This is a two part rant. One part regarding food and the other not. Both dealing by my vet school BFF, who I love to death, but she just frustrates me sometimes. The first part is the fact that she, who is of average size, is trying to lose weight. She wanted to do it to fit into her wedding dress. Well she tried it on a few weeks ago and it needs to be taken in. So you'd think she's stop being so crazy about it, but it's gotten worse. And I'm a skinny person and I'm trying to just brush it all off, but I feel one mental snap away from an eating disorder. I'm eating really healthy and looking at the calories in everything I eat. I'm not a calorie counter. And I love eating cookie dough and fun stuff like that. I mean I do feel great eating better, but I feel a food obsession coming on. I want my friend to be happy with who she is, but every time we eat something, which as vet students is like every class, she mentions some new part of her diet. The worst part is because of all of this I'm eating better than she is. Like she's not eating the healthiest and she cheats on her diet all the time, getting chocolate bars and eating all of them. I just don't know how to tell her to back off all the talk about food without hurting her feelings. As she put it "she's only happy when she had food in her mouth." It just scares me to feel the way I do.
The next part is about veterinary care. So this friend acts like she spends frugally. This is totally not true. As sweet as it is, she gave cards and goodies to a few friends today. This has to have cost her a little bit of money. And we went shopping and she bought $40 leggings. I don't care how good they fit or how long they'll last, leggings should not cost that much. And she doesn't shop for food cheaply or healthily, but rather for convenience. She will buy a snack from the vending machine or cafeteria everyday. Like between $1 and $4 a day. However, if she would just buy a bag of pretzels at the grocery store she could get like 10x as much for the same price. Anyway, her dog has this weird tic, which may be like Turrets. She doesn't want to pay the internal med consult fee, claiming it will be hundreds of dollars. Yeah it's not going to be $12 like it is at the wellness center, but you do what you need to for your animals. She's not worried about it right now, but this tic might end up causing respiratory distress has happened twice this week. Personally, I'd be all over taking my emergency money and at least going to see internal med. However, she claims she doesn't have the money. I call bull because if she spent money more wisely, she would totally have the money.
And catching up on all my favorite threads is keeping me from studying for next week's test.
I miss my high school BFF, aside from my family and my husband, she's the only person I don't feel like I have to censor myself around. She's back in AZ and I miss her like crazy. All of this is probably the hormones talking, but there are some friends you just never forget.
