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I don’t know what my problem is… I’ve the blues. A case of the Mondays. I’m down in the dumps. It’s just one of those days.
Already.
I feel like I’m in a fog. My limbs are heavy.
I don’t know why. Nothing in particular is wrong.
Nothing big, anyway. I could list a bunch of things that aren’t quite right, but in the grand scheme of things they all add up to a bunch of nothing.
I just want to go back to bed.
So, how are you?
Sometimes is this bloggy world, you get lucky. And if you get really lucky, you get to spread the luck and love around. That’s what happened to me last week, thanks to Dove Ultimate Deodorant. You see, a couple of weeks ago they sent me an email asking if they could send me and a view bloggy friends to a local day spa to get pampered in celebration of their new Dove Ultimate Beauty Care Light Radiance deodorant. Ummm…let me think about it…YES!! Fortunately, I have long been a fan of Dove Ultimate, especially the go Fresh collection. So I was all about giving my pits some pampering with the Beauty Care Collection. Because summer is coming, and Cortney expects my pits to look lovely when we hit the pool. And since Dove Ultimate Beauty Care helps restore the moisture you lose when shaving (and they GOTTA be shaved!), I should be in good shape!
So last Friday, my friends and I slapped some Dove (they sent me some Ultimate for everyone!) on our pits and headed out to the salon for some girl time and a much-needed mommy break!
The lovely ladies who accompanied me to the spa are: of course my cousin Emily, Katie, Tricia, Elizabeth, Kate, Amy, Celia, and last but CERTAINLY not least, Andrea. (Cortney couldn’t make it cause her kids got sick – RUDE!) The girls at Tudor Salon & Day Spa treated us wonderfully!
We got manicures:
We got pedicures:
(I think Amy’s baby boy Brennan was a little bummed out that he wasn’t getting a pedi? Doesn’t he look jealous!?)
We even got CHAIR MASSAGES!! Rumor has it Katie proposed to the massage therapist afterward. No word on her answer yet!
And mostly, we had a large block of time to sit and chat with friends and DO NOTHING!! It was wooonderful.
Thanks to Dove Ultimate for a day that truly WAS the ultimate in friendship and pampering! For more info on Dove Ultimate Beauty Care and taking care of your pits this summer, check out the Dove Deodorant website, where you can also download a $1.50 off coupon! (You know me likey da coupon!)
Thanks to all my girls for coming out and spending the day with me!
Well, today is Emily’s birthday. Her 31st to be exact. And since last year was the time for me to jubilantly celebrate us once again having the same beginning number to our ages, this year I thought I’d just share a fun birthday memory. Because after all, dammit, she’ll always be younger than me. And now, she is also irritatingly skinnier.
But anyhoo.
Emily’s birthday would often coincide with the opening weekend of our favorite amusement park, Kings Island, which was about an hour away. (Since Emily is a “fun mom” she still often goes there with her kids in the summer. Since I am NOT, my kids have never been there, and they can go when they are old enough to walk around the place by themselves. Or, when Emily feels sorry enough for them to take them. ) We loooved Kings Island, and on Emily’s birthday I was often the lucky Chosen Friend who got to accompany her. So I have some really good memories of that place that involve her, and specifically two rides, a roller coaster called “the Racer” and a ride which defies description called “Skylab”.
The Racer was a super-rad WOODEN roller coaster that had two tracks with two trains “racing” against each other. One went backwards and one forwards. (If you ever saw the “Brady Bunch” episode where they went to Kings Island [and SHAME SHAME SHAME on you if you haven’t!!!] this is the roller coaster they rode and looked terrified on.) As I recall, they were both really fun, if you like being shaken to death at 60 mph. We LOVED them. The backwards one literally made me feel like I wanted to die, but in a good way. If that’s possible. Because the Racer was kind of an old stand-by, and had two trains running at once, sometimes the lines wouldn’t be too long and we’d ride it over and over again as many times as our sturdy little pubescent bodies could take it!
As awesome as the Racer was, our true amusement park ride love was the Skylab. May it rest in peace. I searched ye olde internetz high and low for a good pic of the Skylab, but all I could come up with was this lovely photo of that hallowed ride at night time, which I ripped off some guy’s You Tube (WHICH, I might add, was made up of STILL PICTURES and BROCHURE pages set to music of his “solo trip” to Kings Island in 1987. I am happy Emmy and I never ran into him when we were there. EEP!!)
So this is the hallowed SkyLab. Basically a giant circle full of interconnected (rainbow-colored) cars that starts out flat and raises up completely perpendicular to the ground while spinning at warp speed. You rode two to a car, so the person in front was literally smashed against the person in back like twins in the womb. You couldn’t tell where one person started and the other ended. Since it was always about 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit on any given day at Kings Island, when the Skylab finally spun to a stop, you were still adhered together by sweat once the G-forces let up. And it. was. AWESOME! This was the other ride Em and I rode as many times as possible, and my heart goes “pitter patter” when I think of it. (Although looking at that photo, my stomach lurches. How on earth did we DO that stuff over and over?? And how did we manage to get our cheekbones to slide back into place after the Skylab spun them out to the tops of our ears?)
I loved going to Kings Island with Emily on her birthday, but since I am now Old and No Fun At All, I think we need to come up with a new tradition to celebrate! What’s the 30’s-mom equivalent of roller coasters and deathly-fast spinning wheels? A double espresso and one of those massage chairs at the mall? Help me out with ideas for a new tradition!
Oh, and Happy Birthday, Cousin! Here’s to many more decades of cousin fun. I love you!