Unexpected Tenseup

Ended up with another headache today.
Mostly because I got a bit tense from unexpectedly needing to interact with people when I hadn't been planning to interact with them. 
*exhales* 
Hopefully it's a faint ache that will vanish with sleep.
Advil seems to be helping a little....
But we'll see. 

A Steady Increase

It came on during work.
I'm not quite sure why. 
A reaction to a bad dream?
A reaction to slight stress at work?

Who knows.
But the headache began to make it's presence known just after I finished my first 15 minute break of the day.
So I went to take preventative measures. Taking an Advil and putting on some essential oils. 

Which helped a little.

But towards lunchtime it was coming back.

So I took a nap for my break, and some more advil and more essential oils.

But it was steadily getting stronger as the shift progressed.

So after work I went to a fast food place nearby home to get some hot food....as maybe I needed more meat in my system or something, as well as a Dr. Pepper because Caffeine.
And came home, ate, drank the Dr. Pepper, heated up a heat pack, grabbed some Excedrin and took a brief nap.

It's helped kinda.
The headache's faded a bit, but still tends to get randomly stronger for a bit before fading again. 
*exhales* 
Hopefully sleep tonight will make the last of it go away.

Too Long

I'd only meant for it to be like a fifteen minute nap. 
Just a moment to rest my eyes and recalibrate....

But I ended up shutting off my alarm.
And slept for 3 hours instead. 

Heh. Oops.

Guess I was exhausted.
Not too surprising, the past couple days at work had been tiring. 

Still, I may have slept a little too long,
As there's been a slight ache behind my eyes since I woke up. 

Hopefully it doesn't become anything more major....

Live

I pulled the tiny bird close to me, my hands heating up in an attempt to warm up the little creature. "Come on." I whispered, gently running a finger down the bird's back. "You can pull through. Don't die on me now."
The bird shivered in my grasp, closing it's eyes and holding far too still as it leaned into my touch.
"come on." I whispered again, my vision blurring. "Please. come on."

-Inspiration from an experience at work

Threatening But Not Yet Come

There's been a headache threatening to come at me for most of the day.

Most of it was caused by tension.

It was a day where I was a bit more sensitive to noise. Where I felt like people were making sounds much louder than necessary.

It was also a day where the energy just felt...off.

People were tense. There felt like there was more negativity and anger swirling around me as people voiced disgruntlements about certain events that were happening.

It just...felt weird.

And it was difficult to be around for long periods of time.

Thankfully though, I've managed to keep the headache at bay so far. 

Focusing on other tasks.

Distancing myself from others.

It's helped. 

Brain: Should he be a criminal or a famous star? 

Me: Uhmmm

Brain: Could he be both?

Me: Sounds....complicated there....

Brain: True...but like could he be both??

Me: *exhales*

Brain: WHY DID THE MOVIE END THAT WAY?!

Me: ....Because....that's how they wanted the movie to end?

Brain: *annoyed* It's a stupid ending. I would have written it differently! Made it more meaningful! Wrapped up the plots. Given more freaking motivation!

Me: .....

Brain: Yah. That's it. We're doing this! REWRITE HERE WE COME!

Me: *rolls eyes* Why am I not surprised? *grabs pen to start jotting down ideas* 

Work Stress

I ended up with a headache while at work today.
I tried to prevent it by first getting some caffeine...but after that wasn't helping I took some Excedrin and rested with my heatpack....and then came home and took a nap.

It's still ongoing....

And really, I probably ended up with this one because of stress. 
I came into work a little earlier than normal which probably didn't help.
But my manager was stressed out because he had like 12 things to do and it was only him available to do it as all our other normal morning people (aka the stockers) are out on vacation, injury, or sick. 
So he was stressing about getting everything done.
Add on top of that the fact that two of our groomers called off at work and the third was late showing up....
It wasn't an easy day for him for sure. 

And I probably just....ended up getting buffeted with that energy a bit too much today and it gave me a headache.

Add onto that that I ended up dealing with a stressful customer over the phone towards the end of the day...and it's really no surprise that I ended up still having the headache this evening. 
*exhales* 

Woked

I ended up with a headache pretty quickly after waking up this morning.
>.>
<.<
So there's probably something definitely up with my sleeping habits recently.
Though considering little if anything has changed....
It's hard to know what....
*exhales*
Maybe it's just a reaction to having to wake up. *shakes head*
Or maybe I'm just sleeping tense....
Who knows....
I don't....

