Hello People!
First off, I am finally going on a proper vacation after almost 2 ½ yrs. Can I still call it that if I’m going with a naughty toddler?? Will be going out with my husband, my brother and his wife. With my son in tow, we’ll be seeing a lot of Beach and Sea scenes. Super excited about the tour because I’ll be away from the mundane for 5 whole days. And I get a bonus weekday work-off after the vacation.
Anyway, like for any vacation ahead, I have prepared a check list of items that I have to get done. Like – Shopping, shopping, shopping and some more shopping!!
Got almost everything ticked off from the list. Bought some really cute Tees and Shorts for my kid and cool onesies for myself. Luckily, even the universe conspired to give us good stuff and the shopping malls near us gave us this huge exciting sales and deals. I, along with my sisters-in-law have shopped for 6 hours non-stop trying out all the dresses. (It’s a secret: I have bunked my work and went shopping)
Finally, nearly all the shopping done, there was one other important to-do item left out from my check-list
The customary visit you pay to a salon before you go on a vacation!!
So after spending an eternity on shopping for clothes, I decided to skip the fancy stuff from the salon services. Like the luxury facial and massage treatments. Also, like someone said somewhere on the internet, It’s really hard to impress the Salon lady/parlor auntie. They come up with numerous suggestions about how bad your skin is, or how better and bright your eye region can look with the latest mask they introduced, or how dry your hair is and how you can get it all right with their special spa treatments. So, not to get tempted for all those things, I have decided to do the substitute of salon’s face clean up myself at home later. I went with a straight face and directly asked the lady for a waxing service. They still came up with the de-tanning masks and all for my arms and legs. They just don’t accept defeat, now. I gave in and went ahead with that.
The first part was good – The de-tanning. I almost dozed off while waiting for it to get dry or do its job (after a day’s long work at office – not sure I made much progress with the to-do list of my job, though). Then came the hot wax: which by itself wakes you up with too many uffs and aahs to cool off the hot wax drops that get spilled on the way to getting spread. And then…… Zzzzaappp!!
Done. This is it. The pulling out the sticker part. May be I have already died – but somehow still feel the pain?? Possible? Nope. So, I went back to striking (quite literally) reality and asked the lady to be gentler with the process. But, the hairs that grew up are too stubborn – like me. I know, had I not been lazy and paid the visit to salon last month too, it would have been easier this time. But super lazy me thought – “It’s still fine, I can go there next month before I go to the vacation and deal with the load all at once” and took the brunt. Even after so many years of getting my arms and legs waxed, the pain is still the same. Why god why?! All the ads on the TV show how easy it is to get waxed/shaved without the slightest pain. But they are showing everything done on the already hairless arms and legs!! Or is everyone out there as body-hairless as the models they show on TV? Answer to this is, as I know, Nope. Anyway, I went about doing the ouch s, aahs throughout the session and tried hard to stay put only by picturing myself in that cute LBD that I bought for the trip (B for blue, not black). That did the trick and numbed the pain for me this time.
Is there a life lesson that I’m going to draw from this experience? Like – “However tough the path may seem, imagining yourself successful at whatever you want, makes the path you took much easier to deal with” or, “Never quit. Try again and again till you reach your goal?” Hell, no. Or maybe yes. It’s easy to go all philosophical when you are in pain.
The only good thing that comes out of waxing other than being hairless for less than 20 days is: the free massage they give to rub-in the moisturizer after the wax. Few minutes (or is it seconds?) of solace.
This time, like every time, before leaving the salon, I decided I won’t be lazy but visit the salon more regularly. Lesson learnt once again! Mission ‘salon-visit-before-vacation’ accomplished. Ticked off from the check list.
And finally, leaving my painful past behind, I go about packing all the goodies in my vacation bags. This brings huge jitters to me. Does anyone have vacation jitters like I do (like wedding jitters) before going on a vacation?? Or is it just me?
Or is it maybe because I’m going with my sweetheart kiddo that I’m this nervous?? We did not take him out all by ourselves till now. And, this will be the first 1 week where he’ll be around only 4 people (young adults or are we grown-ups already??) to look after. He is surrounded by too many people at home daily, you know. Both sets of grandparents (not like in Charlie and the chocolate factory, but almost), aunts and uncle.
I hope we have good time and he has great time with us.
I’m saying bye-bye now. Have lots of pending work to complete and packing to do later. Will be sharing my time during vacation once I’m back 😀 Meanwhile, do share your shopping-for-vacation/waxing-for-vacation/vacation experiences in the comments section.
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