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I'm EXTREMELY bored with life right now. And..I do believe and understand that boredom is a state of mind but that just happens to be where I am.

I've lost 22 lbs since the beginning of January. YAY! I'm really excited about that...feel it...see it...so that feels GREAT! The last couple of days however, i've struggled. I feel hungry all the time. I attribute this to...BOREDOM!

Now i'm bored writing this...goodbye

I'm here now. I've been MIA for the last several weeks. We've been working on a deadline for a job in Florida and that was HAIR on fire at the office so when I got home..I RAN from the computer!

A new year! I'm trying to be excited! The older I get the less I want years to pass. LOL! I had a wonderful time in Oklahoma with my family. I am praying that God will bring much revelation into my life as this new year begins and that the goals I hope to accomplish will become as serious as they are RIGHT NOW in my head!

Later,
Lana

I know this is gonna sound so immature and I really don't WANT to be immature about this but I'm very hurt by someone that means the world to me and I thought I meant a lot to them! I hate this feeling. I hate the paranoia, the anger, the embarrassment of feeling like this. It just makes me want to shut down and never let another person close to me! I have my little circle that I'm comfortable with and I'm okay with that!

And..spiritually I'm in a really bad place! I KNOW I just need to pray through this but I don't have the strength!

Later

YAY for me! I just finished an article that's going to press tomorrow for Nashville Lifestyles magazine! And...here's the really exciting thing..i just GOT the assignment on Saturday! I love it when I do that...when I actually buckle down and write and accomplish something! Obviously I work better with defined deadlines!

Later...

Wow..this has been an irritating start to the week! I woke up way tired. It was raining and has continued to rain non-stop all day long. It's dreary, cold, nasty. I had to go get my tire fixed after a long excursion in the country and a big 'ol flat tire in the middle of no where. They said it would take an hour and 1/2 at the most...2.5 hours LATER...I was ready to punch someone. It wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for everyone at the office FREAKING out over a ridiculous xmas deadline we are trying to meet. It was hard on me knowing they were all here pulling their hair out whilst I am sitting reading a VERY good book at the car dealership. The biggest blessing in this is that when I bought the car, they gave me the "tire protection" plan and I have a brand new tire on the little altima! She's healed and back on track!

Anyhoo...I am staying with Gerica this evening. The rest of the Davis' clan will be coming home very very late tonight from Savannah. They're singing. So..Gerica's best bud Ashleigh is coming over and we're gonna go eat and then watch a scary movie or something! Great night to stay inside!

I'm giving up TV after tonight though for the rest of the week! Pray for me...cause I'm also on "body-transformation" (this is somewhat of an inside joke BUT I'm doing it!) I must write this week! I MUST!!!! And after my Saturday adventures...I am inspired...man am I inspired!!!

I still have to tell you all about my trip to the country..I will...just not right now!
Later.

Well WHAT an adventure to Amish Country yesterday! I'll write more later cause my laptop is about to die...and no way to recharge my battery tonight...forgot my cord! DRATS! I'll tell the whole adventure tomorrow...and let me just say...it was an adventure! First thing I'll be doing tomorrow morning is heading to the car dealership to repair the gigantic TEAR in my car tire (thanks to the er..adventure.) Again...more on that later...

I've decided...I'm going to make a trip to an Amish community tomorrow. I don't have the kids...just the poodle...so I'm just gonna do it!

I've been so heavyhearted over the killings of those precious little girls in PA that it has prompted me to do some research into the quiet and interesting life of the Amish.

I've always been intrigued by the simplicity of life they lead and intended for years to go visit one of the many communities in TN.

One of my most prized possessions is a photograph of 2 little Amish children, playing in a yard with chickens, that was taken by a beloved friend of mine who has passed away. It hangs in my guest bedroom and I simply adore it!

There is a rather large community outside of Nashville...about an hour or so...and the weather is UNBELIEVABLE here! A perfect time for a drive through the beautiful backroads that made me fall in love with Tennessee!!!

I LOVE FALL!!!!!
Thanks God!
I'll let you know how it goes!

I've been so restless this week. I feel like I'm going in slow motion...due to a serious lack of sleep I'm sure...among other things. I hate it when I feel like this. There is a stirring within me that will not subside. I'm sad, I'm excited, I'm irritable, I'm calm, I want to be somewhere else, I want to be someone else, I want to be with people, I don't want to be with anyone. Maybe I have some sort of pyschosis?

Well I do know that when I've spent a few days with my family I usually am very contemplative and reflective for days after. And this recent time with them was a little difficult. So maybe that is just my problem.