Sleep Weird?

I really must be sleeping weird or something. 
Like....too tense? Maybe I'm being woken up at the wrong moment?
Because waking up so consistently with an ache behind my eye....
Really needs to stop.

At least the headache seems satisfied with a bit of Excedrin to make it go away.
As I definitely didn't need it during work which ended up being more stressful than anticipated. 

Not a Word

I shut the door as gently as I could when my hands were shaking with the urge to slam it shut with a loud bang. I flicked the lock, and turned to lean against the wood, crossing my arms, my hands gripping onto my long sleeves. 
They hadn't listened.
Not a word.
I'd thought they had. I'd thought that I....
I closed my eyes, attempting to barricade in the tears that threatened to fall. 
Apparently I hadn't been as high of a priority as I'd believed.
How could they not have heard?
How could it have gone in one ear and out the other?
I didn't understand.

-Inspiration from a work experience

There We Go

Ah HA!
Success.
I think.
Hopefully.

Had another mini headache this morning...which may be just from getting the wrong amount of sleep or something.
But I was able to take Excedrin today and that along with heat has helped make the evil evil headache fade away.
WOOT!!

Hopefully it stays gone for the rest of the day and tomorrow.
But for now, I'm going to take it easy and work to not trigger it's reappearance. 

So It Continues

I woke up with the headache again. 
*exhales* 
Like GO AWAY HEADACHE. 
>.<
Seriously, I don't know what it's going to take to get it to go away.
At this point it's either stress or some sort of hormonal/nutrient deficient that's probably behind this particular ongoing migraine. *shakes head* 

I've done the meds and the heat and such. 
So like...it's either distracting myself from the headache and forgetting it's there.
Or just trying different foods and liquids to make it go away. 

...

Headache stuck around. Dunno what to do to make it go away. 

Sleeplessness?

It's probably triggered by not sleeping as much as I probably should have the last few days. 
As in....I've gone to bed late, slept little, and then not taken as long of naps as I needed to to catch up. 

So this morning I woke up tired.
Not a good sign.
It was the exhausted tired of I literally could have rolled over and gone back to sleep. 
But instead I got up for work, thankful that it was my short shift today as all I wanted to do when I got home was take a nap.

Unfortunately the headache struck towards the end of my shift.
Probably from tension as well as not enough sleep as the DM was in the store today and that always makes it stressful. 

So I figured after work I would grab some Wendy's, get me a Dr. Pepper, and then go home and crash.

I crashed....
But the headache didn't go away.
It stuck around.
Meds, a Shower, Heat, Food....basically everything....hasn't really helped.
Some have made the headache fade,
But it hasn't yet completely gone away.

Which is frustrating because I spent most of the day trying to get rid of the thing which meant I couldn't do the things I wanted to do because my head hurt too much to do them. *exhales*

Hopefully tomorrow it fades.
Hopefully. 

Me: I'm going to go work on this half finished fic I'm supposed to be writin--

*gets possessed with brand new fic idea I must write down RIGHT NOW*

Me: O.O Ne.ver.mind

Liquid?

I woke up with a headache this morning. *exhales* 
Which Why??? 

*shakes head*
It was probably a combination of not having enough liquids/foods and not getting enough sleep.
As I neglected to take a long nap yesterday, and I hadn't gotten a lot of sleep the night before. Plus, I was writing. And writing always makes me tense. 

So the fact I woke up with a headache. Not fun.
So I took some meds. Grabbed a heatpack. And drank a bit of water.

And for a while it helped. The exercise at work too helped.

But then the headache came back...
And stuck around. 
Which wasn't fun.

It only went away after I went out and grabbed a ginormous snow cone and downed the entire thing.
Then. It went away.

So maybe I was just thirsty after all.... ^^;; 

Wet

It wasn't easy, going out into the cold like this. But someone had to do it, so it might as well be me. Because well....no one else would. It was pouring outside. Almost flooding really. Still. I had to do it. Cautiously I moved through the doorway, hiding a shiver as a cold blast of wind hit me. Oh yah, it was colder than expected. I could do this though. It would be easy. I moved out into the parking lot, internally cringing as my shoes filled with water. Deeper than expected. 
Silently I exhale. At least my shift was almost over. So I wouldn't have to deal with wet shoes for too much longer. 
Adjusting the hood of my jacket, I finally reached my destination.
The pile of carts waiting to be brought back inside and set to work.
Cold, very wet work.
But someone had to do it.

