Little Reminders

For the past week, the universe has been sending me reminders to take care of myself. Sometimes, I think we find ourselves so busy juggling everthing--work, school, relationships, and all of the day-to-day goodies like cleaning and errands, that we forget to take a break and just be. Last week, I received all kinds of giftcards for my birthday and the first thing I thought was, "Great! Now I have money to buy Christmas presents!"

Not even an hour after I said this to a coworker, I received these messages from Jillian, who gave me a giftcard to Sephora:

"Use it on yourself. DON'T BUY PRESENTS FOR OTHER PEOPLE!"

And then, just in case I hadn't gotten the point:

"Seriously. I KNOW YOU."

Oh, she's good.

So, needless to say, I went to Sephora on Friday and spent half of my giftcard on Philosophy's Creme Brulee body wash and some lip balm (and Jillian, I promise I'll spend the rest on myself...but at a later date).

Then the weekend got busy, mostly with our sixth wedding of the year and thoughts of my busy week to come and the 5k that we're running in this coming weekend, and SMACK...I got a cold. Something about that "my head is disconnected from my body" feeling tends to yank you back from all of your future thinking and drop you back into the present.

And so, universe, I hear you. I am trying to slow down this week and I am trying to take better care of myself and trying not to care if everything gets done. And I'm smelling like delicious creme brulee while I'm at it!