How do you deal with stress?

Stress has been a hot topic around our apartment these past few weeks.  We've had plenty of it thrown our way.  From hating disliking our job, to asthma attacks, to thinking worrying about the future, to trying to get my visa stuff done, we've been stressing out way too much!  We've been talking about what we should do to eliminate or relieve our stress.

In a perfect world, my stress reliever would be this:

From DustJacket

Or this:

From PlumPrettySugar

Ah, but where am I going to get such pretty, fancy things?  

In reality, my favorite way to relieve stress is so hang out with friends, talking about our lives, confiding, complaining, giving advice, laughing, and eating good food!

Somewhere like this would be ideal:

From DustJacket

Or this Persian Tea Party:

Or La Lune Sucre with my SJSU besties:

From my Instagram

So what I've come to realize is that, sometimes, being "alone with my tea" isn't so fun.

(Maybe I should rename my blog, "Alone with my tea but wishing I had company."  Or, "Brazil is cool and all but I'm really starting to get homesick and miss my friends.")

So... what do you do to relieve your stress?  Comment below!