As always on Fast Sunday, I ended up with another headache though it didn't occur until later in the afternoon, so it's not for sure that Fast Sunday is what caused it. But the headache was minor...nothing too crazy so yay.

Brain: Meh
Me: Mood.
Brain: ….all ideas are Meh. No write.
Me: Mood for sure. 

Brain: We can finish six of these short stories today!
*9 hours later*
Brain: We finished one of these short stories today! YAY!!
Me: *exhales* Yes...at least we finished one. 
Brain: ^^;;

There's something in my morning routine that is causing a headache to form pretty soon after I take my first break.
Whether it's the snack food I had, or the position I sit in, or what I do on said 15 minute break....it's obviously not as relaxing as I think it should be.
Because otherwise my muscles in my shoulders/neck wouldn't tense up.
And I wouldn't get an ache behind my eyes within the half hour of getting off of break....

Hmmm.
Maybe time to switch things up a bit....

Had a sudden headache set in at work around the time we opened. Like I had tension on the left side of my neck, but it then moved to the right side and traveled up behind my eye. *shakes head* I took some Tylenol and ate another granola bar as well as drank more water...and sometime in the process of being distracted with work, it went away again, thankfully. 

Her tiny fingers clung to the counter as blonde hair popped over the counter. "I have a unicorn shirt!" the little girl brightly told me with a wide smile as she stepped back far enough for me to see it.
Sure enough, the shirt was covered in multiple unicorn heads. 
"That's cool!" I told her as I worked quickly to serve her parents waiting for me to scan their items.
"Yah! My shirt says Believe! See!" She gestured proudly to the glitterfied letters sprawled across the top of the shirt. "Believe!" She repeated. "Believe!!" 

-Inspiration from conversation at work. 

Pretty sure it was the contact lens that caused the headache today. 
I was trying the stronger prescription today just to see how my eyes adjusted with it, and I guess it got a bit irritated somewhere.
Thankfully I brought the lesser prescription and switched to them after a couple of hours, but the headache refused to flee. Took some meds of Excedrin and advil and such but headache prevailed.
Managed to have it go away for a little bit after I took a nap, but hiking back up the hill after a walk around the block brought it back for a bit. *exhales* 

The major headache didn't keep me up all night thankfully, but it was bad enough that I chose to stay home from church and rest even though the headache had faded a bit by the time it was time to go to church...I figured some of it was being overpeopled, so stayed home to enjoy some quiet.
The headache lingered throughout the day but after dinner with the family it vanished. So yay! :D 
Not sure what made it go away but I'm guessing enough of a distraction helped it to flee. 

Ended up with a headache pretty quickly after coming into work, probably from the stress of having customers coming into the store like 2 minutes before we opened. So it was a busy consistent day of helping customer after customer after customer. *exhales* 
And I just...stressed myself into a headache.
Tried to relax and take meds, but it persisted.
Got worse.
To the point where it was difficult to be upright without feeling nauseous.
So. Took a shower and more meds and hopefully sleep will get rid of it. 

Have had a slight headache behind my right eye for most of the day today.
I know that the tension in my neck/shoulders is probably the cause.
The cause of the tension?
Not sure.
Might be the contact lens as I put the old stronger prescription back in my eye just to compare the results between the one I've been wearing the past week and this one. 
Or it could just be energy related as I went to the Gem Faire today and that place is swirling with energy though I did my best to prepare for that.
And of course, I've been writing throughout the day soo...tension again....
Thankfully it's just faint.
So maybe a good night sleep may help that....

Me: Considers rewriting a scene. 
Me: Goes back and reads scene.
Me: ….Do I really need to rewrite this after all?
Me: ……..
Me: I hate decisions like this.

I could see my vision tunneling, the red blood dripping from my finger seeming to grow more vibrant as the black on the edges of my vision closed in. "I...I need to sit down." I whispered, taking two steps and plopping down on the nearest short surface I could find. 
It wasn't that bad.
It wasn't that bad.
Yet, I couldn't stop looking at my finger even as the attendant covered it in Neosporin and gauze, hiding the bloody sight from view.
So. Much. Blood.
I didn't think such a little thing could cause such a reaction in me.
Yet here I was, finding out differently. 