I also know that when I'm like this, it's so hard to be motivated to do anything productive! I've had several opportunities this week to write and I cannot do it! I sit in front of the computer, little eager cursor blinking happily...waiting...waiting...on me to get it together. Dear little cursor...always waiting! Maybe one day my friend!

Later,Laner

If you do not have John Mayer's new album, Continuum please run...and I do mean run...and get it! It's just THAT good! Lyrically it is superb! The song, Slow Dancing in a Burning Room and In Repair, happen to be my fav!

Later,Lana

Well if I were given the chance at a million..I'd probably change my name too!!!

Here are my new names according to the "Random Renamer" http://www.babynames.com/Names/rename.php

Adel Desma Irons
Katen Toyah Irons
Yates Coralie Irons - my fav
Nisha Donna Irons
Briar Brielle Irons
Bianca Sally Irons
Keir Maggie Irons
Kristian Jocelyn Irons
Zelia Marie Irons
Paniz Fabiana Irons
Marvene Maitland Irons...

AWESOME!!!! Thanks Charlotte! Another afternoon here at LGI put to good use!!!!

Well I saw my family off this morning! We had a great time! They got here late Wednesday evening. We got up on Thursday morning and went to Pancake Pantry http://www.mrbreakfast.com/r_display.asp?restid=104 (go check it out!)because they just simply have the yummiest pancakes..uh..EVER! The line is usually ridiculously long, wrapped around the building, but since it was a week day we got right in! I had a fried egg sandwich with bacon and a side of hashbrowns. I'm salivating right now! Sister in law Tamra had the sweet potatoe pancakes with cinnamon apple syrup, brother Lance had the caribbean pancakes with bananas, coconut, chocolate chips, whip cream, and coconut on top, mom had buttermilk..plain but oh so good! YUM! If you are ever in Nashville or if you doofuses who DO live here and have never been...GET THERE!

We tooled around Nashville after that..took them to the new, fabulous Schemerhorn Symphony Hall, by the Country Music Hall of Fame, etc.

We went to Chattanooga on Friday, took an hour or so to go to the quaint little community of Lookout Mountain, GA. LOVE THAT PLACE...wanna live there..mean it!!! We ate at this great Cajun place called Easy Seafood. I had a crawfish Po' Boy with crawfish and artichoke spinach dip! YUM!!! Chattanooga is such a cool city! It has this old, quiet feeling about it but wonderful things to do and great food! The aquarium and the IMAX theater are awesome! Love that city!

K..more later!

I've attached pics for your viewing pleasure!

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I'm up WAY earlier than I want to be. But..Mama was scurrying around downstairs and that woke me up! So we sat outside on my party deck and drank coffee. It was great! Now me and mama can talk! I talk to her nearly every single day on my way to work(on the phone obviously), you'd think we wouldn't have anything to talk about! Nope...we can talk about anything! And often do!

So we are off to Chattanooga today! I love that city. It's so culturally different or at least it feels that way. It's old, has beautiful architecture, and the city has recently made vast improvements. I'm looking so forward to the drive as well. The leaves are turning, it's sunny, and 70 degrees...PERFECT day for a road trip!

I LOVE FALL!!!!!

Later,
Laner

Well so you know how I've been feeling under the weather? Turns out I was poisoning my body by letting an abscessed cyst get a little out of hand! Okay...here's a tiny bit of background... I am prone to these little harmless cysts and get them quite often. The doc says no need to worry..right? So I get one a couple of weeks ago on my tummy and I'm thinking..just another little "harmless" cyst. So day after day the cyst grows to about the size of an orange. Maybe at that point I should have given some consideration..but I didn't. And so it went on...every time I was unclothed I got sight of this ever present, ever growing "harmless" cyst.

So I've been feeling like..well..basically POO the last several days. Not really able to put my finger on WHY i don't feel good, but just not feeling well. Yesterday afternoon I notice that the skin around the cyst is sloughing off and the center is black. So...somewhat concerned at this point, i call Brother who DEMANDS that I get to a doctor..like RIGHT THEN! So I go to the clinic and they tell me it could be staph infection and that they need to cut it open and take a culture and clean it out.

So...10 shots in my belly of lidocaine (ouch) and an hour later I'm packed with gauze and taped up with an oozing, bloody whole in my belly! YAY for me!

I have to say though..this morning..I feel like a NEW person! I feel great..which the doc said would happen! So yay for the clinic, yay for the doc heather and assistant Savannah! Yay for brother for telling me to do it!

Off to pancake pantry!