Tight Pants and Thick Towels, 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.  

We were back to our usual schedule this week with Carl starting my Monday with a bang.

for some reason, the last two socks never made it to the dryer

Or in this case, a messy laundry room.  Not that the seat cushions in there were his fault.  Probably Ms. V wanted them washed but ran out of time to do it.  I don't like putting them in the wash as they are disintegrating on the bottom and it's a mess, they probably need to be replaced.

Carl himself was heading for the sleep chair and after restoring a bit of order to the laundry room, i went to get the rest of the laundry sorted in his room.

Yes, he used the small hanger that i've been trying to get rid of because it is useless instead of one of the big hangers of which he now has a plethora (because Ms. G gave me some to bring which she didn't need).  There's no telling why, might as well just hang the shirt on a different hanger (if it's clean, which it was) and move on, leaving the question there, hanging from the useless hanger.

I went to turn on the radio and found this.

Next order of business, go get batteries out of the office.

I noted he'd bought this, probably for Sam, the girl he's sweet on.  The fact he still has it means he probably did not get to see her this weekend, but he will get it to her, sooner or later.  Maybe.

Meanwhile, in sorting clothes i found a pair of pants which left me scratching my head.  They were a size 32 waist, and he wears a 36.

Later, when i went to wake him up, he resisted.  "I didn't feel good last night, I'm not ready."

Your alarm went off, i told him, and he sighed deeply.  "All right."  Then, pointing to the pile of pajamas on which he'd been sleeping in his sleep chair, "Are you going to wash these?"

Sorry, i told him, i've started the third load while you were slumbering, i keep telling you if you'd get up a bit earlier the things you are sleeping on would make it into the last load and you wouldn't have to do them yourself.

I'm not taking bets on whether i have to do them next week, either.

Once in his room and talking about what he would wear that day, i also pointed out the too small pants and asked him about where he'd gotten them and who they might belong to.

He looked confused and said, "Well," then paused again.  I noted how small they were and he said, "Well, they do fit..."

I told him they were two waist sizes too small and he said, "Well, they were a bit snug."

I can only imagine.

As i was turning to leave him to his shower, he grabbed the towel i had hanging for him and asked, “Where are the thick ones?”

When i arrive, usually all of his linens are dirty so i grab one of the old, spare towels from the closet in the main house for him to use that day while i wash the rest.

They’re in the wash, i told him.  When you dirty up every single one of them, you get a spare towel and it’s all we have.

He gave me a pained look and shut the bathroom door.

The rest of the morning was the usual and he got off to work, after tramping back in all over the mopped floor looking for his gas pills.  Oh, well, until he moves away, it's still job security.

How about some funnies.

And because it's Carnival time...

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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It's the Lunar New Year/Chinese New Year/Lhosar/Seol-Nal/Tet!  There are celebrations throughout Asia of the year of the Horse, some before and some after this "official" Western date, some for up to a month as well as Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist celebrations.

It's also Sonam Lhosar in Nepal, the Tamang New Year.

(Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere the event badge.)  

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Today is Mardi Gras!  Fat Tuesday, Carnival, the last day to feast before the Lenten fast begins tomorrow, greeted with revelry in many parts of the world; related observances and names:

     Scotland, Fasten's E'en or Bannocky Day

     Portuguese, Terça-feira Gorda

     Italian, Martedì Grasso

     Swedish, Fettisdagen

     Norwegian, Fastelavens

     Estonian, Vastlapäev

     Spanish, Martes de Carnaval

     German, Faschingsdienstag

     Hawaiian, Malasada Day

     Lithuanian, Uzgavenes

     Icelandic, Sprengidagur (literally, Bursting Day)

     also Pancake Day or Bursting Day, the day to eat the last of the eggs and butter in the form of some kind of fried cakes, and to eat until bursting

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Today is:

Day of Cancelled Expectations -- according to William Least Heat-Moon in his autobiography, Blue Highways

