{"id":1926,"date":"2009-01-16T13:59:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T11:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2010-05-31T23:45:07","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T21:45:07","slug":"i-dont-want-a-spa-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/1926","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Want a Spa Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I crawled into bed and heaved a big sigh.  Our new bed is so comfy and with the fleece sheets<\/a> on in the winter it\u2019s like crawling into a cloud.  I was tired, it was almost 1am which is pretty late for us but not unusual lately since Xander has been working from home a lot.<\/p>\n

I was comfortable, but didn\u2019t really feel at ease.   I felt anxious and weird.   Over the past one or two months I\u2019ve been fighting off the winter blues that have plagued me in the winter months in the past.   I dove into all things Christmas, I crafted, I played WoW\u2026 I shopped, I watched movies, I saw friends\u2026 all the things that I thought would keep it at bay.   No luck.<\/p>\n

I feel like shit.  A kind of shit that only another expat in the Netherlands would understand.   There is no real reason, no logic and no way to explain it unless you\u2019ve felt it.   It\u2019s like I\u2019m a battery that is running out of juice and trying to change it is like trying to make a glass move across the table using only my mind.  It just doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I had a twitch in my eye and it lasted nine hours.   I have never had anything like that in my life.   Xander said it was stress related but I don\u2019t really have anything to be stressed about other than the fact that I can\u2019t stop myself from feeling dragged out and generally shit.   Is it possible that after all these years of ups and downs I\u2019m actually developing a twitch?   I\u2019ve joked about it a million times, things making me twitch with insanity but could that really be happening?  Lets hope not.   I\u2019m hoping it was just the cup of Cafe Choco I had, because I\u2019m not really a coffee drinker.<\/p>\n

So after I crawled into bed and sighed, my husband asked me what was wrong.  I explained that I was feeling screwed up and couldn\u2019t seem to relax or feel \u2013right- and it was starting to get to me.   I moaned like a 90 year old about the pain between my shoulder blades from stressing about about absolutely nothing, the general feeling of uneasiness and unexplained sadness\u2026 and then moaned and said I needed a spa day.<\/p>\n

Being the cool and supportive husband that he is, he was all for it.  Telling me to take a day at the spa (we say \u2018the spa\u2019 like we actually have one and visit it, but I don\u2019t even know where there is one), but honestly \u2013 I\u2019m not a spa type of person.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when we had the \u2018why not conversation\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Me: I wouldn\u2019t want to go to a spa.  It\u2019s not the kind of thing you do alone, you do it with friends\u2026 and none of my friends are into the spa thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(We then went through my small list of friends and why they wouldn\u2019t want to go \u2013 like saving money, or why I wouldn\u2019t want to go  with them \u2013 I would rather die than stand naked witnessing the shocking difference in our fitness levels)<\/p>\n

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Xander: well, if you did want to go I could take you there and pick you up, wherever it is.   Really, if you think it would help with the winter blues I\u2019m all for it.<\/p>\n

Me: Naw, it\u2019s not my kind of thing.  Just thinking of all the things I\u2019d probably hate about it make me not want to go.<\/p>\n

– Getting naked in front of other people<\/p>\n

– Wearing some robe that would either be too small, too warm, or make me itch.<\/p>\n

– People wrapping me in some crap that would probably make my skin melt off.<\/p>\n

Xander: hahaha!  Yeah I can just see you coming out of there like on TV where you are all red and weird looking and your friends tell you that you look GREAT just to be nice!<\/p>\n

Me: Yeah, or I\u2019d end up like Samantha on Sex and the City.  I\u2019d come out with my face all red and raw and have to be somewhere the next day. Screw that. PLUS\u2026 just thinking about all those hot soaking things makes me squeamish.  Those hot mud baths, hot tubs etc.  I bet they are like germ baths!<\/p>\n

Xander: Oh I\u2019m sure it\u2019s not that bad\u2026<\/p>\n

Me:  What?!  Are you kidding?  A giant mass of hot water with random women soaking in them every day?  I\u2019d be scared to get in it, do you know the kinds of things that grow and breed in water those temperatures\u2026 they\u2019re all swirling around in there just waiting to get into my vagina!<\/p>\n

Xander: Yeah, well maybe we could use duct tape or something.<\/p>\n

Me: Oh yeah good idea\u2026 front to back with the duct tape.  Nothing will get through that!<\/p>\n

Xander:  Just think, then you wouldn\u2019t have to worry about getting the runs either.<\/p>\n

Me: Good plan.  No seriously though, I just couldn\u2019t do it.  You know me and my immune system.  I\u2019d come home with the mumps!!<\/p>\n

Xander:  Yeah, because you know VAGINAL MUMPS run RAMPANT through those places!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Then we both howled with laughter until our bellies hurt and we woke the neighbours.<\/p>\n

What a great way to end a bit of a lousy day.   I love my husband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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