Goodbye, 2009. Hello, 2010! « Because OF COURSE.

And I guess I'll go ahead and admit that those damn Twilight books sucked me into their tweeny vortex and left me feeling like a 12-year-old getting her first training bra. ... Emily got me more into The Flaming Lips and Carolyn introduced me to Roisin Murphy and The Rosebuds. Oh, and Zack got me (and my mom!) hooked on Neutral Milk Hotel! 26. What did you want and get? From a purely materialistic standpoint, I got every item from my amazon wish list for Christmas. ...

Bangkok, Thailand Part One...No Noodle Shop For Me | Travel Blog

Finally, after what seemed to be hours of driving through city traffic, we ended up pulling into a very, very upscale business hotel area which housed places that I would never book. Too many bell hops running around opening doors for ...

Christmas Aftermath

No Bill Goldberg coming down our chimney to kill me in my sleep, gifts (and some frickin' awesome gifts) galore, and the weight gain truly was minimal. I ate what I wanted, tried to be physically active, and my weight this morning was about what it was on the ... We went to see our friends Patti and Dana at Opry Mills hotel, both to see the lights and eat out. Bad idea. The time spent with friends was wonderful. The food we ended up eating at a small pub was only okay. ...

Times square - The Ex (Squared) System – Can It Truly Get Her Back ...

The book claims to use the power of female psychology and psychological tricks to get your ex girlfriend back, and to keep your romantic relationships in your favor. So the question is, is the Ex Squared System worth the price, ... The Ex Squared System is a breakthrough resource to me. I've been using guides such as The Magic of Making Up for a long time which contrasts greatly in it's methods. What I truly loved about this product were the bonus ebooks and the mp3 audio ...

Argentina BLOG » Blog Archive » Paragliding at Cordoba, Argentina

Still, the New Yorker in me loves a bargain, and maybe I'd even fulfill that long-suppressed swing-set dream. So I checked out of my Palermo hotel and hopped a luxury overnight bus to La Cumbre. I awoke as the bus took a sharp mountain curve and saw the ... The current term for the sport was not officially coined until 1985 by Patrick Gilligan and Betrand Dubuis in their book “The Paragliding Manual.” The first paragliding world championship took place in Austria in 1989. ...

The Shining « Mustacheod Portraiture

Wendy, let me explain something to you. Whenever you come in here and interrupt me, you're breaking my concentration. You're distracting me. And it will then take me time to get back to where I was. You understand?… Now, we're going to make a new rule. .... King's book closes with Jack burning down with the Overlook, and Kubrick ends his film with Jack frozen to the grounds of the Overlook, living eternal at a ghost in the hotel. Perhaps both endings are correct. ...

paris hotel delemas !! | Europe Forum | Fodor's Travel Talk Forums

This one really has me puzzled ! It's rated in the top 100 out of 1875 hotels on trip advisor, yet being a 2 star hotel, how nice can it really be? The most recent reviews are all awful, yet someone else on this forum recommended it highly. My gut feel on this hotel ..... You should be able to book a superior room for under 200 E at the Hotel du Danube. I have more of a Right Bank center of gravity but I think the Danube is in a great location for a first visit to Paris. ...

Omoshiroi!!: Grand International Cosplay Ball - November 2009

<3 <3 So yes, more hugging and squeeing, XD We then tackled the underground and more trains to get to the hotel. The trains and underground travelling was fine. It was walking to the hotel that nearly killed me... It took us way longer than it should ... *shiftyeyes* Anyways, looking through the book we were pleased to find the Takarazuka section, ^_^ Well... Choco found it for us and literally squeed over the page... it had Ai to Shi no Rondo and Saigo no Dansu on there! ...

Searching for Raison d'être - Xmas

Oh, I'm not complaining, not at all: working during the next two weeks will assure me to earn enough money to book my flight for Tokyo. After that, I'll only have to earn enough for the guesthouse, travel costs and food (and of course a ... And I'm not sure if I'll go to Venice for my birthday finally... maybe I won't see this place ever again if I don't, but it's all about my budget, you know :/ The plane ticket is like 40EUR, but the hotel on the right island in the ...

