I turned my last paper in for school for this semester on Sunday. I should be less stressed. But I'm not. It takes me about a week to destress, detox, debrief, dewhatever, just calm down and come down from the adrenaline and stress that carries me through the last three weeks of a semester. After every semester of undergrad, I would get extremely sick as soon as it was done, I was home and relaxing. One semester I finished finals, attended my roommate's wedding, caught a flight home for my siblings' graduation, and woke up the morning after the last of their graduation activities (a full week after my last final) with a 104.2 fever. That's pretty standard for how I deal with the end of stress. (Here's hoping my wedding isn't that stressful, or the honeymoon won't be any fun.) In my life it seems that stress is the status quo. I don't think my body knows how to cope with a lack of stress. Right now I can not relax. I keep almost inventing things to stress about. I'll probably be better in a few more days, but right now it is hell. I'm jumpy and edgy. I can't sit still and focus on a simple conversation, my mind keeps racing thinking I'm supposed to be doing this and that. All my Christmas shopping was done. Then I got an email saying that my Junior League small group social is high tea on the Plaza this Saturday (very late notice since the email came Tuesday) and includes a gift exchange. So now I need to go grab something for that. For some other people I am making a pack of homemade various occasion cards, but I will not get those done in time for Saturday to do additional cards for the gift exchange. (In the future I'm starting my giveaway cards in June). I think I am going to pick up a set of wine chams (little rings with charms that you attach to wine glass stems at parties so people can tell whose glass is whose). It's a $10 limit thief (white elephant, but with good gifts) exchange. I'm looking forward to it, but not to gettng the gift. Also on my list of things to stress about (which I shouldn't really stress about, but like I say I can't seem to not stress) is finishing xmas cards (I've finally started to mail some), wrapping presents, finishing giveaway cards, and I want to make some holiday candy. That last one may be the one that gets skipped. None of that is crucialy important, but I still can't seem to relax. I am working the two jobs today and in between them, I was going to clean the turtle cage, but I may skip that and instead go work some sweat and stress off at the gym.