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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.
In September, Bigger Girl flew in from Seattle to visit for a few days, and she and i got to run errands together and chat. Last month, she flew in and was here only about 24 hours, just long enough to go to Grandma's funeral.
This is my high-functioning Asperger's child who is scared of small children so she used to wear Goth clothing not because she was Goth, but because it was "soccer mom repellant." It made those with small children hustle them away.
She once went to a Halloween party in a lacy blouse with an old-fashioned medicine bottle around her neck labeled "arsenic." Yes, she was a movie reference.
(This was the year Little Girl dressed in her business suit and wore a sign around her neck which said, "Closed." She was the US Government during a shutdown.)
Now she's all grown up and living away from home but your kid is still your kid, and some things just don't change much.
At the funeral, i went outside to see who was hanging out on the porch and she was there scooping dirt from the garden into a plastic zip baggie.
She said, "A friend asked for a bag of dirt from Louisiana. I'm not asking questions, I'm just making it happen. In exchange I'm getting a bottle of home distilled bourbon that tastes like what warm feels like."
I don't ask too many questions, either, i just enjoy her.
How about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is Election Day in the USA. If you are registered, please go vote.
Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere the event badge.
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Today is:
Apaturia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (a three day meeting of the clans and welcoming newcomers and children into the community; date approximate)
Betcha Festival -- Onomichi, Japan (men in costume "beat" children with bamboo whisks to prevent them getting ill in the coming year)
Bunka no hi -- Japan (Culture Day)
Cliche Day -- get them all out of your system today; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
Cuenca Day -- Cuenca, Ecuador
Housewives' Day -- birth anniversary of Roseanne Barr
Independence Day -- Dominica(1978); Federated States of Micronesia(1986); Panama (also called Separation Day, separating from Colombia in 1903)
Let Someone Have the Last Word Day -- internet generated, probably so you will quit with the cliches
Melbourne Cup Day -- Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia (155th running)
Sandwich Day -- birth anniversary of John Montague, Fourth Earl of Sandwich and reputed inventor of the food item which bears his name; make yourself a really good one in his memory
SOS Day -- on this date in 1906 the Second International Radio Telegraphic Conference at Berlin, Germany, proposed it as the new wireless distress signal to replace CQD (Come Quick, Danger)
St. Hubert's Day (Patron of archers, dogs, forest workers, furriers, hunters and hunting, machinists, mathematicians, metal workers, opticians, precision instrument makers, smelters, trappers; Liege, Belgium; Saint-Hubert, Belgium; against dog bites, hydrophobia/rabies)
St. Martin de Porres' Day (Patron of African-Americans, barbers/hair stylists, inter-racial justice, hotel-keepers/innkeepers, paupers, persons of mixed race, poor people, public education, public health, public schools, race relations/racial harmony, social justice, state schools, television; Biloxi, MI, US; Peru)
St. Pirminius' Day (Patron of Monsheim, Germany; against poisoning, snake bite)
St. Winifred's Day (Patron of incest victims, martyrs; Gwytherin, Wales; Holywell, Wales; Shrewsbury, England)
Tunnel Day -- NY, NY, US (anniversary of the start of the first subway tunnel in 1900)
Victory Day -- Maldives
Birthdays Today:
Gemma Ward, 1987
Evgeny Plushenko, 1982
Dolph Lundgren, 1959
Phil Simms, 1956
Adam Ant, 1954
Kathy Kinney, 1954
Kate Capshaw, 1953
Dennis Miller, 1953
Roseanne, 1952
Steve Landesberg, 1945
Ken Berry, 1933
Michael Dukakis, 1933
Monica Vitti, 1933
Charles Bronson, 1921
Bob Feller, 1918
Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, 1908
Edward Douglass White, 1845
William Cullen Bryant, 1794
Stephen Fuller Austin, 1793
Thomas Kyd, 1558
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Diff'rent Strokes"(TV), 1978
"Good Morning America"(TV), 1973
Play Misty for Me(Film, NYC release date), 1971
"The Unsinkable Molly Brown"(Musical), 1960
"A Connecticut Yankee"(Musical), 1927
Today in History:
Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina, 644
Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea, 1493
The English parliament accepts the Act of Supremacy, declaring Henry VIII to be the leader of the Church of England, 1534
Great Patent is granted to Plymouth Colony, 1620
A great panic occurs in Europe over the close approach of a comet, 1679
Spain acquires Louisiana, 1762
The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec, 1817
The Times of India, the world's most widely circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper, is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce, 1838
John W. Menard, of Louisiana, becomes the first African-American elected to Congress, 1868
"Black Bart the Poet", stagecoach robber, commits his last robbery, leaving behind a clue that leads to his capture, 1883
J.H. Hunter patents a portable weighing scale, 1896
Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market, 1911
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika, 1957
NASA launches Mariner 10 toward Mercury; it would later become the first probe to reach that planet, 1973
Dutch and British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1, 1994
Pervez Musharraf declares emergency rule across Pakistan, suspending the Constitution, 2007
US Border Patrol discovers a sophisticated tunnel used by drug smugglers from Tijuana, Mexico to Otay Mesa, California, 2010
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for global action on climate change after warning from scientists, 2014
New York's 104-storey One World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks, 2014
Air pollution levels in Delhi, India reach such high levels that authorities declare a public health emergency, 2019
South African writer Damon Galgut wins literature's Booker Prize for his novel "The Promise", 2021
Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki erupts on Flores Island in eastern Indonesia, 2024
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