I glanced behind me, frowning as I faltered in my journey down the dirt road, quite different from the smooth cobblestones I'd been journeying on just half a mile on.
"A short cut?" I mutter, glancing down at the map in my hands and then up to the dirt road.
It was nice, well maintained....for now. But would it be a short cut? The innkeeper had insisted I'd be able to get to the City quicker this way....
I exhaled, folding the map. "Please don't let this be a trap." I mumbled, adjusting my pack. I needed to get into the City quickly and if this route would do so, then I would take it. 

-Inspiration from traveling

Due to the stresses of the night before, I had a slight headache at work this morning, but thankfully again taking some more Excedrin ensured that it didn't stick around long once I got into the groove of working and got some of the tension in my muscles worked out. 

Encountered another slight headache at work today. Again it was managed by taking some Excedrin and it went away, but emotional stress later in the day made the headache come back. *exhales* Heat and meds seem to be helping a bit.

Ended up with a slight headache at work today. Possibly from slight work stress. But probably also just from being sore from hiking and driving over the weekend. 
Thankfully taking some Excedrin helped it to go away.

My heart jumped into my throat as I carefully scrambled over the sandstone to safety away from the cliff side and it's very very very long drop down to the bottom. 
Just a few more feet.
A few more feet.
I exhaled, finally able to breathe as I reached firmer ground away from the sketchy pebble strewn edge. 
That had been close.
Far too close.
Why in the world had I agreed to come up here?
For a view? It wasn't---
I turned around to sit, and paused, mouth dropping open at the view of the valley below me.
Oh.
Oh that was beautiful. 

-Inspiration from hiking

I closed my eyes, resting my head against the warm sandstone, listening to the faint chatter of the small sparrows flitting about overhead. This....this was nice. It had been so long since I'd been able to just sit and rest. Sit and listen to nature. Sit in general really.
I dropped my hand to the rock, my fingers spreading to soak in the warmth of the sun covered stone. This was what I had been seeking. 

-Inspiration from hiking to Delicate Arch

Ended up with a slight headache towards the middle of the day today. 
More than likely it was due to not having enough water while hiking in the heat. But it could possibly also be stress/tension related too because we were hiking slower than I'm used to and it was starting to get on my nerves especially when dealing with situations that get me worried/paranoid. Like someone getting seriously hurt or something.
Thankfully taking a bit of Excedrin seemed to help get rid of it for most of the rest of the day. I can feel it creeping back up on my right side again, thanks again to tension and being around too many people today. 

Woke up with a headache behind both eyes today.
Which I really can only attribute to possibly sleeping tense.
Because the back of my neck was aching too when I woke up.

Unfortunately the headache wasn't willing to go away....like at all.
It would fade a bit.
But despite meds and liquids and food and heat....it remains present.
Though now it's moved to just being behind my right eye so I suppose that's a bit of progress all things considered. 

I was right in that the nuclear headache kept me up all night.
It got so bad I couldn't rest in the early hours of the morning. Heat wasn't helping. My stomach was too upset to try and do meds. So I just had to like....suffer there on the couch, twisting and turning, trying to find a comfortable position that would help me relax enough to sleep.
I did get some sleep....for like maybe two hours before I had to go to work.
Thankfully the headache had faded by that point.
But now it's halfway coming back. Tense muscles behind the right shoulder blade again, heading up behind the right eye.
I can only hope it goes away with sleep tonight. 

It shouldn't have triggered me, but it did.
I had to deal with a couple of antagonizing customers in a row, and I could feel my the muscles in my back tensing up and moving into my shoulders and up behind my right eye and despite my best intentions the headache refuses to go away.
Naps, food, water, meds, showers. Nothing is helping.
The headache's going to keep me up all night in it's nuclear awfulness until it decides itself to go away. 

