Saturday Morning

So much for sleeping in this morning.  The phone woke me at 6:45 and I couldn't go  back to sleep. 

Cari and Sam are having a garage sale today with his parents and grandfather at the grandfather's house.  Cari borrowed my locking cash box for the event.  When she packed her car this morning, at the crack of dawn, she dropped the key on the driveway.   It was her calling at that early hour to ask if I would get out of my warm bed and go outside, where it was 35 degrees, to see if she had dropped the key on the driveway. 

Grumble, grumble.....  I told her to call me back and I got up, put on slippers and robe and ventured outside.  Sure enough, the key on the key ring was laying on the driveway. 

When she called back, I asked if she was coming to get it and she told me she wasn't, that she just wanted to make sure she hadn't lost it for good.  Arrhhhhh.....  no way for me to start my Saturday. 

I'm about done with my second cup of coffee.  After that and this entry, I'll shower and then head off to Best Buy.  Dennis' digital camera went kapoot this week so I will be on a mission to replace it.  He uses it for his work and needs a new one by Tuesday.  I will probably give him my old 3.2 megapixel and buy a 6.0 or better for our family camera.

Yesterday was a comedy of errors.  My sister went back home on the train from Anaheim which is about a 30 - 40 minute drive from here.  My friend, Barbara, had asked me to go with her to look at a slab of granite for a remodeling project she and her husband are doing and since the granite place is near the train station (within 15 min.) we combined the trips.  I guess I should have learned by now not to trust Mapquest all the time.  Things like road signs change from time to time and they don't always keep up.  Well, we were going by their instructions and we found out that the off ramp we were to take had been completely changed after we drove past it.  LOL  We ended up having to exit a mile or so after it and then began back tracking through an area that we weren't very familiar with.  We must have done 4 U-turns, 3 back tracks and several, "what the hecks?" before we finally found the street we were looking for.  We managed to get to the granite place just as the yard workers were going to lunch.  As would be our luck, the slab of granite they had pulled out for us to look at did not match the existing granite Barbara has in her kitchen.  We found another piece that would work but since the guys were leaving for lunch, we would have to wait for an hour to see it.  YIKES.........  We told the sales rep that we would be back and off we went to grab a quick lunch and get Carol to her train.

We shot down the 5 Freeway, I'm thinking it intersected with the 55 (sorry for those who don't know the LA freeway system - you're lucky if you don't)..... as we get near the area where the train station is, I realize it isn't going to intersect so we have to get off the freeway and take surface streets.  I told Barbara to exit too soon and we ended up way north of our intended destination.  Oh, Pooh!  Well, after some thinking and a few right hand turns we found the street we were looking for and the station.  Tah-dah!!! 

All of us were starving so we shot past the station looking for a place to eat.  I was thinking of a little restaurant where Dennis and I ate a few times before going to Angel Games and was directing Barbara there.  She sees a Rubio's Grill and decides that would be closer (she was right) so she flips another U-Turn and we end up going there.  We placed our orders for 3 salads to go and then sat and waited, and waited, and waited.  Finally, Barbara got up and asked about our order.............they had lost it.  Dang!!!  We are looking at our watches thinking we are not going to have time to wait and Carol will get on the train without lunch.  Well, the manager came to our rescue.  He had two of the workers stop what they were doing and make our salads which took about 2 minutes.  We grabbed them and dashed to the train station.  Carol ran in to get her ticket and then came out laughing.  The train was 30 minutes late.  We had plenty of time.  Ahhhhh............what a relief.  We all took a collective sigh of relief and had a quiet, calm lunch together.  It was nice, even though it was in the car.  At that point we didn't care. 

Barbara and I went back to the granite place after Carol departed.  The granite was a great match and we headed home.  We got on the freeway at 2:30 and because it was Friday afternoon and I didn't take my FastTrak transponder, it took us 2 hours to drive home.  On a light traffic day, it takes about 40 minutes.  It wasn't all bad though, FastTrak was $9.25 for that time of day.  I couldn't believe they are charging that much.  It's a good thing Barbara and I never run out of things to talk about.  We enjoy each other's company and the time went by pretty fast.

Another funny thing, Barbara is a hair dresser and she had a client waiting for her so she dropped me off at the shopping center right off the freeway.  I called Cari to come get me and she called Sam who was on his way to our house.  He was real close so he stopped on his way and picked me up.  It was really one wild day.

That's it for now.