| Miss Lonelyhearts - Jan. 16 | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:51:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | I'm a "closet gay" and have had the biggest crush on this guy for the longest time. I finally had the guts and invited him to this party, and he showed up! We were happy to see one another. We gave each other a hug and went up to the bar and got ourselves some drinks. We chatted for a little bit, and then he went and disappeared for the rest of the night. One thing I'm not sure of is his sexuality. Is he gay or not? I always hate this speculation. People say gay people usually have a gay radar, but not in my case. How do I access the gay grapevine when I'm a closet case. He doesn't know any of my friends at all, and I don't know his. Should I call him? I mean, I always see him around. Should I just show up at his work? What should I say though? I hate awkward moments. Please help. Gay Rush Crush 2007 Winnipeg .... | |
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| | | Detox Destinations: Top Spas | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 12:51:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | Nothing helps de-stress the mind and soul more than a relaxing spa break and our fabulous selection of seven of the best spas in the world has what your looking for when it comes to rest and rejuvenation. Macau, China Macau, in Southern China's Pearl River Delta, is the perfect destination to spend a day shopping, sight-seeing and an evening at the casino, but it is also an excellent place to relax and rejuvenate. But the place to unwind from the buzzing energy of the city has to be the Spa at Mandarin Oriental, just a 40 minute ferry hop or 12 minute helicopter ride from Hong Kong. A haven of tranquillity where you can escape into an oasis of calm and peace, The Spa offers tailor-made treatments to naturally balance and heal in peaceful surroundings where the Feng Shui is in harmony.... | |
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| | | Spa hunters | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:51:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | When the guys are out drinking beer and bagging deer in the northern Michigan woods this month, their womenfolk are not necessarily moping around keeping the home fires burning. Far from being lonely "deer widows," many Michigan women use hunting season to bond with friends on girls' getaway weekends that include visits to spas where manicures and massages help them forget all about their missing men. "They'll be freezing their toes off in the woods while we're getting our toes rubbed," says Kristen Maufort of Boyne City, who booked a day of pampering next Saturday at Boyne Mountain Resort's new Solace Spa in Boyne Falls. She'll join her mother and two sisters from downstate. "There's nothing better than being treated like royalty for a day," Maufort says of their planned facials and other indulgences at the deluxe facility, which bills itself as Michigan's largest destination spa.... | |
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| | | Mumbai nights | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:53:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | IT'S rare that any guest would be riveted by a hotel's in-house channel: what you usually get is promotional puffery about the bars and restaurants, the conference rooms with their movable walls and overhead projection systems and, always a winner, listings of other properties in the chain. Such mindless looping of data is useful as a sleep-inducer, though, especially with elevator-music soundtrack and airbrushed pastels. But at the Taj Mahal Hotel & Towers in Mumbai, the in-house channel screens a cracker of a documentary on the history of this grand pile, which has claimed the port city's southern shore for more than a century. The film is presented by British-based actor Roshan Seth (Monsoon Wedding, My Beautiful Laundrette), resplendent in morning suit, who assumes the identity of the hotel and pops in and out of shots in a sleuth-like fashion reminiscent of Julian Fellowes in the splendid A Most Mysterious Murder series, presently screening on ABC television.... | |
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| | | Ron White's blue humor charges Adler audience | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:52:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | Never has a bottle of Scotch received such a raucous response on a stage. A stagehand delivered the bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label to a stool under a spotlight to the sound of timpani drums at center stage of the RiverCenter Adler Theatre in Davenport on Saturday night, essentially trumpeting the arrival of comedian Ron White.White, whose fame has skyrocketed thanks to the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour," nursed the Scotch as he played to a full house for the first of two shows Saturday at the Adler.An apologetically near-laryngitic White said he defied doctor’s orders to go out and perform this weekend. But he also said the Johnnie Walker people gave him thousands of Scottish terriers in appreciation of his patronage (dogs he herds from Wymong to Texas yearly — which is tough with their short legs), so who knows what to believe?Even with a raspy voice, White kept the crowd entertained.In contrast to White’s September 2004 performance at the Adler, more than three-fourths of his 70-minute act this time was material that had not been released on video or CD.... | |
