My Baby Boy is 1 Year Old! and a Rant

I can't believe it...it's a new year and my baby boy turned 1 year old on Feb 6th. He's 30.5 in tall and 21.5 lbs. He's eating some table foods now and drinking less bottles. He is cutting 5 more teeth as we speak! It's been a busy year so far...he's getting close to walking too...he cruises everywhere and he says "mama" and "dada"too! We had a big birthday party for him this past Saturday and he enjoyed himself so much with all the kids, the bounce house and especially his birthday cake! It was a nice day.

I am still working part time, and I enjoy the job more and more. My boss is the nicest guy and he does not overload or stress me with work. I recently held down the fort for him for 2 weeks when he was on a business trip to China and I think I did pretty well. I pray that this company continues to be a good thing for me, and that I have some career growth there. So far so good.

Now on to the rant of the day- I have to say something about bad friends (AGAIN). It seems to be a broken record with me, this friend screws me over, that friend shuts off...etc. But I swear that this keeps happening, and it's a mystery to me WHY. I wish I knew. This particular rant is about Shell- my supposed oldest best friend. She has grown pretty distant since I had my baby, and she has pretty much turned back to her old man hunting ways, acting like a teenager again by carrying on with guys. She has been involved with a married guy for about a year now, he lives in NY and they go back and forth visiting one another and have their trysts. She thinks I am stupid and don't know anything about it, but one of her other friends gave me some details about it and told me what she has been up to and hasn't been telling me. Anyways, she has been acting really weird for the entire year- and it comes to my baby boy's 1st birthday party and she blew it off. First she RSVP's that she and her daughter are coming, then the day before the party...she calls me and tells me something about her daughter having a weird rash and she wanted to make sure it wasn't contagious, so she was taking her to the Dr that afternoon. I told her, fine, call me when you know something. Hours pass, and later that evening I get a text message from her sayins "At the hospital." No explanation was given...so I send her a message right back asking what happened and to call me, and she sends back. "Can't call, will call you later." So here I am...worrying that there is a serious problem with her daughter, and all she would text back is that the Dr sent them straight to the hospital. I texted her back to call me and let me know what happened and how her kid is doing, and I never hear back from her. The next morning, I put a FB wall post on her wall asking what happened and to call me, and I get no response. The party comes and goes, I never hear from her, and I call after the party and I get no answer at her house or cell. I left a message expressing my concern- and you got it...nothing.
By this point, I am plain pissed off. I think I deserve the courtesy of a return call, especially since I was left hanging Friday nite like that. Well, today Tuesday, she calls me cell phone as I am driving home from my boy's Dr appt and I decided NOT to answer it. I am pretty fed up with her excuses and her outlandish stories and I am not entirely certain that she hasn't exaggerated this whole thing to get out of buying a gift and attending the party. Not for anything, but I went to ALL her daughter's birthday parties, her christening, her communion and dance recitals. I always gave gifts too. I find it really rude to not reciprocate when I had been giving to her kid for 15 years. Aside from the gift issue, there is the blatant disrespect for me as a friend to not communicate to me what was supposed to be some sort of emergency and let me sit and wonder what the hell happened! She left a lame voice message saying that she just got back from the hospital today and her phone was ringing off the hook all weekend and it was going dead and she had SO many people to call back, etc and to call her so she can tell me what happened. At this point, I am NOT interested what happened. She is playing games again and I am sick and tired of it. This is the same type of BS that she has ALWAYS pulled and I am not forgiving and forgetting about it this time. She is only a friend when it's convenient for her to be, and I don't want any more part time friends- you're either in or your out. There's no in between anymore. I'm not an idiot- I have seen her ignore phone calls on her cell, where she looks to see who it is and just doesn't answer. She does it to me all the time and I am SICK of it. I am NOT going to pick up her calls anymore. I don't have room in my life for that type of stuff, and even though I am very hurt by her behavior, I am not going to allow her to weasel her way back in so she has me on standby for when she wants to be around. I'm DONE with it. Totally done.

Rant over... that's it and that's all!