celebrity grammy award: May 2009

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Solo

1 Scott Clark    
2 Andrew Pickar  
3 Mark Bowlan    
4 Dave Clark     
5 Mike Connolly  
6 Craig Wright   
7 Sue Dawson      
8 Brad Bissett    
9 Ronald Warren

2 Person Team

1 Do 'N: Ryan Desroches & Bill Macdonald 
2 TDisc2 (J&P): John Brioux & Ryan Macphee   
3 Shake N Bake: Miguel Arsenault & Jeremy Macdonal
4 TDisc1 (K&G): Kris MacPhee & Greg Garins    
5 Fullframe Media: Matt Cormier & Doug Leclair   
6 Holland Hurricanes: Kent Sheen & Dave Beaton    
7 Rumrunners: D'Arcy Flynn & Richard Cameron
8 Huggan's: Carolyn Huggan & Chris Huggan   
9 Pickard Profit: Ashley Pickard & Maria Profit   
10 We Love The Pain: Harvey Chandler & Doug Mceachern 
11 Blomidon Fitness Connection: Caroline Whitby & Krista Myles   
12 All in the Family: Ben Crook-Hanna & Alice Crook    
13 Jwo & Tbone: Tracey Gairns-Briou & Jen Neill      
14 Flick-McCardle: Jason Flick & Matt Mccarthy  
15 Get at me Wolf: Scott MacEwan & Jerad Stretch  
16 Pineau & Richard Guys: Barry Richard & David Pineau   
17 DeltaWare Destroyers 3: Peter Rinco & Ryan Campbell  
18 DeltaWare Destroyers 1: Scott Fisher & Gary Clow      
19 DeltaWare Destroyers 2: Husein Alisic & Matthew Wicks  
20 One Double Oh Seven: Jackie Beauregard & Jon Macinnis   
21 Whyno's: Matt Younker & Emma Rockett   
22 The Slowpokes: Matthew Coyle & Adam Profitt   
23 Pink Jellies: Joel MacDonald & Nick Buxton    
24 Poseurs: Michael Morrow & Rachel Parkins 
25 Huffin n Puffin: Naomi Harper & Robin Gallant  
26 Crazy Ladies: Pam Sweetapple & Tracey Watts   
27 What was I thinking?!?: Ray Murphy & Kerie Murphy   
28 Pineau & Richard Girls: Patty Richard & Janet Pineau

Run Map

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Ship to Shore Restaurant & Lounge

It was sunny and 21 degrees. To welcome John Bil back to PEI and celebrate the opening the new restaurant Ship To Shore some runners got together and ran a loop course starting and ending at the Ship To Shore and have lunch. My mom to biked to with us. My dad and my grandmother and my aunt and uncle from Calgary join us for lunch. The seafood was Very Good! I had fish and chips.

Good Luck with you new restaurant John and I hope to go back soon.

Month of Zoyas! - Last day of May belongs to Zoya Denise!

It's my friend Denise's birthday today! Happy Birthday Denise! In honor of your our May Month of Zoyas last post belongs to you! Zoya Denise is a lovely deep red shimmer with a hint of purple.

I'd say May's Month of Zoyas was a success, wouldn't you? I know Tyler Durden thinks it was a complete waste of time. He will be disgusted to know we are not done! June will feature Another Month of Zoyas!! Here's to May, and June! Hot nail polish months.

Zoya Denise:

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Milla

Zoya Milla is a medium red jellyish shimmer with a touch of orange. It's a bright fashionable color, it reminds me of shopping and lunch with the girls. In my opinion it's a day polish. Nice!!

Zoya Milla:

There's no shame in being beaten by Bolt

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=255945&sc=99

There's no shame in being beaten by Bolt

Islander gets to race against Olympic champion; Canadian champ not part of event

DAN BARNES
Canwest News Service

EDMONTON —There is no hope for a fairy-tale finish, since every race amounts to Usain Bolt and the seven dwarfed also-rans.

It doesn’t matter where, when or who provides the opposition.

That’s how the 100-metre field shapes up if the reigning Olympic champ, world-record holder and majestic freak of nature settles his six-foot-five frame into the blocks for a sub-10-second jaunt to the top of the podium.

Tiger Woods once held similar sway over the PGA field. Wayne Gretzky could dominate NHL ice and Michael Jordan the NBA court like that, once upon a time. And that’s surely how the 100 metres will go down at the Festival of Excellence track meet June 11 at the University of Toronto.

