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Shannon

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"She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short." Brian Andreas ***** I try. Therefore I am not a failure. ***** I don't feel like an adult. ***** I know I want to live a greener, healthier life for me, my future children, and our planet. It is an evolving state and no one can ever be perfect. ***** I hate how in movies or tv the "ugly girl" becomes pretty when she brushes her hair and takes of her glasses. ***** I am very random. I go from one thought process to another very quickly. ***** I can be dissociative. ***** I

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********************************************* I have been reading a lot of futuristic, dystopian, post-apocalyptic books, which scare me. I also fear that we will run out of oil, or have an outbreak of bird flu, or e-coli, or zombie-ism. It is not a overwhelming fear, but I know that soon I will be stocking up on canned goods and such. I also plan on learning how to use a gun (that's just a good skill to have), hopefully start a veggie garden, and doing some endurance training. See that number above: I only have a 38% chance of surviving a zombie attack, I need to raise that.
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My Interests

learning, grapes and apples in salad or with cheese and crackers, fresh food of any kind, music, movies, reading, swimming, swimming like a mermaid, sleeping, dreaming, making lists, organizing, reading blogs, kissing kitties, crying, sewing, not finishing my quilt.

I'd like to meet:

Other Bloggers, other Craftsters. New girl friends because I don't have many. Someone who can teach me how to style my hair. A politician who wants change the world, not control it.********** "We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that." - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

Music:

Yes Please. Tori Amos, Animal Collective, Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, Bjork, Camera Obscura, Neko Case, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Devo, The Ditty Bops, Ben Folds, Patty Griffin, Buddy Holly, JimmyEatWorld, John Denver's Last Flight (JDLF), Bob Marley, My Morning Jacket, Outkast, Parkway Wretch, Peter Bjorn & John, Portishead, Queen, Bonnie Raitt, Sade, Save Ferris, Scared of Chaka, The Shins, Sigur Ros, George Strait, Toys that Kill, The White Stripes. I love musicals.

Movies:

Directors I like: Tim Burton, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Wes Anderson, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, Cameron Crowe, Woody Allen. Movies I can watch over and over: Jurassic Park, 13 Going on 30, Sense and Sensibility, Dazed and Confused, Clueless, The Notebook, Bring It On, Love Actually, The Family Stone, Sleepless in Seattle, Home Alone. **************************************** Movies I like: Army of Darkness, The Brave Little Toaster, Constantine, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Disturbia, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Good Night and Good Luck, Grandma's Boy, High Fidelity, Holes, Hot Fuzz, Howell's Moving Castle, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Jawbreaker, Lost In Translation, My Girl, Now and Then, Office Space, Pan's Labyrinth, The Princess Bride, Pure Country, Rear Window, The Scarlet Letter, Shaun of the Dead, Sleeping Beauty, Something's Gotta Give, Spirited Away, Stealing Beauty, To Kill A Mockingbird, When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail... ********************never want to see it again.

Television:

Battlestar Gallactica, Arrested Development, Heroes, The Office, Lost, CSI Las Vegas, Scrubs, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Buffy, Friends, Dawson's Creek, X-Files, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, O'Grady, Degrassi, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Sex and the City.

Books:

I love YA books and probably always will. I hope to be a librarian someday. Authors I like: Margaret Atwood, Francesca Lia Block, Jeffrey Brown, Sarah Dessen, Lois Lowry, Holly Black, Stephenie Meyer, Anais Nin, Laurie Notaro, Jodi Picoult, Christopher Pike, Nora Roberts, Scott Westerfeld, Frank Beddor *************************************Books I like: Wicked, Wicked Lovely, Poison Study, Magic Study, The Society of S, Persepolis, The Secret Life of Bees, Geek Love, The Time Traveler's Wife, Life As We Knew It, The Road, The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Great and Terrible Beauty, A Wrinkle In Time, The Lovely Bones, House of Leaves.

Heroes:

Fred Rogers, Jean Luc Picard, Atticus Finch

My Blog

Tag

Once you have been 'tagged," you have to write a blog of 10 weird random facts/habits/ goals about yourself. At the end, choose 10 people to be tagged, list their names and why you chose the...
Posted by Shannon on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:59:00 PST

Wow

School school school school school. That is what my life is about right now. Oh, and trying to find a house to rent. It pretty much sucks.But I wanted to say something. I watched Kujo for the first ti...
Posted by Shannon on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:55:00 PST

Rental House

Well we found a house to rent. We will be moving in on Sept 28 so we can use that weekend to move. I found out today that a coworker lives on the same street, so we already know some neighbors!Click o...
Posted by Shannon on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:56:00 PST

Jurassic Park

If I ever come across Jurassic Park on T.V., say on TNT or AMC, I have to watch it (the same for Independence Day also). I have seen the movie so many times; but I can watch it over and over again. We...
Posted by Shannon on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:58:00 PST

Oh Emm Gee

SeriouslyEver since I saw this teaser trailer attached to Transformers, Brad and I have been so excited. Brad loves any monster movie and has probably seen just about every Godzilla franchise movie. I...
Posted by Shannon on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:04:00 PST

Hairspray

I didn't want to see the new movie Hairspray at first. I thought it would ruin the campiness of the first one, and I don't like John Travolta. But I was wrong, wrong, wrong. I absolutely loved this mo...
Posted by Shannon on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:19:00 PST

Creepy Ads

So weird. Especially the one about Lysol feminine hygeine products and the pig cutting itself. 
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:20:00 PST

Alan Rickman

Ok, so I am crushing hard on Alan Rickman. Yes he is old enough to be my father, but I don't care. My love is pure! I went on Youtube for some Alan Rickman action and this is what I cam across. ...
Posted by Shannon on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:42:00 PST

The one with Sigourney Weaver

Something that I find so funny is when characters on a T.V. show are trying to figure out a movie and one of the characters was in that movie. Probably because then I can show off my mad movie game sk...
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:53:00 PST

Hon Machi

mmmmmm, shushi!Brad and I wanted to eat sushi last night, but we are also slightly broke trying to save for the move. Solution: Hon Machi. I first went to this place a few times with my friends Billy ...
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:52:00 PST