pamper myself

I’ve been using the Arbonne Sea Salt Scrub and it is so indulgent! I love it! Their whole line is very indulgent and I’m going to buy some more of their items when I can. Love it!

I will try to:

Make a list of the best compliments you’ve ever received.

Snap photos of picturesque places in your town.

Buy a yummy essential oil and diffuser for your bedroom. (Got it, just need to move it!)

Buy pretty postcards to put on your fridge. (Done… in my bathroom too!)

Tear out inspirational magazine or catalogue photos and make a life collage. Paste onto a posterboard what your ideal life looks like.

Get your favorite ice cream or bottle of wine in the middle of the week as a treat.

Soak your hair in a hot oil treatment.

Sign up for an introductory class in a craft that you’ve always been interested in – knitting, photography, stained glass, etc. (Done… sewing class on May 19.)

Make a pot of savory homemade soup.

Have a monthly spa night and pamper yourself with beauty treatments and magazine reading.

Have a slumber party with your three best girlfriends. Even if they are married, make them come!

Send surprise, random cards to friends. (Do this every week.)

Get up in the middle of the night and go outside to look at the stars.

Sit outside and listen to the birds.

Lay down after work with chamomile tea bags on your eyes and your favorite CD playing.

Start a gratitude journal. (Started it on Sunday!)

Check out an unfamiliar opera or jazz recording from your library.

Check out an interesting looking foreign film or documentary from your library.

Write a letter to someone who deserves to know how much they mean to you. Send it.

Reread your favorite childhood book.

Go shell-hunting on a beach.

Burn a CD of feel-good songs. (Done a couple of weeks ago!)

Try a new wine you’ve never heard of.

Take a long walk.

Make a list of the best compliments you’ve ever received.

Pet puppies at the local animal shelter.

Read your favorite magazine in the bath with the phone turned off – complete with bubbles, wine and candles.

Try on couture gowns at a fancy boutique.

Take a hike with binoculars and a notepad to record your thoughts.

Sing loudly to Aretha Franklin in a long, hot shower.

Snap photos of picturesque places in your town.

Dress up and treat yourself to an exquisite lunch at a fancy restaurant – complete with champagne cocktail.

Dress up and try on expensive jewelry at your local jewelry store.

Spend an hour at a great florist or greenhouse – floral smells are a natural high.

Buy a yummy essential oil and diffuser for your bedroom.

Buy pretty postcards to put on your fridge.

Tear out inspirational magazine or catalogue photos and make a life collage. Paste onto a posterboard what your ideal life looks like.

Spend an afternoon at an art gallery.

Browse at the library all afternoon.

Light candles and listen to Mozart as you get ready for work in the morning.

Light candles and listen to Mozart in your office at the end of a rough day.

Try on a favorite outfit and admire how great you look. Note each part that you are PROUD of!

Get your favorite ice cream or bottle of wine in the middle of the week as a treat.

Read a Jane Austen novel all day while drinking tea.

Let yourself have total stillness for 15 minutes in the middle of the day.

Soak your hair in a hot oil treatment.

Give your hands and feet a paraffin treatment

Go shopping for one very specific and non-practical thing that you’ve always wanted, like kidskin gloves or a rhinestone tiara.

Buy a lovely art book you’ve never heard of and put it on your coffee table.

Pick up brochures about exotic places from a travel agency and daydream.

Sign up for an introductory class in a craft that you’ve always been interested in – knitting, photography, stained glass, etc.

Hit tennis balls against a wall at a park.

Go to a batting cage and hit some balls.

Go to a gym and punch a bag for half an hour.

Shoot baskets.

Send yourself flowers for no reason… or better yet…

Send your mother, grandmother, sister, aunt or best friend flowers for no reason.

Brush your hair for one hundred strokes.

Pumice your feet, coat with peppermint lotion and put on thick cotton socks.

Make a pot of savory homemade soup.

Pick up free samples of an expensive face mask at a department store.

Have a monthly spa night and pamper yourself with beauty treatments and magazine reading.

Fly a kite.

Toss a Frisbee.

Dance to Madonna in front of the mirror.

Rent five great girl movies, make a bed on the living room floor and have a weekend marathon.

Have a slumber party with your three best girlfriends. Even if they are married, make them come!

Wander through a bookstore that is open late and buy one random “staff pick”.

Send surprise, random cards to friends.

Take your coffee and the newspaper back to bed with you on Sunday.

Watch Saturday morning cartoons while eating your favorite childhood cereal.

Go for a walk in a neighborhood that you never visit.

Go for a walk in the neighborhood where you once lived.

Shine your favorite shoes.

Start a scrapbook of favorite memories from the year – or start a photo diary.

Get up in the middle of the night and go outside to look at the stars.

Try on fabulous hats with a friend.

Read a trashy romance novel at a coffee shop all afternoon.

Find a reputable “adult store”, don dark glasses and start shopping.

Buy the most recent issue of three magazines you never get to read and sit on a park bench until you finish them.

Put on a snazzy outfit, call a snazzy friend and have a drink at the snazziest hotel bar in town.