Rob McMahon ~ Communications and Public Relations Professional

I found a great suite at a small hotel called Casa Anita. They have less than 30 rooms and I booked one with a large deck so that I could still enjoy the sun if I didn't want to be around people. The photo above is the view from my deck. ... I would just start to get into reading my book and there would be interruption after interruption after interruption. I asked one of the beach vendors that I recognized from the last time I was there how long it had been like this and ...

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Dr. Gonzo asked me."I wonder..." I replied."The key is to write an actual book," he suggested after a moment, "That is the righteous thing to do.""The American dream was a hotel and last I checked we past it on our way to the mall and ...

Chilling out in an Ice Hotel > Blogger At Large with Megan Singleton

It's also wise to book a warm room in the main hotel if it doesn't come with your package, that way you can use it to change, shower, toilet and scamper to in the night if you can't hack it. Ready for bed? ... Hotel de Glace in Canada opens Jan 4 until April 4. This has the hot tub suite (a must for me). You'll get a tour of the whole hotel before you check in and can see each artistic design in every room. Tags: Ice Hotels, Quebec, Sweden. VN:F [1.7.7_1013] ...

Jersey's musings: Friday Five

The freeway entrance/exit by my hotel featured a line of cars stopped at the top of the exit ramp waiting for an opening, rather than maintaining speed and merging in. The Five. With the holidays coming up, there's a 99% chance this will be my last Friday Five of ... I just don't see me sitting down on Christmas day or New Year's day to peck out a Friday Five. Maybe I'm wrong, but if you were going to make book on me not posting a Friday Five, I wouldn't bet against me. ...

Supervised By A Cat - Meet some of my coworkers!

Tuesday was our employee Christmas party (a lovely luncheon served at a nearby hotel -- my own Mr Catyah played the piano as entertainment for the party, and he was a great success). Anyway, another part of the entertainment was this ... " Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx "Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts!" Opus the penguin "My best friend is the man who gives me a book I haven't read yet." Abraham Lincoln ...

Stinque » I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar Away

Sarah Palin not only annoyed leaders of the Utah Republican Party when she didn't have time for them during her book signing stop in Salt Lake City last week. She also took off from her hotel after arranging for a last-minute hair ...

Flickr interview series: Matthew Morton « Laura Ward

When I was at uni I picked up this awesome hardback book of his photos in a sale bin out. I can't remember what it was called, but it was great, these all-american wide open photos, but at the root of it quite banal. ... This picture was taken near the hotel in the afternoon. It was sunny but down a very narrow and dark alleyway. I walked past and did a u-turn to get the shot. I tried set up the camera without him noticing so he wouldn't look up. It was slowish exposure, ...

Tips for TravellingBudget Travel Guide Book

As an even morefrugalalternative to a hotel,if you'reyoungand adventurous, you mighteven want to give"couch surfing"a try. It's a systemwhereyou register, then are referredto strangerswho are willing;to let you sleep on theircouch. ... (And ,the driver in our teamreminds me, they'reharderto park.) Don't get the "gas package"whereyou can returnthe rental car empty... you'll neverget it to empty....You'llbe too afraidof running out of gas on yourway backto the airport, ...

jewish lady black man: 50 is fabulous, 60 is sensational and 70 ...

There was absolutely no room for a passenger and I drove nine thousand miles My very first book talk and signing was in St. Augustine, Florida. The town people were waiting for me as the book store put a write-up about me in the local paper . From there I travelled up the coast speaking and signing books at Barnes and Noble, Borders and other independent stores. I slept in a different hotel every two nights and financed the rooms by renting out my own apartment. ...

Will Disneyland Hotels bring your Souvenirs you buy in the park ...

If you're one of those individuals who is comfortable purchasing things online then you can go ahead and buy your tickets, book your hotel reservations and explore what the four Walt Disney World theme parks have to offer. ... The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1972): or, Creating a BDSMonster - Damn it, Jess, you just WON'T make it easy for me, will you?Much as I want to love the cinema of Jess Franco without reservation, after getting a smattering ... 2 days ago . ...

The Quilting Bees: Russian Ramblings

Lindsey and Kat surprised me Saturday night by taking me for a walk and then into a beautiful hotel that was all decorated for Christmas, though they call it New Year's here. As we entered the candlelit lobby we were ... At the end of the day they surprised me with a farewell party. I couldn't hold back my emotions. The families presented me with a book of letters and drawings and photos from my class and a photo book of St. Petersburg. My last walk home from school was ...

