sometimes i get lazy.

its been awhile since i last posted....

im sorry.

having a blog is more responsibility than i can handle sometimes, but im back now. for a lil bit.

until i forget....again.

so the last time i wrote was in september since then:

1. i applied for americorps. i stressed out about the job. i got the job. and i have been working with sacramento steps forward (formerly the ending chronic homelessness initiative) since december. its great.

2. because of the aforementioned developments i left my job at city life which was more challenging than i thought it would be...

3. i moved. still in sacramento just a different house. we miss the old place but our new one is real nice.

4. i bought rain boots...really good decision.

5. i have developed an intense love of feta and goat cheese.

6. well, i cant think of a 6 right now. but im sure there is something.

heres the thing. i worked a crazy day. i am tired. but, i wanted to make sure you know i am here and alive. i promise to give more details later...

later dudes.

i like coffee.

got myself one of these fancy things.




you should too.
its real neat.




not as fun as my anti-spill cup but neat.

it's late. i can't sleep. blogging time.

DISCLAIMER: i dont know how to work blogger so this business is out of order. whatevs. deal with it.




the photographer often wanted me in front, near kate, you know maid of honor status or whatevs. but i, in all my blue gerber daisy glory frequently rushed to hide behind the bride. or anyone. really.

so its been an uber long time since i shared life via the blog with ya'lls.
i
am
sorry.
i think i had bloggers block. also, i dont technically have a computer of my own so i borrow my work laptop which makes my own indulgences a little tough.




summer has been real nuts. i went home a ton. kate got hitched. that (above) is a picture of kate, jill (her cousin who surprised her from paraguay) and, well, me. i look like i am with child in every photo that i took because i put my hands in front of me thus causing the already poofy part of the dress to stick out some more. way to go for me. as if i need help looking more round.




so the wedding was sweet. jerry dropped the unity candle. i still giggle about it. it was a short wedding.
i do.
ride to the park.
eat delicious food.
introduce wedding party.
silly games.
speeches.
cake.
bride and groom leave to do the thing that they have been thinking about for many days.
i dont have any better pictures, not of that, of us...i dont think.

donna and i got the party started with our sassy-ness.
i cant remember how i was talked into walking with donna over to try and catch the boquet. but i was. kate let go of it and i was gone. no gracias to catching the boquet. no gracias.

i also went camping this summer. out in the cut of it. it was a great time. super ending to a real nice summer. also, as it turns out i am incapable of taking a straight faced photo.




i wish i had fun things to share. i dont.
i am fun though.
i dance.
i sing.
i am sassy, sometimes.


going back to long beach.
again.
camp. timothy. the timothy project.
its gonna be amazing




oh wait. i do have news. i sold the t-bird. she's gone. prolly hanging out in the drive way of a 40 something year old dude who drinks the natty ice. i miss it but the new car is a nice change. i have cup holders now. i have never owned a car with cup holders.
i know, classy.

somehow blogging ended up at the bottom of my to do list

fear not. i am alive.

sacramento is real warm. it was 108 a couple of weeks ago. i decided that we could prolly end the who lack of water problem by gathering the sweat of the sacramento people. think about it obama. just think about it.

i don't have a whole lot to share at 1am. im actually pretty tired. i might end up sleeping before the usual 3am.

if you have a spare moment and need a laugh you should watch some bear grylls and will ferrell on youtube. its real funny.

i was at temple today, temple the coffee shop not the jewish kind, surrounded by 3 macbooks. the world hates me and wants me to be a bad person. not having a computer is annoying, being surrounded by beautiful machines is cruel.

also, you should probably look into jessica the hippo she is neat.

you should make time to watch this movie

i saw it last friday. going again tomorrow. its my new eternal sunshine. i still love eternal sunshine. go watch this move. unless your name is john darrell, if that's the case you should watch twilight zone and drink a coors light instead because you prolly wont be into this movie.

i'll be in long beach july 2nd. lets hang out!

things.

i am losing my faith in pandora. it thinks it knows me but it doesn't. it keeps playing jack johnson and i keep wanting to throw up in my mouth a little. ugh. when did i give it the impression that i liked jack johnson. i am bummed. am i living a lie?

i am really bummed about a discovery at the target today. press on toenails. c'mon world. just c'mon back. terrifying.

i got season 3 in the mail a few days ago. the west wing. also, i am uber bummed on season 6 right now so i have started at season 1. i really do loves me some the west wing.

i am cat sitting a little jerk cat who wakes up all night with head bunting and biting. its a gentle bite but a bite all the same. lame.

i can smell. i can taste. the joy of the lord you know?

i had 2 blow outs this week. my very old denims just gave up. they were some favorites. i am grieving.

its hot. i hate summer.

dumb

i am still congested enough that i can't taste anything. i am severely bummed out. meat lovers pizza and a beer...nothin. coffee...nothin. pb&j...nothin. this is getting old.

i am considering using a long bristled brush (you know like the kind used to wash out baby bottles) to open things up.

its freaking race day and i can't taste my beer. this is horrible.