-Inspiration from a customer incident at work

She idly kicked the leg of the chair as she stood. "So, you need me to bring any movies over? I do have that huge binder full of them." 

I blinked before slowly shaking my head, fighting a smile. How had she so quickly forgotten. "No...I think we're good. I have plenty of movies at home, plus Netflix as well!" 

A flush rose to her cheeks as memory returned. "Oh. OH! Right! You did have most of the movies didn't you?" 

I nodded. "Yah." 

-Inspiration from text conversation

Either I'm still stressed or the change in my prescription for my eyes isn't helping the headaches at all.
I mean the ache was behind the left eye mostly today. 

But there really should be no good reason to have a headache first thing in the morning...unless it's a sleep related headache I suppose.
*exhales*
I mean, a nap did help make it mostly go away.
So there is that....

Ended up with another headache today. Which isn't that surprising as I was dealing with a bit of a stressful situation with my roomies. Even though we got it resolved (I hope) it still tensed up the muscles in the back because like...confrontations aren't the most relaxing of things to deal with.

So the headache stuck around until later in the evening despite meds and heat packs. Only going away when I managed to distract myself with movies and writing from the ache in my head. 

Had a slight headache behind my left eye today at work.
Probably residual tension from yesterday's events. 
Tension in the shoulders leading up to the neck and behind the eye.

Some meds and such helped to make it fade though it tried to come back later in the evening, I took a slight nap and had some food. 
It's gone for now...we'll see if it stays that way. 

I had an eye appointment today, to see how my vision was doing. 
As I was wondering if some of my headaches were caused by the new prescription of contacts I've been on for the past 8 months. 
(took me long enough to wonder that) 
But the visit to the eye doctor always makes me tense regardless.
So I ended up with a slight headache because my shoulders were tense after the appointment.
It got worse thanks to some Roommate drama and such. *exhales*
So I spent basically the entire day with a headache.
Oh goodie.

Hopefully the different prescription (my old one) for my contacts will lesson the headaches.
But at the same time....until I can get other stressors in my life under control, I don't know how much help a different prescription is going to be until then....

I think it was a sleep deprivation headache. I had a faint one throughout work and figured a nap after work would help.
Which it did.
Though I was delayed with going straight home after work to meet with a friend.
But by the end of our visit.
I had quite the pounding headache by the time I was able to head home, right in the front of my head. Behind the eyes. 
Thankfully, a nap and a shower helped to make it mostly fade. Though it kinda lingered throughout the night. 

Woke up with the headache today.
Thankfully it didn't keep me up all night.
So that was nice of it after dealing with it all day yesterday.
But yah. Headache again persisted throughout the day.
It took up residence behind my right eye...and I think it was sleep deprivation that's the main cause as whenever I would rest my eyes with a heatpack the headache would fade....only to come back.
So when I got home I took a longer nap. 
….It helped? Ish? 
I mean the headache moved from my right eye to my left eye which wasn't helpful.
But as the evening has progressed it's faded to nearly nothing. 
So yay some progress lol

Another day another headache.

This one began pretty soon after arriving at work, though I didn't have an obvious reason to...like be stressed out? So I can only guess it was the atmosphere. As the managers were stressing a bit yesterday because we have like...Regional Managers and higher corporate people in the state currently and while we're not on the list to be visited, our sister store is and that store is only like 15 minutes away from us and it's only the Regional Manager's who are officially visiting which means the higher ups are free to go anywhere they want.

So yah. They were stressed which was stressing me out I guess...

Tense shoulders are probably the cause really. Or not getting enough sleep...who knows. 

In any case. The headache persisted throughout the day despite my attempts to make it go away with various meds and such.

It seems like eating food and drinking some water have helped in the late evening...but at the same time it's still lingering....

It was either a delayed stressed reaction to things yesterday, or else a reaction to Daylight Savings...as I ended up rather tense this morning at work in my left shoulder, which led to a faint headache behind my left eye for most of the day. It took a bit of Excedrin to help it fade a bit during my shift, but kinda just hung out until after the sun went down before leaving.