-Inspiration from wet weather and working

A Different Feeling

I paused just inside the landing, absently closing the door to the garage behind me as I drew in a deep breath, my tense shoulders relaxing. "She's gone." I whispered to myself, looking about the darkened house. I hadn't expected there to be such a drastic shift in the feeling of the house, but really....it felt so much more cheerful in here, the colors brighter, the house lighter. It was...it was amazing. I moved over to the couch in the living room and plopped down, closing my eyes as I took a moment to just...take it in. 
So this was what it was like. To have a place all to yourself. 
It felt amazing. 

-Inspiration from walking into a house. 

It Came Later

I didn't wake up with the headache today at least.
No, it came a couple of hours into work.
Slowly building behind the right eye.

I did what I could for it, while stuck at work.
Rested on breaks, took meds, did the essential oils thing.

But it's one of those headaches that's apparently being stubborn.
Probably reacting to me being stressed, or tensed, or some other combination of them. 

But hopefully, once the obligations of the evening are over. I'll be able to get the headache to go away.
So I can do things. 

We'll see. 

Woken Again

Hmmm It's the Third day in a row that I've woken up with a headache. 

And now I'm beginning to wonder if I'm perhaps reacting to the tense energy of one of my roommates.
As she's under a lot of stress involving a momentous occasion happening on the morrow, and I could see that energy infiltrating the house, especially when I'm only really in proximity with her currently when we're both home sleeping.....
So perhaps it's that stress/tension that's been causing my morning headaches the past few days.

Though if it's not that....
It's either because of the shifting weather that's been doing it's typical spring "hot cold" thing. 
Or I've been sleeping tense for other reasons.

*exhales*
At least heat and meds seem to be helping currently.
So yay. :) 

Upon Arrival

Had another headache this morning. 
Possibly from having a rather tense work related dream? 
As it's never fun to have to deal with angry managers and a flooded store....

Nor is it fun to have to work with a headache either.
Though it seems that I've managed to nip this particular one in the bud as I took some Excedrin upon arrival at work...and the headache vanished pretty quickly after I got into tasks and such.

Which is rather amazing considering work wasn't full of sunshine and daisies today.

So yay for keeping the headache at bay while I dealt with difficult customers. 

No Nap?

I'm halfway sure that I ended up with a headache after work today because I chose not to take a nap once I got home from work.
But like I had things to do.

And I'm pretty sure it's only going to stop once I get to bed because like....meds and heat have only helped a little bit. 

*exhales* 
Guess we'll see how it goes. 

A Rude Wakeup

It never bodes well for the day when you wake up with a headache.
One that you figure will be rather major.
Considering...you woke up with it. 
*exhales*

I have to say that it was semi-expected this one.
As last night I had one of those mental crashes.
Where like your brain is just soo super sleepy.
That you're barely able to function. 

So whether I slept too hard, or my body is still trying to get back into whatever sleep rhythm that it thinks it's off....

I ended up with the headache.
It's persisted throughout the day silly thing.

Excedrin, Advil, Essential Oils only could do so much for me at work.
Though thankfully it was a short shift day so I didn't have to suffer much there.

And heat and a bit more sleep seems to have helped it fade away now.
At least it's only in the 'barest of tiniest of theres' currently.
So yay. 

Hopefully I can keep it away from here on out. 
But you know...it's only a matter of time....

Brain: ...You know we never did decide what that character was wearing.

Me: Does it matter?

Brain: ....Yes. A lot actually.

Me: I don't think it--

Brain: IT DOES. WHAT IS THAT CHARACTER WEARING?! HOW ARE WE TO DESCRIBE IT IF WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS! *proceeds to mull over the problem for hours*

Bacon or Smoke?

For it being a fast sunday, I was doing pretty well not getting a headache....
Until I ended up with one. 
*exhales*
It's pretty much expected at this point.
But still. I hope that it wouldn't show up. 

This time, I almost wonder if it was triggered by adding in like....too much salt into my diet suddenly?
Though that doesn't quite make sense, because I eat potato chips all the time, and I don't believe that those cause headaches.

