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I’ve just accepted a new position that I’m pretty excited about. I’m now a spa consultant.

But this isn’t like any spa you’ve ever experienced.

There’s this new trend to make the whole spa experience available to everyone. It has to do with total health and well-being. Relaxing, relieving stress, pampering yourself, taking care of your skin…

But it’s all done with machines. We don’t touch you. As a consultant, we instruct you. Sounds weird, but it’s really very cool. You can fit a whole spa experience into your lunch hour instead of spending a day – and a fortune, at a typical day spa. This is incredibly more affordable.

And sure, there’s tanning beds, but the focus is more on the health benefits. It’s not like the get in and burn up days of the past. Now you take care of your skin, help relieve SAD, increase your vitamin D production. I’ve always been VERY anti-tanning bed. But even I was impressed with the benefits of the new UV therapy.

And there’s this really cool machine where you’re kind of in a heated cocoon and it mists you with vitamin infused steam and aromatherapy. Great for your skin, and so relaxing.

We’re getting in new machines. I can’t wait to try them. There’s even a hand spa coming soon. How cool is that?

I went through intensive training last week and got my certification that I needed. I was really brain dead after that! Too much info!

I’ll let you know more as I get into it.

What I still can’t get over is how cheap it is. I’m amazed.

I was surprised to see how many men came in today.

But for the price, I think a girls night out at the spa is a great idea, don’t you?

If you’re in the Lindenhurst, Lake Villa, Grayslake area – drop me an email and I’ll fix you up with a guest pass so you can check it out. You gotta see this place.

If you’re not in my area, and you have a Planet Beach near you, check to see if they are converting to the new spa. Not all of them are.

You might be seeing a whole new me!

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If you’ve been on my list for a while, you know I used to have a self improvement course called Whole Life Overhaul. It was a daily course delivered by email. But since email deliverability has gotten very difficult, the program just wouldn’t work anymore. Rebuilding it somehow has been on the back burner. It’s over 1000 pages long!

I was turned on to Mike Kernski last night. As I heard him speak about his life I was thinking, wow, I’ve felt like that myself. I haven’t let you guys in on the many terrible things that have happened in my life. I’ll save that for a novel since no one would believe that one life could have so many terrible things. And here was this guy talking about the depths of despair that I never dared talk about.

It turns out that he has used many of the same coping skills that I did. When you read his free report, you’ll think to yourself, yeah – I’ve heard Carole say that.

Here’s what he says about the report -

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Maybe someday i’ll get around to reworking Whole Life Overhaul – maybe not. I think Mike actually does it better.

Pick up his report and give it a try today. You’ll know immediately why I endorse it

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I’m still on the quest to use up ’stuff.’ And boy, we sure seem to have a lot of all kinds of ’stuff’ to use up!

We ran out of Pro-Care toothpaste, but we had a tube of Vanilla Whitening Expressions that no one was using because its really like brushing your teeth with frosting. Too weird. But we’re going to use it up!

The funny thing is – I thought I was doing something good by paying the extra money and using the Pro-Care. My teeth have literally been falling apart, which I attributed to stress.

Imagine how amazed I was when my teeth and gums actually started getting better when I was brushing my teeth with this frosting tasting stuff!

I feel so ripped off.

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You know I’m out in the elements more than most people, year round. And nothing is harder on your hands than the bitter cold in the northern hemisphere. Then add to that the drying heat indoors. You’re talking hands so dry that they’re white and scaley. At their worst, the skin gets so dry it will crack open and bleed. Every time you put your hands in water, it stings. You’re constantly hitting the spots on your hands that are already cracked open – because those are the spots that get the most abuse.

So as you might imagine, I have tried hundreds of things to help heal my hands. Nivea, Mary Kay, Avon, Jergens, and more. Nothing worked any better than just using my regular body lotion, and making sure to put lotion on every time my hands have been in water. None of the special hand creams or salves have worked. Neosporin overnight did help some, but nothing remarkable.

At Christmas, my sister gave me a little gift bag full of Burts Bees samples. I wasn’t terribly excited. I had already tried most of the line, and haven’t been very impressed. I threw the hand salves in the nightstand drawer, with the others. But I left the purple tube out. I started using it at night. It’s one of my rituals. The last thing I do before turning out the lights is put lotion on my hands.

I just did it without thinking much about it. My neighbor was complaining about her hands cracking and bleeding, and I noticed that my hands had not been as bad this year. In fact, they were pretty good. But I still didn’t make the connection until the tube ran out.

Within a couple of weeks, my hand were cracked, bleeding, and sore. At first I attributed it to the change in hand soap. I’ve been on a mission use up all the tubes and bottles of stuff we had collected. We had Dial Anti-Bacterial soap in the cabinet. That stuff is terribly drying, and I guess I’ll just be pitching it. When I stopped using that, my hands improved soem, but they still weren’t good.

I happened to be at the drug store last night (to buy chocolate – I still don’t need drugs)  and saw the purple tube. I almost choked on the price. $12.99 for a 3 oz. tube. You know how cheap I am.. but I bought it.

One night and my hands are already almost healed. This stuff is amazing.

It’s Burt’s shea butter hand repair creme. Great stuff.

You know all those yournamehere’s weight loss story fake blogs that have sprung up all over to sell acai and total body cleanse? I guess it worked so well that now they have a teeth whitening gimic too.

Same premise – you get the 2 free trials and get the results you dream of. Except if you’re able to do it for free – how are they making any money? No one advertises that heavily to not make any money – let’s be real here.

So I was looking at the before and after pictures of the teeth whitening. It claims it was a week. But I see that the gums have receded, and I don’t think they would recede that much in just one week – unless this stuff is really bad for them.

Just my obervation. I don’t trust anything that’s gone to this type of advertising anyway, so I’m always looking for what’s wrong with it. I mean, who wouldn’t want glaringly white teeth in a week, for free?

I’m assuming you have to sign up for the auto ship – so it’s pretty guaranteed you’re going to pay for at least one shipment. But if it works so great, and it’s free, then why would you need auto ship?

I know, I know, results are not permanent. But would you really need to use this stuff everyday forever? And my common sense meter is wondering if this stuff will turn out to be really bad for your teeth.

Fine – call me a cynic.