Feet don't fail me now

Buffed and powdered! The "sports pedicure" was great. The Spa Nordstrom is very tony, as one wold expect: nicely appointed, indirect lighting, mood music, all with a bit of a faux-zen atmosphere. Terribly, terribly chic and helpful staff.

Jamika first took me to a lounge for a footbath (just a big salad bowl of warm soapy water) for about five or ten minutes. She came to do a preliminary scrub with some sort of aromatic mixture and then took me into the treatment room. I sat in a nice comfy chair, which then rotated ninety degrees so I was essentially lying on my back with my feet on a padded shelf. Jamika put a towel over my eyes, turned off the room light, and went to work under a work light.

So, yes, of course I fell asleep.

I do remember her doing all the clipping and buffing and sanding and all that. And then there was the pouring on of something hot and the wrapping of feet in bags and booties. (She told me later it was an herbal something-or-other.) Then there was more messing about and massaging before she dipped each of my feet into hot wax and let them sit. Then she came back to unpeel my feet and there I was - all sportly pedicured. She poured some powder out on a towel and told me to stomp around in it before I put my shoes back on.

It was fun, and it actually did make my feet feel a lot better.

I left Nordstrom and walked down to the Pike Place Market, just to mingle with the masses. I stopped for bagel sammich at a place that was playing Christian Rock, and then wandered around the shops for a bit. The sun was playing hide-and-seek, but it was pleasant enough walking weather. I made sure I hit Golden Age Collectibles in the Market before I left and headed up the hill to Zanadu. I couldn't find anything at either place to spend my mad money on (a $50 American Express gift card I got for my birthday) so I'll have to keep trying.

I'm in another Tully's (I have been using up another gift card) but I think I might head over to the library in a little bit.

Oh - while I was walking around I saw this window ad:


Do you recognize the grouping? It copies Matthew, Jude,and Simon, the three guys on the extreme left side of Leonardo's Last Supper:


I guess the ad I saw was actually part of a larger image that copied the whole painting, which sort of made it less interesting to me. Without wondering if posing models to emulate classic works of Renaissance art helps sell clothes, I was struck by the near-universality of some cultural references.