I love her, I really do. And I am very well aware that she is not everyone's (most people's) cup of tea. She is a difficult personality. Very loud, and always needs attention. But.. she is also the one person that I can count on, (other than DH) and she usually doesn't annoy me... except. She's SO pretentious. And even has the voice to go with it. Think Thurston Howell III from Gillagan's Island. "Oh Lovey Darrrlllinnggg".. but speaks normal when she's not being super pretentious.

She's just too much lately. I've been asked A LOT over the years "how do you deal with her? She is ALWAYS in competition with you?"...well, I'd be lying if I said I didn't notice it, because I do. I guess most of the time I just don't care because I am NOT in competition with her.

And the things she is in competition about are so silly. Examples: my husband was her husbands boss. Her husband wanted a promotion (at her prodding) to be HIS boss. The owner told him no (NO WAY actually), and he walked out. I was PISSED because it was busy season for them, DH was already traveling more than normal, during the holidays and now he had to cover this idiots trips that were already scheduled. We didn't speak to them for a year. That caused a huge strain on the friendship, which was difficult because our sons are best friends. Our husbands were best friends.. and we were best friends.

We got over that, but now she is always going on and on about her husbands new job and how important he is...but they never go in to detail about what he does. I literally have no idea what company he works for. Then... she always wants to compare our sons. My son (not to brag, but so you get an idea.. I'm going to) is a BEAST in baseball. He is good, and he is sought after. Her son, is ok. He's not horrible... but he's ok. He was a "bench player" on Little League All Star teams (but was good enough to make the team so he's decent), he played on the "B" team for travel ball. He's decent but he's not great. But... if we are in mixed company all you will hear about is how the high school coach already told him that he is their catcher and try outs aren't even over yet, (our sons are both freshmen at the same school). Which is GREAT for him, and I am super happy because he LOVES the game. What she fails to mention is that her son will be the catcher on the Freshman team, my son will be short stop on JV... and her son, is the only Freshman that tried out for catcher so... yeah. But I won't say anything, ever. So people just hear her rave about her son blah blah blah, and I stay quiet. I figure his performance on the field speaks for itself. I don't need to rave. (except to him, I do tell him he's amazing, because he is).

2 years ago my DH bought me a new wedding ring for our 10 year. He took me to pick it out. I decided on a 1 ct Princess cut solitaire with very small diamonds as the band. I have long skinny fingers and I liked how dainty it is. Literally 2 weeks later she had a new ring, smaller, but VERY similar. A few months later (January), we bought a house, with a pool, April, they bought a house... with a pool. The next year, DH and I bought a new truck, A WEEK LATER they bought ALMOST the same truck, a little smaller, ours is a 2500 Mega Cab, theirs a 1500 crew cab. SAME COLOR. I've kept my mouth shut. With as weird as all of it is, I haven't said a word. Other people have said stuff to her, she blows it off.

This week... DH brings me home 2 stack-able diamond rings to go with my solitaire. I LOVE them. They are small, and I can wear them when I want to, and not when I don't. They are perfect and I never even knew I wanted them. Friend sees them and says... "oh... I have sooo many stack-ables to go with my ring, I just never wear them". NO, she doesn't. This girl literally doesn't even purchase a new pair of panties without telling me. There is NO way she purchased SO many stack-ables and never mentioned it or wore them. I didn't say a word. The next day she says "I think I am just going to get a right hand ring".. I said "why?". "Oh, you know... a girl just needs pretty things". Ugh.

Yesterday she says "So I bought a few knuckle rings to go above my ring". Why??? Why does she have to do this? I don't get it. I love her DEARLY but SERIOUSLY, STOP IT!!!

I know I am PMSing, but for real... she's too much, right?