Friday of Pampering

So, Crystal (another one of the volunteers here) and I decided to treat ourselves to some pampering this weekend. We headed down to the brand new mall (SO exciting, seriously. We now have Starbucks!), got ourselves two Caramel Macchiatos for the price of one, and headed down to the waxing shop to get our legs waxed. We had been growing out our leg hairs in anticipation of this day, and I was good and ready to be rid of my leg hairs by the time we got there. This was my FIRST EVER experience getting my legs waxed, and what an experience it was. I've always been curious whether getting my legs waxed or getting a tattoo would be more painful. Even though it has been two years since I got my tattoo, I think I can still say with confidence that the waxing was definitely more painful. But, it was cheap! All we had to do was buy the wax, and they did below the knees for free. Not a bad deal. We took the wax home and continued to work on my legs that evening.

After the painful waxing experience, we decided to continue pampering ourselves with a pedicure. They pampered our feet famously, and I'm loving looking at my toes right now.

While we were at the mall, I bought the appropriate ingredients for BROWNIES, as we were going to have some girls over that night and make our famous brownies and watch an old favorite movie together ("Dan in Real Life"). Since it was a day of pampering, I went all out and bought a bottle of wine as well.

When we finally got back to the house after grabbing some quick food at the mall (WAY better than mall food back home--trust me), our two friends had let themselves in and were waiting patiently for our arrival. We all proceeded to make our favorite brownies, sans a recipe as the internet was being uncooperative. They turned out AMAZING. I don't know if it was the Australian chocolate or what, but in my opinion they were the best batch yet. This brownie recipe is fool-proof. Kiah, one of the girls who came over, and I have made it many different ways and left it in the oven for far too long at times, but still they turn out great. I don't know how. They are magical. If you want the recipe, you can find it here: http://www.godiva.com/recipes/recipe.aspx?id=461 (Sorry I don't know how to do the hyperlink thing as of yet).

After the brownies were in the oven we settled into an old favorite movie, "Dan in Real Life," and enjoyed it like it was the first time watching it. I don't know what it is about that movie, but I absolutely love it, every single time. I remember now why Kiah and I watched it so many times when I was in Thailand before. :)

Of course a girl's movie night wouldn't be complete without a nice bottle of wine (and by nice I mean the cheapest one I could find), so we busted open our wine and enjoyed the movie to its fullest. Of course, some of us enjoyed it more than others, as I was undergoing more torture of leg waxing, and Crystal was enjoying inflicting pain on me FAR too much. All in all, it was a lovely evening, and I'm so thankful for the friends here who I can enjoy times like that with.

In exactly one hour I will begin a full on week with four of us farang (white) staff watching eleven rambunctious children and one hopefully not-so-fussy baby. I think the pampering was very much called for, as this will be a long week!