I worked to keep a smile on my face as the noise increased around me. It was getting harder to focus on the conversation at hand, my eyes wanting to dart to every movement I could sense from the corner of my eyes. 
It wasn't usually this bad.
Not usually.
But I had had too much stimuli recently and it was making me twitchy. Jumpy. I had to...I had to "I'm sorry, I got to go." I said abruptly, standing from my seat. I needed to get away from this place and it's constant distractions. 

-Inspiration from being around too many people

Ended up with another slight headache tonight because I went to a High School graduation and boy....I'd forgotten how loud people can get.
Like. I don't even remember my own graduation being that loud. 
But then again I was in a different venue, and this place was an events arena.
And people acted like it.
Air horns.
Screaming at the top of their lungs when their person was called.
It definitely was different from the solemn affair that was college graduation lol. 
But it put me on edge to the point where I was tensing up in my shoulders and getting a faint headache. XP

Ended up with a slight headache today.
Probably just from exhaustion and too much peopling because I had to work and then went straight into hanging with a friend and then went straight into family time and yah....by the time I was driving home I had a slight headache going. *exhales* Hopefully I can get rid of it.

Ended up with a headache behind my right eye today at work.

Not really from work itself.

But because I got stressed from well...I guess the stress of 'expectation.' 

Where people were texting me with things not fully in my control because I was stuck at work....and it just stressed me out.

The ache in the neck that crawls up to be behind the right eye....

Thankfully taking some advil helped it to go away before I got off work, but it wasn't a fun couple of hours having to deal with it until the medicine kicked in. 

I woke up with a headache this morning.

Not surprising because the dreams I'd been having weren't the most...pleasant...and were rather stressful. So to feel the tension of the muscles in my neck from that---caused quite the headache behind my eyes when I finally stirred myself awake. 
Not fun.

Though grabbing a heatpack and a bit of breakfast has helped to make the pain go away.
...Even if I can feel it creeping back up the side of my neck and making it's way to linger behind my right eye currently, hopefully if I keep more heat on it and drink/eat a bit more food/liquid--I'll be able to keep the headache from fully forming. 

I paused, frowning at the faint sound I thought I heard coming from the kitchen. "That's weird" I mumble to myself. 
I was supposed to be here alone and there had been no indications of rats or mice when I'd bought the place....so what had made noise in a kitchen that should have nothing in it?
Cautiously I set down the broom I'd been using to sweep, and tiptoed to the kitchen, vaguely wondering if I would be encountering my first real ghost---
I froze, eyes drawn to the tail that was just vanishing underneath the fridge.
"Not a rat." I whisper, turning back for my broom.
No it looked more like--I used the handle to sweep the empty space underneath and encountered resistance that was easily overcome once I got a better grip.
Sliding out from under the fridge slid a dust covered snake.

-Inspiration from customer story 

The sun had set hours earlier, yet I stayed curled up on the chair outside, a small smile on my face as I listened to the adults tell stories about their dating lives. 
It was rare to see them smile so.
To laugh.
And despite the bugs coming for me, I stayed.
Treasuring the moment.
Loving seeing the bonds form.
If only every moment could be like this. 

-Inspired from chatting with the neighbors

Ended up with a slight headache behind my right eye this afternoon.
Judging by the ache in my neck it's probably a stress related headache.
Stressing from dealing with coworkers at work probably....but also entertaining guests this evening.
*exhales*
I've taken some Excedrin and have a heatpack on my shoulder and have had a bit of Dr. Pepper too...
so we'll see....
See if it will go away or not.

Anxiously I watch her eyes move over the page, trying to not fidget while I wait to see her reaction.
Had I done well?
Had I chosen the write sort of story for her to lay her eyes upon?
I couldn't help but think about the other half dozen manuscripts by passed with a smile and a shake of her head.
Maybe.
Just maybe.
This would be the one. 

-Inspiration from meeting up with a friend

The flowers still bloom and I picked some for you in hopes that they'll bring a smile to your face. Because even though you're not physically here, in my heart you'll always have place.

