Hi

I'm back. A positive change in my life has brought me back here. Here's where I started and here's where I'd like to continue..even if I don't blog as often now that I've got a very active and naughty 2 year-old. But that hasn't stopped me from being opinionated, lol, and it really helps to let some steam off on here. Mom, I know you didn't like the new blog, so here you go, you can do your click on your old link and read me on here...just like old times. I'm importing the couple entries from the new (and now officially closed blog).

Your Lana (happy to pick up where I left off)

Angels and Deamons

Wow! It's been a while, eh folks?! Someone had left a comment on an old post of mine and suddenly I have been reminded that this blog existed, lol.

So much has happened in my life since my last post. I've had to fight many deamons but I've also been sent an Angel, my son, Carlo. He was born, after a long and painful anticipation, on August 6th, 2009. And since then, my life has been enhanced not a hundred but a thousand times. I cannot put into words what it is like to have a child, especially one who came after such suffering and ... well, near desparation. But God granted us this joy, finally, and my husband and I are truly on Cloud Nine.

Oh, it was tough in the beginning. The first few months were a real trial. Breast infection after breast infection complete with fever and hospital trips. Dehydration. Cold, stuffy nose. Sleepless nights. Teeth. Yes, teeth. He got his first when he was 4 months old, early bird. Vaccinations. It was real tough but we got through somehow. No, not somehow, with God's helping and mercyful hand and guidance.

I thank all our friends. First, for their understanding about me not disclosing that I was pregnant. I know many of you had no idea and were shocked to read the news on Facebook. I thank you for hearing me out and for your words/messages of support and encouragement. And those of you who found out late, thank you for respecting my decision and keeping my privacy. And to my family, who knew right from the start and were with me, if not physically then in spirit, throughout the whole ordeal, I have no words to express my thanks and appreciation, but you know how I feel. I love you guys!

Now that a new chapter has started in my life, I would like to resume this blog to keep you all in the loop. I know a lot is on Facebook but here is where I unload my innermost thoughts and feelings, here is where you find out what truly bugs me or makes me happy. You know me, and how opinionated I am, or can be, lol, and now that the worst is over, I am able to find a bit of time again to pour it all out here, be it my reviews on a recently seen film, recently visited restaurant, recently discovered chocolate flavour :) or recent developments in the sport of Formula 1, you wanna know what makes my heart beat, it's all here.

Going back to the deamon part of this past rollercoaster-of-a-year, certain events that have deeply hurt me and left me quite disappointed and frankly shaken my faith in true friendship, have also lead me to 'move' this blog to a new location. The new web address will be emailed to all my 'friends'.

I look forward to more angel parts in this new year. The past is in the past, left behind. Learned from it and moved on. See you all on the new site!

Love and Peace,

Your old Lana, new Mom :)

Told you I won't stay silent for too long.....

Here are a couple of facts I've learned in the past couple of days about which I would like to voice my opinion. Now, keep in mind that this is solely my personal opinion (says in my profile description that I'm opinionated) and does not reflect that of Blogger or anyone else.

That said, here we go:



1. "Jessica Simpson goes country."

Great! About time too. She sure has the dumbness level required and necessary for it. Not dissing country music here or anything, but I mean, who sings about comparing people to property or guys who are most likely too drunk to take off their boots at the door so they have to leave them under the bed where they'd stink up the bedroom just lovely. Mind you, it must be trendy or something to compare people to objects because other 'artists' (although I use the word unwillingly) in other ganres of music are doing it too. Like, "If you were a sail boat, I will sail you to the shore. If you were a piece of wood, I'd nail you to the floor." If I was a piece of wood, I wouldn't give a damn what you do with me because I wouldn't have any feelings! God help us! And God bless DJ Tiesto and other geniuses who provide us with a much needed breath of fresh air!

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2. "A top golfer earns more than a top Formula 1 driver."

Don't understand that. Just don't. Let's see, a top golfer can hit a tiny ball with a stick into a tiny hole. Yeah, not everyone can do that, I agree. A top Formula 1 driver can take a sharp corner while going 260 km/hr and being crushed under heavy G-force, oh, and all that while trying to excersise a clean pass of the driver ahead of him and/or trying to avoid being overtaken himslef.

Quote: " In corners, F1 drivers typically experience sideways forces of 4g, and about 5g on braking. As they accelerate out of the corners, they'll feel a 1.5-2g pull. "It's extremely exhausting," says John Nixon of the motorsport group at Cranfield University." ....

"Few F1 drivers will experience a worse pummelling by g-forces than at Becketts at Silverstone, where a rapid series of corners pulls 4g one way, then the other, then back again. "It's a real battering," says Nixon"....

"The effect of dealing with such high g-forces is noticeable in drivers. "If you compare an early picture of David Coulthard with how he looks now, his neck and the muscles on his jawline look very different," says Nixon. To exercise his neck muscles, former F1 driver Damon Hill fashioned a Heath Robinson-style system of ropes, pulleys and weights to pull sideways on his helmet-clad head."

Awhhhh, did you get an itsy bitsy tiny grass stain on your polo shirt??? My, that's the price you have to pay for being a top golfer.

Enough said.

References: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/mar/03/thisweekssciencequestions4