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December 22, 2005
It was a nice break, until I returned to being me
For Christmas, my mom watched the girls for me and paid for a manicure and pedicure. She also paid to have my lip waxed, but I'm not going to hold that against her.
I've had acrylic nails put on before, but I've never had a pedicure or just a manicure. I say "just" a manicure, because when you get the acrylic nails put on, it's not the relaxing hand-massage-finger-rubbing I got today. They take a Dremel tool to your nails, coat you in plastic and noxious chemicals, Dremel some more, and then maybe paint you up. Don't get me wrong, I love me some fake nails, but it's not exactly a spa treatment.
Anyway, the mani/pedi was nice. The kidless time was nice. When I was done, I got to make a leisurely trip through the grocery store (I'm not being sarcastic. I actually like to grocery shop when I don't have to worry about Jamie's drunken carting or Katie barfing/screeching). I even got myself a huge cup of hot chocolate by the deli, and didn't feel a bit guilty, since I missed lunch. Of course, it was so hot that I had barely had a sip by the time I finished my stroll and headed to checkout.
And here's where things get messy. I set the cup down, and managed to knock it into the edge of the cart. The lid came off. Fifteen ounces of hot chocolate spilled down the cart and all over the floor. In the checkout line. In a place where people couldn't really get around me. I'm lucky I didn't get throttled by a holiday shopper. None of the checkers seemed to notice the horrific mess. I did manage to get a roll of paper towels out of one of them. It took at least half the rolls to clean things up. Then, as I was waiting for her to finish scanning, I managed to spill part of the remainder down my shirt. Apparently, I had the cup turned a bit sideways and missed the little hole in the lid. By now, I'm convinced that the kids really have sucked all the brains out of me.
I managed to get out of there without causing any more destruction, but the damage was done.
I was me again.
Posted by me at December 22, 2005 10:00 PM