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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.
Last week must have been especially tough on Carl. When i arrived to clean his room yesterday he had laundry everywhere and was out of his special detergent. (He has exceptionally sensitive skin and has to use the fragrance free varieties.) There was a back-up box of fragrance free powder detergent that i pulled out from under the cabinet. Since he was out of the liquid, i had no clue if he'd just washed some of his items with water only and decided it was better safe than sorry so rewashed them.
He owns over 17 pair of underwear and only had 2 in his drawer. That alone tells me he's had a bad week, going back and restarting his getting ready to leave routine many times, as each time starts with him grabbing underwear.
There's always a surprise waiting somewhere and yesterday i had two. First, well, i guess everyone keeps the lid of the deodorant in the sock drawer.
Then i got him up to take his shower and grabbed his pillow so i could wash the pillowcase. Pulling it off, i found a second pillowcase and then a third. Holding the cases in one hand and the pillow in the other i looked at him and asked, why do you have 3 pillowcases?
He grinned his huge little boy grin and said, "I don't know. Why?" as if i were asking him a riddle.
When i laughed, he laughed but the reason for 3 cases will probably forever be a mystery.
His room is an adventure.
Time for funnies.
Have a blessed and beautiful day, everyone!
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Today is:
Boy Scout Day -- celebrates the birthday of Scouting in the US
Cowtown's Last Old West Gunfight -- White Elephant Saloon, Fort Worth, TX, US (annual reenactment of the last gunfight in what was then Cowtown, between White Elephant Saloon owner Luke Short and former marshal T.I. “Longhaired Jim” Courtright on this date in 1887)
Death of Kelp-Koli -- Fairy Calendar
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.")
Hari Kuyo -- Sensouji Temple, Japan (Festival of Broken Needles, in which all of the worn or broken sewing needles from the previous year are put in a sacred resting place.)
Hold Onto Your Head Day -- invented by someone for people like me, because heaven knows i'm losing mine!
Laugh and Get Rich Day -- a day to recognize the power of laughter
Love May Make the World Go 'round, But Laughter Keeps Us from Getting Dizzy Week -- annually, the week before and including Valentine's Day; dedicated to Victor Borge’s notion that “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people” and Joel Goodman’s notion that “Seven days without laughter makes one weak.”
National Molasses Bar Day
National Sports Day -- Qatar
Preseren's Day -- Slovenia (Honors their national poet, France Preseren, often called Day of Slovenian Culture)
Rebel Day -- birth anniversary of James Dean
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. Jerome Emilani's Day (Patron of orphans; Taos Indian Pueblo)
Tako-ichi -- Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan (kite fair dating back to the Edo period)
Anniversary Today:
Founding of Universiteit Leiden, with the motto Praesidium Libertatis, 1575
Birthdays Today:
Josh Keaton, 1979
David "Phoenix" Farrell, 1977
Seth Green, 1974
Alonzo Mourning, 1970
Gary Coleman, 1968
Claudette Pace, 1968
Vince Neil, 1961
John Grisham, 1955
Mary Steenburgen, 1953
Brooke Adams, 1949
Robert Klein, 1942
Nick Nolte, 1941
Ted Koppel, 1940
John Williams, 1932
James Dean, 1931
Jack Lemmon, 1925
Audrey Meadows, 1924
Freddie Blassie, 1921
Lana Turner, 1921
Elizabeth Bishop, 1911
Lyle Talbot, 1902
William Tecumseh Sherman, 1820
Jules Verne, 1828
Samuel Butler, 1612
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Good Times"(TV), 1974
"RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day"(TV), 1952
"Danses Concertantes"(Stravinsky Ballet), 1942
"Two for the Show"(Musical), 1940
"The Plough and the Stars"(Play), 1926
"The Stars and Stripes"(US Armed Forces Newspaper), 1918
"The Birth of a Nation"(Film), 1915
"Boris Godunov"(Mussorgsky Opera), 1874
"Flora; or the Hob in the Well"(Cibber's Opera, first opera performed in the Colonies), 1735
Today in History:
Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, 1587
Isaac Newton reads his first optics paper before the Royal Society in London, 1672
French and Indian troops set Schenectady, NY, afire, 1690
A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that two girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment, leading to the Salem witch trials, 1692
The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia, 1726
The first opera in the US, "Flora," opens in South Carolina, 1735
A minor earthquake shakes London, 1750
The strange phenomenon called the "Devil's Footprints" mysteriously appear in Devon, England, 1855
Martin Robinson Delany becomes the first black major in the US Army, 1865
The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce, 1910
D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles, 1915
The Stars and Stripes newspaper is published for the first time, 1918
Swiss men vote against women's suffrage, 1920
Radio arrives at the White House, 1922
Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico, 1969
The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time, 1971
After 84 days in space, the crew of the first American space station Skylab returns to Earth, 1974
The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night, 1983
The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place, 1996
A freak storm in the Hindukush mountains of Afghanistan triggers a series of at least 36 avalanches, 2010
Noriaki Kasai of Japan becomes first athlete in history to participate in 8 Winter Olympics, 2018