I rounded the corner and quickly ducked my head as I darted to the door leading out of sight of the customers, hoping that the couple standing talking to my coworker by the fish hadn't seen me.
I already knew it was highly unlikely. But I could hope.
Because I didn't want to deal with those particular customers, especially when I was even supposed to be here in the first place. Technically I was off the clock in my street clothes. I didn't need them waylaying me from my tasks--
No such luck.
I hid a flinch as my coworker called me out by name, his voice begging me to come save him from the very insistent customers. 
Biting back a loud sigh I turned, pasting a smile on my face. 
Here we go again.

-Inspiration at work from seeing some needy customers

Had a faint headache throughout most of work today.
Don't know why my muscles were tense and stressing. 
It was probably just the normal stress in trying to get the department open and dealing with all the little set backs that happen while opening.
Plus customers.

Excedrin helped a bit to get rid of the ache behind my right eye. 
So it hasn't really made a nuisance of itself. Just been a minor irritant. 

Me: So I'm going to write this idea out and we'll be able to post---

Brain: *interrupts flinging a new new idea at me* LETS WRITE THIS ONE!

Me: But--

Brain: WRITE IT NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW!

Me: *writes it* *completes it* ()_() Whoa...we did...we did the thing!! 

Brain: :D 

I leaned against the window, watching the raindrops race each other down the glass as cars splashed through the roads, roaring past my vehicle stuck on the side of the road without a care in the world that I was inside and stranded.
Because there was no way I was getting out in the pouring rain to fix a flat.
Not yet.
I glanced up at the clouds, looking for a break or a sign that the rain would be lessening sometime soon.
Yet it all was the same stony greyness in every direction the droplets continuing to attempt their fruitless foray into my vehicle with more ferocity with each passing second. 
"Soon." I whisper, tapping my fingers against the steering wheel. "Soon you'll let up."
Because I didn't want to change a tire and get soaked in the process.

-Inspiration from driving in the rain

Ended up with a headache this afternoon....it happened after I woke up with a nap so probably had a bit of tension while sleeping or something. That or I just tensed myself up while internet scrolling because I was getting a ton of story ideas and haven't written a one of them. Yay....
But some Advil and caffeine and food seems to have helped it go away so hopefully it's not back with a vengeance in the middle of the night or something. 

Me: I can do this! I'm amazing!
Brain: *receives one critique* We can't do anything! We're a bad writer!
Me: Wai--No. No we're not!
Brain: BAD BAD BAD BAD
Me: It's fine! Look see! *tweaks a couple of things*
Brain: Oh. Yah we're amazing! 

Me: I'm not going to think about it.
Brain: *thinks about it* 
Me: I said I'm not going to think about it.
Brain: *thinks harder about it* *plotting* *growing more angry*
Me: Hey! Stop.
Brain: NO! 
Me: YES.
Brain: NO. I don't like it therefore I will think about it until it's better!
Me: Just....forget about it okay? Let's focus our energy somewhere more useful. 
Brain: *huffs*
Me: Come on.
Brain: ….fine.

Me: We should do something.
Brain: No.
Me: No?
Brain: No.
Me: Reading?
Brain: No!
Me: Sleeping?
Brain: NO!
Me: Writing?
Brain: NO NO NO NO!!!
Me: THEN WHAT?!
Brain: *shrugs* 

Ended up with a headache pretty soon after waking up today. 
I wonder if it was partially caused by putting in new contacts today.
Which again makes me wonder if the prescription for my right eye is a tad too strong because that's where the headache tends to make its presence known. 

Stress at work probably contributed it to it as well because it was a busy Saturday and such.
And stress at home with roomie drama isn't helping those stress levels at all.

But thankfully sometime this evening while I was in the middle of cleaning my betta tanks the headache did fade away where meds weren't helping to get rid of it. 

The light had faded long ago as I sat hunched over my desk, the pen in my hand racing over each page as I jotted down my thoughts as quickly as I could, questing to make my handwriting legible in my fury to get the ideas out of my head and onto the lines spread before me.
"Almost. Almost." I murmured to myself, though I had been saying those words for the past three hours I knew I was nearly done....Nearly. Almost so close. Though my pen continues to move quick as lightning in it's never ending quest. 

-Inspiration from spending the day catching up on journaling