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Just came upon the website RomanceStruck.com a few minutes ago and just had to repost this romantic post:

Easter Romance: 10 Romantic Easter Ideas

© Amy Cunningham

Easter is not necessarily the first holiday that comes to mind when you think romance, but you can make it romantic in your own way. Grab a chocolate bunny, read through these romantic Easter ideas and you'll be on your way to a hoppin romantic day. 

1. Easter Egg Hunt
   Setup the hunt the night before. If you have kids, you may want to do the hunt in your bedroom. Fill the eggs with love notes, chocolates, and a few small romantic gifts. Jewelry is always nice.
   

2. Egg-stra Special Love Notes
   Wrap paper messages around chocolate eggs with 'egg' quotes such as: "You are egg-stra special to me", "You egg-cite me!", or "You're an egg-stremely great wife/husband."
   
3. Dye Easter Eggs
   If you like boiled eggs (or even if you don't), dye Easter Eggs together. This is a fun activity that even adults can enjoy! If you get a white crayon, take the time to write romantic love messages on the eggs before you dye them. As you dye them, the messages will magically appear!
   
4. Easter Lilies
   Surprise her with a room filled with potted Easter Lillies. They're gorgeous, in bloom, and easy to care for. Make sure to add a card letting her know that your love is a pure as the white fragrant blooms.
   
5. Easter Love Coupons
   Fill those plastic Easter Eggs with bunches of love couponsfor your partner to redeem during the remainder of April. You can print free love coupons right here at RomnanceStuck.
   
6. Easter Egg Time Capsule
   Create your own Easter memories. Each year, fill a plastic Easter Egg (you may want to buy the larger novelty ones) with notes and mementos of your relationship for the past year. Or, use your Easter Egg time capsule to record your feelings for your partner on that particular day. Each year, look back on your previous notes and include a new one.
   

7. Aphrodisiac Easter Basket
   Fill an Easter Basket completely full of various chocolates (since it's an aphrodisiac and all). You may want to include a few sexy love notes with suggestions for the night to come.
   
8. Sexy Easter Basket
   Most definitely not a basket for kids. Fill an Easter Basket full of sexy gifts such as massage oils, an intimate game, or edible underwear. You'll definitely be hopping in the bedroom tonight.
   
9. Easter Picnic
   This is a common suggestion, but not many couples actually take advantage of it! Pack a picnic lunch with Easter traditionals like ham, plus a bottle of wine. Head out to your local park, snag a shady spot under a tree and prepare yourself for an afternoon of romance.
   
10. Easter Proposal
    Thinking about popping the question? Why not make it a romantic Easter proposal? Sure, you don't usually think Easter when you think of proposals, but there are many creative and romantic Easter ideas for proposing marriage. Check out our Easter proposal ideas.

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13 Bad Bedtime Habits That Deprive You of Beauty Sleep

BY DAISY SHAW
from Allure.com

A good night's sleep doesn't just boost your mood—it also improves your looks. Yet only 25 percent of Americans get the recommended eight hours per night. We compiled the most common mistakes, so you can learn how to get the most—and the best—rest possible.

1. Watching TV before bed

You may not feel that active when you're being a couch potato or surfing the Web in the hour before bed, but the fake light from your screen tricks your mind into thinking it's not time to sleep yet. Funnily enough, the only stimulating thing doctors do recommend before bed is sex—though it's arousing, it ultimately makes most people tired.

2. Checking the time

Don't give in! Checking to see how much longer you've got until your alarm goes off just amps up anxiety. Keep the clock far enough away from the bed so you can't see it without making a conscious decision to get up, walk over, and look.

3. Talking on the phone

Though checking in with friends and family might be as habitual as the rest of your bedtime routine, talking on the phone can be harmful to your quality of sleep. A recent study found that those who spoke on the phone for a prolonged period of time before bed took longer to reach deep sleep (the most important kind, by the way) and had shorter bouts of it.

4. Sleeping in a warm room

A room that's too warm won't leave you as rested as you might think. Chill out: Any temperature above 68 degrees doesn't send your brain the right signal to fall into a deep sleep.

5. Leaving the lights on

The glow from digital clocks, laptops, and blinking BlackBerrys can amount to a fair amount of light—and can be a serious disturbance to melatonin levels (the hormone that helps you fall, and stay, asleep). Need more proof? Before Thomas Edison created the light bulb in 1879, people slept an average of ten hours a night.

6. Drinking caffeine

Coffee, tea, and Diet Coke may be your answer to the mid-afternoon slump, but you'd be surprised at how long caffeine stays in your system. Doctors recommend only noncaffeinated beverages for the eight hours before bed.

7. Smoking. At all.

Another of the many reasons to quit: Smoking makes your sleep suck. A recent study found smokers had a higher level of brain activity during sleep than nonsmokers, leaving them less rested come morning. At the very least, have your last cigarette more than four hours before your head hits the pillow.

8. Having a cocktail

We may sound like killjoys, but for a really restful night's sleep, stay away from alcohol, period. That glass or two of wine that helps you drift off could make you toss and turn when the alcohol eventually leaves your bloodstream and you become more alert.

9. Too-tight pj's

Slinky pajamas aren't just sexy; they help you sleep better, too. A recent study found that sleeping in tight, body-shaping garments interferes with circadian rhythms enough to decrease melatonin levels and increase body temperature—the exact opposite of what causes sleep.

10. Sleeping on your stomach or side

You know those cheek indents you get from your pillowcase? Dermatologists say that years of smooshing your face into a piece of fabric like that will cause those lines to stick around—forever. Sleep on your back to prevent the problem.

11. Going to bed with makeup on

There are many reasons that Sleeping Beauty is a fairy tale, but that Beauty didn't wake up with a face full of zits after sleeping in her makeup for a hundred years is beyond us. Washing your face before bed rids the skin of a day's worth of oil buildup and helps prevent clogged pores, which lead to blemishes and blackheads. If you're seriously lazy, stash some wet cloth wipes in your bedside table (we love Neutrogena Make-Up Remover Cleansing Towelettes) so you have no excuse not to come clean.

12. Skipping anti-aging products

The slight increase in body temperature that happens when you sleep actually revs up the absorption of skin-care ingredients. Take advantage of that fact. Nighttime slathering with super ingredients such as retinol and glycerin allows your skin to put them to their best use.

13. Not brushing and flossing

We all cringe at the thought of going to the dentist, but we're willing to bet that dentists cringe even more at the thought of us not brushing and flossing before bed. A day's worth of gunk on your teeth is tantamount to a serious bacteria party in your mouth—cue an aftermath of cavities, tooth decay, and bad breath.