a stellar girls night out

this past tuesday one of my most favorite people and i enjoyed an amazing girls night out! it didn’t matter that i had a microbiology test the next morning at 9 am and that my notorious self waited until the very last possible minute to read the chapters over which i would be tested – i was much in need of some quality girl time. as for my fellow female friends you will read this and agree that my priorities were not, in fact, misaligned but exactly as they needed to be – a european facial and deluxe pedicure with one of your greatest friends easily trumps microbiology on any day of the week! as a serious side note, i accepted the consequences of my actions and needless to say was up until 6 am the next morning studying for this exam (a quick side note to a side note – it’s really hard to comprehend and read about microbial genetics at 4 am!), which was proceeded by roughly an hour and a half of sleep and then a insanely crazy day after that which included taking 15 kids in the range of 2nd – 5th graders bowling!

anyway, more about this amazing facial and pedicure! for all of you fellow female rapid citians, i encourage you, if you are in need of a day of pampering check out headlines beauty academy downtown! as mentioned above, for an hour long facial (by the way, this includes a shoulder and neck massage) and an hour and a half pedicure for roughly $32 how can a woman go wrong?

our time of pampering was great and all but the greatest part of the day is spending time with a quality person with whom you can laugh at some of the most trivial things which some others would be irritated by and complain about. for example, my friend and i are no more than about ten minutes into our facial and the supposedly calming and relaxing music which we were supposed to be listening to became more annoying and irritating than relaxing and more aggravating than calming. at first the beauticians thought it was the cd player that was causing all the ruckus, so they persistently tried to change tracks and then cds but to no avail the problems continued. finally realizing that the problem was not caused by the cd player they decided to turn off the cd player…ok, i laid there and thought…silence is much more relaxing than a poorly spliced and overplayed cd…oh how wrong i was! see, like the forgetful moron that i can sometimes be i managed to turn my phone on vibrate rather than on complete silent mode…and there it went, buzzing like crazy. i laid there trying so hard to relax and all that i could think was is this seriously happening? oh yeah, it most certainly was so i turn to my friend asking if that was a cell phone? thinking that it couldn’t possibly be mine and she proclaiming her innocence, i resigned to the fact that the phone problem was in fact the problem of no one else but myself. after this sequence of events and the lack of being able to relax due to a bad cd and my annoying vibrating phone, we got a serious case of the giggles like most girls do! little did we know there was another woman getting a facial or a massage in the same room we are, thankfully she paid $15 to pass out and didn’t hear a thing! isn’t it crazy how some of the most bizarre and random things seem to funny to others but can really bring the worst out in someone else? when the whole facial experience had passed we certainly had a good laugh and a very memorable facial.

here are some bits of information that i have in turn learned from this experience: 1) if getting a massage, facial, or anything in which you are to relax…bring your own cd; 2) either turn your phone completely off or onto silent mode because it never fails that when you are trying to relax your phone will ring…even if it hasn’t rung all day; and finally, 3) don’t sweat the small stuff…life is entirely to short:)