I am stressing out at the moment as I have to hand ALL my coursework this coming friday. This is around 70% of my grade. I also still do not know what my mark is for the music recital I did that at the time seemed ok but looking back was filled with mistakes. I also have exams starting on the 17th May that I have not started revicing for. I also have to put up with a mum who is doing her university degree so we are both stressing out like mad
PLEASE HELP
hannah

Oooo, what a fabulous giveaway!

The thing that's stressing me out the most is the General Election! I'm interning for an MP, to get her re-elected, so next week is going to be really really chaotic. I'm not expecting much sleep.
And then after that, the stressful thing will be finding a new job (my internship is until the Election)! I'm not enjoying filling in really long job applications!

The thing that's stressing me out most this month is my job. I'm a newly qualified Primary School teacher, and I'm in my induction year, which means I have extra paperwork and observations and things to contend with. I'm teaching in year 2, which means I have SATs tests to do for my class, starting on Tuesday of this week. We're getting moderated, because of me being newly qualified, which means all of my record keeping and assessment is going to get looked through by some woman from the LEA. We used to have 3 teachers in our year group, covering the 60 children between us, but one of them has quit her job last week, which means that instead of administering and marking SATs for 20 children, I have to do them for 30. Including individual reading tests, which take half an hour each to do. Plus, I still have all of my normal planning and assessment to do. And that's why Gemma is very, very stressed out!

Lush is one of my FAVORITE stores so I would love to try these products out! This is the most stressful month I've ever had, and here's why:

- My exams are really soon and it feels like they care more about memorisation than anything else so I am trying to memorise 20 pages of facts for each exam. Agh!
- I have to start planning my dissertation
- I have to apply for an internship for June that will affect/influence my dissertation
- I need to start looking for jobs so that after my Masters I'm not unemployed!
- I need to practise piano so I can get my performance diploma
- I have to find out where I can get a teaching certificate so I can teach music
- I need to start thinking about how to plan my wedding which is going to take place some time this year!

AHH!

Leia - I know that this is totally not an appropriate forum for me to be all "woah, wedding? Congrats!" in, but I am doin' it anyway. !

Oh, wow, Leia! I second those congrats! :)

At the end of May I am going to NYC. My first trip to NYC and I'm VERY (no words could cover how excited tbh) excited to be going, but I have so much work stuff to get done before I go.

I know the trip will be more than worth it the stress but having some Lush stuff to relax me would be even better!

Well BSB, what a wonderfully-timed giveaway! Here's my two-penceworth:
- As of today (May 2nd), my degree ends in fifteen days.
- I managed to do my dissertation (as awful as it was), but it still leaves me with a 4000 word essay, a 3000 word essay, a 15-minute presentation and a three-hour exam to contend with before I can consider myself free!
- I am due to start a new job just as soon as May is over, which doesn't leave me an awful lot of time to move back home and sort my post-uni life out. Plus, when I do make it back to the south I will be living out of boxes until I find somewhere more permanent to live, as my mother has just moved house and I have no furniture.
- I have a wisdom tooth coming through, it hurts like crazy, and I can't see a dentist until June.

I tried! x

I'm stressing over my future. I have exams (degree finals, perma-stress + doesn't everyone have deadlines?) but I'm scared that come May 13th I will no longer have to be in the library every day slogging my guts out. I have an interim job lined up and I've got travel plans but this is the first time in 17 years of education where I will have NO ACADEMIC PRESSURE. Woah, hai real life stress. What does one do when they're life plan suddenly stops. It's like a tentative rope bridge that galvanises with time and you know what's going to happen. I don't. My future is uncertain and that is both liberating and stressful at the very same time. Yikes!

I love Lush products! What a great idea for a give away!

Oh goodness! I second everybody's academic stress! I have to finish a 15k research proposal over the next two months, and then worry about finding funding so that I can actually complete said research. I am also training for a mini-marathon and orchestrating TWO moves within the next couple of months (I had to find alternative housing for the summer and then am moving again mid-August). Additionally, the new flat that I am moving into has a bathtub, but no shower (yikes!) These products would certainly help me make the best of that!

