Laundry, Latching Doors, and Lying Around, 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 become normal for Carl to be in his sleep chair when i arrive now, as he knows the drill and they seem to have permanently shifted his schedule.

He only worked two days last week, so i was surprised to see this.

Usually, the dresser is only all the way open and crammed when he's had a long work week.

This is more usual, short work week, he doesn't use all the towels.

Last Thursday while i was there cleaning the rest of the house, he surfaced to ask me where all of his pajama bottoms were.

I told him i'd not been able to wash them on Monday because he was wearing them or had them wrapped on his pillow to make it softer for sleeping, and i cannot wash anything he is currently using.  He was informed they were his responsibility to wash and they were in one of his laundry bins.

He asked if he could wash them that moment, and i told him, no, i am washing your parent's laundry while i'm here today, you may do it after i leave since you don't have work.

Carl had not touched them, of course, and came in to get some meds for his upset tummy and note he still didn't have any clean pajama bottoms.

Yes, he had done laundry, and yes, he could have washed them, too, but did not.  I wouldn't expect him to, why would he?

Also last Thursday, he and Ms. V had run out the door to an appointment just before i finished and left.  She left him to close and secure the back door.

Yesterday, every time he went out to put something in his car to take to work, i found the door the same way.

It seems we need to start reminding him for a while about closing doors.  Still no need to remind him to turn off lights, he turns off the ones i'm using all the time.

Therein lies one of the dilemmas of Carl.  Once he has been trained to do something, it generally sticks, even past its time or even in cases where it's not needed, such as his propensity to still keep every receipt, even those which he picks up out of the shopping carts.  If it does fade, it takes a good bit of time to train him to it again.

At least he is fun and entertaining, as he was yesterday getting ready for work and telling me and Mr. L all about his exploits in one of his computer games.  We also talked about the Sunday sermon and wormholes.

Carl has a lot of interests, and one favorite is sleep.  When i tried to get him to get up to start his morning, he resisted, wanting to lie there a few minutes more.  I left him to it, only to have him pop up 30 seconds later.

I thought you wanted to lie down a little longer, i noted and he said, "I did!"

Once he was ready and i thought he had everything, i started to mop his room.  One area had to be redone twice when he went in to look for "one more thing."  Job security, right?  It will have to be mopped again next week for certain.

Ms. D's house was after Carl's and when cleaning her toaster, i was very glad i'd decided to clean her toaster.

Yes, two small pieces of very well done toast plus a good bit of crumbs and crusts.  Like with so many people, her toaster is a fire hazard.  Please clean out your toaster!

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Anniversary of Moquegua City -- Peru (founded this date in 1541)

Chhat Parwa/Chhath Puja -- Nepal (start of the four day Hindu/Vedic Festival of the sun god Surya)

Day Sacred to Proserpina -- Ancient Roman Calendar (also Persephone, of the Greeks, the Wheel goddess of the Underworld, often associated with St. Catherine; see below)

Evacuation Day -- 19th Century New York City (withdrawal of British troops in 1783)

Hari Guru -- Indonesia (Teacher's Day)

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women -- UN

     White Ribbon Day -- International (if you know a victim of violence, help break their silence! because domestic violence affects all of society)

International Hat Day  

Mangé Yam -- Haiti (fete de la moisson; a yam harvest festival)

National Day -- Bosnia and Herzegovina (commemorates the 1943 declaration of statehood within Yugoslavia)

National Don't Utter A Word Day -- internet generated, and variously listed as the 25th of November, February, or May; pick one if you want

National Parfait Day

Persephone Day (a/k/a Kore) -- Ancient Greek Calendar (celebration of her as wheel goddess of the underworld; date approximate, but she is often associated with St. Catherine; see below)

Saint Catherine of Alexandria's Day -- of the Catherine Wheel, sometimes associated with the Wheel of Karma and the Hindu Kali; one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (Patron of apologists, archivists, attorneys, barristers, craftsmen who work with wheels of any sort, dying people, educators, girls, jurists, knife grinders and sharpeners, lawyers, librarians, libraries, maidens, mechanics, millers, nurses, old maids, philosophers, potters, preachers, scholars, schoolchildren, scribes, secretaries, spinners, spinsters, stenographers, students, tanners, teachers, theologians, turners, University of Paris, unmarried girls, and wheelwrights; Aalsum, Netherlands; Bertinoro, Italy; Camerata Picena, Italy; Dumaguete, Philippines; Heidesheim am Rhein, Germany; Kuldiga, Latvia; Mähring, Germany; Saint Catharines, Ontario; Zejtun, Malta; Zurrieq, Malta) related observance

     Women's Merrymaking Day -- Women go 'Cath'rining' and have a good time (in some places, especially France, women may propose marriage on this day)

Shopping Reminder Day -- exactly a month until Christmas

Srefidensi -- Suriname (Republic Day/Independence Day)

Statehood Day -- FBiH, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Strange Names Day -- in honor of all the celebrity -- and other -- kids with "unique" names; originally sponsored the last Tuesday in November by Marlar in the Morning at 101QFL in Rockford, IL, US

Vajiravudh Day -- Thailand

Birthdays Today:

Barbara and Jenna Bush, 1981

Jerry Ferrara, 1979

Donovan McNabb, 1976

Eddie Steeples, 1973

Christina Applegate, 1971

Jill Hennessy, 1968

Cris Carter, 1965

Amy Grant, 1960

John F. Kennedy, Jr., 1960

Bucky Dent, 1951

John Larroquette, 1947

Ben Stein, 1944

Joe Jackson Gibbs, 1940

Lenny Moore, 1933

Paul Desmond, 1924

Ricardo Montalban, 1920

Joe DiMaggio, 1914

Solanus Casey, 1870

Carry Nation, 1846

Karl F. Benz, 1844

Andrew Carnegie, 1835

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Iolanthe: or, The Peer and the Peri"(Comic opera), 1882

Today in History:

A tsunami, caused by the earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples (Italy) and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places, 1343

The siege of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins, 1491

A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people, 1667

The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people died, 1703

First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn, 1715

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is founded, 1758

Farmer's Almanac first published, 1792

The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy, 1826

A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again); the storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster, 1839

Alfred Nobel patents dynamite, 1867

John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk, 1884

American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springfield, Illinois, 1912

First Thanksgiving Day Parade is held in Philadelphia, 1920

690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day in Ito, Japan, 1930

The first Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m), 1933

Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock", 1940

New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom, 1947

Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London later becoming the longest continuously-running play in history, 1952

The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, 1982

The United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal Sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in Dominican Republic, 1999

A powerful storm brings 3 years worth of rain in 4 hours to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sparking terrible floods, 2009

Switzerland's Bern Art Museum agrees to accept artworks looted from their Jewish owners by the Nazis, 2014

The longest known frozen embryo to be successfully born is delivered in Tennessee - Emma Wren Gibson, frozen 24 years ago, 2017

The historic northern California Camp Fire is finally declared 100% contained with 85 dead, 249 missing, covering 153,000 acres and 14,000 homes burned, 2018

India has more girls than boys for the first time in its history and its population boom is ending, according to new government survey, 2021