FIRST TIME: FOOT PARAFFIN TREATMENT

June 5, 2012. It was a very busy Tuesday in our office. Paper works. Errands. Follow-ups. Of course, I will not forget to include the visitors who frequent our office. Entrepreneurs trying to follow-up the updates on their business. Hopeful applicants asking for information on how to start a business in our city. Local employees giving us their applications in securing a Mayor's Permit. All of these repeatedly done for 8 hours defines a stressful day for the lady on the Counter 2. Karz. That is me. :)


Tik tak. Tik tak. It's a commonly stated irony that when you're waiting for something, the more it seems to elude you. Times like this when I just want the clock to finally hit the 5:00 mark so I could just pick my things and head home. After countless times of glancing at the timekeeping device in our office, I sighed! Alas! The digital clock hanged on the wall in front of me read 5:00. What a relief! :)) 


I was getting my things, when my I asked my bestfriend, who happens to be my officemate, if we're headed somewhere. She said she wanted to have her nails done. Me, being the frugal type of person that I am, instantly dismissed the idea. I thought to myself, "I could do that to myself, why pay for the services of others?". After much prodding from her, I finally agreed.


We agreed to go to a Studio 23 Salon located a street across the city hall, went inside, told the receptionist of the service we want and we're told to wait on the lounge. After what seems like 5 minutes of waiting, two uniform-clad employees was at our feet doing what we've told them to do. Hmmm, it was such a relief to have my feet pampered. :)) i felt all the 'stress' going away, being melted with every stroke the employee gives my tired foot. I was humming a tone inside my head. As much as I don't want to spend a single centavo on this vanity indulgence of mine, I can't deny to myself that I'm loving every second of it. 


When she was about to be finished with the foot spa and proceed with another service we'd told her, she spoke of something about FOOT PARAFFIN. I have heard about that, seen it in magazines but I don't have an iota of idea about it. She told me that i badly needed it since the veins on my feet are very visible. i think I got these from prolonged standing during my duty days when I'm still practicing being a nurse. I thought about it and found myself saying "yes" to her suggestion. Immediately, she prepared the materials and explained the procedures to me. It was simple. 

I present to you the pictures of my first FOOT PARAFFIN WAX TREATMENT. The photos were taken by my ever kind and gracious bestfriend, Greyz, using my Samsung android phone. 

 Here, both of my feet is already covered in a tolerable hot wax and I should immerse my feet in it. It's soothing I tell you. But it's still hot. 

   It doesn't look good right? :) well, well. We think alike. 

 After it's somewhat dried up, plastic sheet will be put on it and afterwards, a foot mitten to be put as a final cover.

 It will be left for 15-30 minutes. It will soon dry up and after peeling the dried wax, my feet felt soft and relaxed. :)

My evaluation? Happy feet! Indeed! :)

100 THINGS ABOUT KMJV

Hmm, since it's been much of a gloomy slash rainy therefore making it a lazy day today, boredom totally hit me. I did nothing aside from eating and sleeping and reading (repeat again and again) the whole day. So I took DOS (I humorously call my laptop that name, as I consider it the second 'grand' gift from my boyfriend) out, hit Google Chrome, then Facebook, then Tumblr, and I realized that I was just literally frittering the time away. Gaaaah! 

And because I was out of idea on what to do, once again, I opened Google and searched for anything, basically everything under the sun and whatnot. I've typed any idea that popped in my head, from my boyfriend's full name, my email addy, places to go in Vietnam et cetera till one idea suddenly emerged in my head. Why not do a survey type of thing for myself. Hmm. It worked well for Friendster users  like me before and for sure, it would be a goody thing to post on my blog; for beginner bloggers like me. :) 

So, here is my very own version of 100 Things to Know About Karen Marie J. Vallo. Hope I'll have lots of fun answering and hope you'll have lots of fun reading! ^_________^

BASIC INFO:

Name: Karen Marie J**** Vallo

Nickname: I prefer to be called KARZ

Age: 25

Sex: Female

Height: 5 foot 3 inches

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Brown

Blood Type: B

Religion: Seventh-day Adventist

Ethnicity: 100% Filipino

Orientation: Straight

Status: Single

FAVORITES:

Color: Shades of purple

Hair Style: Long and straight

Food: Mcdo fries and Mcfloat, Jollibee fried chicken and spaghetti (my happy food)

Soda: Root beer

Alcoholic Beverage: None; I don't drink.

