Letting Go the Sugar, 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.  

Carl is supposed to be cutting down on sugar.

He's trying.  He got rid of a lot of stuff, and let his mom take some to our ladies' circle meeting last week.

Since he did have work today, i got in and got started while he napped in the sleep chair.  He came in at one point and i asked what was up.

"Brush, brush," he simply said, and then went for his toothbrush.  Once done, he told me, "Please don't let me sleep past 9:05."

I am always amused by the precise and yet random times he sets to get up.

He also has unique ways of hanging up clothes, and of getting them near but not in the laundry bin.  He has a "toss toward the hamper and it lands where it lands" technique.

I also found this in his room, almost as dangerous as the super glue i found and confiscated last week.

He did get up when i woke him, precisely on time, and went straight to the shower.  For once, he didn't argue about the clothing i'd put in there for him, nor did he change any of it after the shower.  Will wonders never cease.

Once Carl was ready for breakfast and i was packing his meal for work, he chattered away.

"Church was good," he told me, then talked about a movie, and a few other things.

"Had fun this weekend," he continued.  It seems when his brother asked him what he wanted for Christmas, he said, "To go to a movie with you!"  So his brother drove in just to take him to the movie.

He also spent time with friends and the girl he's sweet on.

Then his father walked in and he told him, "This cereal is kind of bland."

He was eating this.  Then he added something.

"That's better," he said.  

I just finished packing his food for work and didn't comment.  Getting processed sugar out of his life is not going to happen, at least not totally.

Meanwhile, the laundry was going -- dryer ball count is down to 3 this week, from last week's high of five -- and all of a sudden Ms. V was up.

After greeting her, i asked why she was up so early and she said, "His car is not running right so I have to take him to work and get his car to the shop."  Then she turned to Carl and said, "Did you clean the car?"

"Working on it," he said, then spent the rest of his time before work going in and out with upholstery cleaner and the hand vacuum, leaving the back door open each time.

Ms. V truly believes you get better service at the shop if your car is clean, it shows you care about your car.  I'm not sure if it's true or not, but it gets Carl to clean out his car by dumping everything into his room.  Oh, joy.

Right before she left, Ms. V asked me about this blanket.

"Where did this come from?" she asked.  "No one in our family has these initials."

I told her i had no clue, but the blanket as been around their house as long as i've been there, Carl has been using it for years.

"I have never noticed it before!" she said.

It mostly stays in his room, i mumbled.  Where he got the mystery blanket no one knows, but it's been there over ten years.  Yes, really.

This is new,  however.

Sunday school for special needs adults must be moving on to Valentine's Day.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Democracy Day -- Cape Verde

Feast of St. Kentigern (a/k/a St. Mungo) (Patron of Glasgow whose given name meant "head chief" but whose nickname meant "dear one.")

Ides of January -- Ancient Roman Calendar

Liberation Day -- Togo

Maghi -- Sikh

Make Your Dreams Come True Day -- no info on the origin of this; maybe someone who broke their New Year's resolutions by this day used the fact that it's New Year's by the Julian calendar to start over

Midvintersblot -- Ancient Norse Calendar (midwinter festival)

National Peach Melba Day

Old New Year's Day -- Belarus; Georgia; Montenegro; Republic of Macedonia; Republic of Srpska (Yes, that's how it's spelled; no, i don't know how to pronounce it); Serbia; Russia; Ukraine; Wales (Julian Calendar)

Poetry at Work Day

Pongal begins -- India (thanksgiving festival at the end of the harvest season, honoring Indra, god of clouds and rain)

     first day, Bhogi

Radio Day -- anniversary of the first public radio broadcast in 1910

Runic Half-month of Peorth (womb) begins

Rubber Ducky Day

Sidereal Winter Solstice Eve -- celebrations through South and Southeast Asia, including

     Bhogi -- Tamil (first day of Pongal)

     Lohri -- Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh

     Uruka -- Assam

Silvesterklausen -- Switzerland ("Old" New Year's celebration, based on the Julian Calendar)

St. Hilarius' Day (according to English tradition, the coldest day of the year; Patron of learning challenged children; Argusto, Italy; Vervio, Italy; against snakes and snake bites)

St. Knut's Day (a/k/a Little Christmas or Twentieth Day or Tyvendedagen among the Scandinavians, it celebrates Canute IV of Denmark and is the day to "plunder" the tree put up on Christmas Eve, eating the candies and cookies that were decorating it, and putting all the other decorations away before the tree is removed.)

Strive and Succeed Day -- Horatio Alger's birth anniversary

Theogamia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (anniversary celebration of the marriage of Zeus and Hera; date approximate, but during Gamelion, the month of marriages)

Tiugunde Day -- Old England (midwinter offering, a celebration picked up from the Norse Midvintersblot)

Tyvendedagen -- Norway (Twentieth day after Christmas, official end of Yuletide or "Juletid")

Birthdays Today:

Joannie Rochette, 1966

Orlando Bloom, 1977

Nicole Eggert, 1972

Keith Coogan, 1970

Patrick Dempsey, 1966

Penelope Ann Miller, 1964

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 1961

Kevin Anderson, 1960

Jay McInerney, 1955

Richard Moll, 1943

Frank Gallo, 1933

Charles Nelson Reilly, 1931

Frances Sternhagen, 1930

Gwen Verdon, 1925

Army Archerd, 1922

Robert Stack, 1919

Alfred Carl Fuller, 1885

Sophia Tucker, 1884

Horatio Alger, 1832

Salmon P. Chase, 1808

DEbuting/Premiering Today:

"The Sopranos"(TV), 1999

"Mickey Mouse"(Comic strip), 1930

Today in History:

Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria, 1099

Sicut Didum, the papal bull prohibiting the enslavement of Canary Island natives who had converted to Christianity, is promulgated, 1435

The controversial play Eastward Hoe by Ben Jonson, George Chapman, and John Marston is performed, landing two of the authors in prison, 1605

The Bank Of Genoa fails after the announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain, 1607

Jonathan Swift is ordained and Anglican priest in Ireland, 1695

James Oglethorpe and 130 colonists arrive in Charleston, South Carolina, 1733

John Walter publishes the first issue of the London Times, 1785

The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins, 1830

Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole European survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, 1842

Anthony Foss patents the accordion, 1854

A chenille manufacturing machine is patented by William Canter of NYC, 1863

A circus fire in Poland kills 430, 1883

 The Independent Labour Party of the UK has its first meeting, 1893

U.S. Marines land in Honolulu from the U.S.S. Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution, 1893

The first radio set is advertised, a Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American; claimed to receive signals up to one mile, 1906

The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, 1910

An earthquake in Avezzano, Italy kills 29,800, 1915

The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometres of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people, 1939

Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car, 1942

Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, is appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland, 1964

Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American  US Cabinet member, 1966

Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom Prison, 1968

A passenger train plunged into a ravine at Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa, 1985

L. Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American US governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia, 1990

Soviet Union military troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, 1991

An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800, 2001

The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy, 2012

An early-morning ballistic missile alert is sent across Hawaii in error and revoked after 38 minutes, 2018

Scientists studying the Murchison Meteorite announce their belief that it contains material that is 7.5 billion years old, 2020

Archaeologists announce the discovery of the world's oldest known cave painting of an animal (a pig), in Leang Tedongnge cave, island of Sulawesi, Indonesia; it is estimated to be 45,500 years old, 2021

In a landmark decision, former Syrian intelligence officer Anwar Raslan is convicted for state-sponsored crimes against humanity, 2022

An Arctic blast affects large parts of North America, with some areas registering wind chills up to -40°F/-40°C, 2024