Category: Daily Life

Can’t remember a day when I felt so relaxed and pampered as yesterday, when I spent three hours at the Indooroopilly day spa. My body was in heaven and a couple of times I was thinking I must bring Mum here.

Started off with the relaxing hot stone massage. Went for an hour, the masseuse, Michelle was a lovely lady who made me feel totally comfortable. She said the heat from the stones would make my muscles go to jelly and she wasn’t wrong, the heat and gentle pressure applied to my back, shoulders, legs and feet felt great.

Next I had a facial treatment and nearly fell asleep, it felt lovely and afterwards my skin had the healthiest glow to it. After that, I had almost an hour to spend in my own spa and sauna. When my time was up I think I drifted out on a cloud of contentment.

For a final bit of self-spoiling I went to the cinema at nearby shopping mall and saw Avatar 3-D. You have to wear special glasses – they look like ordinary sunglasses and they turn the blurry screen into three dimensional scenes, it was a fantastic effect. It’s a science fiction story with lots of action and cool visual effects, throughout the movie I was thinking how much Jo would probably enjoy it.

Have booked myself in for a Hot Stone relaxing massage and facial at Rainesforest Day Spa this week. My muscles are already tingling in anticipation.

With Boss.

With Ebony.

Helen and I car pooled to Colleges Crossing to join the drum circle yesterday evening, gee it was good. There was Carol, Loreen, Cheryl, Diane and her daughter Kim, all working through the complicated beats we’ve been learning at the Saturday morning class.

To my surprise I was getting compliments on my drumming, Carol even asked if I worked as a “bean counter”. She explained that people in accounting jobs often pick up drumming really well. Interesting. I guess I’m someone who loves systems, and each drum beat is sort of like a system. It’s a matter of thinking the system through and following it. Although sometimes it is a matter of just going with whatever rhythm flows out around you.

Spook in the weeds, looking ultra cute.

We’ve just brought home a 10 week old female German Shepherd puppy! Hubby has named her “Spook” (just realised how close that is to “Spock”).

Spook was kind of unexpected. One day about a year ago at work, Hubby went out of his way to find the owner of a stray German Shepherd Dog – beautiful pure black boy with a lovely nature. Poor fella had been totally spooked by a storm and broke free of his yard. Hubby loved him, if the owner hadn’t come forward he probably would have brought the boy home. The owner did come forward, and Danae was so grateful to get Ben back she said when her bitch (Shadow) had their first litter of pups she would be in touch to offer hubby one.

Hubby probably never expected to hear from her again but last night got a phone call from Danae. He was very excited about the thought of a puppy despite the impracticalities – we already have two dogs, and Ebony is  dominant and very nasty at times. We decided to go and check out the puppies anyway.

Inevitable then, that one of the puppies came home with us. She is with us on trial, to see how she and Ebony get on. Already there have been a couple of minor scuffles with Ebby, although Boss has been fine with her. She’s a good little puppy so we’re hoping we can work things out with careful management (particularly whenever there is food around!). I’ve just bought a HoundHouse dog kennel for Ebby so she can sleep separately on the other deck.