03/18/2025: Today i hit one year with my sobriety. for a milestone like this, a lovely dinner with friends seems fitting to celebrate. if i'm being frank though, group dinners make me so uneasy i want to leave once an hour passes, even when i'm the one being celebrated.
i invited kelley, my friend of ten years, to join me for an evening of ease and perspiration to a women's spa in koreatown. by the time she arrived, ten minutes after i did, both of us were itching to strip down to wear the victoria's secret-pink striped robes provided by the spa. while rinsing off in the shower room, we quickly agreed to make this spot our third place. a space for elaborate weekly beauty maintenance and to rest our aching muscles and joints.
the jade steam room is my favorite for my pores, and the himalayan salt room is where we spent most of our time. the longer we laid on the salt floor, the more we stressed needing to go back as early as next week.
"isn't it so cool that all we do on our free time is go to the gym, take care of ourselves, and eat good food?" kelley asked as she drank her second cup of water outside the salt room.
i giggled and said "yeah, we're world building for our sex and the city arc."