Wellness weekend in Joshua Tree 🌵✨
It was Shi’s birthday weekend and she wanted to do a sound bath at The Integratron. Chel and I have done it before, but it was Shi, Pammie and Alicia’s first time.
Shi loves Friends, so we got her a bag of crap for her birthday!
It was filled with Friends Bum Bumz! Something I knew Shi would love, but she’d never buy for herself.
This was the perfect place for Shi, because no one loves space like she does (as evident by the picture of her aboard the Starship Enterprise inside her closet in her old bedroom at her parents’ house) 🖖🏼
The Integratron is built on a vortex and is supposed to be a point of concentrated spiritual energy, so of course I had to buy some crystals and palo santo from the gift shop.
While waiting to have dinner at Pappy & Harriet’s, we explored Pioneertown.
We stumbled upon The Rusty Nickel, where you can find ‘Art, Rust, Souvenirs & Dust – Free dust with every purchase!’ It was a weird little shop with oddities. When I was paying for my horror stickers, the lady ringing me up was like, ‘Has anyone ever told you that you sound like Jennifer Tilly?’ The stroke altered my voice, so I’m really self-conscious about speaking aloud. I’ve been told I sound like Marge from The Simpsons, but never Jennifer Tilly! Chel was like, ‘Who’s Jennifer Tilly?’ Uhh, The Bride of Chucky? AKA the highest of compliments LOL.
Without betraying our safe space, I will say lots of tears were shed and we all needed this wellness weekend. It’s easy for me to say what I want to say on this blog, because I know only like one person reads it (Hi, Shi LOL). But I have a hard time talking about my feelings or crying in front of other people. Chel is my cousin, so she’s seen me cry at family funerals at least, Pammie is my sister, so she’s seen me cry and made me cry since I was a baby LOL, Shi is my heart twin and has seen me at my absolute worst, so we’ve both seen each other ugly cry, Alicia thinks I’m perfect and has never seen me cry before this weekend or even heard me fart LOL. If only she knew what a gassy mess I really am.
I think I always thought of crying as a weakness, because my mom is so strong. Whenever she’s been hospitalized, she didn’t even tell her siblings because she didn’t want them to see her like that. She broke her wrist last month, and just casually mentioned it to me and my sister a week after it happened like it was no bigs.
You never know what someone is going through or what they’re struggling with. This weekend taught me that it’s okay to be vulnerable around the people you love…
Sha texted me yesterday and said my retreat looked like so much fun. Lol. I dont think anyone called it a retreat, but i guess thats what it looked like! On our way to some wellness, y’all!
And thank goodness u have a pic of all the bum bumz! I was looking at the pics on the box it came in and i thought pheobes guitar was part of it. When i came home, i only saw 4 of them. I asked, “hey wheres my lobster?!” Apparently callie brought it with her to lola’s house and it was in the car. I have yet to find pheobe’s guitar tho. It’s either in the mess that is still my living room, or it got stranded at lola’s house too. Darn kids, i better find it!
If crying is a form of weakness, than im weak AF. Please dont wait till our next retreat to share your feelings, love! I love you!
February 11th, 2025 | #
omg alicia’s sister called her when we were at pioneertown, and she didn’t pick up. her sister texted her afterwards and was like, ‘sorry, i forgot you were on your retreat’ lol.
oh, i cry all the damn time, just usually not in front of people haha. felt good to release all this shit i’ve been keeping inside 🫠
love you more! and i’m glad you found all the bum bumz! fucking callie 😜
February 13th, 2025 | #