Stress + Skype = Smiles

Today my stress level finally went down.  I've had so many tests and essays and group projects and lab reports over the past month that I can honestly say I have not been myself since about the middle of February.  I hate being stressed and I hate what it does to me.  I shut out everything that I really love about my life, like friends, working out, watching Glee, reading non-school books, blogging, and just work my butt off doing whichever assignment is due next.  I run myself so hard that I start falling asleep in class and never being able to focus for more than fifteen minutes.  I know this is unhealthy, but I'm still working on a normal way to deal with stress.  

Another awful side effect of being stressed is that I feel like I have literally no emotion.  I would see or hear things that usually cause me to break down, and they would have no effect on me.  It was so strange, and I didn't like it at all.  It took something that Hadley wrote about our friendship to break down the stone walls of stress that were blocking my heart out.  I love Hadley so much and I am thankful for our friendship every time we get to talk.  Just like all of my other friendships, it's been nothing but struggles to keep our friendship paddle boats moving along side each other, and not drifting away.  She'll be headed off to Stronghold tomorrow, and I know that she will be an amazing leader and friend and ball of fun as a junior, while also learning tons from the seniors.   My entire weekend will be consumed with thoughts of all of my friends at Stronghold.  

Today, after my test, I got to Skype with Hadley.

I hate that I have to schedule her in, but you gotta do what you gotta do.  I love her and the fact that she's so honest about life.  She plays no games with me and I always know what's on her mind and on her heart.  I really cherish that about our friendship.  

Then after class and dinner, I got to Skype with muh gurl Michelle.  I like her bubbly-ness and the hilarious faces she makes when "someone" smells not exactly like a dozen roses.   

Then we had a photo shoot...

She's so presh and I love her heart and that she always has it in the right place.  We did some solid chemistry homework together and she forgot to show me her Stronghold buddy gifts.  I'm excited for the opportunities that Stronghold holds for her this year.  She's so amazing, and I wish she believed that.  

There's nothing about friendship I love more than a real live face-to-face heart-to-hearts, but since that's not really practical for us, I'm thankful for the invention of Skype.