl countered.

"Not right now," she said, "you only need the one you have in your pocket and don't lose it," and he wandered off again.

He continued to wander, opening drawers and pulling things out, and i asked what was up now.

"Can't find my credit card," he said.

Now this is a problem.  Ms. V joined the search and wanted to look through all the plastic mall mart bags in the garbage can, as Carl has a bad habit of throwing his card into the same bag with his receipt and goods, then stow the whole thing in the fridge when he gets home.

I assured her all the bags came from the fridge and had already been emptied and thoroughly searched, and she looked a bit relieved and a bit angry, too.  It's hard on her when Carl loses his card, she has to order the new one.

We also went through all the pants pockets of pants hanging up in the closet, as you never know.  He also tends to stuff it into his pocket, instead of his pocketbook.

All in all, with all his wandering around and searching, he never found either the other (unneeded) phone or the (needed) credit card, and he ran out of time to go to the fitness place to work out and had to go straight to his job.

Such is the day when Carl is home all morning and doesn't work until afternoon.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Be Bald and Be Free Day -- Wellcat Holidays wants everyone who is "shiny" to be proud of it! w

Chisinau Day -- Chisinau, Moldova

Dessert Day -- another one?

Doburoku Matsuri -- Shirakawago, Japan (unrefined sake festival and harvest festival; through the 19th)

Face Your Fears Day -- Stephen Hughes encourages you to use this as a day to try to do something you've always been afraid to do     

Festival for the Penates -- Ancient Roman Calendar (gods of the storeroom)

Flag Day/Jour de la Proclamation de la Premiere Republique -- Madagascar (flag adopted this day in 1958)

Liberation Day -- Yemen

Mega Kenka Matsuri -- Hyogo, Japan (Roughhouse Festival, wrestling for a blessing; through tomorrow)

Mother's Day -- Belarus

Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Day -- Tanzania (climax of the Uhuru Torch Race

National Chocolate Covered Insect Day -- i'll pass, sorry

National Dessert Day

National Education Day -- Poland

National Frump Day -- National FRUMPS of America (to honor the frugal, responsible, unpretentious, and mature people everywhere)

Republic Day / October Revolution Day -- Yemen

Simchat Torah -- Judaism (day to celebrate the reading of the Law; begins at sunset, through nightfall tomorrow)

St. Callistus' Day (Patron of cemetery workers)

St. Donatian of Rheims's Day (Patron of Bruges, Belgium; Rheims, France; West Flanders, Belgium)

St. Petca Paraskeva's Day (Patron of embroiderers, needle workers, spinners, weavers, and all who do needlework of any kind)related observance

     Petkouden -- Bulgaria

Svetitskovloba/Living Pillar Cathedral -- Georgia (celebration of the first Christian church in Georgia)

Vinternatsblot, a/k/a Haustblót -- Asatru (to bid Winter welcome; at the approximate date of the start of winter in the Old European Calendar of the Norse

World Standards Day -- International

Birthdays Today:

Usher, 1978

Natalie Maines, 1974

Greg Evigan, 1958

Harry Anderson, 1952

Sir Cliff Richard, 1940

Ralph Lauren, 1939

John Dean, 1938

Gary Graffman, 1928

Roger Moore, 1927

Charles Everett Koop, 1916

John Wooden, 1910

Eugene Frodor, 1905

e.e. cummings, 1894

Lillian Gish, 1893

Dwight Eisenhower, 1890

Eamon De Valera, 1882

Francis Lightfoot Lee, 1734

William Penn, 1644

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Rescue from Gilligan's Island(TV film), 1978 (the first TV film follow up of a TV series)

Winnie-The-Pooh(publication date), 1926

Today in History:

William the Conqueror wins England in the Battle of Hastings, 1066

Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence, 1322

Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England, 1586

Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), 1656

Rabbi Judah Hasid & Chayim Molocho arrive in Jerusalem, 1700

Henry Blair receives a patent for a corn planter, becoming the first black to obtain a US patent, 1834

The 15th and the last military Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan, returning his power to the Emperor of Japan and thence to the re-established civil government of Japan, 1867

George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film, 1884

Theodore Roosevelt is shot while campaigning in Milwaukee on the "Bull Moose" ticket, 1912

The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published, 1926

Ethel Merman makes her Broadway debut in "Girl Crazy", 1930

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Untouchable caste leader, converts to Buddhism along with 385,000 of his followers, 1956

Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first Canadian Monarch to open up an annual session of the Canadian Parliament, presenting her Speech from the Throne in Ottawa, Canada, 1957

The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when a U.S. Air Force U2 Reconnaissance pilot takes pictures of Soviet missiles being installed in Cuba, 1962

The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system, 1966

The first live telecast from any manned spacecraft, the Apollo 7, 1968

The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords , 1994

Indonesian rights groups applaud the end of a Suharto-era law that bans books deemed 'offensive' or a 'threat to public order,' 2010

A colony of stromatolites is discovered at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, 2011

The Spanish government says it will impose direct rule on Catalonia after the region voted for independence in a referendum, 2017

The Booker Prize is awarded jointly to Margaret Atwood for "The Testaments" and

Bernardine Evaristo for "Girl, Woman, Other:" Evaristo is the first black woman to win, 2019

A copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio sells for a record $9.98 million at auction in New York, 2020

The journal "Nature" publishes details of the world's first room-temperature superconductor, created at the University of Rochester, NY, 2020

An annular solar eclipse, complete with the "ring of fire," dazzles viewers across parts of the US, Mexico, and Central and South America, 2023

In a referendum, Australia votes against altering its constitution to give indigenous communities more rights, 2023

NASA's Europa Clipper launches on a mission to investigate the subsurface ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa, 2024