Dormant Tidiness, Plan Changes, and Funnies, 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.  

Yesterday, Carl was getting his jacket on and he said to me, “So, I’ll go to work, and you stay here and clean my room, and my mom writes you a check and you leave about 11:30, right?”

Yes, i told him, that’s right.

“Well, she sure pays you a lot of money!”

It’s five hours of work, i told him.

Later, i related the conversation to Ms. V.  She and i laughed.  “He’s worried now because it’s his money paying you,” she noted.  “I’ll tell him if he wants to pay you less, he could do more cleaning of his room himself!”

The way to a man’s heart, i noted, might be through his stomach, but the way to awaken Carl’s so far dormant sense of tidiness might be through his pocketbook.

This is a holiday week, and the plans for it so that i could serve all of my clients in spite of the holiday have changed almost as often as i change my socks.

Original plan: Monday, Carl, Ms. JAI, Ms. S; Tuesday, Ms. V, Ms. S; Wednesday, cat shelter, Ms. G, go to NOLA to cook and clean, come home; Thursday, go to NOLA, cook and clean more; Friday and Saturday as usual.

Then Grandma told me, on Saturday, she does not need for me to come Wednesday, Uncle P and Miss Eva will be there, i can just cook my stuff at home.

First modified plan:  Monday as above; Tuesday as above; Wednesday, cat shelter, Ms. G, and another peep in on Ms. S; remainder of the week, as above.

Then Ms. S’s daughter-in-law asked if i could step in to take Ms. S to the doctor Tuesday morning.

Second modified plan: Monday, as above; Tuesday, switch Ms. S to morning and take her to doctor, then Ms. V in the afternoon; remainder of the week, as above.

Then a call from Ms. G informed me she would be out of town on Wednesday.

Third and current modified plan: Monday, as above (and already done); Tuesday, Ms. S to doctor then clean her house and do her shopping; Wednesday, cat shelter and Ms. V; remainder of the week, as above.

And people wonder why i feel like i meet myself coming and going.

Okay, it’s time for some of the stuff Grandma sends me.

Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!

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Today is:

Brumalia -- Byzantine Empire celebration of Dyonisus and New Wine Festival; until the solstice

Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day -- there used to be a website associated with this day, but it closed; that's no reason for you not to celebrate your uniqueness!

Celtic Tree Month Ruish (Elder) begins

D.B. Cooper Day -- anniversary of the 1971 hijacking

Discovery Day -- Tasmania (by Abel Tasman in 1642)

Feast of the Martyrs of Vietnam -- Roman Catholic Church

Guru Tegh Bahadur Martyrdom - Sikh

Lachit Divas -- Assam, India

National Sardines Day 

Persephone Day (a/k/a Kore -- Ancient Greek Calendar (celebration of her as wheel goddess of the underworld; date approximate, but she is often associated with St. Catherine)

Ragtime Day -- birth anniversary of Scott Joplin

St. Colman of Cloyne's Day (Patron of Cloyne, Ireland)

St. Joachim Ho's Day -- a Martyr of China

St. Mary of Cordoba's Day (Patron of martyrs)

Strange Names Day -- in honor of all the celebrity -- and other -- kids with "unique" names; originally sponsored the last Tuesday in November by Marlar in the Morning at 101QFL in Rockford, IL, US

Teacher's Day -- Turkey

Third Bash of the Tree-Toppers -- Fairy Calendar (fairy creatures who don't believe in "one" or "two", so start counting at three)

Use Even If Seal is Broken Day -- internet generated; observe at your own risk, always!

Birthdays Today:

Katherine Heigl, 1978

Brad Sherwood, 1964

Stanley Livingston, 1950

Rudy Tomjanovich, 1948

Dwight Schultz, 1947

Oscar Palmer Robertson, 1938

William F. Buckley, Jr., 1925

Howard Duff, 1913

Charles "Lucky" Luciano, 1897

Dale Carnegie, 1888

Erich von Manstein, 1887

Alben William Barkley, 1877

Scott Joplin, 1868

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864

Bat Masterson, 1853

Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849

Bram Stoker, 1847

Zachary Taylor, 1784

Laurence Sterne, 1713

Charles Theodore Pachelbel, 1690

Baruch Spinoza, 1632(O.S. date)

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Guys and Dolls"(Musical), 1950

Softball, as a sport, invented this day as a spur of the moment game at the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago, IL, US, 1887

Today in History:

Theodosius I makes his formal entry into Constantinople, 380

Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes his Talmudic dictionary, 1105

The Thames River freezes, 1434

First observation of transit of Venus occurred (only 2, record event), 1639

Abel Janzoon Tasman becomes the first European to see Van Damien's Land, later renamed Tasmania, 1642

First Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner at Philadelphia, 1703

Mt. Vesuvius erupts, 1759

Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species", 1859

Luik-Visé-Maastricht railway opens, 1861

Joseph F Glidden patents his improved barbed wire, 1874

The first US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont, 1896

Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter, 1903

Radio Belgium makes its first transmission, 1923

The first woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight, Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, NY to Calif), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days, 1930

In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens, 1932

Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered by Jack Ruby, 1963

During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again, 1971

A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany due to the 1973 oil crisis; it lasts only four months, 1973

The communist party resigns in Czechoslovakia, 1989

By a margin of only 50.28% to 49.72%, Ireland votes to end the 70 year old ban on divorce, 1995

Ireland presents its austerity package to the European Union and IMF, 2010

Palestinian officials announce their plan to exhume the body of Yasser Arafat too determine if he was poisoned, 2012

An international research team publishes their discovery of 1,500 new viruses found in invertebrates, 2016

Former First Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is sworn in as President of Zimbabwe, replacing ousted dictator Robert Mugabe after a 30-year tenure, 2017

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy candidates overwhelmingly win the district council elections in a strong rebuke to Hong Kong leaders, 2019

It All Works Out, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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Anybody out there think this week has gone by smooth and easy for me?  Of course anyone who reads here regularly knows better.

It's okay, it makes getting to Thankful Day that much sweeter, so i can say i am thankful to have to much to be thankful about!

First, taxes.  They finally came in on Monday, and we had actually paid enough that we only owed a very small amount.  That is fabulous, it means more to put on next year's quarterly estimates.

Dr. D, as explained on Tuesday, had given me quite a workout Monday, so that evening i was very thankful to be climbing into bed when #1 Son called.

Right here i must interject that the Tuesday plan was that Bigger Girl and #1 Son would go transfer her car to his name, then they would come here to pick up my car and go to NOLA to see Grandma and Grandpa.  (Her car, Bessie Low-Key, is not fit for long trips, and i would take Lunceford the Land Yacht to work, Sweetie having agreed to stay carless for the day.)  It was going to be Bigger Girl's last time to see Grandma and Grandpa until she flies back to visit from California, and #1 Son was making it his birthday visit.

Just a moment before, #1 Son had been on the phone with his landlord.  The refrigerator at their apartment quit working about 3 weeks ago, and they were thankfully making do with the fact that the freezer portion still worked (go figure) and using ice in the fridge part to keep things cool.

The LL had called to say that the new fridge would come on Tuesday, so someone had to be there.  No excuses, if no one was home, no refrigerator would be provided, and no, there was no way to reschedule the delivery.  (Please note that this was at 9:30pm that the LL called, and #1 Son had plans, and Roommate Nate had to be at work all the next day.)

A quick conference and we settled on the plan that i would get to work as early as possible and Bigger Girl would leave extra early, alone, to go to NOLA.  While i would get done as fast as i could so i could get to #1 Son's house, Bigger Girl would come back, pick him up, and they would then transfer the car.  If the fridge arrived early enough, i wouldn't have to go over there and wait for it, but i was going to plan to go just in case.

We were both a bit disappointed in having to do it this way, but thankful we had a plan and the fridge could be delivered, and #1 Son hung up to call Bigger Girl and get her on board with it.

About 10 seconds later, my phone rang again.  It was #1 Son.  "Roommate Nate called a work friend to see if he could cover the shift until the fridge comes, and the guy can, and then he called his boss and got permission to stay at the apartment until the fridge arrives.  He was calling and making those plans at the same time we were talking.  So since his shift is covered until he can get there, I don't have to change any of my plans!"

Talk about thankful for his roommate, the friend who was willing to cover part of a shift, and the boss for agreeing!.  The transfer of title for the car took place (for which all the heavens be praised, Bigger Girl no longer has wheels!), a visit to NOLA took place, and i did not have to kill myself to get done early and get to #1 Son's apartment if i was needed.

Bonus thankful for Tuesday, i got done with work just in time to pull into the nearest gas station to our house with Lunceford as #1 Son and Bigger Girl were arriving back from NOLA and putting some in my tank.  They went on to the house, i met them there, and i got one last hug from Bigger Girl before her flight on Wednesday.

Speaking of Wednesday, it went off without a hitch, Bigger Girl's friend Tamara got her to the airport in plenty of time, all of her flights were close enough to on time that she didn't miss any connections, and she is now safely in Oakland, CA, doing job interviews and having a ball with her friends.  We are very thankful for that.

On Thursday, #1 Son came by for a birthday hug, and to exchange prisoners as we call it (he had accidentally kept the spare key to my car, GusGus, and had left his coffee cup in the car, so we jokingly arranged a trade).

