Lesson 27) Pass The Happy Pills

"Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don't kill their husbands."

If you haven't seen the movie "Legally Blond," then you will not understand the above quote, and should probably drop everything to remedy the situation immediately.

Crew, I'm going to be straight up with you. This has not been the greatest week for me. Despite my best efforts, I've been quite disappointed in the last several days. Nothing really exciting has happened, my exams have been extremely difficult despite intense studying, and my professors seem to think it's hilarious to assign massive amounts of work all at the same time. So, today, when I was told that once again I'd come up short and not received an RA position for next semester, I was most defiantly at my wit's end.

I will be the first to admit that it is near impossible to get me out of a bad mood once I have settled into it. I felt it coming on, and took action! The sun was shining today, so I told Erin to throw on her sneakers, that we needed to go for a run. The endorphins that exercise brought were so helpful. The headache of stress died away and I was able to chase after the ducks by the pond without another thought! It was defiantly a help, and I would encourage you to take similar actions when stressed, as exercise not only releases endorphins to please you, but also burns the calories you got from eating your feelings. 

But today, not even that could do it, and I had to resort to calling my mother and whimpering to her for a while. Which is awesome- sometimes you just need some mom-time.

Life is hard. It's impossible to always be up, and sometimes the world just brings you down and it's just easier to crawl back in the bed. We never have that option though. 

So today I ask you to join me in a challenge- to FIGHT these days with everything! Time is going to keep moving whether we're engaged or not, so we have to keep up straight until we get all the work done. The weekend is going to come eventually, I promise. We can't give in to the other days, because then we have to spend those weekends making up the work! 

Go for a run. If that doesn't work, call your mom/girlfriend. If that doesn't work, let out a few tears and wipe them off. If THAT doesn't work, eat some small little sweet. It THAT doesn't work, find the next thing- we have to. 

My day was pretty rough, but that doesn't stop my four page essay from being due on Friday. My week just could not cut it for me, but that doesn't mean I won't be going out on Friday and trying to forget that!  We're all going to have those days, and on a lot of them the only person that's going to understand is you. 

The lesson today? As a family friend used to say "Life's a bitch, and then you die."

Here's to putting that bitch in her place for all the stuff she throws at us!

We can do it, because we don't have another choice.

Curl Girl, out!