Saturday, June 13, 2009

Relaxing Indulge: Home Spa

I was dying to have a shoulder massage since last few days ago when I felt a very aching shoulder in the office. But one can never just drop by a Spa center conveniently like dropping by a petrol-kiosk for petrol, right? I'm not sure about others but I'm very particular about spa treatments and the service I will get for the money that I spend. Then, I was dreaming, "How nice if I can redeem my V-Day massage voucher from Scott today?". "Okie, return back to Earth please!"

Today, even a Saturday, as usual, the brain-alarm will wakes me up at 7am but I woke up just to drape the curtains close to cover the brightness and went back to curdle my bolster. Zzz...

By 10am, I was awaken by the door-bell; my mom's friend came to visit. So, I dragged myself up, brushed my teeth, eased my bladder and went down to make myself breakfast after saying "hi" to the Aunty. After scanning thru the Saturday papers, I went to do my laundry.

It started to thunder loudly and I was delighted, "God, finally you're sending the rain! Thank You!! I hope the thunders will follow by rain ah..." I whispered to myself. As I completed hanging my laundry to dry, few drops of rain came and so, I watered my plants by my room windows and open up the windows as it was shut the whole night thru due to the bad-smokey-haze that I don't want it to penetrate into my room.

Then, an idea came to me... it's such a wonderful Saturday so far... and why not pamper myself a little bit with the home-spa-treatment? So, I took out my manicure set and started to work on my nails, filed them and off I went into the bathroom for a shower.

Started with washing my hair and then, leave the hair-conditioner to work it's softness into my hair. Then, the full face to toes scrub starts... I didn't buy any special scrubs, I just used the St Ives facial scrub for my face, my body, my hands and my legs till my feet. It's not my first time doing this and the result never failed me. Well, a few strokes are done for body and legs just so that the dead-skins are really removed.

After rinsing it with cold water, I filled up the baby-tub with the maximum hot water I could get from the shower and pour lavender gel into it. Well, lavender supposed to be calming the mind and make one sleeps well at night. Once the tub is 3/4 full with water, it's time to dip in!!

Hehehe... I know, it's just a BABY-TUB!! But, will do since my house don't have a bath-tub... So, I have to take turns to soak different part of my body & legs... My front part is impossible to have a soak but I could actually soak my whole back with my shoulder in the baby-tub and it was so relaxing.

With the sounds of the rain splattering outside the windows, I almost fell asleep for a quick 5 minutes before I awaken by the thunder! 15-20 minutes after all the soaking, I rinsed off the lavender suds and my hair-conditioner with cold water. It will be more pleasant if I could get ice-cubes with me into the bathroom. *chuckled* But, I don't want to raise the suspicious from my mom who doesn't know a thing that I was up to in the bathroom.

Yeehhh... now, I felt my aches are gone and since I want to enjoy the rest of my Saturday relaxing and without sitting in front of the computer, I better stop blogging and grab my lunch. Wow! Never had such a nice beautiful weather Saturday after so long...

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