Store: Will ukay-ukays count? :)

Mall: Not much of a mall goer so I'd go with the ever pop SM

Province: Pangasinan

City: Olongapo City, of course

Animal: Puppies/Dogs

Movie: Titanic and Nicholas Sparks' films

TV Show: ABS-CBN shows, CSI, Gossip Girl etc.

Book: PPH books (Adventist Literature)

Music: Love songs

Song: Ikaw Lamang by Silent Sanctuary

Band Artist: Christina Aguilera, Taylor Swift, Silent Sanctuary

Website: http://karenmarievallo.blogspot.com/; my very own of course :)

THIS OR THAT:

Soda or Juice: Juice

Music or Internet: Internet

Rock or Rap: Depends on the melody 

Dogs or Cats: DOGS!

White or Black: Black, it makes me slim

Facebook or Twitter: Facebook

Cellphone or Ipod: Cellphone

Curly or Straight Hair: Straight

Laptop or Computer: Laptop

Corded or Cordless Phone: Cordless

Mountain Dew or Pepsi: Pepsi

Pen or Pencil: Pen

MP3 Player or Ipod: Ipod

Single or Taken: Taken

School or Work: Work! Ugh!

RANDOM:

What do you do on your spare time? Texting with him. <3

What do you wish you had more time for? Bonding time with family and friends.

What's your usual clothing style? Jeans, tees and chucks before. Jeans/Slacks, blouse and sandals now. For my work. :/

What's your usual hair style? It's been straight and long since I can remember.

What are you wearing? House clothes. :D

Are you single or taken? Taken. :)

If taken, by who? Bryan Paul Santos <3

Who would you die for? My family.

Are you a virgin? Ack! NO! Life f*cks us all the time! :)

What do you think of one-night stands? Big no-no! 

Who's your best friend/s? I have lots and to name them all here would be so impractical.

How long have you been best friend/s? Some since elementary, some highschool and some since college. :)

How did you and your best friends meet? They'd been my classmates.

Do you have many friends? Not too many.

If yes, how many? Errr. 

Do you plan on getting married? YESSS! Soon! <3

Do you plan on getting kids? Uh huh!

If so, how many? 2-3 will do.

How old did you wish you were? 20.

If you were to be anywhere right now, where would you be? Vietnam.

Why? Because he's currently employed there.

Have you ever gone camping? Yes, and I loved it.

Have you ever caught a fish and ate it? Nope.

Have you ever gone water skiing? Nope.

Have you ever gone water tubing? What the heck was that?

Have you ever gone skiing on a mountain? No.

Have you ever gone tubing on a mountain? No.

Have you ever gone Snowboarding? As if there's snow in RP. :D

Ever gone to church? Yes, every Saturday.

Ever gone to a famous water park? No.

Ever gone out of State? Yes, just recently.

Ever gone out of the country? Not yet. Poor me. :(

When was the last time you left town? 2nd week of May

Anything you got planned for this weekend? None really.

If so, what? Aside from church, none. I'm basically a home buddy.

Is this survey curing your boredom? Ahm. Not really. Haha. :D

Do you resemble anyone famous? Someone told me before but I don't want to tell who the celeb is.

Are you related to anyone famous? No.

If so, who? Errr.

Do you think your hot? Haha. Too hot. :)

Do other people think your hot? My boyfriend does. <3

Do you think your skinny? No.

Or do you think your fat? Not quite.

Or just in between fat and skinny? YESSS!

What year were you born in? Nineteen eighty six. 

Ever been on a blind date? No.