But almost any sprinter with a heartbeat wants to be in the field. Beaten by Bolt is practically a badge of honour. Beaten by Bolt is the rarest of opportunities because the challengers, for lack of a more apt description, know two things for certain. They will not win, but when the gun goes off, the big man from Jamaica will pull the field along with him quickly enough to provoke personal bests, even in lopsided defeat.

Jared Connaughton of New Haven, P.E.I., and Toronto’s Anson Henry are the lucky Canadian content in a field that will be beaten by Bolt on June 11. Also lining up as fleet-footed fodder are Americans Shawn Crawford, Bernard Williams and Ivory Williams, and Jamaicans Marvin Anderson and Mario Forsythe.

“He might be the best sprinter who ever lived,” Henry said of Bolt. “Anybody trying to get better wants to run with the best, to see how you compare. The hype is going to be so big that there will be good energy for the race. It’s going to be good for all of us.”

How good? Well, the two-year-old track surface is Polytan, on which Asafa Powell and Tim Montgomery set previous world records. As mentioned, Bolt will be leading the charge to the finish line. Right now, Henry’s PB is 10.12, but it might not last the night.

“If I could get into the 10.0s I’d be cool with that,” Henry said, while shrugging off the notion he’s lucky to be in the field.

“I’ve been in a lot of big races in my career. The good thing about this race is it’s in my hometown and it will bring a lot of attention to the sport.”

Edmonton-based sprinter Pierre Browne thought he would have a chance to share in the spectacle. Rightly so, since meet organizers were adamant about putting Canadians in each event and Browne is the reigning national champ at the distance, having beaten Connaughton and Henry last summer at the University of Windsor with a stadium-record time of 10.19 seconds. Henry was third and Connaughton fifth that day.

Browne and coach Derek Evely were confident enough of Browne’s inclusion that they planned the approach to this summer’s title defence at the Canadian championships around the Toronto race.

“For Pierre, it was the keystone of our entire preparation for nationals. That was key,” Evely said Friday. “You’re running against Usain Bolt. It’s a high-quality race and that’s what we look for.

“While I applaud the meet organizers in Toronto for putting it together, it’s too bad Pierre got hooped on it. They came to us and asked us if Pierre was interested, based on the fact Pierre is the Canadian champ, he ran the final leg of the relay against Bolt at the Olympics and he’s from Toronto. From a marketing perspective there is not a single guy in the country who should be in that race ahead of Pierre.

“He was on the list. Somehow he was removed and Jared and Anson were put in there. They came back to me (Thursday) and said, ‘We’re sorry.’ Jared should be in there, no doubt. The other Canadian should clearly be Pierre. They were very good about it and there are no hard feelings, but in the end he gets screwed.”

That is certainly how it feels.

“It’s a pretty big disappointment,” said Browne. “Competing in Toronto against the fastest guy in the world would have been a great opportunity. It’s out of my control. I did what I can do. I’m the Canadian champion. I won last year in a decent time.”

Meet organizers knew how controversial the picks could be, so they set up a selection committee and started with an initial list of 35 men; five times the number they needed to flesh out the field.

“There were about four or five Canadians on the list and we narrowed it down to two,” said meet director Carl Georgevski, who insisted Browne was never officially in the race and therefore could not have been removed.

“For whatever reason, we felt Anson Henry and Jared Connaughton would be the best candidates. We’re human in this environment. If it was a mistake, it was a mistake.”

The committee’s reasoning apparently was based on Browne’s relative inactivity this season.

“It’s a weak approach,” Browne said. “I don’t think it’s a fair situation.”

With only two lanes devoted to Canadians, this story wasn’t going to end happily ever after for a handful of hopefuls. That one of them is the national champ seems ludicrous.

(Edmonton Journal)

Friday, May 29, 2009

Zoya Mattes Sneak Peek!

http://zoyanailpolish.blogspot.com/2009/05/matte-nail-polish-its-baaaack-and-zoya.html

Loredana (ZP498) - all out glam gray
Dovima (ZP499) - striking black
Posh (ZP500) - pinup pretty deep red

I for one am excited! I like mattes, but only in certain colors, rich ones like this collection. I am excited to try these!

Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Roxy

Zoya Roxy is one HOT bitch. She's purple, jelly, full of glitter. She rocks hard. I don't think she is first date polish, or wedding polish, or work polish, but I think you'll know when to use her. When you want to look smokin'!

