Monday....and other things...

I feel like I should blog, since it's been a while. However I also feel like I have nothing new to say. My birthday is approaching. I feel slight fright at this birthday... a quarter of a century. No laughing matter. =) I know, I know, I am still young and have a long way to go... But, when its the furthest I've ever been, it seems old.

It's becoming winter here. Rapidly. I reminds me a lot of Canada. All the time actually. The sudden drop in temperature, the frigid wind whipping at my face. The sun shining brightly but not really doing anything. I remember years where it snowed on my birthday, and I feel like this could also be one of them. We shall see. Also I remember my mom always saying how it looked like snow. "those are snow clouds", she would say. And she was usually right. Also the smell of snow about to come. That is a good smell. Haven't smelled it yet, but I did smell the smell you smell right before you smell the smell of snow coming soon. Also an OK smell!!

On Monday I went and decided it was time for a little Michelle TLC. So I went to get a facial. On the way to the facial place i happened upon a chair massage place. I was intrigued so I checked out some prices, finding it reasonable I decided to get a 20 minute "relaxation chair" massage. A friendly Korean woman got me all situated and then proceeded to beat me to death. Or, beat me into relaxation. It was pretty intense. But also fantastic!

Then, fully relaxed (beaten) I continued on to the facial place. They talked me into getting the premium package which was an hour and ten minutes long. Lovely. I put on the little gown thing and went into a room full of beds. I was told to lay down and so I did and wouldn't ya know, it was heated. SO nice. So I laid on a nice heated bed, all warm and toasty with a blanket on me and had a very sweet Korean girl give my face a facial. This included having my face covered in cold goo, having it scrubbed, rubbed, massaged (ahhhhh), covered in a mask of some sort, and a scalp massage. Also included was a back and upper arm deal. The only part I didn't like was when she told me to close my mouth and eyes and not to move them, then covered my face in some kind of cloth that shrunk onto my face and kinda tightened there. It didn't harden, just stuck and I couldn't open my eyes or my mouth. I started getting a little claustrophobic. But it was alright. I survived.

So naturally after getting my face cleansed/moisturized, I thought I also needed a manicure. Wheee. First one ever actually. The girl who did it didn't speak a word of English. So she whipped out her phone and got on the internet, onto Google translator. And we proceeded to have the longest conversation via the phone translator. It was really fun. I was the only one in there so we had a great time. Then at the end another lady came in and was waiting, and we continued our awesome communication for a while and then as i was leaving i wanted to say thank you to here and tell her how sweet she had been. (she got my purse for me, brought me tea, zipped up my jacket). So I was trying to type it and the lady sitting there waiting said, in perfect English, "OK, what do you want to tell her?" It shocked me... Thanks English speaking Korean who has been sitting here watching us type back and forth. haha, then she said, "I didn't want to interrupt, it seemed like you were having fun." Which is true, at least, I was... =) Communication was my major after all. Should use it somehow!

Pretty much the best Monday of all time.

That's almost all the new news. Oh today we had a costume party at Kinderest. Check facebook for pics!!

The end

Michelle