Mini-Spa Night

It's been a long couple of days. I'm sick. Again. Woo hoo. I'm battling some strange sore thoat, dry cough, semi plugged nose, body ache thing. I haven't been sleeping very well because this cough keeps waking me up. I attempted to go to Saskatoon yesterday for an appointment. I was 45 minutes into my drive when I got a phone call from Mike saying the clinic had phoned to cancel my appointment (apparently my doctor was called into delivery). So, I turned around and trudged home. I was more than slightly disappointed since I had contemplated cancelling the appointment because I didn't feel well enough to drive. Argh.

Anyways, I was at Walmart this evening and I aimlessly drifted up and down the cosmetic aisles. I smelled all the shampoos and hoped to pick out a new one for myself. Instead, I stuck with my old stand by of Dove. I looked at all the lotions, but didn't buy any. I browsed the hair stuff and thought about buying myself some new clips. I looked at the facial scubs and pore cleansing pads, but again, decided my Dove does the trick. I ended up picking out a foot scrub and some lotion socks for myself. Tonight, I am going to give myself a pedicure and get rid of all this dry, cracking, flaky skin on my heels. Then, I am going to use the nail shine kit my brother, Britt, got me for Christmas. After that, I am going to curl up in the tub with a cup of tea, some caramel chocolate hearts and my first issue of "Style At Home" magazine (Mike's mom got me a subscription for my birthday and it just showed up today). I think I will go crazy tonight and use bubbles with the jets on :-) Since I was shown how to do the french-twist-in-the-hair-using-a-pencil-trick (thanks Laena!), I'm going to feel very Julia Roberts a la "Pretty Woman" tonight! Maybe this will help get me back on track since this is now TWICE I have been sick since 2009 started.

On the upside, something that made my day was seeing that the little care package I sent to Valeria's daughter, Elena, made it to Italy today. Valeria posted a picture of all the little treats and stickers that I sent and it is so neat to see the things that were sitting on my desk last week, are now sitting on her desk! Since Valeria's blog is private, I will ask her permission to copy and paste her words onto my blog (and maybe one of the pictures) because I want to share all the kind things Valeria had to say! I just love love love the way she writes!

Have a good night everyone...I'm off to Taves' Toe Spa!