"Everything's a thing"

This is a quote my brother, Bill, is quite fond of, and is usually correct. Nothing is simple. Here was the plan....go to Texarkana to get a gift I needed. While there have Cee Cee groomed. Called PetSmart since they are right in the area and asked for an appointment for today. No problem they can do her at 4:30. So far so good...except they need to have a current rabies certificate, which I don't have. So call the vet and see if I can get a rabies shot for her on the way to Texarkana. Okay bring her in. I get her the shot and then off we go to Texarkana. Now, it being the week before Christmas traffic is crazier than usual and of course I miss the turn into PetSmart. So I turn around and go back only to almost miss it again and nearly get rear ended getting into the place. Get in, take her to the back, tell them how I want her and ask when I can pick her up I need to go to the mall and Target. It is now about 4:30. No problem they say. She will be ready at 7:00. Two and a half hours to groom her???? She's the only dog there. How can is possibly take that long. Well it just does. Okay, I'll go to the mall and then kill some time in Target. As I am pulling out to go to the mall I make a turn and hear this gosh awful sound coming from my left front tire. Now, for those that don't know, I already don't have heat in my car so this thing with the tire has me in a bit of a panic..okay it puts me in a lot of a panic. So I pull into a parking place thinking I have blown a tire. That is exactly what it sounded like. I ran over something and it popped my tire. I sit there trying to decide what to do. Can I change a tire?mmmm maybe. Should I call someone to help me? Who do I call? It is freezing out and raining. Okay, let me get out and look at the damage. Well low and behold I had run over a box with some Styrofoam packing in it and it was caught under my car and being dragged by my tire. So I stand in the cold and the rain fighting with this thing to get it out from under my car and away from my tire. That done I continue on to the mall. For some reason I think they have a Things Remembered there and I am looking for something to have engraved. No such luck. Things Remembered is gone. So..change of plans and look for something else. I find a few things I like and will work for the gift I need. So I get them and head off to Target. Did I tell you traffic is a nightmare, and I don't do well in the dark?? So I make it back to Target, get a cart and just start looking around. Now if you know me you know the first place I go is electronics for Tyler and then toys for Emily. I find somethings that catch my fancy, but I don't know if someone has already gotten them. So I call Dave and Shan's house. Not home...okay call Shan's cell...no answer..okay call Dave's cell..no answer so I am on my own. Finish up in Target and head back to get Cee Cee. Now they have cut her a little shorter than I wanted (it is winter, freezing and raining out) so I buy her a coat since it is so cold out and I don't have heat in my car. I don't even what to tell ya what my bill in PetSmart was. Suffice to say I won't be going there again. Finally we are on the road home when my cell rings. It's Shan. Hey ya called. Yeah where are you? Just coming out of Tyler's basketball game. Oh crap!!! I missed his game. I missed the last one and I promised him I would not miss this one. He even made me repeat the date so I would remember. Did I???? NO!!!! So now I feel like a crummy grandma. I know this is all me and I complicate things more than they need to be. I'm sure there is an easy answer to all this. I need to stop running around with ten thousand things in my head and concentrate on one at a time since that seems to be all I can handle these days. I hate getting old. I used to be able to remember many things and do them all. Now I can't even remember my favorite grandson has a game! Honestly I think it was easier before because I had Jerry to help me keep track of things and now I don't have him. I seem to be saying to myself "If I just get through this, I can go on to the next thing and then if I just can get through that I can go on to the next thing, and then if I can get through that.....and on and on it goes. And since I am whining so much here's one more. I have had this ache in my left shoulder blade for three days now. It is sapping what strength I have and taking up half of my thought process. I know...I know...call the doc. See what it is. If I can just get through this I will call him and on it goes.......