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So y’all, we just got to the Lavender Inn and it is so adorable.

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It is the cutest place ever.

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And when you arrive, they have tapas.

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Look at, look at how beautiful the living room is. Isn’t that great?

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I love,

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I love the mantelpiece and look at these really

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super cute ornaments they have hanging from the ceiling.

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Isn’t that pretty?

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I just love traveling at the holidays and seeing all the decor and

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stuff they do at places and I am heading over for my massage.

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I just got back from my Lomi

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Lomi massage and I’m back in my room with the lavender in

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and y’all get me my grass skirt because I’m moving

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to Hawaii to have one of these massages every day.

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It was insanely incredible.

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And um it was at the little Mary spa,

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which is like a right adjacent to the inn and actually the owner of Mary Spa.

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Mary

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used to own this inn and then she sells it in and she

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just focuses on her spa now and it is this cozy little retreat.

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It’s, it’s this cottage

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and it’s one of these one treatment room spas

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and it just feels so warm and welcoming and just like a, a little retreat.

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You know, you don’t really hear anything else when you’re in there.

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It just felt like the whole rest of the world just had dropped away. I love little spas

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like that.

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And my therapist, her name was Lonnie. Ironically enough. Right?

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And she was not just a massage therapist, she’s really a healer

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and she even makes her own skin care line. And this is um her rose facial spray.

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You just like spray this on your face.

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And she was telling me that rose is meant to heal the heart.

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It’s also really good for moisturizing and for like skin discolorations.

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So I can’t wait to try this. This is made with um, like the local olive oil and roses.

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So yay

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can’t wait to try that.

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But she was so nice. She went over like,

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like what

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a Lomi Lomi massage is all about how it works.

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And it was really authentic. She made it, you know, she used Koo

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in that oil. She had the music that she played was actually not like music.

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It was better than music.

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It felt so real, you know, it wasn’t like that music, massage music.

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It was like this drum music. You felt like you’re on like a Hawaiian island

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and um I’m gonna try and get the name of the CD from her and if I do find that out,

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I’ll put it in the description box for y’all or the link to itunes to the music,

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whatever I can find.

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And um she even and then on the head rests on the massage table,

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it had like this little packet like a sachet

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of fresh lavender.

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So when you like put your face down in the

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cradle and rest with your forehead on the lavender,

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you are getting like the full effect of fresh

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lavender because this is the lavender in after all.

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And it’s surrounded by tons of lavender fishes.

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So every morning they go out there and pick the fresh lavender,

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put it in the little sachet

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and set it right on the head rest. Isn’t that cool?

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So anyway, so the ambience, the whole thing,

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it was just really and the spa itself was all decked out for the holidays,

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lots of little lights and Laurel leaves.

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It was just, just perfect. Absolutely perfect.

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And Lonnie was telling me that Lomi Lomi massage

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is actually meant to mimic like the ocean waves like so that, you know,

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some of the things that she does, you know, you’re,

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you’re meant to kind of feel the rhythmic,

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the rhythm of the ocean during your massage. And can I tell you I did.

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it was like she was dancing with her hands like she was doing the Hula with her hands

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on my body and she even told me that

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um Hula, there are some people in Hawaii that when they do a Lomi Lomi massage,

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they Hula dance while they do the massage.

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And can I tell you? So, this is on my list.

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Now, I have to find somebody who can Hula dance and do a lonely, lonely

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massage at the same time. So if y’all know of anybody

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put it in the comments, I will, I will look them up and

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I have to experience this. It’s just,

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it just sounds like the coolest thing ever.

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like this rubbing motion on my back

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and it was so cool and I wanna tell you,

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it was right in tune with the music like exactly on time.

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It was fabulous.

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it was like her arms but it didn’t feel like arms.

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It really felt like the ocean. Like it was like,

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well, like you, it was like this, like she was moving her arms up and down

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it, it did, it,

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it literally felt like the ocean was just like breaking

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over me and then she did this thing with my,

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um, with my

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legs

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where she kind of bent the leg up and then moved

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it around and out in different positions and it just totally

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stretched out like all the tightness in here.

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it was incredible.

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It felt so relaxing and I didn’t even know it was tight there,

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but not a surprise since I’m, like in the car all the time or sitting at the computer

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and she did something similar with my arms where she like,

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you know, moved them

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all around and up and then she was like, moved it up and then pulled it.

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elongated that socket cause you know how you get real tight up here.

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what let me, let me massage will inspire

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your dreams,

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like inspire wisdom from your dreams because like in Hawaiian healing culture,

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you know, it, it’s meant to

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unblock this area back here.

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so where your thoughts meet your body and if that’s blocked,

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then you could be having all these thoughts and

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your body can’t respond and there can be conflict

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and you know it and you can’t, you just can’t live well.

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But one thing she did that was really cool is she took my head and she kind

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of turned it to the side and then leaned it over and like right along here,

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she just did this really deep

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um motion with her fingers and just, it made my whole body tingle.

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I mean, just like it just felt like all these things were being released.

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God knows what those things are. But,

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but hopefully it was all bad things getting out of my system.

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so that was another one of the moves that I really love that she did.

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So you can feel freer.

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And at the end of the massage, she did this, I’m not really sure why she did it.

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I should have asked her,

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but she kind of went around my whole body and like pushed on it like,

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so I was just laying there kind of like comatose, right?

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incredible amazing massage.

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But she, she like shook me, like rocked me, rocked my whole body just with her hands.

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She was just pushing and she was just like,

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it felt like I was being like carried on an

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ocean wave cause I was so light at that point,

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like all the,

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you know, tightness and

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It felt like I was literally being carried on the waves.

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Uh I mean, is that if y’all ever have the opportunity to try Lomi

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Lomi massage, seriously try it.

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And I hope that your therapist is like Amaz as amazing as Lonnie was.

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if you’re really lucky you might be to find one of those Hula dance and lonely,

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lonely massage therapist.

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So, so anyway,

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And so I’m excited to see what I dream about tonight.

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I mean, hopefully it’s not one of those nights where I can’t remember my dreams.

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that we just figure, wouldn’t it?

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But anyway, but um, I’ll let you all know tomorrow what I dream about.

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So I hope you have a really awesome night and I’ll talk to you later. Bye.

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Hey, y’all, we just left the lavender in and we’re on our way to Santa Barbara,

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attention to my dreams.

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And thank goodness I could remember my dreams

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and it was a really interesting night too,

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kind of crazy.

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actually woke up in the middle of the night. I heard this thud.

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It was kind of weird. I mean, there was some rattling noises and then I heard a thud

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and we had this orange on a shelf and y’all, I’m not kidding you.

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No joke. The orange was clear across the other side of the room on the floor.

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It was really bizarre. Um, so I don’t know what that was about.

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I never could really figure out what that was.

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But anyway, getting back to my dream,

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I it was this really weird dream. I was at Trader Joe’s

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to get an interview with some woman that I was supposed to network with.

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That was really important to my career

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and I was just chasing her all around Trader Joe’s.

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It was really strange. So I’m not really sure what that means, what that was about,

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Anyway, if y’all have any ideas, leave it down in the comment box,

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what you think that might have been about?

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And the orange thing too,

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I think I’ll have to ask at the end and I’ll put it

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down in the comment in the description box if I find out anything.

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But anyway, I will see you in Santa Barbara.