WHERE IS SOFIA LEGEND?

YIKES! Almost six months since my last post ...I'll keep this one short and to the point.

It's been just over two months that the World Cup has been over and I understand that I mentioned that right after the event I would be ready to go and all but I am not :((

With all this time off I was unsure if I was ever going to be able or wanting to return . I simply put so much on my plate before that I wasn't having fun anymore. Losing weight and my face breaking out was a huge giveaway of how things were changing for the worse. With so much time to reflect on everything but more importantly learn from everything I came to the one conclusion that I will return ...but I will return when I am ready and in all honesty I won't be coming back big this year.

What I do want to do is start having fun and the only way I know how is to start interacting with you guys again. As some of you may or may not know I have been the most active on twitter so if you are not following me you should start because twitter and my blog moving forward will be the only two places that I will be spending most of my time on. Facebook is obviously out of my life forever, myspace is really not happening, youtube ...well we all know how I feel about videos lol and my site will be on hold.

At this point I don't expect to have many fans still around and that's cool. There are many new girls that come out weekly if not daily that are keeping you guys busy lol Losing everyone is the least of my problems, all I need is one and from that one I will have fun and from that fun Sofia Legend will be reborn ...smarter and wiser :))

FREE 2010 WORLD CUP POOL

I was invited to join this FREE WORLD CUP POOL so I did.

I also decided to create a Sub-League: Team ★ Legend because I thought the site was pretty cool so if you know anything about World Cup Soccer or would like to be part of the World Cup Fever in June/July please join my Sub-League: Team ★ Legend.

It's basically for fun but I wanted to add a little more for the winner so I decided on a replica World Cup Trophy and a mystery prize :)) I have the replica World Cup Trophy in three sizes Small, Medium and Large... it'll be up to you to decide which one you want :)) I'm going to post a new video on my youtube channel showing the WC Trophy hopefully by this weekend. I'll let you all know here when it's uploaded.

Here is a photo of it ...

I've had quite a few emails asking what exactly it is that I'm doing for this World Cup and so to keep it simple I'll basically mention that I am wholesaling and retailing World Cup product :)) Again, I'll try to make some videos and post photos of some of the product... the sooner the better because I definitely won't have much time when the World Cup starts.

Hope you will join Team ★ Legend because if your team doesn't hoist the World Cup trophy hopefully you will :P

Good Luck!

HOLLYWOOD TUNA

Due to my "situation" this past little while I completely had no time to post this and to be honest I forgot about it until I read my emails today.

A few weeks ago I had a bunch of emails notifying me that I was an "AmaTuna" on http://www.hollywoodtuna.com and I thought you were all joking but you weren't :))

Hopefully I'll get a few more little breaks like this when I return...

Here is the link to see me on their site: http://www.hollywoodtuna.com/?p=33850

ME, MYSELF & YOU

I feel like I need a drum roll... this has been building up to more than it had to. The funny thing is that when I was prepared to write this the date was APRIL 1, 2010 and so I waited another day so nobody would think it was an APRIL FOOLS joke. That one day wait ended up being much longer and probably for the better because when I woke up the next morning I imagined having told you all the news the night before and I didn't like the way I was feeling. Am I feeling any better about my decisions today... no, but these past few weeks allowed me to look at everything more objectively and not emotionally. You wouldn't believe me if I even told you how many times I fired up a new blog post and deleted everything but today is for real. I have probably over thought it all but it was worth it because what I was going to write originally is not what I am writing today. How ever you may feel I can tell you that my original post would have been worse.

MY WEBSITE... as much as I could sit here for 24 hours straight and write about it I won't. What I will say is that running my site while working a full time job was a perfect formula for insanity! Not to mention the emails and all that other stuff online. Poor me right?! Look, this was my first time ever operating a website and yes of course I knew that it was going to be a lot of work but that is not what I was afraid of or couldn't handle... it was the time. The time it took to edit, upload, webcam, the ask sofia etc. was ridiculous. So I cut my youtube out, myspace, don't reply to emails... next thing I know I still don't get everything done. STRESS kicks in and it affects me like never before, I lost too much weight and other stuff I just won't get into... the point is that as much as I wanted to perform 100% at my full time job, 100% in my personal life, 100% in my family life and 100% to my website I just couldn't. I gave up my personal life, limited my family life to 1 day a week or every other week, called in sick just to ensure I can give 100% to the site. I saw and felt myself turning into another person and it was definitely not for the better. My body was shutting down. Poor me right?! I ran to my twitter as an escape but that obviously just took more of my valuable time. Something had to give and it did.

