JENN McKINLAY: The above picture is where I spent a good portion of Monday--when I was not chained to my desk cranking out the words to meet my impending deadline. Why? Well, the Hooligans arranged it because they are wonderful lads who think their mom is a workaholic (ME???) and they're worried about my stress levels.
Full disclosure. I am not a massage person. The last time I had one was in 2003 when I booked a massage at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC because I was flying in from Phoenix on the red eye. I had a meeting with my Harlequin editor and I wanted to look refreshed instead of like a piece of petrified wood exhumed from the desert.
How did it go? Great! I fell asleep to the sounds of taxi cab horns and other city noises only to wake up face down on the table watching the drool from my mouth splat on to my massage therapist's shoes. How does one recover from a moment like that? With a big tip!
Needless to say, I was a little nervous that history would repeat itself. I mean the table is heated. You're just asking for me to fall asleep like a very large cat. Thankfully, I did not. I did consider paying them to let me nap for another hour after the massage but work called...as it always does.
This massage was definitely more successful than the last. I had jacked my knee during Saturday's 5K, and this morning I woke up all better! Yay! So, I'm rethinking making time for more self-care, partly because they gave me coupons for two free massages (I think the knot in my shoulder - a hazard of the writing life - which thwarted my therapist LeAnn was the impetus for the coupons. LeAnn will not be defeated)! and partly because I'm a woman of a certain age and frankly, I need all the help I can get.
Since booking the massage, I've gotten much feedback from some folks who love them and others who are horrified by the thought of letting anyone touch them--and both responses make perfect sense to me.
Reds and Readers, where do you fall in the massage opinion poll? For or against? Anyone else drool on their therapist? Just me?
So glad the massage helped you to feel better, Jenn . . . but I'm a "no opinion" vote in the massage pool since I've never had one [no particular reason; the opportunity simply never presented itself] . . . .
ReplyDeleteGlad the massage worked out for you. My one and only massage and I had a panic attack.
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