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Shannan

I am here for Friends

About Me

The headline quote above was by Mitch Hedberg, RIP

A vigil for peace on earth.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

ATTENTION AUTHORS: I did not join MySpace to be your marketing opportunity. I don't mind a friendly conversation, though. Ahem. EVERYONE ELSE: I like to meet humans and animals. I don't do Yahoo messaging, or any kind of instant messaging for that matter. I like finding new friends and kindred spirits on Myspace, but if you want to add me, please drop me a line first, and tell me why.

My Blog

grateful

My husband is from El Salvador.  He used to be the director of the border crossing between Honduras and El Salvador.  The drug mafia wanted him to allow drugs to be smuggled back and forth, and he ref...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:11:00 GMT

various isms

I have a Myspace friend who posts a lot of bulletins.  A lot.  Most of them are interesting, some of them are funny and/or useful.  Here's one he posted the other day:Does socialism work?An economics ...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:07:00 GMT

"So, how's married life?"

I got married almost a year and a half ago, but people still ask me how things are going.  I don't mind people asking, and I realize that they mean well and are just making conversation really.  But i...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:39:00 GMT

Environmental disaster in TN

The mainstream media hasn't been covering this very much, maybe because it happened in a rural area or maybe the powers that be don't want the millions of people downstream to panic. Anyway, there was...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:50:00 GMT

another cross-cultural observation

The other day I blogged about how I thought it was odd that an astrologer is on the evening news on the Spanish-language channel Univision (my husband's from El Salvador so his first language is Spani...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:00:00 GMT

golden retriever puppies

Maybe you guys can help me figure out what this means. I've had this dream at least twice. I have a plastic box like strawberries come in, only it's bigger, and it has a bunch of golden retriever pu...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:54:00 GMT

Nashville gas

For those who live elsewhere, and in case this didn't make the media (I have no idea), we have had a problem in Nashville with no gas.  The hurricane in Texas interrupted the gas pipeline fo...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:25:00 GMT

been awhile

I'm back!  My old computer blew up and I just got a new one and am finally getting caught up on e mails and seeing what has been going on on Myspace. Let's see...not too much has been going on, r...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:32:00 GMT

skunk update

Mkay, last time I'd posted. the Critter Gitter guy had been to the house and baited a humane trap for the skunk family living in the crawlspace.  The next morning, I heard something moving in the...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:44:00 GMT

critter gitters

Currently I have the wonder of God's creation living in my crawlspace, taking the form of at least two skunks.  They got in by digging around the heat pump and made themselves at home. ...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:30:00 GMT