Me: Wow the first movie was amazing!
Brain: Yes! Soo many ideas on things to write!
Me: Right! I bet the sequel will have even more ideas!
*watches sequel*
Brain: .....that was...
Me: Mind numbing?
Brain: Exactly.
Me: ....let's not do that again.
Brain: Agreed. Let's go find something more amazing to watch!
Me: *face palm* How about we go write something amazing instead.
Brain: After we find something amazing to watch!

Internal Fuming

It's internal fuming that did it.
Gave me the tension in my shoulders, the ache behind my eye.

It's the "I'm so irritated about this and I'm still trying to understand why so and so thought the way they did when that's the furthest thing from the truth." sort of internal fuming that's hard to get out of your head.
Because you don't fully understand Why.
And you don't understand how.
And you're irritated that the person misunderstood your intentions.

And even though the issue has been resolved already...
My mind is still keeping that irritation on the back burner,
Churning it up in a constant cycle.
Wondering. Wishing. Thinking. Fuming.

Until something else comes along to distract me from that internal fuming and help me relax so I can get rid of yet another stupid headache that decided to make its presence known because I can't not stress about things this week apparently.

A Visit?

BANG BANG BANG
I inhaled, crowbar clenched in my hands from my position behind the closet door as I listened to the men outside banging on my door. Please go away, please go away, please go away. I silently pleaded. I didn't need this sort of drama in my life. Couldn't these people just assume no one was home and leave? Though, if they were burglars, assume someone was home and then leave? I didn't want to deal with intruders by myself, not when I was one fourth the weight and the size of the men standing on my porch. Of all times for them to come by. Why now? WHY NOW?!

-Inspiration from a knock on the door

Double Header

Honestly.
It's probably subconscious stress at this point.

That, and too much sleep/too little sleep probably contributed to the two headaches I ended up with last night and this afternoon.
*shakes head*

So it's probably some 'back burner issue' that I'm not thinking about consciously that's subconsciously stressing me out at this point.

My guess is it may be something to do with possible changes at work.
Hints of 'this might change' or 'this could work' or just the vague "I need to talk to you about something but we haven't had time to sit down and chat because life within the store got crazy hectic with customers/shortstaffed/and other things."

Who knows for sure though.
It just needs to sotp though.

Money

I saw red. "What?" I asked.
"You can get paid for doing this." My manager said calmly, raising an eyebrow.
I shook my head. "No, I can't, they stopped doing that."
The manager frowned. "No, we haven't. Who told you that?"
"It was Leanna, the manager before you." I whispered. "She said that we weren't doing that program anymore, that I couldn't get paid for leaving the store to do store errands."
My manager sat up straight and leaned forward, eyes intent on me. "You mean you haven't been getting paid for all that gas you're using up! That's just..." he spun around in his chair, fingers flying across the keyboard as he pulled up a document. "That's just wrong. See. This is the form you fill out to get recompense for running errands for us in your car." He glanced at me. "That other manager lied to you."

-Inspiration from work.

Need More Sleep

I woke up with a headache again.
*exhales*
Though I don't think this time it was due to sleeping tense in the middle of the night.
More than likely, I'd gone to bed too late last night.
And since yesterday I had expended a bit more energy than usual in being social with people...
Lots of energy, less sleep...probably is the combination that gave me that faint ache behind my left eye connected with the ache in my left shoulder.
Not enough sleep.

Unfortunately medicine didn't help it much while I was at work.
I mean, it would fade away, possibly because I managed to distract myself from how tired I was.
But in lull moments, it would come back. That faint ache of "I need sleep."

So when I got home, I did just that.
I went to bed.
And thankfully, when I woke back up from my nap.
The headache had disappeared!! Woot!!!

Yay for being right the first time in the 'cure' for this particular headache case.

First Meetings

She came into the store, brushing back the strands of hair that had fallen from her messy pony tail as she caught sight of me. "Hey, could you help me?" She asked with a smile.

I could only smile back in return, after all that was why I worked there.

"Sure, what do you need?" I asked her, hoping that I actually could answer her question.

She came closer, holding up a metallic item in her hand. "I need some screws this size, do you have any?" She asked.

I held out my hand for her to place the screw into it and studied it. "I believe so." I said confidently. "This way." A moment of searching down the aisle and I'd found the size she was looking for. "Is that all I can help you with?" I asked her.

She shot me another grateful smile, her eyes sparkling. "Yes, that's great. Now I can go fix the lock." She said. "Thanks."

I blinked watching her as she walked away. Fix a lock?

-Inspiration from work