Having been steaming my face for the past two nights, I have accidentally ended up with a severe back pain, that went up my neck, and to my head. I even ended up canceling one of my ESL classes yesterday, because of that. I am still struggling with a headache today, and not even Bayer is helping, so much for the wonder drug!

The weather today has been amazing, inspired by it, I even cleaned out a closet, and prepared several piles of books to take to the thrift store!

When I was in middle school, our literature teacher taught us how to get rid of a headache. All you need to do – is CRAB! Like that!

I think you are supposed to hold your hand in place like this for at least 5 minutes. Well, you can tell how I feel about this method by the look on my face. But I wanted to share some tricks that really help you get rid of headaches (no prescription required!)

1. Sleep! Make some time during the day for a little snooze, or simply go to bed earlier! Trust me, 30 minutes do make a difference!

2. Massage! From ear lobes, to neck, to shoulders! That is something I am in desperate need of right now!

3. Water. Try drinking it! Or you may want to make a compress. Anyways, stay hydrated!

4. Peppermint tea. You know I love herbs, and herbal tea is one of my fav drinks! Sipping peppermint tea could help your headache, that’s if you like peppermint of course!

5. Pretend you are not there. It’s easy, just close your eyes, and well, here comes your boss, and he is gonna think you are sleeping. Convincing him that you simply blink for so long probably won’t work here! But that usually helps with stress related headaches.

Some other alternative methods include:

- punch a wall

- close the computer

- drink Coke or Gatorade

- avoid chocolate

- complaining

- calling in sick

- going for a walk

- taking breaths of fresh air (try not to over doze!)

Hope you had fun, I sure did, but the headache is still there. Ooops, I am complaining now