Can Working in your Bathrobe Help you Attain Life Balance? – Local Entrepreneur, Rachel Marie Anderson, Says Yes!
If your job often makes you feel tired, burned out, or stressed to the max, try a new bathrobe on for size. February 12, 2007 is the fifth annual “Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day,” a time to celebrate the freedom home business ownership offers people. In fact, more than 4.5 million home business owners have waved goodbye to the pressures of the corporate rat race and have settled into a more balanced and better quality of life…working from home.
Local entrepreneur, Rachel has been working from home in Maryland since 2003, providing spa experiences with naturally-based products promoting health, wholeness, individual beauty and lot’s of laughing. “For me” says Rachel “it is important that people remember to reconnect with themselves. Knowing that I can teach and inspire that reconnection from not only the comfort of my own home, but in a bathrobe (if I so choose) is not only empowering but comforting – especially as a mom.”
Kristie Tamsevicius, co-founder of Webmomz.com, a site that empowers women who have chosen to work from home, views having a home business as the ultimate life balancer. “Some people may think that living and working under the same roof creates more stress, but in fact, just the opposite is true. Working from home gives you the freedom to schedule your work around your life, rather than the other way around. That way you can create a life that you truly love.”
And the home business bug isn’t just biting American workers. People in England, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand are celebrating the power of the bathrobe and taking control of their workday and financial future.
Considering that the average worker spends up to 12 hours a day focused on work-related activities, often skipping lunch due to job demands, it’s no wonder that many people feel out of balance. So for the millions of people who have dreamed about a home based business and the opportunity to finally have some life balance, February 12, 2007 may be the perfect day to celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit and map out a new business plan—one that makes the bathrobe your power suit.
Once again this year, InternationalRobes.com, provider of the world’s largest selection of quality bathrobes, is sponsoring “Doing Business in Your Bathrobe Day.” On the day, Webmomz.com will hold a random drawing for three luxury bathrobes, as well as for a host of other prizes. Register online at www.webmomz.com.
Additional information on the festivities planned for the day and about the WebMomz International Robes prize can be
What was Your faveorite present you got? Least Fave?
I liked everything i got:
I got:
a I touch
mountain bike
bunch of clothes from AE
necklace
artist set
IiTunes card
bracelet
bath and body works gifts
spa stuff
2 pairs of shoes
faux fur vest
hat/gloves/scarf
makeup
DIGI makeover
and candy
What would be good products for…?
What would be good products to use for a nice spa bath? I’m doing a home spa for my mom on her birthday this month and need to know what would be good products or supplies I could use for a nice spa bath.
What would you prefer?
I make gift baskets and I wanted to know what people are most interested in.
So pick a category!
-Spa baskets (lotions, bath salts, bubble baths)
-Gourmet baskets (cheese, crackers, wine)
-Relaxation baskets (candles, chocolates, teas)
I’m open to any ideas you might have!
hire or not to hire…a pro plumber?
I have a spa tub and a small separate shower in my master bath. The spa tub really needs to be updated, but it never gets used so I was considering rearranging the plumbing of the spa tub to accommodate a larger shower and tub and then turn the small separate shower area into a closet.
Make sense?
Has anyone attempted such a plumbing project with only minor handy experience? If so, what kind of job and what were the results?
Mamilla: New Luxury in the Old City
Mamilla: New Luxury in the Old City
On an unseasonably cold afternoon in mid-February, just as a flurry of snowflakes had prompted most Jerusalemites to hole up inside, I made the ascent from the city that plays to the city that prays. The dreary weather deepened the silent permanence blanketing this 4,000-year-old metropolis.
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1408 Le Spa Teak Floor Mat, 24″ FRAMED DESIGN
- “Le spa”- Beautiful Premium Plantation Teak Floor Mat
- Perfect in your shower, bathroom, steamroom, sauna
- Under your desk as a gentle foot rest
- At your door-front, around the pool, in- and outdoors
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“Le spa” Premium Plantation Teak Floor Mat Touch it with your feet and you never want to miss it. No matter what design your bathroom or pool area is – this teak floor mat will perfectly fit. Its construction is extremely sturdy, light and yet unmatched when it comes to function, style and durability. This floor mat serves many different purposes: – in your shower or bathroom – outside in front of your door, your balcony, terrace, or deck – At your pool exit ladder … More >>
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Swimming Pools and Swim Spas
I am sure that most believe that it is a great idea to have a swimming pool and obviously it is very good, even more so, if one has children or grand children.
But would it not be a very clever idea to combine the advantages of a swimming pool with a Jacuzzi.Hot Tub.
That clever idea is known as a Swim Spa and is a counter current swimming pool so that you can swim against a current, but it also has exactly the same ideas and concept of a Hydrotherapy Massage Spa.
A swim spa will take up considerably less space than a conventional swimming pool as due to the counter current system less length is required. As a swimming pool is much larger anybody who has one will be aware of the actual time that it takes to keep it clean from all that the weather and elements bring in.