Zoya Roxy:

Running for a good reason

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=255632&sc=98

Running for a good reason

EDITORIAL STAFF
The Guardian

The second annual Luke McIver Relay for Parkinson’s will take place on Saturday, Aug. 8, and this year it will consist of many runners.

In August 2008, the young man from Kinkora ran 250 kilometres in four days.

He harnessed his energy, enthusiasm and love of running for the cause of Parkinson’s, as all of the money raised was donated to this cause. He accomplished his run in honour of his grandmother, who is living with Parkinson’s, and his grandfather, who died with the disease.

Maureen Larkin, president of the Charlottetown support group, says they plan to repeat the ‘Tip to Tip Run’ in a different format this year.

“We want to get more people involved and use the event not only to raise funds, but also awareness of the situation of Parkinson’s in P.E.I.,” she said.

Participants will enter the Relay for Parkinson’s as a team, which will consist of a minimum of six people. The route, from Souris to Tignish, will be divided into 20-km legs.

Teams will run and/or walk one leg of the relay. Each member of the team may run or walk the entire 20 kms, or they may divide it up. Either way, every bit of the route from Souris to Tignish will be ran or walked by a participant.

The planning committee will identify 10 or 12 starting points and all the teams will start at the same time.
Larkin said they plan to have a minimum of 20 teams.

McIver himself plans to enter a team, but he will also join some of the other teams during the day. All the runners/walkers will be invited to celebrate the event with a barbecue in Charlottetown at the end of the day.

Participants are asked to set a goal of $750 per team. This means each member of the team will raise a minimum of $125. There is no registration fee and each participant will receive a free T-shirt. There will also be prizes for various goals reached, such as the best time, the most money raised, etc.

Approximately 8,400 people across the Maritimes have Parkinson’s.

Of all the neurological diseases, Parkinson’s disease has the highest incidence.

More people are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease than ALS, MS, MD, AIDS, leukemia, and ovarian cancer combined.

To participate in the relay people must register their team at the Parkinson’s office located at the Volunteer Resource Centre, 81 Prince St., 8:30-4p.m. Pledge sheets can be picked up there or from any member of the planning team.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Colbie

Zoya Colbie is kind of a redder version of Blair or Rihana. It's equally as nice though, and every bit as sexy. I dunno who Colbie is, but despite her name she has a hot polish! I know some people don't like purple hues, well this is your va-va-voom polish!

Zoya Colbie:

New MAC Style Warrior Polishes!

I picked up the three new Style Warrior polishes from MAC's new collection today. Style Warrior seems to be based on strong earth colors and bronzers. While I was not too excited by the collection, or the tanning mousse (darkest one just even now at beginning of summer only gives me a tad of color and later won't do anything) I bought the polishes to try. I have the weird clumpy Solar Bits from last year, and frankly they are not my first choice in any situation, their size and kind of stickiness make them hard to use.

Anyway onto the polishes. Peaceable is a sand colored frost. At $11.00 per bottle I'd sooner get cheaper boring workplace polish. Violet Fire is a sort of very subdued violet purple shimmer. It's kind of smooth and satiny, there's no big bits, it's kinda like just a general shine. I dunno but I suspect this is a rerelease? The last one is a bronze shimmer called Mercenary, which sparkled rainbow in stronger light and sunlight. In my opinion it's the highlight of the collection.

So make your choices, or choices not to buy soon! Likely these will fly out the door too fast like all other MAC limiteds.

MAC Peaceable:

MAC Mercenary:

MAC Violet Fire:

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Evangeline

Yummy reddish-pink goodness with a sweet gold shimmer to it. Reminds me of raspberry popsicles. Delicious!! Sexy and summery!

Zoya Evangeline:

Promised China Glaze/Sally Hansen HD Comparisons

I promised yesterday to compare the China Glaze glass fleck polish type with the Sally Hansen HD liquid crystal polishes. I did two colors, and threw in a "regular" polish for good measure. I am sure you will notice the difference between all three. As suspected, the glass in the Sally HD line is very fine. Too fine, IMO. But you judge for yourself, maybe it was what you were dreaming of!!

Top to bottom:
China Glaze Orange Marmalade
Sally Hansen HD Three-D
Icing Mandarine O

Top to bottom:
China Glaze It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere
Sally Hansen HD Digital
Black Radiance Purple Passion

Tyler Durden's opinion of this comparison:
Is it a problem for you to ask?

