D D My get up and goooooooooooooo

Has got up and WENT!

All I have pressing to do today is:

Dig up a Japanese Red Maple Leaf tree and  put a gift in gift bag for the 3 p.m. b-day party/ cookout.
Oh ..... and feed and clean ferrets, give the dogs fesh water and make sure there is Eucanuba in the food bowl, shower, wait on hubby, do some laundry and folding, wash the skunk food pans out, and, and,and!
I'm exhausted already....just as I was when I closed my eyes after midnight.
    Tracie called late yesterday asking me what I was up to, Usually I tell her, nothing.
Told her I needed to shop for a gift and some grocery store items.
She asked me if I would ride with her as she needed to go to the two stores I was going to.
Fine by me, I told her.
She told me to come over when I was ready.
I did................and she was not ready. Had to wait for the washing machine cycle to end and refill so she could add rinse.   la la la ..............told me I could sit in the car and wait if I wanted.
Then she calls me in for my opinion on how to get glue off her a sweatshirt of hers.
Goo Be Gone is all I could think of.
Finally we are off to the stores in the center of town. Ahha, but first she needs to go to Walgreen's in case it closes before we get out of the other stores. She would sit in the car once we were parked and conversate.
I'm not talking a few minutes either.  sigh!
If she wasn't through telling me a story before we parked.........she finished it in the parkinglot instead of as in...once the car was underway again. 
I looked at a People's magazine in the car...from front to back...reading a few stories....at Walgreens, while waiting for her to do her shopping in there and get her med's.  I shit you not!
Next...... a left turn to go back a few hundred feet to Burlington Coat Factory. Must admit that I myself can get lost in there.  AND I DID !!!   We both shopped. Tracy put alot of things on lawaway for her 1 year old neice .......dresses, 2 winter coats.......all adorable.
Finding something for a 3 year old boy is much more difficult............or was.
Tons of little girl things......not so with little boys.  Hasn't it always been that way???
Was when my boys were young.
We emerge from there after darkness fell and immediately I remembered it was skunk feeding time and felt guilty that they were coming out to find  NOTHING to eat.  :0(  sigh!
Also remembered that hubby might be more than a little hungry too.  sigh!
Tracie offered to put our purchases in her car and I trotted walked slowly to the next attached store which is a Dollar Store for tissue paper and a gift bag.
She had told me to continue on to the grocery store to get my items needed and I walked even slower and more bent over a few more shops over.
Have you ever noticed when your items entitle you to get in the 12 items or less line.............there is a long line. That happened!  I shit you not!
Now I emerge into the dark parkinglot trying to see if she has moved the car nearer to the grocery store.
I'm scanning the area. Can see the stores we were just in and was expecting to hear a BEEP.
Nadda! No such luck, so I stand there wishing I had a shopping cart to lean on and slowly make my way back to where we first parked. Car was there. Couldn't miss it. The rear was packed to the roof. How she managed to get our stuff in there with all the other stuff she carts around in there because she can't bring it into her apartment, I have no clue.  but she did...................no Tracie. :0(
Now my concience begins to work on me again. Skunks, hubby. Hubby, skunks. Need food.
Not to mention that I could use some myself.
Watched people park, shop, return and drive off.  Leaned my arse on the car hood and felt it indent..
Oopsie daisy!  FINALLY she comes into view from the grocery store area.
Would I mind if she pulled closer to the grocery store and went back in.....she asked.
What can you say.............but fine. Told her Mike must be starving. Ohhhhh we've been pretty much keeping up with each other shopping she says. He'll probably blame me now. I just need to run back in for a cold Sprite. Will be right back out.  Was stupid of me to mention that where we were headed next had cold tonic.
Cheaper in the grocery store she tells me.