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| | | Clinton community calendar | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 10:55:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | Send items for the calendarto Linda Phelps at The Gazette,8201 Corporate Drive, Suite 1200, Landover, MD 20785 or e-mail them to lphelps@gazette.net.If you have any questions,call 301-731-2158. Meetings around town The Camp Springs Civic Association will hold a town meeting Nov. 8 at Thurgood Marshall Middle School, 4909 Brinkley Road, Camp Springs. There will be refreshments at 7 p.m. and the meeting will begin at 7:30 pm. Call 301-449-9479. The Board of Education will hold a board meeting at 7:05 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Sasscer Administration Building, Board Room, 14201 School Lane, Upper Marlboro. Public participation is encouraged. Interested persons may speak for two minutes by registering with the Board office by 4 p.m. the day of the meeting by calling 301-952-6308. A Parents Solutions Summit on Education will be held from 9 a.m.... | |
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| | | A Gulf Coast Sarasota sojourn | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 6:53:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | As a child I can remember my family driving the old Ford station wagon across Tamiami Trail while I joined my brothers and sister counting alligators sunning on cypress tree stumps along the dangerous canal-flanked two-laner. We were on our way across the Everglades past Fort Myers towards Longboat Key off Sarasota for a week in a cramped two-bedroom beach apartment. After unpacking we would run out on the brilliant sandy beach and collect shells or fish in the surf for catfish or whiting. The days were wistfully filled with sun, sand, the illusive search for the rare lion's paw shell, and fresh fish dinners; nights ended with my father reading chapters from C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Surprisingly, that 1960s idyll can still exist in the Sarasota region today with perhaps a Game Boy or laptop thrown in. After leaving 1-75 (exits 193-213) families can spend reasonably priced vacations on the mainland and string of barrier islands from Venice in the southern end of Sarasota County north along Nokomis, Casey Key, Siesta Key, Lido Key, St.... | |
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| | | The MAN-icure | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 6:56:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | I'm the very model of the modern pampered man. That's because there are times when a boy just likes to feel pretty. And because I always have my finger on the pulse (or at least in the nose) of fashion, I decided to give that finger, as well as the rest of my digits, some tender loving care. So I recently went to a spa for a manicure. My day of beauty, which included a pedicure and a massage, was spent at Pro Nails in Setauket, N.Y. I treated myself because my older daughter is getting married, and she and my wife have been talking for weeks about how they are going to get all kinds of beauty treatments in preparation for the big day. .... | |
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| | | Nail salon ripped off after giving pedicure | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 2:57:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | FREMONT ? When people like the service they receive at a hair and nail salon, they typically leave behind a few extra dollars to show their gratitude. One customer this week wasn't so grateful. Police on Thursday were looking for an armed man who held up a nail salon after he got a pedicure on Wednesday, Detective Bill Veteran said. The man, described as being white and in his 20s, walked into Angkor Nail & Hair Care on Thornton Avenue about noon Wednesday, had a pedicure and then went outside to smoke a cigarette before sitting down for a manicure, Veteran said. But when he came back in, the man pulled out a gun, snatched a $900 ring off the woman's hand and demanded that she give him the contents of the salon's register, about $150, the detective said. The man then told the woman to go into the back room, and he fled in a gold 2000 four-door Nissan Altima or Infiniti, Veteran said.... | |
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| | | PEORIA | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 2:55:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | - Raylene's Total Salon Concepts has opened in a new, expanded location near The Shoppes at Grand Prairie. After more than a dozen years leasing a space on Willow Knolls Road, Raylene Resler decided it would be wiser to own the property on which her salon business sits. Her new location, 7620 N. State Route 91 near The Shoppes, is ideal because of the potential for growth in the Northwest Peoria area, she said. Along with the hair salon, pedicure and nail services, the business has a licensed massage therapist and reflexologist who specializes in massage therapy, pre-natal, sports deep tissue, Swedish massage, trigger point stone therapy and hand and feet reflexology. The salon also has licensed estheticians, who specialize in facials, waxing, facial sculpting, body wraps and treatments and aromatherapy.... | |
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