GIRL POWER!!!

Last night - and again this afternoon I have had a chance to recharge the girl batteries - usually done with either, liquor, food, cheesecake or shopping, last night with friend from high school it was the first two today with my friend Deborah it was the last 3.  :-D

In the first case there was much catching up, what are you doing now, hows the job, family, neighbors, life, eat and in a fun twist... we ended up in a restaurant with light up menus... think IPAD without being able to flip the screen.  I really think it was funny that Tracy asked me if that was usual "around here" or was she being a yokel... LOL  Nope I thought it was pretty gosh darn neat too - and the first time I'd see it too -- of course as documented here I don't get out much.   Of course we met after work, she was early - I was late - seems to be an ongoing theme with these meets but this was just work, life and DC traffic so we move on with our day and it's all good...


I did leave no less that 3 messages for darling Bubba telling him he had to get home to tend to our pups as I was headed quickly south to meet and greet, chat and chew... ewww... but it fit with the rhyme thing I sort-a had going there --- never mind.   I figured on he didn't want to listen to the wife grump and grumble (better) he got home and was tending to his own dinner when I arrived home, fat, happy and well fed.   We chatted for a few minutes, watched half of the week's DVR'd offerings. I crashed hard - beer and dinner out will do that to a gal... we both went to bed as we had to get up early for a Lodge-type meeting.


So this morning, up with the alarm although not at o-dark-what-f-time is it?  The sun was actually up, so were we, the pups were doing the LET'S GO NOW dance (mostly Shelby) so having learned hard lessons previously with said dance I was moving out they went - breakfast and then shower and Bubba is in hurry up mode... until I'm standing at the door with the keys in my hand and he's now "um wait a minute..."  Insert head bagging against front door here.... away we go taking my car as the Bubba-mobile has a turn signal/ possible something electric issue... oh goodie.    ANY way--- off we go, meeting goes well, take a member home as previously promised not thinking I'd have Bubba with me - he's made plans with a former coworker friend.... digressing yes - so get her home.  We get home, I make some breakfast as I have had nothing yet today -- I clean up the kitchen while Bubba is sanding the closet walls, he's painting those spots, and he's painting the outside the sliding glass door as well.  Ok fine until Violet walks by the door and comes away with two white strips down her red ears... the only part of his poor dog's face that isn't white now is... ah well those ears are floppy and not much you can do about that now.


Now the fun part of our day starts - as previously stated trouble with Bubba's car, I offer to take him to said friend's and pick his butt up --- yeah yeah wife of the year whatever.   I get him moving as I too have a luncheon date with my friend Deborah - of course I use only the most tender loving tones and words to get his lard butt-nose- in- his- laptop moving - like threatening him that he's going to walk from the MD line into the heart of DC unless he picks it up... and of course - again, I'm standing there having, peed, let the dogs in and out for the same function, cleaned up the water in Shelby's crate, crated them, gathered my coat, keys and purse then he looks at me and says - "oh wait I gotta go first too... after sitting in front of his laptop for 3 minutes telling me these files are huge... shut the lid Bubba and let's GO!  You made me an hour late last time - we won't be doing this again... (har har har... keep reading)


Finally - away we go, headed down all is good, lights moving, argument over lane selection and driving habits - I do NOT jump lane to lane in DC and when you're in the left land butt head you get stuck behind people turning left - then you have to cut off someone in the right lane to get around that guy - they you want me to jump back into the left lane to avoid some one turning right - and NO!  Sit and zip it -   We get through that only to get stuck near the Zoo.. then just past the Zoo there is road - well I guess you could call it construction but it appeared to me that they DC DOT had taken a HUGE section of road leaving 3/4's of one lane for 2 lanes of traffic in opposite directions and apparently someone had told them that that 1/2 mile stretch of road had gold buried 30 feet deep because boys and girls those were some mighty big holes for simple road construction - did you think you found Jimmy Hoffa boys??  No this is DC - look under the capital building or I think that is why they had to redo the reflecting pool... the holes dug were starting to affect water quality.


Of course as we are sitting in all this mess of traffic and hell  but who doesn't make an appearance but Captain Crankypants!!!  Oh yes boys and girls once again Aunt Ing is responsible for moon, stars and craters in the freaking highway!

So back to Captain Crankypants who is now sitting in the passenger seat shifting and sighing and grumping and growling and still it's my fault that we're running behind.  Really pumpkin - you want to go there - so I confront his royal highness that I cannot control the lights, traffic or the great dig on the Avenue leading to your friends home.  I would also like you to note - Captain My Captain that MY friends and I meet where both must go to a central location - something close to the middle for each party.... YOUR friends must have you arrive on their door step in the middle of freaking DC with narrow roads, moving trucks and one way streets - again NONE of which are MY fault.

As his royal grumpiness was deposited, I had to figure out a way back to where I was going without the backup of the Great Dig... so I went down and around, ignored the phone for a bit because the first two time she told me to turn she was trying to send me back from whence I can and we so weren't doing that mess... After a few blocks I should have listened to the bitch and it would have saved me a few minutes - but I had a plan and it didn't involve going back the way I came... FINALLY!  having dodged, lights, cops (pulling someone else over) a cab carting a person for whom apparently could not make up her mind where she lived or wanted to stop - so I pulled a Bubba moved around that mess made my way to the parking garage thinking it was a different one that the one I usually use only to discover after a right turn - it was the same garage parked in the usual spot  and the rest of the afternoon was bliss.....

So one minor blip in the awesomeness of girl power to recharge the batteries... ahhhh