We screeched into the station without a moment to spare. Jumping out of the car I tugged my bag from the back seat. "Thanks!" I called, waving a quick goodbye to my friends as I darted across the parking lot to the train that had just pulled into the station. 
I knew the doors wouldn't stay open for long and---HA!
I slid triumphantly into the train compartment just as the doors slid shut and the train began to move.
Made it. 
Taking a seat by the window I looked out, smiling softly at my friends as they waved energetically to the train. I gave my own small wave back, sure they couldn't see me, but making the effort anyways. "Til next time guys." I whispered, watching their figures disappear behind me. 

-Inspiration from dropping family off at the train station

I frown, staring down at the white sheet of paper, mentally calculating the numbers in my head. 
"So..." I whisper, folding the thing back up. "When you said 'at cost to us' it didn't mean 'free' for me." 
That...well it sucked. My bill was so much higher than I expected it to be because of that...and now....I didn't know if I could affor---squaring my shoulders I reached for the phone. "Maybe..." I murmur looking up the number. 
Maybe I could make it less. Fix this. 

-Inspiration from medical visit

Brain: Shall we revisit some of the old WIPs?
Me: YE---
Brain: Or explore this BRAND NEW IDEA!
Me: YE---
Brain: Or!! WE go to bed. Too much thinking.
Me: -_-

Woke up with a headache, though thankfully the body ache from yesterday was basically gone so woot for that.
But headache itself decided to stick around for most of the day. XP Foo. 
Aleve and Tylenol nor a Nap didn't help it go away.
But after going out to dinner with friends and probably getting distracted with the conversation and having fun and of course, eating real food....helped it to fade. 

Ended up with quite the headache today.
Though it was different from the normal ones in that it was like....a headcold ache.
Where the ache went all the way down from head to toe.

So basically...my whole body ached.
Not just my head.
I ended up taking some Aleve for like...the first time to get my muscles to relax.
It helped the headache a little as well.
But eating real food of meat and potatoes seems to have done a better job of helping. 

Brain: *comes up with angsty idea*
Me: *teary eyed* Why would you do that?
Brain: >:)

Ended up with a headache today.
Which comes as a surprise to no one since it was Fast Sunday.
And Fast Sundays always give me headaches.
Though I was doing my best to not get one....
One started up towards the end of church.
And nothing really made it go away throughout the day.
Not sleep or meds or caffeine or anything....

I think because I kept getting more stress piled on top of me.
So it was hard to relax and just have fun and enjoy the moment.

-Sarnic Dirchi

Brain: We shall be the best writer ever!!
Me: We will?
Brain: Yes! We shall write so much that everyone will adore us! We'll be the next popular writer in the fandom!!
Me: Okay....sounds fake but okay. 

I am not good with being around annoying people currently.
As I ended up with a slight headache today after going to a social event...and getting stuck with talkative people sitting behind me. *exhales*
It shouldn't have bothered me as much as it did.
But it bothered me and I ended up with a headache because the people behind me were bugging me from all their talking when they should have been listening. 

Had the twinges of a headache behind my right eye today, but it managed to stay at just twinges. Nothing too major thankfully. 

Headache decided to be evil today and showed up after work behind my left eye this time. 
A nap seriously didn't help that either....
And I once again only began finding relief after I'd taken my contacts out....
So I do wonder if somehow yesterday when grabbing the old right one---I accidentally put in the old left one today.
Because like...the right eye didn't bug me at all as I tried to contact with the chip in it today...and was fine.
But then the left eye when hokey on me.

So I think to be safe tomorrow I'm just going to open up a new pair of contacts earlier than I want...but at least I can be sure I have the right prescription in my eyes.

In any case. I took a long shower, some Excedrin and ate a slightly larger meal than normal (yay ramen) to see if that would help get rid of this headache that was pounding away hard enough to nearly make me dizzy....
And it's worked so far.
Though I'm being careful to not be too active as it seems like if I'm upright for too long...it gets worse again.