I live nowhere near the ocean, but who’s complaining?

I am.

But, I was born in California and I’ve done a lot of vacationing in Florida, so I have a mad appreciation for catching waves both in the ocean and in my hair. That’s right, my hair. There’s something so wonderfully carefree about a just-from-the beach hair style and now you and I don’t have to go on vacation to get that look.

I was surfing pinterest.com last week (pun intended) and came across this simple way solution for creating beachy-locks using a few ingredients commonly found under ANY Fitness & Spicer’s bathroom sink. Just grab an empty spray bottle and add about…

• 2 tablespoons epsom salt
• 2 tablespoons hair gel
• 4-6 ounces of water

Shake, shake, shake. Spray it on your damp or dry hair. Scrunch or style as usual.

Will this formula make your hair shiny? No. But it will give your hair some texture and if your hair is anything like mine it will unlock a little bit of curl. And, the best part? It will make you look like Pamela Anderson in an episode of Baywatch. No it won’t.

Now I really must go hit the gym, take a shower, slap on a sundress, and do the wave!

You know you’ve had a good workout when…

• Your legs are wobbly when you are walking out of the gym
• Your calves hurt when you push down the gas pedal
• Your arms ache when you lift your tooth brush
• Your abs hurt when you laugh out loud

Have you had one of those workouts when your body hurts and the pain is worse two days after your workout? I’m going through one of those “hurts so good” kind of phases right now. Everything aches…my hamstrings, my lats, my biceps, my shoulders…especially my shoulders! Did I mention my shoulders?

So, besides complaining non-stop about it, I’ll be breaking out my…

Fitness & Spice Recovery Kit

Inside the kit is:

• Epsom Salt for soaking my sore bones in a hot bath…it’s inexpensive and magical for reducing inflammation
• Advil Liqui-Gels and Tylenol PM (but not taken at the same time, just to be clear!)
• Foam roller for massaging the problem areas (and right now, just about everything is a problem area)
• Ice pack (see Frosty in this picture? That’s a wash cloth puppet I picked up at Bath & Body Works last year. It stays in my freezer with a baggie full of ice all year long)

How do you know when you’ve had a good workout and what do you do about it?

I’ll just sit down on the red chair with Frosty while you tell me all about it…

I went on a canoe race this morning to raise a little dough for a volunteer fire department. Now my shoulders are burning. How’s that for irony?

To make sure I’m going to be able to function tomorrow, I’m going to take an epsom salt bath. I try to take one epsom salt bath a week to help my body recover from a weeks worth of workouts…it’s great for comforting sore muscles and reducing inflammation.

You can get epson salt at fine stores like Walgreens. They even carry some with lavender that is suppose to make you sleepy—which sounds a little risky to me. So, if you decide to buy the lavender epsom salt bath, make sure you call a fireman and/or life guard first in case you go under. That, or wear a life jacket.

Sweet dreams.