It's been some time since I shared my thoughts on here. A lot has been going on with my love life, work, family, health, etc. The biggest stress in my life right now stem from my Mom, work and potentially going back to school, which haven't been very good for focusing on my health. The issue with my Mom is that she's dating someone that I can't stand. He rubs me the wrong way and unfortunately for her, my gut has never been wrong when it comes to something like this. Not to mention her sister and my brother could care less for him as well and we're the three most important people in her life, that's a big red flag in my mind but she doesn't seem to care. Her world has always revolved around her family and now she has taken to ditching us for him. Even when we can get her to come to something, she still brings him, even if we requested that she not. It's very hard to visit with her when her attentions are so wrapped around him. They can't move 10 steps without the other, it's extremely annoying. Even my brother has talked about how it's bothering him and he NEVER says a peep about these kinds of things, which tells me this is actually upsetting him, which adds to my stress to be sure. I've talked to her about it but she just doesn't seem to understand and I've already lost my patience with her on several occasions. I'm sure she's told him that I've fought with her about these issues on multiple occasions now and it bothers me that for such 'a caring person' (according to her) that he doesn't seem too worried that he's causing mine and my mothers relationship to be strained. We are as close as a mother and daughter could possibly be and used to see each other almost on a weekly basis and I've probably seen her 10 times since February.
Work is so unbelievably mismanaged that our corporate office has started to come to me for assistance because they know I'll take care of it due to the fact that anyone who is above me is useless in our office, which is pretty much everyone. I'm supposed to begin taking some prerequisites in the fall for school however no one from the program has been very good about getting back to me, therefore it's been a bit stressful.
As far as my health is concerned, I've started having Ideal Shape Shakes in the morning. The idea behind them is that they provide a full daily serving of fruit and you get all your vitamins and nutrients from one shake. I'm still only having 1 solid meal a day, therefore I will continue to have smoothies for dinner. I have been working out anywhere between 5-6 days a week for the past couple of weeks now, so hopefully I'll start to see a change in my body. I have a wedding in October that I'm going to with my boyfriend and I really want to look good by then, so we shall see!