Oh...AND

i joined twitter. as if i need another social networking thing. ugh.

my name or whatevs: lilmicrophones

lets follow each other. tell me where you are.

Good Good Nights

i had a really super eve. this following a pretty shitty week. i was sick. who gets sick in june? me. i have the lingering really cute flaky nose skin and grandpa laugh from the crap in my lungs. but i am out of bed. its been a tough week outside of sickness as well and to be perfectly honest, i dont really want to talk about it.

i got home around 4 today. i was sleepy. i had a really long night of thinking. i do that sometimes. a long day of catching up on work. by 5 i was done but i had plans with the ladies to see a movie so i jumped in bed to read and try to re energize. sleeping happened instead. it was good. actually, i would have slept longer but i had this really awful dream that i wont recount because it effing sucked. i woke up to merril in the living room. we talked for a really long time about really intense things. it was good. she's a delight.

so around 10 the ladies...ahhhhhhhhh!! pandora just started playing jack johnson. that is awful. i skipped it. i thought it knew that i am not into jack johnson. ugh. ok. so, 10, the ladies off to the theatre. we watched away we go. it was super. i loved it. i left the theatre refreshed. excited. reminded that simplicity is possible and its what i want. geez, it was good. i know you prolly aren't interested in the reaches of my mind. the places that i have ventured tonight. the thoughts about my life and people and relationships so i will spare you (i am however pretty good at the email ramble and am always looking for folks to ramble to so if you want thoughts let me know). just know that some passions are being re ignited and i am eager to journey with them.

life is good. even when it kind of sucks.

i miss you long beach. but i love you sacramento. what oh what to do? shit.

good night.

xo.

p.s. listen to some good music as the sun goes down and drink some lemonade. or a beer. tis the season.

A Lil Jew Made My Life Today

i always knew jews were awesome. but this lil guy made my life. i am pretty sure he might be bummed that i keep calling him a lil guy...whatevs.

so were are wrapping up the staff meeting, praying like hey jesus whats up, you are so cool, we love you, prolly you should guide the way, keep us at a steady pace, p.s. you are awesome when a rapping on the door hushes the talking to the lord. the door is answered and a freakin energetic lil fella peeks into the room. he is called graham. he has either had lots of caffiene, many a peach ring or is just on fi-ya. in any case we all get to talking about fed-ex and how they are b-holes and living green stuff and being kosher and how jesus was a pretty cool teacher on and on when, are you ready for this? he asks what we are doing? whats are deal? we say that we are a church and oh goodness this is good lil graham says; 'in the interest of full disclosure i am a big jew' WHAT?! that is amazing. the cackles start and instant friendship. i am into graham. as i type this i realize that maybe you had to be there. it was super. just laugh with me please.

in other news: apple announced the new macbook pro price shift. i know this because an equally (perhaps more) obsessed friend sends me a text at 11:45p tuesdy (?) night with a check your email order. i do. its a link to the freaking heavens. i have asked jm to consider selling his seed in order to contribute to my mac fund. i am trying to figure out how to sell a kidney and a section of my liver...oh relax, jk. i am just spending endless hours drooling all over my work computer, lil blackie, as i watch videos on the mac page. since my other landing station dell died i am in a terrible place.

i have felt an overall bloggers block. i sort of gag as i type that because that is the lamest thing i have ever said for many a reason but i am turning a new leaf. the leaf of being a grown up and not being so effing critical.

i miss my friends. things have been quite busy lately so i dont hang out as much as i would like to. we all know i am into the hanging out.

i am in the market for a new french press as mine broke. it ruined my life. jerk.

timbuk2 is having a great sale and if i had the cash i would be the owner of a new HEMP timbuk 2 small bag, you know, the perfect size for heading to a show or biking it out to davis. p.s. i am biking out to davis soon. i am really jazzed about it. not so jazzed about the bugs between my teeth but it will make for a great blog photo so just stay tuned.

season 5 of the west wing makes me want to quit the show. i guess the original writer left. jerk. he should just c'mon back. ugh.

its after minight and i am going granny a lil early in life...i have an episode or 2 to watch i cant be chattin it up with ya'lls.

until the bloggers block is gone...later.