Don't Miss Out On These! China Glaze Surf Collection

The China Glaze Surf Collection of glass fleck polishes came out in 2007. If you are new to glass fleck polish or passed it over at the time, you may want to snatch these up. All of the colors, Yell-O-Neil (car parts store yellow with gold glass fleck), Blk-Bila-Bong (black jelly with aqua glass fleck), Orange-Pacific (orange with red glass fleck), Pink Rox-E (baby pink with gold glass fleck), Red-Curl-Grl (red with purply/pink glass fleck) and White-Kwik-Silvr (off-white with clear glass fleck) are still available, except Pink-Rox-E is only available as far as I know on eBay.

These are a lot prettier than they look in the pictures of the bottles. And they are glass fleck!! Snatch them up before they go eBay prices for good. Try Head2Toe Beauty for those still available.

China Glaze Pink Rox-E:

China Glaze Orange-Pacific:

China Glaze Red-Curl-Grl:

China Glaze Blk-Bila-Bong:

China Glaze Yell-O-Neil:

China Glaze White-Kwik-Silvr:

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

New Sally Hansen HD "Liquid Crystal" Polishes

I ran out and got most of the new Sally Hansen HD "liquid crystal" polishes today. I had hoped they would be similar to my beloved China Glaze glass fleck polishes. Well, not quite.

Sally Hansen High Definition Liquid Crystal Polishes

They have a sort of truncated rainbow of colors in this formula, purple, bright blue, aqua/teal, yellow, orange, medium pink, and fuchsia with purple shimmer. I would have liked a green added to this, and a true red added, or the fuchsia left out for a red. Seriously, how many fuchsias with blurple shimmer are there? 5,672? But the colors are bright and summery and vibrant. I did not purchase the yellow. I bought these for $5.99 each and I couldn't justify orange AND yellow. Edit: Added a picture of a color addition to this Collection, Hi-Def, at end of this post!

The formula for these reminds me of their Insta-Dri polishes. It almost seems to dry as you apply it. The brush is similar too, it has that wide oval plastic stick and while the brush is not rounded at the end, like Insta-Dri, it is similar in width. The polish formula is HORRIBLE. It is simultaneously runny and sticky. It sticks to itself and starts to dry, making it hard to spread evenly. It wanted to stay in strips, and if I pushed it, it made sheer places in the polish. To get even coverage over the sides of the nail I had to deliberately paint my skin in several instances. Luckily it came off the skin easily when removed quickly. They were also very prone to bubbling and imperfections. It was a sticky mess I don't care to repeat, it was not fun applying this polish.

As for the glass fleck effect - well it looks more frost to me. Whether it's the fine grain of the glass, the amount of it added, or other pigments, I do not know, but while this does catch the light, it only has slightly more depth than a frost and looks, frankly, just like a frost. I was disappointed. I dunno what my final verdict on these is, but my preliminary verdict is skip them, buy cheaper polishes with better flash and color, like China Glaze Surfs or Summer Days if you want glass fleck, or "liquid crystal" as Sally Hansen Calls them. On the other hand, they are kinda pretty... but I can buy something better for $5.99.

I'll post a comparison between these and glass flecks later today.

Sally Hansen HD Cyber:

Sally Hansen HD BLU:

Sally Hansen HD Pixel Pretty:

Sally Hansen HD Three D:

Sally Hansen HD Hi-Res:

Sally Hansen HD Digital:

Sally Hansen HD Hi-Def:

Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Pru

Zoya Pru is a purply-red jelly with heaps of bronze shimmer. It's puuurrrrtttyyy. You may need an extra coat with this. Very nice!

Zoya Pru:

Quite a run for PEI relay team

Monday, May 25, 2009

Month of Zoyas! - Zoya America

Sorry this is too late to help you decide what to wear for Memorial Day, but I was thinking what better than Zoya America?

A hot bright medium red creme, America did not have the thick clumpiness many cremes do. I liked it very much. Eye-catching!

Zoya America:

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Month of Zoyas! Zoya Zara

Mmmmmm Zoya Zara is even more delicious than Malia! Zara seems to me to be a jelly version of Malia, with a lot of gold shimmer thrown in for good measure. It's another one I think can multitask, office for secret bling, or off having fun. It's a fave of mine.

