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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 has had the last several weeks mostly off work as the scheduling computer at Mall-Mart has been giving the company fits, so i wasn't surprised to see the holes in his schedule when i showed up and looked at the papers on the fridge.
Next up, check the laundry room.
Not a good sign, right?
I tapped at his door in passing and he opened it, and as i told him he'd need to move to the sleep chair, he said, "For a while."
You don't have work today, do you? i asked.
"They called yesterday...nine to two," he answered, meaning they are trying to override the recalcitrant computer.
Okay, i told him, when you do you want to get up?
"When I can," he answered, cryptically.Then he added, "Twenty-two minutes."
He scooted off to rest and i realized i was right, it's been a rough week.
Carl doesn't always put his clothes away, but when he does, he does it quickly by stuffing everything in one drawer.
Next job, get the bathroom ready so he can shower.I made sure he had everything, then stripped the bed and began gathering clothes and sniffing the stuff on the hangers that were on backward or inside out.A few did not pass the sniff test.
When he did come back in the room, he said, "Cough drops?"Then he actually turned his head away and coughed.I thanked him for doing that, as he has a chronic, persistent cough which is from allergies and he often just coughs right where he is, including toward the person to whom he is speaking.
It was time for a shower and i pointed out to him he had everything in there he needed and shouldn't come out until he was fully dressed.Once he shut the door, i did more straightening, gathering, and putting the room back together.
Once i started the first load of wash, i came back to the room just in time to see Carl come out of the bathroom wearing nothing but his underwear.
It's okay, he's come out in less, but we are trying to help him choose to be more modest.
You have all your clothes in the bathroom, i told him, why'd you come out?
"Underwear has a hole!" he said and i told him to throw that pair out the bathroom door and i'd put it in the garbage.No need to keep it if it has a hole and he's not going to wear it, right?
He actually did throw it out the door, and later i saw this.
The jammies he'd taken off when he went for his shower actually made it to the area where his laundry baskets usually are.Of course, the baskets were in the room being sorted, but I give him an A for effort.
Then i found where he'd liberally powdered the floor again.
I just hope he got some actually on his feet, and that none of us ever slip because of it.
As Carl moved about having breakfast and getting ready for work, he chatted as he often does.He was talking about something saying it was very tall, but i didn't catch what.Then he asked about signing up for the Habitat for Humanity build our church will be doing next month.
"I want to sign up before it gets full," he said, and i told him it doesn't get full, they can always use another pair of hands for something.
"Oh, good!" he said, and moved on to talking about getting a birthday card for a friend and his search for a new job."Found a site, it was a scam," he said.
You do have to watch out for those, make sure your mom sees every site you go to for job searches was my response, and he nodded solemnly.He's truly an innocent among wolves.
Well before his usual 8:45 heading to work time he was getting restless, asking about his ice vest and lunch.I told him i'd have it ready by 8:30.
"Need it now," he said, and my response was to warn him not to go in to work early, he could get in trouble if he signed in early.
"I want to get ahead before they get too busy," he said, "and I'll check before."
Since he understood he needed to do that (his mother has drilled him well), we opened the freezer to get out his ice packs and like the walls of Jericho they all came a tumbling down.
This, i told him, is why you should take the time to freeze them flat.
"How do I do that?" he asked.
When they are thawed after you come home from work, i said, take a few extra minutes to put them in the freezer carefully, laying them down so they freeze stacked on top of each other.I know you want to get it over so you can go do something fun so you cram them in there, but a few extra minutes putting them away right means they work better.
He was watching me intently the whole time i was showing him, but only time will tell if he is catching on.
Once he was gone, i went to get cleaning supplies and found this.
Ms. V seems to have gotten the redecorating bug, at least a little, and the old carpet is folded there with the stepladder on top of it (no, i don't know why) and a new rug, still wrapped, is next to it.
Later i found out that's not all.
"While we had the rug up, I decided I might as well polish the whole floor, even where the rug will go, but the polish has left streaks."
An alarm went off in my head and i asked what she'd been using.
"Just the polish."
We went to the laundry room closet and i figured out what happened.
Ms. V has two spray mops, the kind where you have a pad at the bottom and you squeeze a handle and it sprays out cleanser.
One is supposed to be for wood floors, the other has vinyl tile cleaner.
