Dizzy Dee

Summer has really started in SA now… I wish I was sure that it would stay for good, but I have a feeling that we’re still going to experience some winter.
At the moment the weather is fantastic, not too hot during the day, and really pleasant night temperatures. Tonight is one of those nights when I wish I could be outside, having a braai, and sipping on a glass of wine.
Instead I’m in the office working on a very urgent project. I’m not the only one here, but its not asif that makes it better. I’d much rather have been home alone even!

I’ve been craving blogging so much, and every now and again I get inspired, but then something always comes up, and I end up postponing.
I hope to be writing something decent soon, but I’ve been saying that for how long now? Life just doesn’t seem to calm down - I’m ALWAYS hectically busy with one thing or another, and whenever I get a break, I’m so tired that I just flop down on the bed and read for a while.

I’m ecstatic about the weekend, nothing much planned, but I love spending time at home

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

Sometimes I come accross some really interesting artwork, and though they’re usually quite useless, its still amusing to look at…

Today, however, I managed to find a more useful piece of art…

Source:  CWG Design

I found something for the gamers among you, here’s a new adventure to poke at.  You can sign up on the website of  Operation Immortality, and get to play the trial version of the game for free!  Operation Immortality: Leave your mark. Save Humanity. is currently having a huge promotion,  you can scratch around on their website, which is quite impressive, and read messages from other registered users.

The theme of the message being your life motto, hence “Leave your mark, save humanity”.  You can go and check out my message as well if you’d like - its ID is 756.

I found the “humanity’s greatest achievements” section on the website extremely fascinating - there are polls where you can vote for the best movie, best actor, best art work ever etc.

They’re also running a competition to have your DNA sent into space.  Now I know this isn’t everyone’s dream, and personally I dont see much point in it, but I guess there are people who’d find this appealing?

You can also leave your own message of your life motto on there once you’ve registered.  Please feel free to tell me what you think of the game - I haven’t tried it out yet so I’m keen to hear feedback!!

According to News24.com, a Mozambican woman gave birth to three teacups, Stv aparantly showed photographs of the crockery which the woman gave “birth” to.

The 18 year old woman was 3 months pregnant when she started complaining of labour pains, and gave birth to the three cups on her way to the hospital.

Quoting News24:

The Mozambican association of traditional healers (Ametramo) told the station that there was nothing strange about the story.

Ametramo president Aulerio Demoraz said similar cases had occurred in other parts of the world due to witchcraft.

He said the woman needed to be treated with traditional medicines in order to exorcise the “evil spirits” which made her give birth to the cups.

I’ve been looking for pictures of the cups, but unfortunately couldn’t find any. I’ll post an update when I do get a photograph of it…

Source:  News24.com

Someone recently asked me what I knew about “the pill”, also known as oral contraceptives.  Though I knew the facts which were passed onto me via the grapevine, I hadn’t ever done proper research about the pill, what it does, its what side effects it might have.

I found a very informative
website, which seems to give solid facts based on Randy Alcorn’s research, and the research done by various pharmaceutical companies as well as medical docters.

There was a quite a number facts which I’ve never been aware of, specially such as the evolution of the pill from the 1960’s until now, but also that it has three main mechanisms  - not only one.

The pill was introduced commercially sometime in the 1960’s, and its estrogen content back then was a very high 150 micrograms.  After proving that this had some serious side effects, the estrogen dosage was reduced to a mere 35 microgames in the late 1980’s, and today the dosage varies between 20 - 35 micrograms.

Serious negative side effects of estrogen had been clearly proven. These included blurred vision, nausea, cramping, irregular menstrual bleeding, headaches, increased incidence of breast cancer, strokes, and heart attacks, some of which led to fatalities.

The highest available dosage today being 50 micrograms, but this isn’t readily available, and I would assume that you need to get a docter to recommend this for you in order to use it.

Below are the three main  mechanisms of birth control pills:

1.      inhibiting ovulation (the primary mechanism),

2.      thickening the cervical mucus, thereby making it more difficult for sperm to travel to the egg, and

3.      thinning and shriveling the lining of the uterus to the point that it is unable or less able to facilitate the implantation of the newly fertilized egg.

The first two mechanisms are contraceptive. The third is abortive.

The reason why I’m going on about the dosage is that the research done, basically implies that the contraceptives with a high dosage would inhibit ovulation, the the contraceptives with a low dosage would not necesarily ensure that ovulation doesn’t occur, but the chances that the uterus lining will be too thin for the fertilized egg to implant itself is pretty good.

Its for this reason that people have been saying that oral contraceptives are just much an abortion as when you go to an abortion clinic to get it done, but sadly a lot of people are not aware of this, or they’re just too ignorant to investigate.  I guess in the end its still something each woman has to decide for herself, but its just good to have the facts straight when making your decision.