Zoya Zara:

Islanders on the Run - This Weekend in Cape Breton and Ottawa

Cabot Trail Relay

11th Place KAHLUA KIDS 22:31:08

01:25:47  Diane Boswell - 17K - Leg 1 - Placed in Leg: 38th
01:23:37  Pam Power-Mckenna - 17.92K - Leg 2 - Placed in Leg: 18th
01:06:20  Pam Campbell - 13.46K - Leg 3 - Placed in Leg: 17th
01:24:50  Chris Matters - 20.01K - Leg 4 - Placed in Leg: 11th
01:19:52  Corina Hughes - 17.5K - Leg 5 - Placed in Leg: 14th
01:28:20  Nancy Morris - 17.5K - Leg 6 - Placed in Leg: 28th
00:44:41  Stanley Chiasson - 13.1K - Leg 7 - Placed in Leg: 1st
***New record.  Old record 46:46 by Kevin Gray in 2001***
00:51:22  Greg Arsneault - 12.36K - Leg 8 - Placed in Leg: 6th
01:33:21  Doug MacEachern - 17.84K - Leg 9 - Placed in Leg: 39th
01:09:29  David Forsythe - 14.7K - Leg 10 - Placed in Leg: 11th
01:20:35  Francis Fagan - 14K - Leg 11 - Placed in Leg: 52nd
01:29:13  Donnie Walsh - 15.78K - Leg 12 - Placed in Leg: 54th            
01:27:49  Bev Walsh - 15.88K - Leg 13 - Placed in Leg: 24th
01:45:52  Cheryl Paynter - 19.81K - Leg 14 - Placed in Leg: 40th
01:31:55  Loretta Van Ekris - 15.42K - Leg 15 - Placed in Leg: 55th
01:00:27  Bill MacDonald - 15.35K - Leg 16 - Placed in Leg: 7th
01:27:38  John Van Ekris - 18.7K - Leg 17 - Placed in Leg: 32nd

Ottawa Marathon


567(Place) MICHAEL IRVINE Summerside 3:31:52 499(Gender Place) 32(Category Place)
1235(Place) JOSEPH MURPHY Charlottetown 3:52:50 1001(Gender Place) 47(Category Place)
2454(Place) DIANNE PYE  Charlottetown 4:32:15 700(Gender Place) 48(Category Place)
1520(Place) ELAINE BURKHOLDER  Kensington 4:01:27 324(Gender Place) 11(Category Place)

Half-Marathon
5790(Place)ROSE MURPHY-CHEVERIE 2:15:26.2 2659/5192(Gender Place) 143/425(Category Place)

Congrats Everyone!
Hope we'll be back in Cape Breton next year...

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Rihana

Zoya Rihana is a deep reddish purple shimmer. Merlot? Very sexy. Wear it on your toes!

Zoya Rihana:

Legs for Literacy Run

It was sunny and 9 degrees.

The Legs for Literacy Run at Glen Stewart Elementary in Stratford.

The 10km loop course on Stratford and Cotton Park and hill and trail.

Keaghan Rilling won the race and Kristy Newson for the top female.

I finished in 46 minutes and came in 14th out of 42 runners.

Tyler Sellar won the 5km race and Susan Beaton-Trainor for the top female.

There were kids in 1km fun run and BBQ afterwords.

Official Result: 14th out of 42
10K in 46 minutes

More Photos

Running For Autism

Not Against It
acceptance not cure

Friday, May 22, 2009

Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Delilah

Zoya Delilah is a hot red jelly with lots of red glitter. It runs a tad, as you can probably see in my picture. It's maybe a bit harder to handle than most Zoyas, but very worth it. It's "dead sexy"!! It reminds me a lot of a more opaque BB Couture Fairy Blood, it's similar but lighter in shade than China Glaze Ruby Pumps. IMO, it's a must have, I adore these glittery reds.

This is more jelly than Tori and has glitter, not shimmer.

Zoya Delilah:

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Month of Zoyas! - Zoya Aria

Since I used Aria in my selection of polishes to go with Chanel Mirage Glossimer, today would be a good day to feature it! Aria was a big desire of mine, and I was very glad to have it. It's a deep rose shimmer with a hint of gold and I really love it. It's a jelly and will require 2 or three coats depending on how much opacity you want. I think 2 is sufficient for me. I think this may be my favorite of the rose/gold shimmers Zoya offers. Maybe.

Zoya Aria:

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