I LOVE Kate.

so a friend sends a text: all seasons of ww $18.99 at costco. i think to myself: this is amazing i must go to the costco immediately. turns out costco is into celebrating memorial day which seems a lil weird but whatevs. so i have to wait til tuesdy. i drive there. only seasons 5, 6 & 7. i am bummed so i text kate in the lbc and because of her dedication to help me find things she goes to the coscto near her therefore, i will soon be the proud proud owner of these:


aren't they pretty?

Eureka!

I just figured out why I haven't graduated college...

....because I don't have a mac.

MacBooks make me happy. I covet. Now, lets talk about getting me a mac because the Dell crashed, jerk.

Brought to You By: Shannon feeling like blogs without photos are silly

Two Things:

1. sometimes i laugh at things. then i compose myself. then i look at what i was laughing at and i think, 'crap, my brain functions like that of a 12 year old boy'

2. god is funny. he was so funny when he made this mushroom that looks like a butt. butt things make me laugh the same way poop things do. speaking of poop....no, nevermind.

Soiled

Some really important things have happened in my life.

i finished season 2 of the west wing. i am pretty sure i must hold some kind of record for fastest viewing. i mean i just like to do what i say i am going to do, i like to set goals and accomplish them-as long as they don't get in the way of what seems to be a lifetime of eluding adulthood. i like to t.c.o.b. or whatever. season 2 was amazing, i am glad that i didnt watch the show when it was on tv because i don't know if i could handle the wait. this way, i get to start season 3 tomorrow. if there were ever an appropriate time to ask for a booyah it would be now, so...can i get a booyah?

i have decided that if i am ever to learn a language just because it will be latin. it is neat.

i have started trying to pull every life event into a west wing story line.

since moving away from home i have learned a few valuable life lessons. i learned something new this week. i am not an effective communicator. i mean really, i think i might be dumb. i can never just say what i need to say, i talk too much, i tell too many stories and then i loose peoples attention. you see, there is is woman at church who is a really amazing listener and a super communicator and i thought heck, i want to be real good at those things so i was thinking about how to hone some skills. as i thought i realized this whole problem with my talking in stream of consciousness is an issue. so i need help, help me. my name is shannon, and i talk to damn much.

going to the gym at 6am makes me feel like a grown up because i am up and ready to face the owrld by 830a, this means i need to stop going to the gym so early. refer back to the eluding adulthood comment above.

i have started chilling the left over morning coffee so that i can have it over ice in the afternoon as i read on the porch. i like reading on the porch. there is an older gentleman whose name i do not know that rides home every everyday on his lil moto wheel chair and he has started waving at me, he makes my days good.

i have re kindled my romance with cream cheese also artichokes.

i like that the world has jumped on to the verb train.

sometimes i forget how much i like donut holes. then i eat one and i remember. when i was a wee one my dad would occasionally go to the donut shop on sundy mornings. waking up to the glory that is the pink box and lil white bag of bite sized bits of glory was amazing. i am a sucker for nostalgia. a sucker i say.

a friend recently turned me toward the google, he says look up the gambia. i do. it changed my life. this delightful little place is called the republic of THE gambia. not the republic of gambia. the THE is supposed to be there. we all know how i like the THE. the trader joes. the naked coffee. the safeway. the target. THE THE THE. i like it. back off.

i am driving home in a week. excited to be home. not excited to drive. i dont have an effing radio. gonna ear bud it up. ugh.

in terrifying news: the swine flu in in the north long beach. 5 cases. will you still be my friend if i get the swine flu? please? i would be willing to wear a fanny pack fully equipped with purell hand sanitizer and face masks. and we all know that the fanny pack is flattering on NO ONE. but because i am a good person i am willing to sacrifice.

ninja stars are now my second favorite weapon. i am now very fond of the cattle prod. i know it is not as easily concealed but i want to zap people and then call them sparky.

i have a new affinity for nick names. i wish i were better at making them up.

i am reading a book that is changing my life...again. i want a tambourine. preferably in the shape of a half circle with an american flag bedazzled near the grip. ok, that is just ridiculous. i lol-ed.

lol-ed is being temporarily replaced with, cracked my shit up. thanks keeks. aka mom.

did you know that 25 is between 24 and 26? i had a lapse in memory today and looked for it between 26 and 27. i suppose i was sleep and coffee deprived. also, i have yet to pass pre algebra so this could be the sign of a much larger problem.

pleated pants infuriate me. they are not flattering. dont wear them. just don't. please. for the love.

i will stop now. we all know i could go on. i wont. i will spare you.

later.

xo.

