relaxation

On Saturday I cashed in my four-hour-spa-day gift card that Mr. Doodlebug gave me for my birthday. It was amazing. I had a body polish where the therapist exfoliated my entire body. Then I had a facial, not one of the ones where they squeeze your zits, but a relaxing non-painful one. I had some juice and water and waited in the lounge dressed in one of their white bathrobes and rubbery slippers. Then I was taken to a different room where I had an herbal foot treatment. What is that, you ask. Well, there was a bowl of warm water at the foot of a chair. The woman put a sack of fresh herbs into the warm water. There were fresh rose petals floating around my feet. The woman left for a few minutes and returned with a mound of epson salt on a ceramic dish. She rubbed the salt into my calves, around my toes, deep into my heels and around the tops and bottoms of my feet. Then she rinsed them and I got on the massage table for a relaxing deep tissue massage. It was a wonderful day. I left at 5:00 (I arrived at 12:30) starving, but rested. I took the bus home and read a bunch of pages from my book (Runaway by Alice Munro).

Yesterday, Mr. Doodlebug, baby Doodle and I went to Wilmington to participate in the rally for Barack Obama. There were thousands of people there. Baby Doodle was doing really well for the first two hours and then got pretty cranky about twenty minutes into the speech. We walked around with him still in ear shot of Obama. He gave his stump speech for nearly an hour (we found out on the news). It was fun to go and see him in person, even if we were quite far away. Every time the crowd clapped baby Doodle said, "people clapping for Omama."

Last night we had two of our friends over to eat nachos and other superbowl foods and watch the game. I knitted and hosted and caught a little bit of the game, the good parts -- when that Giants player was on the field when he wasn't supposed to be and when another Giants player caught a pass in the end zone and declared victory. I hear it was one of the most exciting superbowl games in history.

Anyway, it's Monday and I'm relaxed. Tonight I'm going to yoga for more relaxation.