a). teaching pilates.

b). making homemade pizza from scratch.

c). pretending that your roots aren’t quite as bad as they are and that you don’t need a shower as much as you do.

d). throwing crab apples at people you love.

e). talking with a beautiful friend about the various and respective johns (men who are literally named John!) who both of you don’t want to date, though the feeling is not mutual, sadly enough.

f). participating in a very volatile conversation with someone who seems to hate you, to the point that you are feeling pretty darn weird inside.

g). getting your eyebrows threaded! for the first time! and actually, they’ve never even been waxed before so, ooooh! it’s pretty exciting.

h). swimming in a large pool with friends and family and pretending to be either a shark or a life guard, depending on the exact moment you’re taking down records.

i) all of the above.

And my answer is: all of the above!

At least for this saturday, anyway.

*and about the eyebrow threading: I think this is something that I will get done now. Because they did such a good job. Seriously, I was a little afraid they would make me look like a drag queen or something with brows just too arched or thin, but really, they just look clean and shaped and nice. And also? When I asked the woman who got it done before me to tell me the truth and let me know if it hurts, she said, LIKE HELL! Just like that. She seriously pronounced the capital letters and I was all, OH SHOOT!, except I just thought the capital letters.

So when I closed my eyes, I was ready for something awful to come over me. Something like hot lava or a thousand pricks from a thousand needles, but really, it was hardly anything at all. I mean, not compared to a broken heart. And actually, the pain was kind of interesting–but maybe that is just because I am a dancer and we are used to pain but I had never before experienced threading pain so a part of me was like, Ah. Different. And interesting.

And then it was done and I got to walk around the mall with bright red skin all around my eyebrows and that was different and interesting, too!