As per usual with my luck these days, my "day of relaxation" was not particularly relaxing.

First off, apparently the coffee, guarana, green tea and kola nut in my body wrap yesterday injected enough caffeine into my system that I slept horribly last night. (But, on the positive side, my thights DID look much firmer!)

Then I dragged my overly-tired arse to yoga this morning and could barely do half of the "exercises" the Yogi had in mind for us today. We were ALL moaning and groaning doing these torturous "toning' exercises for stomach and hips...not a "namaste" feeling radiating from me after that!

Finally, I went for my facial at the spa, and began to explain to the technician that my skin was uncharacteristically dry and chapped in areas - a combo of wind burn/cold dry air, and over-use of benzoil-peroxide-based products for breakout prevention. She would no sooner apply a product - even if it was labeled for "sensistive skin" - and it would begin to burn into my skin like some sort of etching acid! Yeow! She kept trying a product then resort to wiping it off when it would burn. So I left the spa with little improvement in the appearance and texture of my skin. At least the arm/should/neck massage was successful.