August 4, 2007
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CA trip
Before my exit into the great empty void, I mentioned that I was flying to CA to take some test required to renew my CA teacher Credential. While I was there I visited one of my best friends who coincidentally shares my name! One of my other dear friends shares my middle name, which is the mane I go by all the time – Annette. My hubby calls my friend in CA Annette² aka “Double Trouble”.
She is one of those amazing betty crocker people that I envy and admire and slightly fear. Annette and her husband raise buffalo, have an orchard, vineyard and vegetable garden. She trains horses and they have dogs the size of small ponies. Did I mention that while I bottle feed an abandoned kitten, she is bottle feeding a calf and a baby buffalo (not and easy thing to do). She cooks everything from scratch, and never thinks anything of it. She’ll make a cheesecake and then casually ask if you want caramel with that and if you say yes she says “I’ll just whip some up”. Uh huh. Sure. Whip me up some caramel. I didn’t even know you could MAKE caramel. I thought it had to be purchased from a grocery store in those annoying little wrapped cubes that take forever to peel. But why don’t you just go whip me up some! What the heck are the ingredients for caramel anyway?
At any rate, we had a blast (and I ate extremely well). We shopped, laughed, feed cows, horses and dogs. During one shopping expedition we took her two adorable girls with us. They are 12 and 9. They wanted to go so badly, we had been out the day before and they had complained and whined about us not taking them. So we had a girls day out. After a couple of stores we grew tired of the girls constant whining and complaining. So we started giving them grief and harassing them about it. Well we had more stops than we had planned. After just a couple stores in the mall the girls were complaining about being tired and having tired and sore feet. We told them to hang tough and be good shoppers. By the end of our shopping spree – we were both hurting but we were on a mission. As we left our final store I whispered to Annette how badly my feet were hurting and I was glad we were finally done. She whispered back that her knee was killing her but she was bound and determined not to let her girls see that we were sore and shopped out too. After all, they had finally stopped complaining and were being little tired and sore troopers! I think we all slept good that night, after a delicious home made dinner of course!
Question of the day:
Have you ever shopped till you dropped?
Comments (11)
Oh, yes – my Daughter is a supershopper!
:celebrate: i’m so glad you got to see your friend!
“double trouble” cute:big-smile:
i don’t think i have shopped like that since i went with my mom…..i don’t care for shopping. :tongue:
I’m pretty sure caramel is butter and brown sugar. LOL. I make “Toffee” at Christmas time and if you don’t boil it long enough, it doesn’t harden and it can be soft like caramel. I’m not sure but now i have to investigate.
I’m SOO not a betty crocker, it’s the one thing I make that everyone thinks is hard and it’s so freaking simple.
One pound butter, one pound brown sugar, boil to whatever temperature(I don’t remember) and well ok…..
I love the name Annette.
I love farms. That is cool.
Isn’t it great to have a friend like that!?! How long have you known Annette(2)? I have a best friend who lives in Dallas and we have kept in touch for well over 25 years. We met in the 7th grade. It sounds like a super bonus that she’s a great cook too. Yummy, carmel! :dancingcow:
Sounds like you had a great time, your friend sounds like lots of fun.
Is there any other way to shop? On D1′s first trip to the mall when she was about a month old, she stayed awake and would NOT stop to take a bottle for the entire 5 hours we were there, because she didn’t want to miss anything. 15 years later, she can still do justice to a day at the mall.
Shop til you drop doesn’t take long for me, but my sister and her daughter are marathon shoppers! I rarely want ANYTHING that much!
Sounds like a great visit in CA. Isn’t it great to have friends like that? and amazing? I don’t know where they get the time and energy. I am so in awe of those folks. I’m doing good to work and keep up with my family, and keep the house from being totally disgusting, the only wild animals I see are the cats when they get angry……..
Hope you have a wonderful day and a great weekend! Welcome back from the void!
Hi! I know it’s been forever but I just wanted to stop by and say that I hope all is well : )
Oh my it sounds like you had fun! You’re friend Annette sounds like a really amazing person. I can’t imagine doing all the things she must do everyday. Everytime I go out with my mother I am prepared to come home broke and in pain. I try to bring extra shoes, because sometimes that works…I always have SO much fun though.
I have a friend like that… sometimes I don’t know if I love her or hate her… I guess in the end I love her, but does she have to be so darned brilliant?
Thanks for dropping by, I haven’t heard from you in a coon’s age.
Hugs, Tricia :dancingcow: :dancingcow: :dancingcow:
When I visited my BFF in Minnesota, Robin and I spent 6 hours at Mall of America. Yeah, our feet were killing us, too! But lots of fun, eh?