I don't have any academic stresses luckily, but I've got the stress of:
- meeting my boyfriend's parents for the first time tomorrow
- finishing my first novel and getting it off to the editor by the end of this week (I still have three chapters left to write)
- Dealing with over 150 children at work this week.
- Having my first life guarding shift since qualifying last month.
- and finally, having to single handedly train a new member of staff who speaks very little english, no french, and no german, while I speak no spanish. *dies*

And that's just in the next 7 days =/

I'm a secondary school teacher responsible for 2 GCSE classes. So I have 54 exams to stress about! I am dreaming it and can't wait until June 10th when they are all over.

I'm stressed out by having to see a nurse every single day to have the dressings changed from a couple of recent operations. Being signed off from work for over 5 weeks so far and with at least another 3 weeks until I can go back is also less than ideal! Oh, and yesterday my fiance was rushed to A&E in an ambulance with chest pains. So all pretty intense on the health front at the mo!

I'm over panicking about my exams, my back injury is throbbing and I just want it to stop raining and be the summer already! I've got so many exciting things to come, but all these exams and horrible tests stacked up blocking the way!

my biggest stress this month is that my Son did not get a place at our preferred school...now we have to go through the appeal process just for them to turn us down again no doubt... totally gutted

This month I'm stressing over money as I'm trying to keep up with all of the vet bills, the car needs a very expensive part fitted to it, and I have no money left for anything else.

Going over my overdraft is stressing me out, dreading the charges that I am going to incur.

Im stressed because I have annual leave for a week and we are trying to sort out the house pre re-wiring (eek which is uber stressful in itself) and to top it all, while I am on leave, my new manager is starting at work while I am not there so god knows what will happen without me being there to smooth it all over and I have to meet her next week.

Im stressed because as me and my sons are decorating my elderly mothers home, and she is so fussy and im so stressed that she wont be happy with it as we are not decoraters ,but it needed doing so badly ,so wethought we would give it a go !

Well where to start qualified as a teacher last yr no supply work coming in! Just got a job to bring in some money but its only 10hrs a week. Sooo frustrating had over a dozen interviews and have majorly low self esteem. Really don't know where money will come to pay this months bills!

I am stressing big style as it is my sons A Levels this month and his 18th birthday falls in the middle of them as well as that he has just got a part time job so never has any spare time

WOW, that's a tough one - may have been easier asking whats NOT stressing me at the minute! lol The main thing is that my 15 year old daughter has recently split from a total numpty - within days of him sulking round the house i had his mother on the phone chewing my ear off, so loud in fact, that my neighbours could hear her!! Grrrrr....talk about stressed, my hair's getting greyer by the day!! lol

I am stressed this month because I am trying to organize a surprise 50th party for my father in law without him finding out!

I'm stressing out because my 14 year old has lost the ability to be able to shut doors.

Thats an easy one, finding 3,200 for our holiday which darling hubby decided we will pay on the very last day it is due. Now, we have a few weeks to raise our holiday spends and kit out a holiday wardrobe and huuby thinks this will magically happen.... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Life can be too stressful with constant bills, low pay and bank charges. It would be so nice being able to escape from them for even a short time.

work, work, work

volcanic eruptions are stressing me out as i have a planed trip in 2 weeks time

Well major thing just now is trying to find funds to pay off our holiday in 5 months, got to pay £2000 for accommodation, £1400 for attraction tickets and hubby says we need at least $6000 spending money, and its left to me to actually try and find ways on managing this all, 5 months!! there is just no way unless a miracle happens, seemed a good idea at the time, i get very ill when stressed and this isnt helping at all

At the moment im stressing about getting my assignments done and handed in on time.

