Prime Time
1. I had the opportunity to use “phase two in which Doris gets her oats” in a sentence on Monday when I met Joe at the Primland Resort pool in between after a massage and before a facial, a birthday treat from Joe.
2. On the drive to Primland, a green sports resort, which is about half-an-hour from our house (and another 15 minutes up the mountain from the resort entrance), we noticed that the word Primland is related to words like primp, prime and prima.
3. I like to paint my toenails for my May birthday. This year someone did it for me. A pedicure was also in the gift package, not to mention eating lunch in our bathrobes.
4. We have lots of great massage therapists in Floyd. Getting a massage at Primland is like buying groceries on an island. You pay more for the location. (In our case Joe was able to trade teaching meditation and martial arts for a gift certificate.)
5. I felt so rich throughout my birthday week and grateful for friends, community and family. It only seemed fitting that the week would end with THIS.
6. I drew a Medicine Card before my massage and got the Blue Heron, the card of self-reflection: Heron medicine is the power of knowing the self by discovering its gifts and facing its challenges. It is the ability to accept all feelings and opinions without denying emotion or thought
7. This morning I came across some words I had written on a scrap of paper that I imagine could only be found on my desk. It said “cockles, pickles, buckles and nickels.”
8. When I told my masseuse that I had been to Primland before and got a complimentary massage when I was writing a story about the Spa opening two years ago, she asked a little nervously, “Are you writing a story now?”
9. I wrote about the Primland Spa HERE and about the Tree House and Trails Dedication HERE.
10. If you watch THIS Primland Spa video, you’ll see Joe leading Tai Chi on the lawn with Primland guests.
11. I’m only a little disappointed that I didn’t get the money shot while at the Spa. And that would be the one of me with my face covered with a chocolate scented cherry mask and hot cotton pads over my eyes.
12. I used to like to lie about my age by a year (to give myself some buffering time), but for the sake of getting the record correct, my journalistic nature won’t let me lie about it anymore. I just turned 62.
13. HERE I am making my birthday cake wishes (and wishing I was more prepared), and HERE is my grandson Bryce making his wishes (wishing he didn’t get frosting that stained on his finger).
May 24th, 2012 12:20 am
Sounds like you enjoyed your spa visit. Love the rainbow pics below.
May 24th, 2012 12:54 am
Sounds like you have a lot of fun 🙂
May 24th, 2012 4:02 am
I was wondering who you would ask to take a photo of your two in your bathrobes….?
May 24th, 2012 4:26 am
Chocolate cherry? That sounds too delicious to put on a face!
I was very impressed that you managed to use of those words in #1 in a sentence. I imagine that’s not a sentence you’d hear every day.
May 24th, 2012 8:16 am
I sing those words frequently (Beatles). We got our waitress to snap the shot
May 24th, 2012 9:04 am
I love spas! Now I’m ready to go on a spa vacation of my own.
May 24th, 2012 9:06 am
Oh, happy, happy birthday! May is a great month for a birthday.
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May 24th, 2012 9:58 am
Well, happy Birthday!
May 24th, 2012 10:21 am
62? Never would’ve known 🙂
Also, never heard of medicine cards! Very interesting…
May 24th, 2012 11:57 am
It sounds like you had a wonderful birthday. The Spa sounds heavenly. Happy T13!
May 24th, 2012 12:01 pm
This sounds wonderful! My husband has suggested we take in Primland and we’ll have to keep it in mind.
May 25th, 2012 12:52 am
What a Fantastic Birthday Week, my dear…And topping it off at The Spa….
FABULOUS!!!!
Bryce is so grown-up! I swear, he was just born…! O know he wasn’t, but it does feel like ‘time’ is truly flying…!
May 25th, 2012 10:16 am
Colleen- Sound like #7 could be the beginnings of a poem. 🙂
Happy Birthday to you! How lovely to have topped off the celebration with a Spa treat and a lustrous rainbow. And those fun, fattened candles on your cake-wow! I want to find some of those.
I’ve been enjoying catching up here, Colleen. Your piece on the 30th anniversary of the Blue Mountain School is terrific. Some years back we looked at the only Waldorf school here in RI. Would have loved to send my kids there, but the commute would have been too much. BMS seems like a very special place.
I’m never going to be able to look at another Miata without thinks Miñata. 😉
May 25th, 2012 6:09 pm
Glad you had a fab birthday. A spa treatment’s a great idea!