Thursday, July 25, 2013

Annoyed

I'm very annoyed with my BFF right now.  I don't know if she reads my blog or not as she's never even hinted that she has and I don't freely advertise my posts on social networking.  I really just need to vent about her.

I've been best friends with her since 1st grade.  She and her husband got married 2 1/2 years before Mike and I did.  She'd just had her oldest, a little girl that's now 7, when Mike and I got married, and a little over 2 years later she had her son, who's 5 now.  I think her kids are absolutely adorable.

"What's the problem?" you ask.  The problem is that ever since we moved back to my hometown, I'm her go-to babysitter.  She has a lot of friends and family but I'm always the one she calls and if I tell her I can't do it, she will try to rearrange what she and her hubby are doing so that I can.  I admit, I have a hard time telling her no and I don't like making up excuses why I can't because I don't like lying.  One of the main reasons I hate babysitting for her is because she's always so wishy-washy on times.  I mean she will literally change the time she needs me there five or six times the day I'm supposed to babysit.

"Why is that a problem?" you ask.  Well, it's a problem because it's the only time she calls/texts me.  For awhile, she and I would go out to bars to see a local band we like but she's started doing that with other friends because I'm just not a big fan of going to bars/clubs.  Literally, other than babysitting her kids, the only time we've done anything together in a year where it was just me and her was a going to see a movie.

This also annoys me because whenever she and I (or she and her other friends) would go out, her husband would stay home with the kids because he's like me and doesn't care much for the bar scene.  What annoys me is whenever his best friend comes in from out of town and they want to go do something together, my best friend has to go with them, so they need a babysitter.  I'm sorry but if he can stay with the kids while she goes out with her friends, why can't she stay with the kids when he does?  After all, she does get to see his best friend when they go do things with him as a family.

What's really annoying me this time is the fact that she and her family have been on vacation with another couple this last week.  Literally, an hour after they get home she's bugging me to babysit the kids for her because she and her hubby "need a movie night".  She's not even giving me a day's notice on it either.  I wouldn't mind but in my point of view, her family's been on vacation with another family for a week and sharing a condo.  The movie they're wanting to go see has been out for a week, so they could have left the kids with this other couple while at their vacation destination and seen it, but no, that's not how it works.

I really do feel like we're not really friends anymore.  I'm just convenient.  I felt the same way with friends we had in Vegas after I lost my job at the Flamingo.  I love all of my friends dearly and they've all been there for me when I really need it but I don't like feeling like a convenient friend or fair-weather friend.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

It's Been 6 Months...Can You Tell

It's been 6 months since I was diagnosed with hypothyroid. I decided that I was going to do a before and after pic to see if there's a difference in my appearance.  I can tell a difference but I wasn't sure how big of a difference it would make since I'm only on 25mcg of levothyroxine.  So, here's the before and after pic.

What I can see is a big difference in my cheeks.  My face isn't as round and my chin isn't quite as full.  I'm so thankful for my diagnosis. I do think between the hypothyroid diagnosis and being put on metformin a month ago, I'll be overcoming the obstacles this has thrown my way.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

It's On...

It is official, we are going on a trip to Las Vegas to visit Mike's family at the beginning of April. We are both so excited that we couldn't sleep for two nights after we booked the trip.

Not really anything else to report.