Hands me 3 bags when she finally emerges . Picked up different kinds of chips and small chocolate milk drinks and Sprite and cakes and, and, and. So I stuff them around my feet being careful not to crush the chips. She had opened the back door for some reason and somehow ??? she notices her $5 small jar of Meat Tenderizer had opened and spilled in the bag with her steak purchase, etc form her previous trip in there.
Would you mind...........paid good money for these...need to go back in and return it.
Holy Cow!  Muscles are tensing up all over my body. I shit you not!
Keep in my that she either stands outside the car talking about another subject or the current...instead of moving towards the store .         GET ER DONE!!!!!
FINALLY after she takes long sips on her cold drink........we head right up the street to the sub and pizza shop. I order hubby a small Italian sub... Hold, hold, hold, hold.  Just meat and lettuce and onions.
No seeds or milk products for hubby.
She orders a steak and cheese...hands me the money to pay for it and has to hit the the drugstore a few shops away for sale items. Mac n cheese and whatever.
My sub was ready almost as soon as I ordered it...hers needed cooking.. Back out and walk to the car expecting to see Tracie in it.  No such luck. Try to doors hoping to be able to get off my barking puppies and the door is open. :0(   Our stuff wasn't touched. :0)
More waiting.................  Tracie emerges and heads towards the sub shop. Managed to hit her horn in the right area. BEEP!  She turns towards the beep.    Home Sweet Home !
The center of town is approximately 2 miles from the house. 
I run in the house with my peace offering sub expecting to see an angry bear. Other than asking me what took so long as I had said I wouldn't be gone long the bear wasn't in a foul mood.
You figure men out......I can't..... I shit you not.
On the other hand the skunks were roaming looking for food.  Made them 2 pans of food and they graciously stood aside as I walked down the bulkhead to set them on the ground.  :0)
My ass was dragging but I needed to eat too.
Made myself 2 grilled cheese sandwiches with fresh slices of tomatoes on them.   YUM!
Looked at them awhile as I almost felt too tired to eat.......but after one bite I had no problem getting them down. Not exactly diet food...far from it.  sigh! Betcha can't eat just one...I can't!
Watched a tiny bit of Americas Most Wanted with hubby as it went off shortly after I sat down. 10 p.m.
Don't ask me why I was still awake at midnight..................but I was and hubby was dozing.
Jill and Butchie came in. Butch made BLT's.for himself.   He had helped her with cookouts all day. They did 3 parties. Jill also can't DO SEEDS...has diverticulitus same as hubby has.
Her ass was dragging.  SIL that owns that business is booking way more paties than he should .
The next 2 weekends will be a Test to what they can handle. Jill says he has 5 sit downs.
It's the HELP that SIL has trouble finding to work. Consequently... others are overworked.
   Now here is a novel idea....
 He should build 3 or more wedding halls .....in a so called... strip mall .
Book a wedding in Hall# 1 at noon...Hall#2 at 1 and so forth. Run out the back door going from hall to hall with all his cooks and waitstaff.  Sheesh ...what an imagination I have. Will run that by him. :0)
A sweetheart of an internet friend gave me the nickname of Daffy.... .though I have no an idea why. ;0)
   It's almost 11 a.m. Got to get off my arse and dig out a shovel and pitchfork before I can attempt to dig out that young tree.
It began as a seedling from my main tree in the flower bed and unlike others that sprung up...I left it alone.
Now it needs to get out of there before it grows like my other and will be in my neighbors driveway.
Not good! I shit you not!
That's All Folks!
P.S.
Did I mention the constant fiddling of th drink holders in Tracie's car. No... I didn't!
Rearranging constantly. Sprite caps needed to be moved over for a sand dollar she had and found.
Size D battery had to find a new place when she needed to put her Sprite down.
I wanted to scream, but politely asked where she was putting her Sprite as she tried to set it down on top of the battery. Noticed what I was referring to and said, " you would ask...tee hee hee."
Didn't ask why she had that D battery in the cup holder. Should I have?  Efff U!!!!
Hubby wants to go to the Outback before I go to the party...Hustle, hustle