Tia Talks

I cry on my birthday every year. Yes, every single year lol. As abnormal as it seems a Google search and a phone call with one of my friends made me realise that other people do this also. Turns out that quite a few suffer with 'The Birthday Blues'. As you can imagine it was relieving to find out that I'm not the only one. Most people I know don't enjoy turning older but as we all know, it's the inevitable. It's the 19th December and in exactly one month I will be twenty-one, as winter progresses I often feel down knowing that once the New Year hits, I will soon be poking another candle in the cake . Once upon a time I looked forward to 19th January because the 19th meant everyone being extra nice to me that day, it meant going to the shop with my mom the night before to pick up a box of chocolates to take to school, it meant shying away whilst everyone sang 'Happy Birthday to you' in my face. At about 12 years old my disdain for birthdays develope...

From losing my bus pass to being scammed out of some of my money, to my USB stick physically breaking and my laptop crashing and losing ALL my files including what I've done of my dissertation so far, recorded podcast episodes and all that good stuff and  much, much  more- safe to say this week has been one of the most stressful weeks of my life...so far. (Little Simpsons movie reference for your headtop). It's mad how many things can go belly up in the space of 5/6 days. Situations like this used to happen now and again, like when I was studying my A levels and there was a leakage in my house which destroyed four months of revision material days before my final exams. But since starting uni these situations seem to be happening more frequently, especially when you add group assigments and external commitments to the mix. And all I can say is... Stress is shit and the painful stress headaches aint it yall. How do you manage stress? And to be specific stres...