Where the Cards Live, 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.  

Detail cleaning at Carl's goes on, and i am tackling clothes.  There's a good bit of stuff which probably just needs to be thrown out as he has used it to death, but Ms. V and i need to talk about it.

Meanwhile, last Wednesday Ms. G decided since she was sick I needed to go to the store for her.  After all, a sinus infection does mean you need extra ice cream in the house, especially if it is on sale at the local grocer.

As i was preparing to leave, she stopped me and said, "Here, let me send you this text."

I almost burst out laughing.  After all, isn't the point of her texting me the list, at least in part, that i do not have to be there to get the list?

But i stopped and she not only texted, she made sure to read it to me to "clarify" i was to call her and let her know what flavors of chocolate were available (sometimes they are out of one or another).

Oh, and if the Sprite Zero is on sale, get it, too.  After all, it has no calories.

Of course, it was on sale, and when i called to talk to her, they only had one flavor of chocolate and no "Strawberries and Cream" flavor she had listed.  Just Strawberries and Vanilla.  That would do, and instead of chocolate, Pralines and Cream.  Plus the three vanillas.  Half Gallon size, naturally, and six 12-packs of Sprite Zero.

When i arrived back at her house, as soon as i'd put down the ice cream she loaded it into the chest freezer in her own very special way.  By that time, i'd brought in the other items and she was back in her chair, so i gave her the receipt and her debit card.

"Oh, yes, let me put that back where it lives," she said, stuffing it under her shirt.  "This is where the cards live, you know, at least once I get dressed in the morning."

See, Carl isn't the only client who can keep me entertained.

How about some funnies.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Coronation Day and Social Forestry Day -- Bhutan (anniversary of  the coronation day of the Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the 4th Druk Gyalpo, in 1974, and the day children plant trees)

Festa della Republica -- Italy (National Day/Feast of the Republic)

Festival of Utter Confusion -- an internet declared holiday, and this is the one for me!

Hristo Botev Day -- Bulgaria (poet and national hero who fell fighting the Turks this day in 1876)

"I Love My Dentist" Day -- no one will claim starting this one, so it makes me suspicious

Isabel Province Day -- Isabel Province, Solomon Islands

National Bubba Day -- created by comedian T. Bubba Bechtol for Bubbas everywhere to have their day

National Leave the Office Earlier Day -- sponsored by Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, who urges people to maximize productivity so they can leave the office earlier every day 

National Rocky Road Day

St. Blandina's Day (Patron of girls, people falsely accused, torture victims; Lyon, France)

St. Elmo's Day (a/k/a St. Erasmus; Patron of ammunition workers, boatmen, childbirth and women in labor, explosives workers, mariners, navigators, ordnance workers, sailors, watermen; Gaeta, Italy; against abdominal pains, appendicitis, birth pains, childhood intestinal disease, colic, danger at sea, intestinal disorders, seasickness, stomach diseases, storms)

Yell "Fudge" at the Cobras in North America Day -- at noon, your local time, because according to Wellcat Holidays, cobras hate fudge and will not stay if we mention it

Anniversaries Today:

U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom, 1886 (only president to wed in the executive mansion)

Elizabeth II is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, 1953 (the first major international event to be televised)

Birthdays Today:

Justin Long, 1978

Zachary Quinto, 1977

Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso, Queen consort of Lesotho, 1976

Wayne Brady, 1972

Wentworth Miller, 1972

Joel Tobeck, 1971

Dana Carvey, 1955

Gary Grimes, 1955

Dennis Haysbert, 1954

Diana Canova, 1953

Cornel West, 1953

Jerry Mathers, 1948

Marvin Hamlisch, 1944

Charles Haid, 1943

Stacy Keach, Jr., 1941

Charlie Watts, 1941

Sally Kellerman, 1937

Milo O’Shea, 1926

Johnny Weissmuller, 1904

Hedda Hopper, 1890

Sir Edward Elgar, 1857

Thomas Hardy, 1840

Marquis de Sade, 1740

Martha Dandridge Custiss Washington, 1731

Today in History:

The Vandals enter Rome and begin 2 weeks of plundering, 455

The First Siege of Antioch ends when Crusader forces take the city, 1098

The first Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France, 1615

Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692

The Derby horserace is held for the first time in Epsom, England, 1780

P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States, 1835

The Slavic congress in Prague begins, 1848

Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his early radio device, 1896

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act, making Native American Indians withing US territories and states US citizens, 1924

Lou Gehrig begins his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played, 1925

In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic, and exile their king, Umberto II di Savoia, 1946

The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations, 1955

Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world, 1966

Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country, 1979

The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time, 1999

Europe launches its first probe to voyage to another planet, Mars, 2003

The World Health Organization announces the E. coli strain responsible for the 2011 E.coli O104:H4 outbreak had never before been isolated from patients, 2011

The US Congress passes new legislation to reform National Security Agency procedures, restricting gathering of phone records, 2015

One hundred volunteers in Bhutan set a world record for tree planting, setting out 49,672 in 1 hour, 2015

Queen Elizabeth II marks her Platinum Jubilee with a military parade as the start of four days of celebrations, 2022

The Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-6 successfully lands on the far side of the Moon to collect and analyze rock samples, 2024

Mexico elects former Mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, as its first woman president, 2024