What do you enjoy doing when your bored? Reading. Sleeping. Facebooking. Eating.

What do you do in the summer time? BEACH! 

Are you naturally tanned? No.

Or are you kinda pale? You got it!

Do you live in a house? Yes.

Or do you live in a apartment? No.

What do you have on your mind? I just want to finish this effin' survey. Hahaha. 

What time is it? 9:24 pm, June 2, 2012

~ THE END ~

Oops, so much for that survey. Ugh. I kinda forced myself to finish it. :) but I was successful in combating my boredom. Just one thing, I am now experiencing a different kind of feeling. Guess what? Read this. - - - > H. U. N. G. E. R.< - - -

Haha. So, tata for now. Till next time. :)

WORST PART!

You can't love someone you can't trust. Makes sense, right? It's freakin' weird how I got entangled in all that love vs. fool thing with him. Him, referring to XMEN; that's my personal monicker for him. XMEN was that someone I used to hang with. Everyone disliked the idea of us hanging out together, simply because he wasn't good enough. He is such a playboy type of guy, a mack daddy. He has that negative image that everyone who knew us thought it was a ridiculous thing to be going out with him, like on a date, per se. I never really cared about the bad hearsies about him, I continued to follow what my heart wants and that's to get to know him. It wasn't a very easy trip though, as they say, life is a roller coaster. I had my fair share of 'weird' moments with him and that includes the texting moments with his girls. Haha. Oh well, that was a sarcastic laugh on my part. Going back, never in my entire life had I experienced being called such filthy and nasty words like that; you know, words intended for wh*res and the like. I got a bunch load of text messages containing explicit words. ''You m*th*rf*ck*r son of a b*tch!!! You stole my boyyyffrieennddd!!!" I was like, "Uhm, these girls are actin' crazy or they're really like that?" I knew, deep within, I never did anything like that at all. 

With all that in mind, of course I exceeded the point of maximum tolerance and did what I should have done a long time. I decided to keep my distance and avoid any chance of us being together. It wasn't easy, he's kind to me and avoiding him was like being rude to him. It's such a nasty thing to do, but sometimes, I think he deserves it. I don't know, but this avoid-him-plan is making me go nutcase and all. I miss the good times, maybe. 

But I also know that I have to deal with things in a mature way, and this is the best way I'm handling it. I don't wanna go the same things again, and that's because simply put, I just can't trust him. I tried, lots of times. But he seems to not be doing any effort to be trustworthy so I decided to feel numb. I just feel so bad that I didn't get to be with him for a long time, but whatever it is, I'm happy we had our time no matter how brief it may seem. I just can't compromise my feelings again. Well, to be honest, I kinda expected it. The worst part was that I knew this would happen. :(

Note: I originally wrote this in 2009. I know nothing about him now. No more strings attached. 

DISAPPOINTED!

It's our 31st monthsary and we're supposed to be sweet and mushy and sappy and happy, flirting with each other like the first time and talking of future plans together BUT we weren't. We actually fought. Aah. It's freaking me out. It is something so trivial but it never failed to spark the patience out of our system. Yes, it's been a lot of times we've had this discussion but we never seem to get pass through this. There's something wrong I know. I just have to figure out if the fault is mine or his. :( it's making me sad. I'm terribly sad at the moment. We haven't had that 'flirting moments" for quite a while and I thought this day would be it, but right now I can say I was mistaken. The thing is he can't seem to give way for my tantrums. I want and need and demand him to be more patient and forgiving of me but he can't do it for me. He always insists to have things in his own way. And that's something that annoys me. I know this incident will be followed by silent hours of no communication between us. No texts. No messages. We'll be stickin' on our hurt ego for a little while, ignoring the fact that every amount of time spent not talking hurts the other in ways we could never imagine. I, myself, hate those times when he ignores me. I know he feels the same way too. Right now, I guess I'll be waiting for him to make the first step to bring back the "talking couple" again. It's his fault why I'm so utterly disappointed right now. So he'd better make all the necessary efforts. Hmmp. :-|