Dita e Pavaresise -- Kosovo (Independence Day)(2008)

Feast of Shezmu -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (god of the winepress; date approximate)

February 17 Revolution Day -- Libya

Hachinohe Enburi Matsuri -- Hachinohe, Japan (festival with prayers for a good harvest; through Wednesday)

International Pancake Day

Last day of Celtic Tree Month Luis (Rowan)

Mother's Day -- Israel (Shevat 30)

My Way Day -- today, determine your identity all by yourself, apart from what other people say you should be; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays

National Cafe Au Lait Day

National Indian Pudding Day

National PTA Founders Day -- US

Practice Your Free Throws Day -- spread around the internet by someone who really loves basketball

Quirinalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (a/k/a Feast of Fools)

Random Acts of Kindness Day -- US (unofficial, but a great idea)  

Shrove Tuesday -- Christian

Snow Ice Cream Day -- internet generated; if you want to try it, and are sure your snow is reasonably clean, add sugar, milk, a touch of vanilla, and enjoy

St. Fortchern of Trim's Day (Patron of bell-founders)

Tanis Diena -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (To honor pigs)

Anniversaries Today:

League of United Latin American Citizens (Lulac) Founded, 1929

Miami University is chartered by the State of Ohio, 1809

Birthdays Today:

Vanessa Atler, 1982

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 1981

Paris Hilton, 1981

Jerry O'Connell, 1974

Bryan White, 1974

Billie Joe Armstrong, 1972

Denise Richards, 1972

Michael Forbes, 1967

Ronald "Bell Biv" DeVoe, 1967

Michael Jordan, 1963

Lou Diamond Phillips, 1962

Richard Karn, 1959

Rene Russo, 1954

Brenda Fricker, 1945

Jim Brown, 1936

Alan Bates, 1934

Barry Humphries (Dame Edna Everage), 1934

Lee Holby, 1926

Hal Holbrook, 1925

Arthur Kennedy, 1914

Clarence Lindon “Buster” Crabbe, 1908

Red Barber, 1908

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1879

William Cadbury, 1867

Samuel Sidney Mcclure, 1857

Friedrich A Krupp, 1854

A. Montgomery Ward, 1844

Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, 1781

Thomas Malthus, 1766

Arcangelo Corelli, 1653

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"A Prairie Home Companion"(Radio), 1979

"BC"(Comic Strip), 1958

"Madame Butterfly"(Puccini Opera), 1904

"Un Ballo in maschera"(Verdi Opera), 1859

"Siroe, re di Persia"(Handel HWV 24), 1728

Today in History:

Miles Standish is appointed the first commander of the Plymouth colony, 1621

The first volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is

published, 1776

The first ship passes through the Suez Canal, 1867

Women's suffragist Esther Morris is appointed the first female justice of the peace in the US, in South Pass City, Wyoming, 1870

Sardines are first canned, by Julius Wolff of Eastport, Maine, 1876

Madame Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan, 1904

The first minimum wage law in the US takes effect, in Oregon, 1913

Johnny Weissmuller sets the 100-yard freestyle record (52.4 seconds), 1924

The first telecast of a sporting event in Japan, a baseball game, 1931

The first issue of "Newsweek" magazine is published, 1933

Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution, 1959

Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model-T, 1972

Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match, 1996

Kosovo declares independence, 2008

In racing, Danica Patrick becomes the first woman at the Daytona 500 and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series to win pole position, 2013

The research journal GSA Today publishes an article in favor of reclassifying mostly underwater microcontinent Zealandia in the South Pacific as the 8th continent, 2017

India's Supreme Court grants equal rights to women in military service, 2020

Around 28,000 women apply for 30 jobs driving trains after they are advertised for women in Saudi Arabia for the first time, 2022

An airplane crashes and flips over at Toronto airport, injuring 21 people in the fourth major aviation accident in North America in a month, 2025