However, I did end up getting a headache after eating a BLT
Though whether it was from the bacon itself....
Or from the fact that the kitchen ended up being rather cloudy with smoke. 
(I did open a window before I started cooking the bacon and turned on the stove fan and everything...but apparently it didn't work.) 

And knowing that I do get headaches if I'm around smoke in general....
I am tempted to think that that's the more likely cause than eating bacon....
Though I'll have to keep a closer eye on how I feel after eating said meat. Just to be sure.

In any case it's one of those headaches that just kinda lingers. 
Which either a) I haven't drunk enough liquids today or b) I got too tense.

Meds have helped a little. 
So has heatpacks
And getting some liquids within me. 

But yah....
It faded away, but is now coming back....
So perhaps needing more sleep is part of it too....
Who knows....

Too Much Noise

I ended up with a headache at work today.

It started out faint, mostly because I got quickly irritated by customers who a) came into the store right at opening and b) weren't hearing a word that I was saying and so therefore kept asking me the same question like they were expecting a different result.
So needless to say...
It tensed me up because I don't like it when a) people come unexpectedly needing a lot of help and b) customers don't listen to me. 

I figured some Excedrin would do the job. 
Which it probably would have helped much quicker....
If on my lunch break there hadn't been a ton of people in the breakroom.
(As they were doing a bit of a party today so people were constantly coming and going to get food.) 

And like most party places filled with food....
People like to chat. 

Which again, not a big deal.
Except my head manager was in the break room at that point.
And they were in quite the chatty mood.
And they have a voice that well...you can't really ignore.

(I still did my best) 

Only the manager seemed to be in a loop mode today.
As they kept stating the same three basic concepts (in slightly different ways) over and over and over like a broken record player.
Which involved a) Saying how much they loved one of our groomer's salsa and their cooking, b) that red velvet cake is amazing and everyone should eat some and c) how much they shouldn't eat anymore, but they were going to eat more anyways.

*exhales* Which yah, I got it the first two times. But seriously. Did you have to keep saying the same three things over and over for my entire lunch break?

I wanted to just relax and unwind for a bit, and instead I just ended up with more tension and irritation because I couldn't have a moment of silence. *exhales* 

So I took some more Excedrin, used an essential oils blend on my neck to try and help me relax, and went back to work.

Thankfully, that helped to relieve the headache.

Though it did venture back for a little while later this evening, but a heat pack on the aching shoulder too helped make that go away. 

PayBack

I raised an eyebrow in surprise as she whirled away from me grabbing her purse, taking a step forward with a hand raised. "That's really not necess--"
"No, no." She said pulling out her wallet and turning to me. "I insist, you went through all that to bring me lunch." She pulled out some crisp dollars handing them towards me with a determined glint in her eye. "The least I can do is pay you back for it." 
I hadn't expected this at all. I'd offered to get food, but that hadn't meant I was expecting to be paid back for it. Really. "Uhmm." I reached out my hand, cautiously taking the bills from her hand. "Thanks." I said offering a smile, as I slid the cash into my pocket. At least now I would have soda money on hand if I needed something to drink at work. 

-Inspired by a conversation

Grate Responsibilty

I hissed as my finger dug into the sharp edge of the cheese grater and quickly pulled my hand away, and stuck the throbbing knuckle in my mouth to keep the blood from flowing until I could grab a paper towel to briefly wrap around the wound. "Well that's just grate." I mutter and quirked a smile, amused at my own pun. "At least the injury was good for something." A moment of happiness, despite having to now deal with a maimed limb. 

-Inspiration from trying to make Nachos 

Coolness

The relief was instantaneous. I closed my eyes, lifting my head up to the sky, luxuriating in the cold rain that fell onto my face. Ah. I had missed the rain. The cool sensation was just what my over stimulated self needed to recenter. To gain a little bit of energy from the droplets falling around me. 

-Inspiration from walking outside into the rain

Who's There?

She curled up on her chair, eying the door, a baseball bat held protectively in her hands as she listened. Listened for the knock. She was no fool to call out 'hello' to see if anyone was home. No. She listened. Listened to see if the knock would return, if with that knock other sounds would come. Was there a tread of steps on the floorboard? A creak of the gate outside her window? Another knock? 
She held her breath, ears straining....
But no knock came. 
She closed her eyes, relaxing, the baseball bat lowering in her hand.
Okay. Maybe. Maybe it had been her imagination. 
Maybe. 

-Inspiration from roommate conversation