I've been told many times why am I still working if I have a site and the simple answer is that it allows me to be me and not Sofia Legend. For 40 hours a week I get to be normal, my job is fun and I love the people working with me but then when one finds out that I am Sofia Legend everyone knows and it doesn't become fun anymore and I lose my normal life. I understand that I'm not a Hollywood celebrity! Of course I can go here and there and have a normal life but it's obviously not the same and plus I do get noticed once in a while and that always plays in the back of my head when I go out.

Yes, once in a while I do miss my normal life before Sofia Legend and as much as I tried to get it back with my job it really was not the same. I tried to have the best of both worlds but at one point or another they will cross paths and one needs to make a decision... and I did. Last month I gave my company my resignation letter. As of today I do not have a job.

The more thought I put into everything I came to an interesting conclusion... as much as I thought my job was giving me my happy balance in life it was actually doing the opposite. My job was a comfort zone, it basically became an excuse for all my problems. I looked as my job as an escape but in reality it was taking me away from Sofia Legend. As much as I miss my life before Sofia Legend I also miss YOU more! What I'm trying to say is that I miss just waking up in the morning knowing that I will be spending the day with you. Stressing every morning on how I will fit you guys in my day was killing me. It basically all came to a point where I was just doing the absolute minimum to keep you guys from bitching 24/7. The minimum was the only solution I had left or else I was going to throw in the white towel... that minimum also gave me a little free time to really think about what I was doing.

The money from the site should have been a no-brainer to quit my job earlier but I thought my work was making me happy when in reality it was taking me away from what was making me happier. Quitting my job is only one of the few changes that I will be making to ensure that when I am ready to reboot it will not only be what I expect but what you will expect. As much as some of you may be disappointed in my progression... I am disappointed more.

In the meantime I have decided to be inactive online for the next 3 months and that includes no updates on the site. I may pop in here and there if I get a fair chance but please don't expect it. For ALL the current members freaking out right about now or yelling "THIS IS BS" I am offering you all refunds prorated. Simply send me an email at sofia@sofialegend.com and I will refund what ever is left on your membership.

The annual sign ups on my site has been taken off. I will continue to only allow monthly memberships... first month at $9.95 USD.

For the next 3 months I will be focusing on the World Cup Soccer coming up and I will be back mid July with no 40 hour a week job to hold me back.

I am terribly sorry for this extremely slow pace in getting my site content up to date but I won't apologize for the actual content for the obvious reason that the photos were never taken to be posted on my personal website. I never ever imagined that I would even have one. The photos were intended for facebook and stuff like that. Though there are almost 100 galleries and over 2000 photos on my site they are to show the progression of Sofia Legend in photos from the beginning. It is important to me to have the true story in photos on my site. If you simply want that typical stuff then you are in the wrong place and I suggest you send me an email so I can refund your remaining membership. Please understand that I have not yet taken 1 single photo shoot for my site, yes it's still older content but that will be done soon and then what? Give your two cents then, now it's simply no use complaining because the next 5 photo sets could be me in turtle necks and jeans watching birds in a sky... what is next is next by date, that is the integrity I want on my site. You have to be joking if you believe that I don't want to post newer photo sets asap... we are almost half way through 2010 and you actually think I am proud that I have 2008 photos up on my site as the latest gallery? It is what it is right now, I tried to get it all done faster but I couldn't. I quit my job to make sure that when I return to reboot in mid July that I will also have my surprise ready and that every single penny you ever invested in me will be worth it!

I can't believe it's 5:30AM :(( This took my over 5 hours to write and I said I was going to get to the points I had to say, sorry I guess I just wanted to get a few things off my chest and so when I return I can start fresh. I won't completely vanish but I'll be away for 99% of the time. I'll mostly tweet here and there so please make sure to follow me if you aren't already...

http://twitter.com/sofialegend

I'll miss you...

TICK TOCK

I can let another day go by without writing anything or I can write this quickly to tell you that certain things are just out of my hands and until I have all the information I can't say much :((

This is killing me as well and I don't like the fact that I am leaving you wondering and yes it is my fault but something happened tonight as I was writing everything out that changes a few things and thankfully so because I was totally going to make a terrible mistake.

Blah blah blah blah I understand... but now you know the hold up. I'm going to basically just say what needs to be said in a day or two whether I have all the info I need or not because it's driving me crazy!

STUFF

Ok, as some of you already know I have "stuff" to tell you. Primarily most of you want to know WTF is happening with my site and understandably so... I'm not an idiot and I know the problems so of course I will tell you "stuff" about that too.

I've been wanting to get this all off my chest for over a week but I am glad I didn't because I changed my mind on something that actually will work out better for the unsatisfied. Nothing bothers me more than not being able to deliver to the level that I want to recently because of uncontrollable factors and have you complain so quite frankly I'll take care of all that tomorrow night. I'm only pushing this to another night because I can't even think clearly and I don't want to make a mistake... it's almost 3AM. The "stuff" I have to say tomorrow will not be a long winded BS story, I'll get straight to my points.

