One of my friends that I havent really seen or talked to for the past few years (since I got diagnosed) asked if I wanted to go hang out at the zoo with her and her daughter today.

I was waiting for her to call me with a time, and where to meet.

I guess her daughter asked her boyfriend if he wanted to come, and suddenly all of a sudden a bunch of his friends are suddenly going and my friend isnt even going to be driving there now (she has to ride with the parents of one of the friends now) and so she just texted me and asked if it was ok if I go out with her next week. (she wants to go to the yarn and fabric stores then)

So, here I am, got up early, took a shower last night so I'd be ready this morning, and now I have nothing to do today.

Nothing like getting dis-invited to something.

I'm disappointed that I'm not getting to do anything with my friend now, but it sounds like she's not too thrilled either about how her daughter's boyfriend decided to invite a crowd of other teenagers and their parents. I cant stand teenagers in large groups that are the age her daughter is (14 or 15yrs old?)

So, getting dis-invited because of that isnt that horrible of a thing. I know I wont have the patience to be around them, and they're not going to want to walk slowly for me when the heat would be starting to suck the life out of me.

I got the feeling that my friend is annoyed with her daughter's boyfriend now.

I just got a text message from her. Apparently her daughter's boyfriend asked several friends to come with, and then his family invited themselves to go and basically just took over the entire outing. My friend is now not even going to be driving there. Said she didnt think I'd want to go (and she's right! Cant stand it when people do that)

I think I'm going to go to Costco with my parents. That's like going to the zoo. Especially if it's sample day. People act like zoo animals when they're handing out samples of chicken nuggets.

WOW being moved from the A list to the B list sucks!

I would try to consider how cornered your poor friend must feel at this point. She too was expecting a nice day a the zoo, and now its over run with folks that she didnt intend to invite, and I am sure the "dude" factor has been ramped up to an uncomfortable level. I would prefer to be dis invited on those circumstances too. It would have been nice if she would have held her ground and told her DD NO! we are not inviting half the free world, I have a friend who is expecting to go, and I am not going to disappoint her. it sounds like this frieght train has run her over in the process of just trying to do a good thing.

At least you are all clean and showered

I got the feeling that her daughter had no control over the situation. That the boyfriend just decided that it would be cool with everyone.

I'm pretty sure that my friend is ticked off about it. If she's not driving, now she's stuck with having to wait for everyone to be done having their fun before she can leave and go home. If I'm ever glad about being dis-invited, it's now. Altho, if I were going and she wanted to leave to go home, I'd drive her if she asked.

I went to the zoo last week when it was a bit cooler outside, and am actually glad that I got dis-invited today. It's a lot warmer outside today. I barely made it thru the zoo last week (dad and I were pushing my mom in a wheelchair, and it seems like our zoo has hills everywhere...at least they have a tram that's 50 cents to go from stop to stop, easier to get around the zoo that way)

I get stressed out when I'm around a lot of teenagers. Something about them sucks the life out of me. Maybe I have a phobia to large amounts of teenagers?

Thats what I meant by the "dude factor" God knows I love my son, but the "dude factor" used to get thick around my house, and it just got too much to handle some days. They are rambunctious, and rugged, and LOUD, and pick on each other, and you, and then themselves, and dont riegn in easily. I would much rather sit home, and watch re runs on TV vs a zoo full of teenage boys. Esp boys that g/f and momma were not able to stop from ruining a good day. Your friend needs a hug.

Sorry you got stood up. Sounds, though, like you've said, that your friend didn't have much control. Backing out for both of you was probably doing you a favor.

Hope something works out next week.

~ Faith

She made a good call backing me out...but I dont think she had a choice in backing out for herself. Her daughter is 14 or 15 and this boyfriend is the girl's first one. My friend probably has herself handcuffed to her daughter right now.

I went to Costco with my parents and then took my dad to Home Depot for something green to plant in his bucket garden (peppers and a jalapeno, to go with the 3 tomato plants and the greek oregano and parsley)

I'm all warm now because I helped my dad plant the green stuff in the buckets in the backyard (helped as in telling him where to put the buckets and then I watered the green stuff. I am so NOT a good farmer. I dont like dirt)

I'm ready for a nap now.

We bought a few nice planters to put stuff in last week, but now we're starting to get empty plastic tote boxes from the basement to plant stuff into. I want to plant an artichoke. (for artichoke dip)

I sure hope the homeowners association doesnt have a fit about the plastic totes with the name of a now defunct store plastered all over the sides being all over our back patio.

I kind of get the feeling we're going to be unknowingly feeding the homeless guy that we just discovered living with his dog in the field behind our house.