Vent-Names have been changed to protect the innocent

Tonight was the combination band/orchestra concert. It was the symphony band's 1st concert on stage. Apparently once marching band season ends, the band automatically morphs into symphony band. The marching band still has one more marching activity(the Holiday parade on Sat). I digress. The evening was already going to be rushed since Kristen (from this point on known as Diva in training or DIT.)stated she had to be up there at 6:15 and Matt had to be up there at 6:30 and Randy had a 7pm conference call(For once Randy would be the least of my problems). When I arrived home, DIT announced she had to be there at 6pm. Thanks for telling me. 15 minutes on this kind of evening makes a huge difference. Ok, work on making dinner after of course washing a few pans. DIT and her brother apparently can not do anything without being told 7,578 times. Finally get dinner going and Bassman decides it might be nice if he took a shower. Keep in mind at this point he has been home two hours. Can't think of that any sooner? DIT goes to get dressed. Ask if she ate anything for dinner? Chips. Way to go. Making shrimp, she can eat that. Comes down dressed and has to explain the latest teenage style of wearing two shirts and the 1st one longer than the one on top. Get the kids up to school and then find out the reason she had to be up there that early was so she and all her DIT friends can take pictures of themselves. GRRR. Get up to the concert and sit with someone from church. Concert starts and goes fine. Matt plays well even though most of the orchestra pieces were not familiar. The stage is then shifted by 5 members of the b and including suck -up- who -giggles -too -much -girl. She is daughter of lady-who-talks-too-much. (This person and I used to be friends but ever since I stated I do not have the time to be Uber band parent, our friendship has waned and is now extinguished).
After the concert, the jazz band was playing with cookies as refreshments. Very nice idea since the orchestra will be selling them in Feb. Yes, I am in fund raiser hell between the band-lollipops, Christmas plants and the orchestra-candy and stage tech-play tickets.
They made announcement that all band parents need to pick up the plants. I see Matt and corral him to help me. DIT was no where to be found. Lady-who-talks-too much made a point of telling me we have to take all of the plants we sold with us. No shit, sherlock. The girl shows up with cookie crumbs hanging from her DIT lips. Just great, we are taking care of her stuff while she socializes. Did I mention that these plants were lined up on the stage and due to the stage lights were half dead by the end of the show? One of them was so damaged that it is basically a stick with 3 pink leaves. I guess that is my $12.50 worth. Too bad that I wanted it for a gift. Most of the plants were sold to people at church. I ask her where are we supposed to keep these until Sunday considering we have a dog who tries to eat the carpet on a nightly basis? Her room. No, then the dog has no place to escape to. I now have to drive her to school tomorrow to get rid of at least three of them. They really are in terrible shape. They used some place in Westminster instead of a local nursery. I hope they never use this place again. Mike's hard lemonade is kicking in. Time to go. If you made it this far, you deserve a medal.