Finally, I Got To Relax

 These past couple of weeks have been super stressful for me lately. I’m sure many of you can also relate when I say it feels like I have not had a single break from work or schoolwork/homework in forever. And with how this semester is going Thanksgiving break won’t really be much of a break for me considering I’ll still have to work most of the week as well as a bunch of schoolwork that I’ll need to get done. 

With that in mind I decided to plan a little self care day. First, I had to pick out days that I didn’t have work. Then, I had to go through all of my classes and find a day where I wouldn’t miss too much of anything and obviously a day that I didn’t have a quiz or test either during or right after. I found a day but then right as I was ready to let one of my professor’s know that I wouldn’t be in class, he announced that there was going to be a quiz on the day that I had picked out. I was bummed, but still determined to take this day off. I met my professor after class and explained to him what was going on, and asked if there was anything that could be done. My professor, being the gratuitous person that he is, told me I could take the quiz earlier than everyone else during his office hours so that I could still miss class that particular day. 

And to be honest, once my rest day came up I did not want to do a single thing. I was perfectly content just laying in bed, watching movies, and cuddling up with my dog. I did just that during the first half of my day. I got too antsy and restless and felt like I needed to do something, so I got up, straightened up around my room and got some chores done. And because it was such a nice day out, I had the opportunity to finally take some good photos of my dog. He had a blast, of course, since all he had to do was run around and be himself and play with his little deflated basketball he found. I don’t know why he loves that thing so much but it works. After that I went out and did some retail therapy, walking around stores and grabbing a coffee before returning back home to sit down and edit the pictures I took. At this point my boyfriend had finally gotten off work and came to hang out with me. Somehow I convinced him to watch Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone as it was his first time ever seeing any of the movies from the Harry Potter series. I haven’t watched them in quite a while either so it made my night, and honestly made for a really nice and relaxing day of doing absolutely nothing. It was so refreshing being able to set aside a day where I didn’t have to even think about schoolwork or my job.