Luxury Is A Small Korean Woman Rubbing Your Skin With Something Abrasive

[redbrunja]

So, my mother, grandmother, and aunts went to a Korean spa today.

And it was splendorous.

I got to spend a hour soaking in pools of various temperatures, as well as a sauna and a steam room, before I went back and had this woman named Eve scrub all the dead skin off my body. (It was actually kind of appalling to see how much gunk she managed to get off my body.)

Then we got to hang out in all these various rooms. There were warm reading rooms, and hot rooms, and the sand room which had sand under cloth and the sound of waves, and a salt room with salt under fabric that you got to lie on, and out in the lobby there was a foot massager.

I got to read for, like, an hour straight. It was glorious (as was my book, For A Few Demons More. Rock on Kim Harrison! Thank you for doing dark, violent urban fantasy with a strong dose of romance right!)

And, yeah, okay, I'm not the most earth-goddess ya-ya chick, but I loved the atmosphere. All the women there were different shapes and sizes and we were all utterly naked (for most of it) and it was totally fine. It was like, yeah, I'm naked over here, no big deal. But it was cool to be in that space - very relaxing.

Bliss. Today was wonderful and relaxing and now my skin is all soft and smooth and doesn't have dead cells on top.

And I should really have a relaxation or luxury or bliss icon. Oh well, I guess I'll have to use Goyjo.

Comments

[kuchenhexe.livejournal.com]

Oooooooo... lucky.

And I should really have a relaxation or luxury or bliss icon

And that reminded me I have an icon for that which I made ages ago. You're welcome to it if you'd like. ^_^

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I really am. And thank you for that icon!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i'm lining one of these up for my birthday. ummmmm

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

It's so worth it.

Also, I adore that icon. One of the most hilarious moments in the books.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh it seriously was, especially considering Sanzo was in on it

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I love that shot in the manga when all three of them are sprawled out on the bed. It was just like - and Hakkai gets the bed by process of attrition.

Although Goyjo's diolouge in the anime was hilarious.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i haven't seen that anime. I'll have to borrow it from evil_little_dog some time

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

The anime is... not good, but has some very funny moments, and I adore it for the Hakkai x Yaone hints that they give us.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the reload anime isn't half bad but some of the cracky storylines...

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That seems to be the concenus - nice to see the boys in motion - plot and diolouge is sometimes very.... mmmmm-inducing.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that pretty much sums it up

[little-blue-me.livejournal.com]

A place like that is something I can just dream of. x)*sigh* But I don't like sauna that much..Pretty much everyone here is all into it (going to sauna at least one or two times/week) and so, whenever you say "I don't like it that much.", everyone looks at you as if you are out of your mind. x)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Well, I can understand that. I enjoyed the sauna, but it wasn't as good as the steam room.

At one point, me and mom where the only people in it, so we were yodalling and having fun with the acustics.