Thursday, December 29, 2011
Dec. 29th, 2011 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshortyWe started the morning with a nice hike in the very cold weather. Not as cold as last year but still. I could only do an hour and a half, mostly because I needed to get back for 12:15 spa appointment and partly because after all the walking and working out my legs didn’t want to walk anymore.
I decided to splurge on a spa, since I never do this. So I signed up for an Organic Facial – and it was very relaxing. It was an hour lying on my back on a heated bed under warm blankets while there were creams on my face and even shoulder, arms and foot massage. It felt decadent. I don’t usually spend money on this – since it is an indulgence but I decided to just go for it.
Bear and I went out to eat to a pub. We usually cook while we are here except for one dinner out and a breakfast diner when we leave. I got Shepherd’s pie and a hut and fruit martini – all was very delicious. It was a bit crowded this year – last year we came in a week with not too many people around. This week proved popular.
I spent part of the evening by the fireplace again, reading Stephen Fry with a clear conscience since I finished all the other books and December National Geographic too. I’m including my favorite quote from “The Fry Chronicles” this evening. He was discussion his relationship with tobacco and cigarettes:
“Substances seem insignificant compared to the big things in life: Work, Faith, Knowledge, Hope, Fear and Love. But the appetites that drive us and our susceptibility, resistance, acceptance and denial of substances define and reveal us at least as much as abstract expressions of belief or bald recitations of action and achievement.”
I decided to splurge on a spa, since I never do this. So I signed up for an Organic Facial – and it was very relaxing. It was an hour lying on my back on a heated bed under warm blankets while there were creams on my face and even shoulder, arms and foot massage. It felt decadent. I don’t usually spend money on this – since it is an indulgence but I decided to just go for it.
Bear and I went out to eat to a pub. We usually cook while we are here except for one dinner out and a breakfast diner when we leave. I got Shepherd’s pie and a hut and fruit martini – all was very delicious. It was a bit crowded this year – last year we came in a week with not too many people around. This week proved popular.
I spent part of the evening by the fireplace again, reading Stephen Fry with a clear conscience since I finished all the other books and December National Geographic too. I’m including my favorite quote from “The Fry Chronicles” this evening. He was discussion his relationship with tobacco and cigarettes:
“Substances seem insignificant compared to the big things in life: Work, Faith, Knowledge, Hope, Fear and Love. But the appetites that drive us and our susceptibility, resistance, acceptance and denial of substances define and reveal us at least as much as abstract expressions of belief or bald recitations of action and achievement.”