See a matinee of a foreign film you’ve never heard of.

Sit outside and listen to the birds.

Go to a drop-in yoga or meditation class.

Offer to walk a friend’s dog.

Drive to the closest body of water and put your feet in.

Lay down after work with chamomile tea bags on your eyes and your favorite CD playing.

Spend all day on the sofa in your pajamas watching your favorite channel and don’t feel bad about it.

Write down your dreams in a bedside journal.

Start a gratitude journal.

Make s’mores.

Skip around the block.

Check out an unfamiliar opera or jazz recording from your library.

Check out an interesting looking foreign film or documentary from your library.

Feed ducks.

Kiss someone you’ve always meant to.

Write a letter to someone who deserves to know how much they mean to you. Send it.

Plant tulips.

Rent roller skates and skate around a park.

Paint your bathroom a warm, flattering color.

Take a drive to a nearby town or neighborhood you’ve always wanted to see.

Get a facial or a manicure at a beauty school.

Get a great book-on-tape and drive aimlessly all day on Sunday.

Make yourself the ultimate brunch: waffles, whipped cream, strawberries, fresh juice, coffee, cloth napkins.

Wear your most comfortable article of clothing all day long, no matter its condition. Don’t wear any make-up either.

Drink all your beverages through a Crazy Straw.

Read through your old yearbook.

Go to an outdoor concert.

Reread your favorite childhood book.

Buy yourself beautiful silk pajamas.

Rent a canoe or kayak and contemplate life.

Steam your face over a boiling pot of water infused with dried lavender.

Spend an afternoon at a flea market, unearthing one great find – even if it is a fixer-upper.

Find a carnival and ride the Ferris Wheel.

Test drive sexy convertibles on a sunny day.

Practice your signature with a fountain pen.

Make homemade body scrub from salt, sesame oil and fresh lemon.

Rent a yoga video.

Mat and frame a treasured family photo.

Find a friend who knits and start a project together.

Paint your nails candy apple red.

Have a complimentary makeover at a cosmetics counter.

Go for a professional blow-out or up-do before a night out.

Go to an observation point or scenic overlook and get some perspective.

Visit a day spa for one treatment you’ve never tried before.

Go shell-hunting on a beach.

Try false eyelashes.

Wear your special-occasion underwear even though it is Monday.

Drink your morning juice out of a champagne flute.

Drop in on a belly dancing or tai chi class.

Learn how to make really good sushi at home.

Learn how to make a really good latte at home.

Buy a potted orchid for your desk. Learn how to care for it properly.

Go to a community pancake breakfast.

Volunteer at a soup kitchen.

Play pool and shoot darts when you’re technically supposed to be at work.

Pick up bubbles and pinwheels at the five-and-dime.

Make one comfort recipe from childhood.

Get your car washed at a school fundraiser.

Have your tarot cards read.

Sit on your porch or in your open window breathing in fresh air.

Go to the symphony.

Test perfumes until you find your favorite.

Go to a new church.

Add essential oil to a spritzer and spray around your house or office.

Invest in satin sheets or sumptuous 400+ thread count sheets.

Burn a CD of feel-good songs.

Try a new wine you’ve never heard of.

Make chocolate fondue.

Take a train ride.

Put windchimes n your bedroom window.

Go to an author reading at a bookstore.

Take a long lunch break and catch a matinee.

Take at least one day off per month to LIVE YOUR LIFE!

Subscribe to a magazine that you secretly love.

Go to a bar and order a kir royale.

Go to a local high school play or sporting event.

Buy last-minute discount opera tickets.

Compose a personal ad highlighting your best qualities.

Hit the tasting room at a local winery.

Plan a road trip to see a friend.

Buy a small bouquet for your nightstand.

Hire a maid service for the day.

Spend some quality time in a bakery.

Send a book from your shelf to a friend you know will love it – and remember to inscribe it!

Buff your nails to a high shine.

Go to the free night at a local museum.

Visit a botanical or Japanese or sculpture garden.

Book a solo night at a cozy, quite bed-and-breakfast. Read all night long.

Finally sign up for that seminar or lecture you’ve been thinking about.

Take a long walk.

Rearrange the furniture in your bedroom or living room.

Go to a nearby playground and plan on the swings.

Set up a hammock and use it.

Climb a tree.

Set up a clothes-line and use it.

Light every single candle in your house.

Collect leaves.

String twinkly lights along your fence or bedroom window.

Put on sparkly eye shadow.

Have your palm read.

Take salsa lessons.

Buy fishnet stockings and wear them to a meeting you are dreading.

Simmer hot cider with cinnamon sticks on your stove all afternoon.

Bring out holiday and birthday cards from last year and remind yourself what great friends you have.

Head to the zoo on a sunny afternoon and overcome your fear of snakes and komodo dragons.

Visit a craft fair or public art show or arts festival.

Put on a vintage dress and meet your girlfriends for high tea.

Throw your sheets or towels in the dryer right before you use them.

Set up a weekly “date” with your best friends.