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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.
Ms. V asked me to add up how much Carl paid me to clean his apartment last year. While i cannot share the figure, i will say it was a very nice chunk of change for one client.
Yesterday every time i turned around, he was trying to do his dance exercises (he didn't have work). Dance to the fridge, get more food. Dance to the table, sit for ten seconds, get up and dance again. He cannot resist moving to the beat, but at least it keeps him moving. As Ms. V says, it's a good thing he exercises and works, or with his deep love of food he'd be as big as a house.
While at Ms. PA's house, her sweet husband asked me, "What are you going to do?" and i told him i was going to dust and vacuum. Then i asked him what he would do, and his answer was, "Whatever the boss lady, my wife, tells me to do!" He's a card.
In the back room, i noticed her petunias needed nutrients (they are in one of those indoor aerogarden things). When i told Ms. PA, her response was, "Okay, I'll go neutralize them!" with a wink. Yep, she and her sweetheart were made for each other.
When going through some of Grandpa's files with him, he noted one of the files was the mail-order supplements he gets. They are auto-shipped to him each month, and he very solemnly told us, "Of course, you will have to cancel this when I die, because after that I don't plan to take any more pills."
Dry humor everywhere, and all of the seniors in my life are practitioners.
On that note, Grandma never fails to send me something or other, starting with a couple of neat inventions:
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| A medicine bottle that tells you how long since it was last opened. |
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| A special mobility mat for wheelchair and stroller access to the beach. |
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
Extraterrestrial Culture Day -- New Mexico, US ("to celebrate and honor all past, present, and future extraterrestrial visitors in ways to enhance relationships among all citizens of the cosmos, known and unknown.")
Feast of Apollo -- Ancient Roman Calendar
Narvik Sun Pageant (Vinterfestuka) -- Norway (annual festival held since ancient times to honor the sun goddess)
National Bagels and Lox Day
National DAV (Develop Alternative Vices) Day -- internet generated, in hopes that bad habits will be altered to positive coping mechanisms
National Sports Day -- Qatar
Pizza Pie Day
Read in the Bathtub Day -- another one that no one will claim to have invented, and please don't try it with a digital book; this day has its own Facebook page
Remembrance for Eyvind Kinnrifi -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan (martyr)
Safer Internet Day -- organised originally by Insafe, now called Better Internet for Kids (promotes safe and responsible use of the internet by teaching children how to keep themselves safe online; this year's theme is "Together for a better internet")
St. Apollonia's Day (Patron of dentists; Achterbos, Belgium; Ariccia, Italy; Cuccaro Monferrato, Italy; against toothaches, tooth disease)
St. Maroun's Day -- Lebanon (Syriac Maronite Church of Antioch, an Eastern Catholic Church)
Tales of Kelp-Koli begin -- Fairy Calendar (through the 16th)
Toothache Day -- and someone thought this needed a day because...? Okay, I guess because there is a patron saint for it. Or against it. However that works.
Weather Day -- US (Weather Service Founding)
Birthdays Today:
David Gallagher, 1985
Ziyi Zhang, 1979
Mena Suvari, 1979
Shakira, 1977
Travis Tritt, 1963
Charles Shaughnessy, 1955
Judith Light, 1949
Mia Farrow, 1945
Alice Walker, 1944
Joe Pesci, 1943
Carole King, 1942
Janet Suzman, 1939
Roger Mudd, 1928
Brendan Behan, 1923
Kathryn Grayson, 1922
Bill Veeck, 1914
Gypsy Rose Lee, 1914
Ernest Tubb, 1914
Carmen Miranda, 1909
David Dean Rusk, 1909
Ronald Colman, 1891
Amy Lowell, 1874
William Henry Harrison, 1773
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Falstaff"(Verdi Opera), 1893
"Venice Preserv'd"(Otway Play), 1682
Today in History:
The Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps, 1267
The first recorded race meet in England in Roodee Fields, Chester, 1540
The British ex-premier Walpole becomes the Earl of Oxford, 1742
After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States, 1825
– The U.S. Weather Bureau is established, 1870
The first Japanese immigrants arrive in Hawaii, 1885
The Davis Cup competition is established, 1900
The first forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio, 1909
Snow falls on Mauna Loa, Hawaii, 1922
Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty, 1922
Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources, 1942
Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 1960
Jamaica becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations, 1962
The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers, 1964
First test flight of the Boeing 747, 1969
Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1971
Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks, 1995
A storehouse of thirty Egyptian mummies is unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb, 2009
Australian National University scientists discover the oldest known star at 13.6 billion years old, 2014
Storm Ciara has the unintended consequence of causing the fastest supersonic journey from New York to London by a British Airways Boeing 747-436; the plane reached speeds of 1,327 km/h / 825 mph and the trip took only 4 hours, 56 minutes, 2020