Nerd

I am completely committed to finishing the entire series of The West Wing.

I realized today that I have lost my effing mind. All I ever want to do is watch this show. It's real good.

In other news: Wait, I have no other news. Every spare minute that I have has been devoted to the television. The other day I waited on the porch for the mailman...netflix free trial to get through as much of the show as possible.

This is a problem.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

My car was broken into Tuesday night and all they took was the passenger side door lock and the radio faceplate. UGH! The rear quarter glass was broken so I had to replace that which was awesome.

Not Busy, Just Lazy

Mosquitos are the stupidest thing on the planet. I am not one for calling the lord a fool but I do wonder about these bugs. They are awful terrible creatures, I am being eaten alive by one right now, in me it has found a buffet and it is making me crazy. It's a quick one too because it continues to escape my slap. UGH!

Not a whole lot going on lately. The usual, just working and looking for a part time job. So far I have been turned down by 4 places. This is an annoying journey but one that I need to be committed to.

I have headed back to the gym 5 days a week in an attempt to loose the weight that I gained over the holidays, so it is a little late but whatevs. I am back on track. I want to have reached my 100 pound mark by the end of the year and I think I can really do it I just need to try and stay motivated. I am so easily discouraged by the things around me.

The Office has been superb as of late. If Andrew Bernard were a real person I would want to hang out with him every day. Pam makes me want to vomit but we have talked about this already so I will spare you.

I am feeling completely drained of creatvity and funnies so I am out.

Maybe tomorrow will be a better day.

Just an FYI

I might not post for awhile...

Gonna be on Facebook.

Lots of catching up to do.

Lots.

I like blackberries, the office and coffee. I do not like Pam.

Remember when I said I lost my cord thingy for my camera? Turns out that it was late and dark and somehow I didnt think to turn on the light and look under the checkbook....stop judging me.

SO, i know I said I would show you what my face looked like when I had bad bad bad allergies. As it turns out I am not that brave so just believe me when I say that it was bad...oh geez, really the picture is bad.

Instead I will show you my trial run with Kanye shades. Good huh? Sara and I are endlessly entertained by trying on sunglasses at Target. These were my favorite.

And since I think blogging without photos is lame I will share this with you for good measure.


The biggest croissant I have ever consumed and an americano from Temple...come to Sacramento I will buy you this!

Got back from Long Beach Monday, it was super. Went to see Bonnie Prince Billy in LA. I love him.

I feel like I have nothing important or exciting to share. I think I need more coffee....we'll talk soon.

Stream of Consciousness...again.

I was going to post some pictures of things that are silly but I can't find my camera cord. I think I left it at the office. I am lame.

So it has been lots of days since my last post. Along with Facebook and MySpace I suppose I have given up blogging. Either that or I am just lazy. Yeah, lazy. Also, I don't like blogging without photos and I've been pretty awful with the camera lately.

Coming to So Cal tomorrow. Going to the Bonnie Prince Billy show which I am real excited about.

Allergy season is here. I have real bad allergies. At this moment my eyes are watering, my nose is all plugged up and my eyelids are swollen half shut. I wish I had my camera cord. I would post a picture right now. It is gross. Wait...I am going to take a picture to share later, remind me. Oh geez, that's bad. One eyelid is more swollen than the other. Cute. I hate allergies. Claritin and Zyrtec don't work. Also, Vicks tissues are amazing but should not be used to dry the eyes. It burns. It was an accident. WHATEVS.

I am fragile right now. I can't breathe.

I watched Twilight. Then I started the book...this could be really bad.

Things I want to do while in Long Beach: see the family, go to thrift stores, try out that coffee shop in Bellflower that Rachel raves about-I just got a new journal and a good book (not twilight) so it should be super, grab some coffee from Intelligista for Merril-this might not happen but this is just a wishlist, hang at the sunken city, feel the joy of no allergies...there is more but my allergies are preventing proper brain function.

I watched 3 of my favorite movies this week.

Gummi Bears are delicious. I like the clearish ones. Also, red.

If wiping your eyes with Vicks hurts...nope, gonna stop there.

The Office is making my life.

I want to be Tina Fey.

Fine tip ball point pens are my new favorite.

Black coffee makes me really happy. Instant smiles.

I started watching Big Love. Then I watched an episode of The West Wing. I am into both. That sucks.

I love my porch at night.

It's 1 AM and I can't sleep. Not because I am not tired but because I can't breathe and my congestion is causing a headache. Its too late for PM pills. Ugh.

Goodnight. xo.