Friday was relatively calm by comparison, as Ms. S is out of town staying with her son and daughter-in-law so i only had 3 jobs, not four.  Speaking of which, her house is going on the market, and the realtor needed a key ASAP, and i am thankful Ms. S gave me a key years ago and i was able to hand it to the realtor.  The faster the house sells, the better off Ms. S will be, it will give her some financial breathing room.

Today i am thankful that Sweetie and i are in NOLA cleaning for Grandma and Grandpa.  The Saturdays that he comes, we get to extra chores that don't always need doing every week.

How was your week?  Please write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful, where Kristi and her co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting.  

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Today is:

Anti-Bigot Day -- doesn't seem to be sponsored by any particular group, which is good on a day to practice respect and kindness to all

Canada's Parks Day -- Canada (showcasing Canada's beautiful parks and historic sites, it's worth traveling to a park near you!)

Constitution Day -- Uruguay

Lunch of the Forward Goblins -- Fairy Calendar (not surprisingly, attended by Fairies only)

Mandela Day -- UN

National Caviar Day -- no one knows how it started, but even The Russian Tea Room in New York has celebrated it for years and caviar importers know all about it; pair it with ice cold vodka or a Burgundian pinot or unoaked chardonnay, but never with champagne!

National Woodie Wagon Day -- paying homage today to this great American symbol of freedom and the casual lifestyle

St. Theneva's Day (Patron of Glasgow, Scotland)

Toss Away the "Could Haves" and "Should Haves" Day -- write down all the "could have" and "should have" things in your life, then toss them in the trash! Resolve from this day to live in the present, not the past.

Vitulatio -- Ancient Roman Calendar (Vitula, goddess of exultation, joy, and life, is given the first fruits of the earth)

Wienermobile Day -- celebrating the creation, in 1936, of the now iconic vehicle by Oscar Mayer's nephew Carl

World Listening Day -- World Listening Project (this year's theme is "The Collective Field")   

Anniversary Today:

Timothy Verner Taylor marries The Lady Helen Windsor, 1992

Bobby Brown marries Whitney Houston, 1992

Birthdays Today

Chace Crawford, 1985

Priyanka Chopra, 1982

Kristin Bell, 1980

Vin Diesel, 1967

Elizabeth McGovern, 1961

Ricky Skaggs, 1954

Richard Branson, 1950

Steve Forbes, 1947

James Brolin, 1941

Martha Reeves, 1941

Joe Torre, 1940

Dion DiMucci, 1939

Paul Verhoeven, 1938

Hunter S. Thompson, 1937

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 1932

Dick Button, 1929

Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 1929

John Glenn, 1921

Nelson Mandela, 1918

Harriet Nelson, 1914

Richard "Red" Skelton, 1913

Hume Cronyn, 1911

Clifford Odets, 1906

Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, 1906

George "Machine Gun" Kelly, 1895

Charles E. "Chick" Evans, Jr., 1890

Vidkun Quisling, 1887

Margaret "Unsinkable Molly" Brown, 1867

William Makepeace Thackeray, 1811

Gilbert White, 1720

Robert Hooke, 1635

Today in History

A Roman army is defeated by raiding Gauls, leading to the subsequent sacking of Rome, BC390

The Great Fire of Rome begins in the merchant area of the city, 64

King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities, 1290

Matthew Flinders leaves England to circumnavigate and map Australia; it was he who gave the continent its name, 1801

The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility, 1870

Britain introduced voting by secret ballot, 1872

Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of a new element and propose to call it polonium, 1898

Adoph Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, 1925

The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California, 1968

Nadia Comaneci became the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics  at the 1976 Summer Olympics, 1976

Beverly Lynn Burns becomes first female Boeing 747 airline captain, 1984

On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts; over the course of several years, it devastates the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee, 1995

Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever, 1996

Phoenix, AZ, US, is hit by a dust storm of the kind known as a "haboob", 2011

King Jong-un, son of King Jong-il, is announced the official Supreme Leader of North Korea, 2012

The 'immediate and severe' fiscal emergency declared by the U.S. city San Bernardino, California, allows it to declare bankruptcy without negotiating with creditors, 2012

Investigators on the case of the October 2012 Kunsthal gallery theft of paintings by Picasso, Matisse and Monet, discover paint, canvas and nails in the oven of a woman whose son has been charged with the crime, 2013

Detroit, Michigan files the largest municipal bankruptcy in history, 2013

PayPal is spun off from eBay as a separate publicly traded company on the NASDAQ, 2015

Google is fined a record $5.1 billion by the EU for abusing its power in the mobile phone market, 2018

The Hawai'i National Guard confirms that the current eruption of Kilauea volcano has destroyed 700 homes and added 700 acres to the size of the Big Island, 2018