Stuff and Things

So on Thursday of last week I had another chemical peel. This one was a little different. Kenlee (my aesthetician) said this one would be a little stronger than the last one. During the process she always asks you to rate your discomfort on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being a cake walk and 10 makes you run screaming from the room (those are my words, not hers). For the first peel I rated my discomfort as an 8. It could have been worse but I certainly wasn't enjoying it. Thursday, now that was different. I could tell right away it was stronger. She finished the application and started to ask me about my discomfort level. I didn't even let her finish the sentence. 10! It's a 10!

As before the "spicyness" peaked and then started to back off a little bit. Just as I was creeping back towards a positivly comfortable 8 (oh, how I missed 8) Kenlee says "ok, I just have to put that on one more time." Oh you've got to be kidding me! I braced myself and took it lying down. By the time she was done my eyes were watering and it wasn't because of any fumes.

All of this in the persuit of spot-freeness. I hope it's worth it. And I really should have taken a picture but it was pretty gross. That would be why there's no picture.

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Tonight I was at the gym and they had the olympics on. I'm not much of a fan of watching any sport. I'd just as soon watch something else and check the score the next day. As I was tied to the elliptical machine doing my 10 minute warm up the ski jump event was on. I couldn't help but wonder how they roped people into this event the first time they did it hundreds of years ago. Or whenever, it's not like I'm going to take the time to look it up. I already told you I'm not interested in sports.

"Ok, put these on your feet, yeah I know their twice as long as you are tall, it's ok. Now stand on top of this big ramp that we built on top of this big hill. Put your feet into the tracks and slide as fast as you can towards the end of the ramp. When you get to the end, you're gonna fall, just lean into it."

I guess that's Darwin at work. Only the guys who figured out they had to stand back up before landing lived to compete the next day.