Waxing Philosophical

So, I am sitting getting a pedicure and I know I should appreciated the fact that someone else is painting my toenails, but all I can think is that I need to get out of here. Sometimes being a woman is a real pain in the neck. I would love to get back all the time I have spent having every hair on my body either cut, plucked, waxed or colored. Seriously, don’t you feel like there is tremendous pressure on us to look good all the time? Some of it is very painful too! Getting your eyebrows plucked really hurts, and whenever I see a man with a uni-brow I think, “He really doesn’t care. In fact, he thinks he looks good!” You can be sure that one of the reasons men wear swimsuits that are like shorts is because they would never, ever endure the agony of a bikini wax.

Sometimes I can hardly remember my life before kids and I wonder if I enjoyed all the pampering stuff more back then. I used to sit at the hair salon reading a magazine without a care in the world. Perhaps as Moms we have so little free time that we try to jam everything into those moments away from our kids. It’s a multi-tasking marathon:
Driving while eating a sandwich and putting on mascara, Cleaning the bathroom while talking on the phone, E-mailing and coloring your hair and, of course my favorite, blogging while getting a pedicure.

Perhaps next New Years I will make a resolution to relax more and enjoy the moments of pampering, but until then I will just bitch about not having enough time and, oh yeah, about how much a bikini wax kills.

Comments

The thought of having to lay on a massage table for an hour and do nothing scares me. I would just lie there and think of all the stuff I'm NOT doing and I SHOULD be doing. Hardly relaxing.

Eyebrow plucking is like a chinese torture tactic. Wax 'em and rip 'em all out at once!

I feel the same. I thought i was the only one that can only stand 30 minutes top at the nail salon. Oh the joy of having another person to think about more than yourself