She'd not seen the note on the one for wood floors, dumped all the vinyl tile cleaner out of the other one and filled it not with wood floor cleaner, which you have to use first, but with straight polish.Then she didn't go back over the polish with the separate dry cloths we keep to prevent streaking.
We now have a mess on our hands.There's no mop for the vinyl tile floors, i had to fill a spray bottle with the cleaner and spray it out that way while mopping, being careful to remember not to squeeze the handle on the mop in order to clean Carl's floor.
When i get back to clean on Thursday, i'll have to see if the wood cleaner will get the streaky polish up, then try to re-polish and dry it, all so it can be covered with a rug and furniture again (yes, she moved the furniture to do all this).
Laugh, because otherwise you might cry, right?How about some funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Carnival Tuesday -- Granada
Day of Battle between Horus and Set; Aset gains the Horns of Hathor -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Defence Forces Day -- Zimbabwe
Festival of Aventine Diana / Nemoralia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (commemoration of the dedication of her temple; celebrated between now and the 15th, and rededicated as the Festival of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin after Christianization)
Festival of Xocotl Huetzi -- Ancient Aztec Calendar (first fruits of harvest festival; date approximate, but two weeks around the end of August)
Independence Day -- Central African Republic(1960)
International Left-Hander's Day -- sponsored by Lefthanders International
Lao Issara -- Laos (Day of the Free Laos)
Lesser Festival of Flora -- Ancient Roman Calendar
National Filet Mignon Day
Obon -- Buddhist (celebration to revere the ancestors; celebrated at different times even within Japan, but usually the biggest dates are in mid-August)
Runic Half Month As begins (the gods)
Skinny Dipping Day -- funny t-shirt:I no longer skinny dip. I chunky dunk!
St. Cassian's Day (Patron of students and teachers; Brixen, Italy; Comacchio, Italy; Imola, Italy; Mexico City, Mexico)
St. Concordia's day (Patron of nursing mothers and wet nurses)
St. Hippolytus' Day (Patron of horses, prison guards/officers/workers; Bibbiena, Italy)
Tisha B'Av -- Judaism (began sunset yesterday, through sunset today)
Wall Day -- anniversary of the day in 1961 that the Berlin Wall began going up; observe it by trying to break down a wall or communication barrier somewhere in your own life
Women's Day -- Tunisia
Birthdays Today
Shani Davis, 1982
Midori Ito, 1969
Quinn Cummings, 1967
Danny Bonaduce, 1959
Dan Fogelberg, 1951
Kathleen Battle,
Philippe Petit, 1949
Kevin Tighe, 1944
Don Ho, 1930
Pat Harrington, Jr., 1929
Fidel Castro, 1926
George Shearing, 1919
Ben Hogan, 1912
Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 1907
Alfred Hitchco*ck, 1899
Bert Lahr, 1895
Annie Oakley, 1860
Lucy Stone, 1818
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Zaire/The Tragedy of Zara"(Voltaire's "Tragedy in Verse"), 1732
Today in History
The English army under King Henry V lands at the mouth of the Seine River, 1415
Tenochtitlan of the Aztecs is conquered by the Spanish, 1521
Tenbun Hokke Disturbance, in which Buddhist monks from Kyoto's Enryaku Temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout Kyoto, 1536
John Smith submits the story of Jamestown's first days for publication, 1608
Christiaan Huygens discovers the Martian south polar cap, 1642
Founding of Litchfield, CT, 1651
Marie Antoinette and other French royals are imprisoned by Revolutionaries, 1792
Nat Turner sees the solar eclipse which he interprets as a sign from heaven to begin his ill-fated slave rebellion, 1831
Earthquake in Peru and Ecuador kills 25,000, 1868
Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon", 1889
First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley, 1913
Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps, 1918
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) is established as a public company in Germany, 1918
The first barbed wire fence that would become the Berlin Wall is erected, 1961
The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker-tape parade in New York, 1969
Michael Phelps sets the Olympic record for most the gold medals won by an individual in Olympic history, 2008
Footage of the previously unseen Kawahiva tribe is released; the Kawahiva is an indigenous tribe living in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and is thought to have had very little contact with the outside world, 2013
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani becomes the first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics, 2014
Measles cases have tripled so far worldwide in 2019 according to the WHO, 2019
Israel strikes an historic deal with the United Arab Emirates to normalize relations and suspends plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, 2020
