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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.
The moment i walked into Carl's yesterday, he asked me, "Do you know where I can get a gut strap?"
Upon asking for clarification of what he needed, he said, "You know, one of those things to support your back, when you start to get a gut!"
He's 39 1/2, and starting to get a gut, so i guess he thinks he needs a back support.
It's one of those things where you think of people younger than you as not getting old and having the same problems you have. It's hard for me to think of him as having a bad back. Or a gut, for that matter. Although as Ms. V says, it's a good thing he works hard at a job because he loves to eat and he'd be the size of a house if he didn't burn it off.
He was asking his dad for multivitamins, and his dad said, "These are the only ones out here [in the kitchen]," and handed him a women's multi.
"I can't take that! I'm not a women!" Carl said, and yes, he used the plural.
Even though i told him the only difference is it has more iron, he made his dad go get him a men's multi from his own stash. Picky, picky, picky!
Arriving at Ms. PA's house at noon, she said, "Well, you're here, I guess I need to get dressed!"
Of course, i told her she didn't have to if she didn't want to. She said, "By the time I dress him [Mr. Jack], and get us both breakfast, and feed the cat, and get the dusters out for you, I'm tired and I have to sit down!"
She's 92, she deserves to sit down if she wants to.
When i finally got to Ms. S, she told me she'd found a couple of pills on the floor, could i help her figure out what they were. She handed me two small white things that did look like pills, but were small bits of styrofoam.
"I was wondering, because I don't remember dropping any of my pills!" she said.
At least she didn't try to swallow them.
Okay, time to share some of what Grandma sends me:
Have a blessed and beautiful Tuesday, everyone!
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Today is:
American Diabetes Association Alert Day -- a day to remind people about how serious the illness is, and what the risk factors are www.diabetes.org
Ancient Roman Calendar Celebrations on this date
Day of Mouring -- leading up to the festival for Hilaria
Invocation Day of Mars and Saturn
Tubilustrium -- Ancient Roman Calendar (ceremony to purify the trumpets used in sacred ceremonies)
Cuddly Kitten Day -- because the cats can't let the dogs get all the attention
Dandelion Dance -- Fairy Calendar
Day of Hungarian-Polish Friendship -- Hungary and Poland
Day of the Sea -- Bolivia (Dia del Mar)
Einmánuðr Month Begins -- Traditional Icelandic Calendar (Lone Month, the month dedicated to young men)
Yngismannadagur -- Young Men's Day
Liberty Day -- today in 1775, Patrick Henry said, “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Lieldienas -- Ancient Latvian Calendar ("Big Days" or "Long Days", four day celebration of spring, each day devoted to a different deity)
National Agriculture Day -- US (if you eat, thank a farmer!) agday.org
National Chip and Dip Day
National Melba Toast Day
National Puppy Day -- encouraging you to adopt a shelter pup today
Near Miss Day -- commemorates the mountain sized asteroid that was a near miss on this day in 1989
Rally for Decency Day -- Commemorates the first Rally for Decency, prompted on this day in 1969 by Jim Morrison
Republic Day -- Pakistan
St. Turibius de Mongrovejo's Day (Patron of Latin American bishops, native rights; Peru)
Toast Day -- supposedly for the invention of Melba toast; a recent article says it takes 6 steps to toast bread "right"; i say if you can't put bread in the toaster and butter it when it comes out and need long sets of instructions, you shouldn't be let loose in society!
World Meteorological Day -- UN
Anniversaries Today:
The University of California is founded in Oakland, California, 1868
Birthdays Today:
Michelle Monaghan, 1976
Keri Russell, 1976
Richard Grieco, 1965
Amanda Plummer, 1957
Chaka Khan, 1953
Louie Anderson, 1953
Roger Bannister, 1929
Wernher Von Braun, 1912
Akira Kurosawa, 1910
Joan Crawford, 1905
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Bold and the Beautiful"(TV), 1987
"Detective Story"(Play), 1950
"Truth or Consequences"(Radio), 1940
Today in History:
Eighteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. 1066
The first dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published, 1490
George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London, 1743
Patrick Henry delivers his famous speech – "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!"– at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, 1775
After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home, 1806
Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City, 1857
The Boers and Britain sign a peace accord that ends the First Boer War, 1881
President Benjamin Harrison opens Oklahoma to white settlement starting on April 22, starting a Land Run, 1889
The Wright Brothers apply for a patent on their invention of one of the first successful airplanes, 1903
Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world, 1956
NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young), 1965
Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans, 1980
Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President, 1996
The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji, 2001
In Tokyo, the Metropolitan Government Bureau of Waterworks reports that radioactive iodine in city tap water is two times the recommended level for infants, 2011
GPR investigation of Shakespeare's tomb at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford concludes the Bard's skull probably has been stolen, 2016
A Sahara sandstorm turns snow in Sochi, Russia, orange in one of the largest-ever transfers of desert sand, 2018
Hundreds of thousands of people march on London to demand a new EU referendum, 2019