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Staycation Day 3

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The day didn’t start out great – I was up at 3:30 am with a stomachache which lasted past the time I had planned to get up and get going. Luckily I felt well enough to get out the door in time to drop off my “bucket” of urine at the hospital (for a 24 hour urine collection test my urologist ordered) before heading to the spa for my massage.

The massage was ok. The table was warm and comfortable, and the lighting was nice and low with relaxing music playing, but there were some parts of the massaging itself I wasn’t fond of – I felt like there was too much attention given to my neck and scalp, especially because it hurt even though I did ask the masseuse, Dora, to lighten her pressure, which she did, if only temporarily in some cases. I preferred the massage on my back, legs, arms, hands and feet but she didn’t spend as much time on those areas, nor did the foot massage feel as good as when Joe does it. Would I go again? Maybe. But I’d request specific areas now that I know how it works. I did fill out a survey beforehand regarding what areas I was ok with her massaging but I’m not sure she read it because I indicated I wanted my feet massaged and she did that the least whereas I didn’t want my face massaged but she ended the hour by massaging my face (I did end up enjoying it, though).

Afterwards Joe and I had lunch at my favorite Thai place near where I work called Happy Elephant. Once home, I relaxed by reading through the stack of magazines that have been piling up. I also fell asleep for a bit.

The plan for the rest of the evening is to read some more and then watch Gossip Girl while Joe watches the Bears game and get to bed early so I’ll be up earlier tomorrow. While it’s nice to have the option to stay up late and sleep in I’m so used to getting up at 5 am that the days where I get up late feel like they go by too quickly.

Staycation Day 2

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Another day of relaxation. Didn’t leave the house except for a morning trip to Target. We spent a few hours playing games including Skip-Bo, Phase 10, and Triominoes. Then we watched 40 Year Old Virgin for the umpteenth time since my SIL hasn’t seen it before.

Staycation Day 1

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Today has been a relaxing day. We slept in til 9 am and my SIL made yummy French toast with fresh berries for breakfast. I cleaned my desk, organized some paperwork, and knocked some items off the DVR. Joe has chicken and dumplings cooking in the crockpot for dinner and we rented Safety Not Guaranteed from Redbox to watch shortly.

Most do-nothing Saturdays make me anxious because they feel wasted, but we have eight more work-free days ahead of us so it’s all good.

Good Time

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I’m in a much better mood than yesterday. How can I not be? I only have one more day of work before Joe and I have 9 glorious days off together which couldn’t have come soon enough. This week has been rough – I worked 10 hours of overtime. I don’t like working extra hours because I value my free time but I keep reminding myself those long hours are going to make for a nice paycheck, which, if I wasn’t so practical, I’d put towards an iPad mini. I admit it – I want one. It’s the perfect size to keep in my purse. But I don’t need one, so I’ll hold off… for now.

I’ve got a lot of stuff planned for my week off, including finally redeeming the massage gift card Joe gave me last Christmas. I kept putting it off for when I’d feel less stressed but let’s face it, stressed is my middle name, so I’ve got an appointment for Monday for a one hour Swedish massage – my first ever. I hope it goes well.

Oh and that title? I’m listening to the latest Owl City album. It’s too easy to download music cheaply these days. I found a $5 MP3 credit for Amazon so the album only set me back $3.

NaBloPoMo November 2012

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Hey, look at me, I’m going to actually participate in something! November is National Blogging Month and I’m going to post an entry each day for the entire month. I don’t think I’ve ever done that in my entire blogging existence so it should be interesting. Probably more so for me than you since some days I’ll probably have crap to talk about, but on those days I’ll pull from the topic of suggestions on the site. I’ll have to set a reminder in my phone or sure as my name is Nicole I’ll forget one day and have failed before I even really began.

So today’s topic/question is: If you could live anywhere, where would it be?

Well, it would probably be easier for me to tell you where I wouldn’t want to live: Indiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, oh the list goes on. I *think* I might like to live in Colorado, Utah, or Oregon, but seeing as how I’ve never visited any of those states this is merely a guess.

Ideally I’d like to live somewhere close to shopping and destinations but tucked away with enough land that I can’t see, smell, or hear my neighbors. I love quiet, but having lived in apartments and a townhome my whole adult life I have never enjoyed any such luxury. I grew up in a house in Chicago but houses there are very close together so you still had to deal with neighbors. And while statistics claim that less than 50% of the population smokes, we have always lived in-between smokers – my home growing up, the apartment Joe and I shared when we first got together, and now in my townhome. WTF?!? I read that the smoking rate in Utah is the lowest in the nation so that alone makes the state all the more appealing to me.

In any case we wouldn’t even considering moving to another state until the kids are older and are out in the world doing their own thing as we don’t want to miss out on spending time with them.

Well, I think that’s a good start to this whole blogging every day for a month endeavor, don’t you? Good thing I happened to post about Halloween yesterday since I didn’t learn about this challenge until today! “See” you tomorrow!