Everyone else also keeps consuming alcohol by the bucketload, while I have my sparkling water. Yesterday, I went cra-zy and had a fresh orange juice. There's decadence for you.
I'm trying very hard not to sulk, because that would be ungrateful and childish. I do have a week's holiday in a hotel. Also, I suppose I could just decide to go up anyway but I haven't. After all, I've been through a few failed pregnancies and they're not fun.
However, skiing is my all-time favourite hobby, and everyone else keeps coming down the mountain with stories of sunshine, wonderful runs and perfect snow. The bastards. The slopes are so tantalisingly close. (I keep wondering if maybe I couldn't join them just for a couple of runs later in the week.)
Anyhoo - I'm trying to find pleasure in other things:
- Hotel living. Because obviously.
- Family meals.
- Time to have the occasional nap. (We have a granny here who doesn't like to ski, but does like her granddaughter.)
- Lunches in the sun on the hotel terrace.
- I'm getting a pedicure tomorrow. (I've never had one, so I hope I won't hate having some stranger touch my feet. I also hope she doesn't recoil in horror at the state of my heels.)
- I may get to go to the hairdresser.
- The hotel has "natural" products in the bathroom, or at least paraben-free and with natural oils. (I know I'm clutching at straws here.)
I even have pictures to illustrate. (Yes, I have that much time on my hands.)
Nah, I'm still sulking. (Privately, invisibly, quietly - and a bit more loudly to you lot.)
(Yes, I know I'm being obnoxious.)
(And that I've used too many brackets.)
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Oh, go ahead and sulk. You're missing out on a lot. But try to enjoy the naps and hotel. And drink more orange juice. And go for walks!
ReplyDeleteSending love....M
I'd forego the skiing for pedicures, haircut, naps, sitting in the sun, drinking hot chocolate, having a long bath, blogging whenever I felt like it, anyday. Wanna swap for a cold snowy grey day in Eindhoven? Enjoy, you'll be home to all the usual stuff again in a week.
ReplyDeleteGo play in the snow!!
ReplyDeleteI don't know about the skiiing... I'm sure others have done it. But after that Natasha Redgrave accident, it seems better to be prudent.
Make sure your pedicurist knows you're pregnant, and if she massages your feet, which bits not to press.
At least it's not home in the sleet with doctors and daycare.
i wish i were you..or you were me becaus ethen you dont give a damn because i hate snow and skiiing even more...my two cousins once took me to the alpes for that kind of hollyday and all i did was sitting in the hotel for two weeks and get drunk on jager tea while unuselfull1 and unuselfull2 went up and down the montains..gah..boring...
ReplyDeletebut i love to be in hotels and so i had a nice time after all
@ jo
i m sure the peducrist sees that
@ mwa
no i dont think you are fat
I love skiing, but pregnancies, babies and small children mean I've only been twice in the last seven years. This year we're giving it a miss until Littleboy 2 is old enough to take lessons - hopefully next Christmas. Probably by the time we all get to ski together I'll have forgotten how....
ReplyDeleteOh, you all make me feel so much better!
ReplyDelete@Ms. Moon - Thank you. I will.
@Victoria - But I'm the kind of person who dreams of skiing in summer.
@Jo - I didn't know there were such bits. Thank you, I will.
@Danielle - Ah, no, I'm the opposite. My sister always takes a day off to do the hotel thing. It holds no appeal to me.
(Oh, and I do. To my horror. But I'll lose it all breastfeeding, I hope.)
@nappey valley girl - This is magically the first time I've had to sit one out. Long live the granny! I hope you get to go soon...
(you are not being obnoxious at all)
ReplyDelete(use as many brackets as you like)
(i think it is a tragedy that you can't ski, of course it is. hmph. they are lucky you are not swinging poles around madly and weeping and spilling their hot chocolate when they come back, the buggers)
(you're doing a fantastic job compensating)
(i've never had a pedi either because i'm so ticklish and weird about stranger feet touching, let us know how it goes)
(yes, go get hair done)
(and buy some books!)
(bye!)
@bethany - I may try the weeping. Thanks. I'm worried about the feet thing, too. I shall report back.
ReplyDeleteSulking is a thing that needs a bit of perspective today I reckon.
ReplyDeletebrackets rule!
ReplyDeletecan you cross country ski or snow shoe? or is that too New England for Austria??
I looove that you can nap and slather yourself in chem-free soaps and have Eastern European slave girls prune your callouses. sigh.
You have every right to be pissed you can't downhill ski, but damn, 99% of us would still love to be you right now!! :) have fun!!!
Girl, you are crazy! You are pregnant and obviously allowed to sulk! So go ahead, and no more apologies for it. And a glass of red wine with dinner occasionally will not hurt the baby.
ReplyDeleteYou are allowed to sulk - your pregnant - but hope you enjoy all the goodies too!!
ReplyDeleteOf course I meant 'you are' and not 'your' - talk about being a crap typist!!!
ReplyDeleteWhoo hoo a week in a hotel with an on call babysitter. Someone to play with your feet and smellies in the bathroom! Sounds great.....but I would miss the alcohol. Not ever having done the skiing thing, I'm not sure what you're missing. Maybe I need to add it to my bucket list.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to feel sorry for you, but after the opening sentence "so, I'm in Austria on our annual family skiing holiday" I have to say I'm finding it a little difficult...
ReplyDeleteYou can't do what you love to do so I say it's OK to sulk!
ReplyDeleteCan't you just take the chair lift up to the top and sit in the cafe eating frites (or whatever the Austrian is for chips) drink hot chocolate and soak in the rays until you're ready to come down again?
skiing is completely boring...i hope you're eating tartiflette and raclette and all things cheesy (you need the protein). dont worry in a year or so you'll be swilling red wine again and it'll taste all the better for your deprivation...
ReplyDeleteI'm skiing too but have been out all of two hours in three days so far. One child gets a cold, then the next one and guess who stays in with them. However, I am relishing the quiet reading time which I never seem to have in me "real" life. Oh and blog reading.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed that kind of a skiing holiday once, when I sprained my ankle on the first morning. Drank a lot of hot chocolate.
ReplyDeleteThere are downsides to cooking babies besides the weight gain, bladder issues, constipation...etc. Then to have to watch everyone else have fun, it sucks sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI'd say live it up a bit and spoil yourself while you can. Pedicures are fun if you're not ticklish...(I have no clue how to spell that).
I don't ski despite living next to the Rocky Mountains and tend to the chalet bunny side of things. Have fun pampering yourself :)
I have to have a Valium to get a pedicure. But that's just me. Valium may not be good for the wee one though.....
ReplyDeleteSedatives or no, have fun!
Raclette and a pedicure? I am fully jealous, as I am of some quiet time to read and play on the internet. I want to be you right now, except not pregnant.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy! Sounds like bliss. But I get where you're coming from.
ReplyDeleteI'd sulk too. It's no fun missing out.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry you are stuck at a ski resort unable to ski! Skiing is super fun, but I am always terrified I will break both my legs, cuz I'm clumsy like that. I hope you enjoy yourself as much as you can. Those products do look nice. Are they edible?
ReplyDeleteI would kill for some time in a hotel by myself, I would catch up on grey's Anatomy and read the like 10 books I have stacked up on my desk that I can't get through because they are for fun not work!
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