massage and cold shower sleep ritual; job interviews
Good morning world!
God morning world?
I'm back at the receptionist desk in the downtown building for my last assigned day as a temp worker here. I like being here, and the A/C is oh so pleasant.
Self Care with Self Massage/Skin Cleansing Ritual at Night
The last two nights I've done the skin brushing-oil massage-cold shower-rub oil off with a towel treatment that was recommended in a book I'm reading by a well-known Kundalini Yoga teacher. She describes it as being an amazing skin cleansing practice. I think it is, and it is also a relaxing sleep ritual for me thus far. I've now down in three times in the last week or week and a half. Today I would say my skin does look somewhat improved. Plus, doing the ritual/practice at night so far seems to be a healthy replacement for my normal nightly skin-picking ritual. It's not only not causing the harm the skin picking causes; it's also adding benefits!
There may also be an element in this practice of remembering how my beloved late grandmother would give me "oil rub downs" as she called them when I was young - probably anywhere from ages 2 to 10. She has regular old Johnson & Johnson baby oil and I think we'd do it after I took a shower or bath. I probably was not a huge fan of showers for most of my childhood; I seem to remember I was fine with baths. I'd lay out - probably naked, maybe with a towel over some parts of me - on her bed which seemed big to me at the time, with it's brown patterns quilted cover and matching cushy pillows. I think I was mostly lying on my belly. She'd give me an oil rub down. It was an amazing service and expression of love which I always looked forward to.
The Job Front
Did I mention this before? I now have two scheduled job interviews tomorrow - Tuesday. They're both at places that a few months ago I probably wouldn't have bothered applying because they're not the kind of job I was hoping for. Both of them are retail, and one of them is just $.50 above the city's minimum wage. The other one - I haven't yet found out the wage though I'd guess it's similar. Minimum wage here is $12/hour. It just went up this year - I think it was previously somewhere between $8 and $10/hour. Yes, 12 is better, though still not amazing, and I was aiming higher. Yet finding a job in the fields I was looking - administrative/clerical/coordinating - was proving nearly impossible (I got NO job offers).
God morning world?
I'm back at the receptionist desk in the downtown building for my last assigned day as a temp worker here. I like being here, and the A/C is oh so pleasant.
Self Care with Self Massage/Skin Cleansing Ritual at Night
The last two nights I've done the skin brushing-oil massage-cold shower-rub oil off with a towel treatment that was recommended in a book I'm reading by a well-known Kundalini Yoga teacher. She describes it as being an amazing skin cleansing practice. I think it is, and it is also a relaxing sleep ritual for me thus far. I've now down in three times in the last week or week and a half. Today I would say my skin does look somewhat improved. Plus, doing the ritual/practice at night so far seems to be a healthy replacement for my normal nightly skin-picking ritual. It's not only not causing the harm the skin picking causes; it's also adding benefits!
A great blog about taking daily cold showers; a part of what I'm doing though a different focus and time of day
There may also be an element in this practice of remembering how my beloved late grandmother would give me "oil rub downs" as she called them when I was young - probably anywhere from ages 2 to 10. She has regular old Johnson & Johnson baby oil and I think we'd do it after I took a shower or bath. I probably was not a huge fan of showers for most of my childhood; I seem to remember I was fine with baths. I'd lay out - probably naked, maybe with a towel over some parts of me - on her bed which seemed big to me at the time, with it's brown patterns quilted cover and matching cushy pillows. I think I was mostly lying on my belly. She'd give me an oil rub down. It was an amazing service and expression of love which I always looked forward to.
The Job Front
Did I mention this before? I now have two scheduled job interviews tomorrow - Tuesday. They're both at places that a few months ago I probably wouldn't have bothered applying because they're not the kind of job I was hoping for. Both of them are retail, and one of them is just $.50 above the city's minimum wage. The other one - I haven't yet found out the wage though I'd guess it's similar. Minimum wage here is $12/hour. It just went up this year - I think it was previously somewhere between $8 and $10/hour. Yes, 12 is better, though still not amazing, and I was aiming higher. Yet finding a job in the fields I was looking - administrative/clerical/coordinating - was proving nearly impossible (I got NO job offers).
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