Before I go to sleep I just want to say this...

For the past few years I've enjoyed your company... your like family and so I've experienced all sorts of different personalities. I can pretty well draw a line and divide fairly accurately the ones who are "friends" and the ones who are not. Having said that, true "friends" unfortunately deal with the most and put up with the most. These "friends" are the ones each and everyone of you would do anything for, care for the most but also end up hurting the most... this is no different for me. In real life like most of you I can count my "true" friends on one hand but online is a different story so the pain is greater. To those true "friends" I will say "thank you" for putting up with so much! I remember writing way back that it wouldn't be easy being my "fan" "friend" but I never imagined it would be this tough but as confident as I was back then about it all being worth it I can still stand tall and tell you the same today. It is and always will be up to you to believe me.

To all the people that have taken their personal time and written in great length their feelings to me I have read each and every one of them sometimes more than once. Though you may not get a reply I can assure you if I haven't written you back I am still thinking about it... it will bother me until I do.

Tomorrow night will not be mind blowing "stuff", it's just "stuff" that needs to be said...

CANADA EH

These photos were taken about 30 minutes before the big hockey game between
Canada and USA for the Gold Medal :))

My intentions for these photos were to post them on my twitter account to show my support
for the Canadian men's hockey team.


I also really wanted to do something with the Canadian Flag so with the little time I had I quickly came up with this...

Everything was such a rush rush last minute thing that I had to use a paper clip to hold together the flag but it just wasn't behaving lol


There are quite a few more photos that I will have to save for the site :))

I have read all my comments on my blog and I will get to them all soon. There is a lot of information that I am dying to share with you guys.

VANCOUVER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS

I won't write much about the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics other than it really made me proud to be CANADIAN! Sure it wasn't a perfect Olympics but I would still give it my two thumbs up. The spirit in my city, TORONTO, and all the "Canada" clothing I saw everyone wearing for the past few weeks has been amazing... puts a smile to my face. I may never see another Olympics here in Canada so to me this was pretty special :))

Speaking of special, CANADA won a total of 14 GOLD MEDALS which makes it a new WINTER OLYMPIC RECORD! How awesome is that :))

14 GOLD
Canada - 2010

13 GOLD
Norway - 2002
Soviet Union - 1976

12 GOLD
Germany - 2002
Germany - 1998

11 GOLD
Germany - 2006
Russia - 1994
Soviet Union - 1988
Soviet Union - 1964

10 GOLD
Germany - 2010
USA - 2002
Norway - 1998
Norway - 1994
Germany - 1992
Soviet Union - 1980

My TOP 3 Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics MOMENTS

#3
Canada's Joannie Rochette wins bronze medal in figure skating at Olympics

• Days after the sudden death of her mother, Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette has won a bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

#2
Canadian's Women's Hockey Team beat USA 2 - 0 for the GOLD

• The Canadian's women hockey team celebrated their victory the Canadian way :))
  

#1

Canadian's Men's Hockey Team beat USA 3 - 2 in overtime for the GOLD

• Sidney Crosby scored in overtime as Canada won the Olympic title, beating the United States 3-2 to become the first host nation to capture men's hockey gold in 30 years.

NAKED SLED RACE

The world is watching the 2010 Vancouver Olympics so I thought I'd keep with the spirit of the winter games... but with a little twist :))

A naked sledging event in Germany’s Harz region created a logistical nightmare over the weekend after 14,000 people showed up to watch 30 men and women strip before sliding down the mountain.

Here is the article: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100222-25417.html

TEAM CANADA

These are a few photos taken for fun just before the big hockey game yesterday and looks like it brought us some good luck because we beat RUSSIA 7 - 3 :))

NEW SCRAPBOOK PHOTO SETS - SL0038 & SL0039

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NEW EVENT PHOTO SET - SL0009

Here is the story behind this photo set...
http://sofialegend.blogspot.com/search/label/China%20Syndrome

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NEW EVENT PHOTO SET - SL0008

This one doesn't need much explaining but if you need to refresh your memory please visit this link... http://sofialegend.blogspot.com/search/label/Importfest%202008

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Coming very close to the end of 2008... FINALLY! Not much at all for 2009 then I can start shooting again for 2010... hang in there guys plus lots of pretty cool news soon :))

NEW EVENT PHOTO SET - SL0007

This ones a biggie, 322 photos :)) This is the complete set of my visit to Casa Loma and it was AWESOME! A must see for anyone here or coming to Toronto :)) The underground tunnel is super scary and I am sure you will see which photo has the "I'm not going in there" look lol My hair was a little too short but I'm sure the upskirt shots make up for it :P

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