God, if I could live in 1985.

IT HAS BEEN SO LONG! Well a bit of updates on us then:

We have finished our freshman year of college (woo!) and are home for the summer. We're working and lazing and recovering (me, mostly). With all our collegiate, worldy wisdom we are now totally amazing, independent adults (HAAAAAA YEAHRIGHT). But it was a good year, overall. If not for the things that happened, but the people I met and the lessons I learned.

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Sincerely,

Shannon

and baby, I'm spiraling out of control.

I'm in need of some new xanga blood for my subscriptions. :) Any suggestions?

I'm also in need of sanity, because lately everything in my life feels out of place.

"Many words do not satisfy the soul; but a good life gives ease to the mind; a pure conscience affords a great confidence in God." —1 Timothy iii.9

Maybe it's not always about trying to fix something broken. Maybe it's about starting over and creating something better.

There are just certain things in life that are better off unknown. Things you wish you never asked, never saw, never heard or never even felt.

Your eyes are blue like the ocean, and baby, I'm lost out at sea. Did the sun just come out or did you smile at me?

"I'm not in love with you any more."
--"I didn't know that you ever were."
"Let's not make this any more difficult than it already is."

So now, alone or not, you've got a walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.

I’m looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love. 
 - Sex and the City

Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Look at you, little white lying, for the purpose of justifying what you're trying to do. I know that you feel my resistance. I know that you heard what I said, otherwise you wouldn't need the excuse.

Sincerely,

Shannon

maybe, someday, we'll live our lives out loud.

So far 2011 has not been rocking, but it's only getting started.

ALSO I've started a blog as part of my new years resolutions, http://shaninpictures.blogspot.com/. I'm going to take a picture every day for 2011.

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I want a reason for the way things have to be, I need a hand to help build up some kind of hope inside of me.

Imagine there's no Heaven, it's easy if you try, no hell below us, above us only sky.

Love will remain a mystery, but give me your hand and you will see, your heart is keeping time with me.

The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug. If you never know truth then you never know love.

Half of the time we're gone but we don't know where, and we don't know where.

Now there's no place like home to make me feel alone, I see you everywhere I am.

Would you like to lose control? I won't let you fall until you tell me so.

There's no need to be alone when you find that someone.

I've got that lefty curse, where everything that I do is flipped and awkwardly reversed.

we say, we do, the lies, the truth, and all I need is next to me.

You said you meant it, and there's a piece of me in every single second of every single day, but if it's true then tell me how it got this way.

I should've spoken up, I should've proudly claimed that oh my head's to blame for my heart's mistakes.

And all this livings so much harder than it seems, but girl don't let your dreams be dreams

I want to believe in more than you and me, but all that I know is I'm breathing.

Say everything you’ve always wanted, be not afraid of who you really are, cause in the end we have each other, and thats at least one thing worth living for.

Sinatra was swinging, all the drunks they were singing, we kissed on a corner then danced through the night.

Think about you all the time. It's strange and hard to deal.

All of the wasted time, the hours that were left behind, the answers that we'll never find, they don't mean a thing tonight.

Sincerely,

S

Train, John Lennon, Aqualung, Black Eyed Peas, Simon and Garfunkel, Yellowcard, Goo Goo Dolls, Shania Twain, The Academy Is..., All-American Rejects, Jack's Mannequin, Parachute, Jack Johnson, Ingrid Michaelson, Ian Axel, The Pogues, Ryan Adams, Boys Like Girls.

What were 2010's highlights and lowlights? What are you looking forward to in 2011?

Highlights:

-Graduating
-Going off to college
-More self-confidence
-Seeing basically all of my favorite people from high school & my oldest bffl <3
-Making some of the best friends I've had in a long time
-London, Cinque Terra, and Paris

Lowlights:

-Having some awful friends
-Saying goodbye to the first home I've ever had
-Wesley, John, and Connor
-Restlessness and wanting to get out of high school
-Thanksgiving without my family for the first time ever

Sincerely,

S

I just answered this Featured Question; you can answer it too!

this time baby, i'll be bulletproof.

I've fallen in love with elisabeth lee-ann's site. :) & I'm rather proud of this post.
ALSO-new years resolutions are coming up. I'll be posting some of mine up. Start thinking 2011!

Random musical quotations of my favorite variety-

So many people put their feet on the wall and yell hangman.

So I chose you, because you're sweet, and you give me lots of lovin, and you eat meat.

I miss not being misued, I miss it all so I guess I lose.

It's easy to forget, when you choke on the regrets. Who the hell did I think I was?

Sometimes when I'm at a really noisy train station, one of the ones with the big fat trains like kings cross, I feel like putting my bag down and shouting things out, because I've got something to say.

Does she look at you the way I do, try to understand the words you say and the way you move? Does she get the same big rush, when you go in for a hug and your cheeks brush? Tell me am I crazy, or is this more than a crush?

She acts like summer and walks like rain, reminds me that there's a time to change.

Daisy, let it go, open up your fist, this fallen world, doesn't hold your interest, it doesn't hold your soul.

Gasping at glimpses of gentle true spirit, he runs wishing he could fly, only to trip at the sound of goodbye.

Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far. Did you lose yourself somewhere out there? Did you get to be a star? Don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who we are?

Love is watching someone die. Who's gonna watch you die?

Well darkness has a hunger that's insatiable, and lightness has a call that's hard to hear. I wrap my fear around me like a blanket, I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it, I'm crawling on your shores.

"What kind of life you dream of? You're allergic to love." Yes I know but I must say in my own defense, it's been undeniably dear to me, I don't know why.

Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams, telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I'm ready to give this all I have, I'm ready to be amazed, 'cause I'm standing here alone, trying to make this life my own, and nothing will keep this heart from beating, I'm still breathing.

I've a reputation for replacing my confidence with fear, but I'll be untiringly embracing the love I've found to be sincere.

Baby, baby, baby, when all your love is gone, who will save me from all I'm up against out in this world?

I think about time, a luxury so hard to find, and I just can't figure out why I wasted it all here without you.

If I were a painter and could paint a memory, I'd climb inside the swirling skies to be with you.

Sincerely,

Shannon 

Ian Axel, Norah Jones, Ingrid Michaelson, Goo Goo Dolls, Kate Nash, He Is We, Train, Switchfoot, Crosby Stills & Nash, Goo Goo Dolls, Death Cab for Cutie, Indigo Girls, The Shins, Led Zeppelin, Semisonic, Mayday Parade, Relient K, Matchbox Twenty, Safetysuit, Norah Jones.