An efficient swim spa will have a heating system which is quite economic to run and it will remain warm for the whole year. Whereas with a swimming pool unless one has a water heating system, which usually turns out to be very costly the pool, can only provide a pleasant bathing temperature for a short time of the year. In a swim spa the water temperature is fully controllable and can be set up to 40ºC and can be adjusted for say a swimming activity or orientated to simply relax or for exercise such as aqua jogging.
A swim spa should have some form of anti-slip floor combined with sufficient depth of say 130cm to 140cm so that it can also be used for aqua jogging. When one considers that all of the operating equipment in a swim spa that is the pumps and heaters are compact it is even a possibility of being portable, for example, a Swim Spa could be placed in a garden, terrace or in the interior of a villa or house. Another possibility is a roof terrace subject to the weight and loading requirements.
With a conventional swimming pool one does have the routine of having to constantly check that the balance and quality of the water is correct.
As opposed to a conventional swimming pool a swim spa needs relatively low maintenance to keep the water clear and in perfect condition.
A properly made swim spa will be equipped with an efficient filtration system, with sufficient cartridge filters and a sufficient circulation pump.
Also as with modern Hot Tubs a swim spa should be equipped with an ozone generator to help purify the water. Ozone is a form of” active oxygen”, nature’s very own special molecule and interestingly enough the composition of one ozone molecule contains three oxygen atoms. On the cheaper made products the Ozone looks like large water droplets but on the proper made swim spas, the Ozone is seen as a fine stream of air bubbles.
A modern designed Swim Spa or Hot Tub will have well designed plumbing systems in order to minimize the noise of their running and avoid tight or small pipe runs and are well designed and assembled with proper materials and not in a cheap skate way.
A well designed Swim Spa or Hot Tub would have the latest electronic controls like those from Balboa in America or Gecko from Canada both leading manufacturers in their class in order to be able to control the spa functions such as heating – pumps – timers and that kind of thing.
A top quality Swim Spa will have well designed shells made from high-grade acrylic like Lucite Extra Cast or Aristech. Make sure that the Acrylic is of a high standard not just that it is simply Lucite inspired or based on a Lucite design.
As always my firm advice remains that one should, always, only buy a product that comes from an American or Western, internationally recognized, manufacturer of Swim Spas & Hot Tubs.
Then there is every chance that the product will last and last and provide very many years of faultless service..
The reasoning is indeed very simple the internationally recognized producer backs his products with a real guarantee, so if there is a fault it does fall back on the manufacturer and not on the consumer.
The reason why they can provide these guarantees’ is that they have had very many decades of experience and therefore they build them with the proper quality parts and components so ensuring that is will not fail. It is for that simple reason and that reason alone that they are then prepared to provide a long life guarantee.
Hertfordshire ? The land of Luxury resort spa
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Housed within London’s Country Estate in Hertfordshire is one of the world’s best spa hotels Catering to a distinguished guest list its luxurious opulence is served to delight and unwind. Spread over 300 acres of lush greenery this queen of spas and resorts contains some 227 guestrooms within its grand walls. Each room is steeped in luxury with richly-colored upholstery, curtains, bedspreads and cushion covers. Upon request, the hotel staff will keep a champagne bottle ready inside your room or even your favorite book.
Walk into your guest room and you can switch on the 42 inch plasma screen TV right away playing all your favorite channels. Feel like some music? There is a digital radio that will answer all your listening needs. And if you have work to do, there is internet access available on the broadband. And if you need to call either home or office there is direct dial telephone with two lines along with voicemail. And if you feel like a shower, step into the well-stacked bathroom. You come out in a bathrobe and dry your hair with the hair-dryer provided for you inside the room which also has a well-stocked mini bar and an in-room safe which is laptop-compatible.
You may, next, ring the bell for laundry, press or dry cleaning services. The grand, palatial mansion’ guest rooms, on the other hand, have truly luxurious interiors designed to replicate those of the original owners, the Earls of Clarendon. Open fireplaces, four-poster beds, velvet curtains, a plasma TV rising from the foot of the bed and well-placed antiques characterize the mood of each room in this best of spa hotels. Out of all the spas and resorts The Grove is probably best designed to gear to large as well as small corporate meetings.
That’s because it is located barely 30 minutes away from Heathrow Airport and eminently accessible both via road as well as train. One of the main draws of this queen among spas and resorts is the natural lighting it provides in all its meeting spaces. Apart from the eye-catching environs, the staff ensures that attendees at these meets are kept rejuvenated with fresh fruits and palate-friendly confectionary between the breaks.
Famous amongst spas and hotels, The Grove has a truly exclusive spa to boast about. After a hectic swirl of events and meetings who wouldn’t want to unwind and relax in the tepid English sunshine? The Sequoia Spa at the beach is an award winner for its range of hands-on treatments incorporate relaxants and tinglers like Sand Storm or head massage, and Sand Blast designed to get your blood circulation after a long, stiff day over your meeting chair.
You must also try the reflex foot massage referred to as Floating Feet. Female guests, particularly, love the Leighton Denny Hand treatment that leaves the hands soft and well-nourished. This innovative treatment is also called Fluff & Buff. There is fine dining available too at the Colette’s restaurant. But if you are in the mood for something rural try The Stables. There is something for everyone, soaked in luxury of course.