I am on post op recovery and just wonder how overloaded my intray will be on my return and whether the budget will still be looking good. The email inbox will be horrendous in 2 weeks time and I can see my first 2 weeks back at work just doing catch up. Trouble is, I never will.

the change in the weather is stressing me out as its starting my allergys up with the sudden changes from hot to col,cold to hot/warm

I'm not only stressed this week, but I'm a right old miserable bag. Clearing the plot for our new house, had a bit of a landslide and now I'm £40K over budget. At this rate If I were to win the lovely Lush goodies I may haver to use them in a tin bath in the garden.

i know i shouldnt be moaning but my upcoming hols is stressing me out. ive got umpteen lists on the go lie in bed dreaming ive forgotten the kids socks hopefully all be worth it when get there

I've got two boys that don't get on and just fight!! The other half is constantly arguing with the older one as they just clash, money worries life in general.

I'm stressed because the boss is on sick for a few months, and everyone thinks there in charge, tempers flying and loads of bad feelings, as soon as i put my key in the door to leave for work i get a head ache. think it must be psychological, where's the asprin.

Oh where to start. in the last few weeks I've had a family bereavement which was obvious upsetting but even more stressful was my stupid cousins who were selfishly focused on themselves rather than there parents who had loss their mother etc!

Then at training i pulled my calf muscle which has meant i haven't been able to train properly for over two weeks which means I'm having to really worry about my diet as i've stopped losing weight due to the lack of exercise.

Finally were going through a restructure at work which mean I may lose my job (and I know im not alone in that stress) but I am also now in the middle of an investigation at work because I blew the whistle on a bully!

And go away and breathe!!!!

life in general is stressing me this summer the kids wont let up and give me 5 mins peace and my husband is having a midlife crisis i thought he went thru that last year when he got his motorbike now he wants a bigger bike and a different job hes 42 for goodness sake. should be happy hes got a job.

Children! My 18 month year has hit the terrible twos early and is driving me up the wall - all with a smile on her face. The older two are at each other's throats... argh!!!!

I'm stressing because I'm teaching my boyfriend to drive without lessons! Learner driver who thinks he's fit for formula one + girlfriend with pms = STRESS!

I was supposed to go on a once in a lifetime trip to America but the volcano stopped me from going. I have not been able to rearrange.....I have not had a break for a year and a half.....Also I have feelings for a friend and he doesnt return them, finding it hard to get rid of these feelings....very stressful!...

I am stressed at the moment as I am
1)20 weeks pregnant and getting a big belly now
2) I have a 21 month old little boy who is a cheeky chappy and running me round everywhere
3)An 11 year old boy who is getting worried about his SATS and who I have to do lots of revision with
and FINALLY
4) a husband who has just had surgery on his shoulder and is in a sling for 6 weeks

I am in real need of a good pamper session.

On the plus side I get to see my little baby for the first time on scan on Monday. Happy days

his month I'm stressing over money ....... money ...... lovelife and oh yeah money

that i enter about 200 competition per day and still havent won a god dam thing

I went to see my gp as i found four lumps in my right breast.The waiting list is 2 weeks and i am stressing,climbing the walls.The only conselation at the moment is that people tell me the linda mcartney centre staff are fantastic.It is a worrying time and i have had to stop myself doing internet research about breast cancer as i was going nuts thinking i had definatley got it.Self diagnosis is not a good thing.

All the constant knocks on the door from election campaigners. Especially as our seat is a dead cert for the Torys anyway!

My washing machine leaked all over my kitchen flor on Saturday. The wather was an inch deep in parts and took ages to clear up. It left tide marks on the legs of the table and chairs - and they're new. I'm stressing and depressed about it!

The volcanic ash making a come back is stressing me out. Supposed to be going on holiday next month.

well of course it has to be work its a nightmare at the moment i work until late and start early so cant do anything but sleep during the week.

there are a few things stressing me out at the moment:
1. I'm a single mum to 3 kids (stressful enough) and raising them to the best of my ability without any help from anybody
2. i have recently moved to a new house after living in a refuge so i don't have all the things i want yet and am stressing about how to get them
3. i live in an area where i don't know many people so find it quite isolating which makes me feel very stressed, i love my children but sometimes adult conversation is needed