TRAVEL GIFTZ » Blog Archive » Bridgend Motorhomes: My Getaway Vehicle

I drove to Wales and stayed at my usual hotel in Bridgend and for a week I tried to write the last few chapters of my book but couldn't finish more than a few pages. I was stuck. One day I drove aimlessly around the area till I reached this mobile ... Finding what he was looking for, he closed the cupboard, sat down with us, and handed me a key. I inquired what this is for and he answered that it's a key to one of their motorhomes, a VW Autosleeper Sherbourne 4 Berth, ...

My Middle East Adventure: Observations on International Travel and ...

After about two hours of standing in lines only to be directed to another line to stand in, a ticket agent asked if it would be acceptable for the airline to put me up in a hotel that night and buy my dinner and breakfast, then book me ...

Political Irony › Palin does Standup

From my hotel room, from there I can see the Russian Embassy, right there. It's a privilege to be here tonight at the Washington D.C. Barnes & Noble. Tonight, I'll be reading excerpts from my new book. Perhaps you've heard of it? ... Let me get back to the book. I know that many of you are still upset because I wouldn't play that silly Washington game. You know, the one where all of you read a book in its entirety, from the first page of the index to the last. ...

bad food but plenty of it

When I see a photo of Niki, and I see a photo I took of another woman reading a book in Union Square, San Francisco, they are clearly two separate and distinct women. There's a woman like every other woman, reading a book; ..... Garbage collectors from hotel rooms in Hotel Pain wake me at 2am to whisper words of pain in my ear, tempting me to pass out by swallowing stones, woke me at 2am from an OK sleep so he could knock me around, bang me up side my aching rib cage the ...

GOV PALIN Scores at Gridiron Dinner « Classical Liberal

I can see the Russian Embassy from my hotel room! It's a privilege to be here tonight at the Washington DC Barnes & Noble. Tonight, I'll be reading excerpts from my new book. Perhaps you've heard of it? “Going Rogue.” ... Let me get back to the book. I know that many of you are still upset because I wouldn't play that silly Washington game. You know, the one where all of you read a book in its entirety, from the first page of the index to the last. But think about it, ...

Diary of a Hotel Receptionist: R.I.P Gary

We were having a quiet morning together , sipping coffee and getting reacquainted with our face book accounts, when the phone rang, disturbing me from an online conversation with my best friend who at the time was on a layover in ...

I need a recommendation for a hotel in New York City ...

there are quite a few sites that you can search that will likely show you great hotels at the best prices available. check out the website BookMe and you will be able to compare prices on all the reputable travel sites in just a couple ...

There Are No Shortcuts With Ayurvedic Medicine — Travlark.com

Until I met Vidyani Hettigoda, Hotel Group Director for the Hettigoda and Siddhalepa Ayurvedic Spas and Hospital, on my last day in Sri Lanka, I was far from finding 'a key' to Ayurveda. However, Vidyani put me on the right track. ... Vidyani produced a 2000 year old book with Sanskrit and Pali text inscribed on Ola leaf sheets â€" similar to those in Dalada Maligawa. “We have a library of these old books and use them to develop our products and treatments. ...

Blog Tribute #2, The Asylum: Money, by Martin Amis « KevinfromCanada

I walked back to the hotel without incident. Nothing happened. It never does, but it will. It definitely does. John has another obsession, that his girl, Selina Street, is having an ongoing affair, probably produced by the childhood ... The jacket calls this a “frightening picture of Reagan's America and Thatcher's England” but for me at least that is a major, major stretch â€" while Prince Charles and Diana figure in the book (the action is set in the summer of their ...

www.ThePalination.com: Governor Palin: Media's Priorities Shine ...

We love the great outdoors, but such an arrangement is hardly practical for a book tour. Using common sense, it was determined that traveling by plane between some stops would save time and energy and allow me to go to more events. ... my family and me with this incredible opportunity to shake hands with as many Americans as possible on this book tour. If you're scratching your head wondering why my flight and hotel logistics warrant news coverage, join the club. ...