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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.
Everything was suspiciously dark at Carl's yesterday morning, and he was still locked in his room. Once i could talk to him, he confirmed he had work at 8am, but he wanted to sleep more.
I pointed out he probably needed to be up, since he usually gets up 90 minutes before work and it was almost that at the moment.
His response was, "I'll learn to hurry around."
Good luck with that, i thought, but he'd set his alarm clock and decamped to the sleep chair, wanting me to get him when the alarm sounded.
Which it did, an entire 8 minutes later. I went to the living room and he said, "I set the kitchen timer, I'll get up then."
Another ten minutes passed and he wandered in to take his shower. I showed him what i'd set up for him and he was happy with it, so i told him not to come out until he was dressed and went back to sorting laundry.
Speaking of which, he tried to help me.
He fetched his pj's out of the bathroom after his shower instead of just leaving them on the floor in the bathroom, and there being no hampers on the floor of the closet because i had them all in the middle of the room, sorting, he left the pj's on the floor of where the hampers should have been. No, he could not have come and put them with the pile i was sorting, what would make you think to do that?
Once i got into the laundry room, i found the cleaning cloths had been left to his not-so-tender mercies, so they went with his towels for a rewashing.
He'd obviously been eating out again over the weekend, and once he came out of the shower (dressed) he agreed to leftovers for lunch for the next two days. I divided the leftovers, put the no-longer-frozen freezer pack back in the freezer, and put the sunglasses (yes, those were sunglasses in the fridge, no, he doesn't know why he put them there) with his wallet, keys, hat and etc. after cutting the little tag off of it.
Yes, i have to cut the tag off, otherwise he'll leave it on, even if it is dangling from the bridge between the lenses.
As i assembled the rest of lunch and got his ice vest ready, he talked.
"Didn't do much this weekend," he started. "Tried to get all the people...Price is working twelve hour shifts...someone quit..."
When he trailed off there, i reminded him he did go to church, i saw him there.
"Yes, good music..."
I'll have to tell my Sweetie to pass the compliment on to the choir director.
I had to put some things in his car. The note is from Ms. V, and i do hope he remembers to do what she asked.
He now has a garbage can in his car, still in the plastic bag. When i asked him if he wanted to take it in the house, he told me it's for the car. Why do i have the feeling it's not going to help keep his car clean, but instead by sideways on the floor spilling its contents most of the time?
As it came down to crunch time, he was trying to move faster as he'd said he would. I had to make him stop with the deodorant and put it on correctly (he just swipes wherever and hopes it sticks a good landing)
He asked about juice, but he doesn't have bottles of water, tea or juice to take with him to work right now, i told him he needed to buy some and he went digging for his checkbook.
But first, he stopped to look regretfully at these tire covers he'd bought. "I couldn't get them on. I think I need a screwdriver," he said and by the time i told him he needed to worry about that later, he'd gone and gotten one out of the toolbox, then headed for his room.
"Which checks are the next numbers?" he asked, and i told him i had no way to know, because i do not, but he must have decided on something because after that, he left for work.
Another of his vitamin gummies on the floor. Just what i always needed.
How about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
August Tuesday / Culturama -- St. Kitts and Nevis
Barsi Bhagat Puran Singh -- Sikhism
Bogota Carnival -- Bogota, Colombia (celebrating the city's Hispanic founding; through tomorrow)
Carnival Tuesday -- Antigua and Barbuda (Last Lap Jump Up)
Celtic Tree Month Coll (Hazel) commences
Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead Day -- uttered this day by Admiral Farragut at the Battle of Mobile Bay in 1864
Festival Tuesday/Emancipation Tuesday/Horse Races -- British Virgin Islands
Hanakasa Matsuri -- Yamagata City, Japan (10,000 costumed dancers perform; through the 7th)
Hot August Nights -- Reno, NV, US (celebrate cars and music of the 50's and 60's at the largest classic car and nostalgia event in the United States; through Sunday)
Independence Day / Republic Day -- Burkina Faso (former Upper Volta)(1960)
National Blackmail Day -- according to mostly ecard sites, with suggestions to send a card to the friend who has told you his/her secrets, with the notice that you plan on celebrating this date!
National Night Out -- US (sponsored by National Association of Town Watch, to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness)
National Underwear Day -- sponsored by www.freshpair.com, which encourages people to rethink their underwear style, make sure they have the right fit
National Waffle Day
NOMS (Not of My Species) Day -- celebrating animal friendships between animals of differing species
Nuestra Senora de Africa -- CE, Spain (Day of Our Lady of Africa, also called Fiestas Patronales)
Oyster Day
Sacrifice to Salus -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of health, associated with Greek Hygeia)
St. Afra of Augsburg's Day (Patron of converts, martyrs, penitent women; Augsburg, Germany)
St. Oswald of Northumbria's Day (Patron of Zug, Switzerland)
Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian defenders -- Croatia
Work Like a Dog Day -- different from work-a-holics, people who work like a dog work hard while they are at it, and rest when they aren't
Birthdays Today:
Jonathan Silverman, 1966
Patrick Aloysius Ewing, 1962
Maureen McCormick, 1956
Erika Slezak, 1946
Loni Anderson, 1946
Ja’net DuBois, 1938
John Saxon, 1936
Neil Armstrong, 1930
Sydney Omarr, 1926
Raoul Wallenberg, 1912
John Huston, 1906
Conrad Potter Aiken, 1889
Joseph Merrick, 1862
Guy de Maupassant, 1850
Thomas Lynch, Jr., 1749
John Eliot, 1604
Joseph Justus Scaliger, 1540
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Revolver"(Beatles Album, release date), 1966
"Eleanor Rigby" & "Yellow Submarine"(Beatles singles, A & B side respectively, release date), 1966
"American Bandstand"(TV, national premiere), 1957
"Andy Capp"(Comic strip), 1957
"Little Orphan Annie"(Comic strip), 1924
Today in History
The last outpost of Bar Kockba, Betar, falls to Rome, 135
Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Northumbria at the Battle of Maserfield, 642
King Edward and Earl Aetherlred, leading the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, defeat the last major Viking army to raid England at the Battle of Tettenhall, 910
Anti-Jewish riots in Arnstadt, Germany, 1264
Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes first English colony in North America, at what is now St John's, Newfoundland, 1583
The Mayflower departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America, 1620
New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true, 1735
US Army abolishes flogging, 1861
Standard Oil of New Jersey is established, 1882
The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor, 1884
Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip made in her husbands invention, the first patented automobile; her journey was to publicize the invention, and she garnered attention and sales, 1888
The first electric traffic light is installed, in Cleveland, Ohio, 1914
Debut of the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie", by Harold Gray, 1924
Debut of the comic strip "Andy Capp", by Smythe, 1957
Nelson Mandela is jailed, 1962*
The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty, 1963
The city of Knin, a significant Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm, 1995
The Copiapo mining accident traps 33 Chilean miners about 2,300ft below the ground, 2010
NASA launches the Juno Space Probe to study Jupiter, 2011
The world's first bovine stem cell lab-grown burger is eaten in London, 2013
The UN Security Council votes to impose sanctions on North Korea for its continued missile program, 2017
New Zealand canoeist Lisa Carrington wins her third Olympic gold medal of the Tokyo Games and the 5th gold of her career, 2021
Volkswagen launches a prototype of its first flying car, an automated electric passenger vehicle nicknamed the "Flying Tiger", 2022
Google loses an important US antitrust case involving its search engine, with a judge finding, "Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly," 2024
*Released in 1990
