okay, so i've been noticing a lot of things lately.

one i have started listening to Death Cab for Cutie.  I highly recommend them to you, if you haven't begun listening to them.  I have also begun listening to The Cobalt Season, again, highly recommended.


My birthday went great! I had so much fun.  Here are some pictures:



my first glass of wine at dinner. wootcakes for being 21



me and my amazing brother.


word.


after dinner. (i love this picture)

my dessert! :]]

okay, so that was my birthday experience.  i love that i just went out with my family for dinner and had a glass of wine.  while most people go out and get totally wasted, i chose to remember mine :]


so i have noticed that people judge you immensely by how you are dressed.  although i try to not do this i too am guilty.  however, i have many different styles.  i dress to suit my mood. so today, i wore, my tool t-shirt and my stud belt and my chucks and my pearls.  i look like a metal head, which is what i am. so i'm totally okay with that.  people sort of skirted around me today. versus when i wear an AE shirt with a brown belt and rainbows. people look at me and smile or wave, or just say hey to me.  it's become sort of a social experiment for me.  it's also shown me just how much you are judged by your appearance.   i also wear my Birkenstock's and a tie die t shirt with ripped jeans.  i have many different looks and all of which classify me as me.  i dress to be comfortable.  today i was in a metal mood. tomorrow i am planning on wearing my coheed and cambria t shirt, it has dripping blood on it. it's one of my favorites.  what really cracks me up is when someone sees me dressed like this and i smile at them.  they get this weird look on their face like, "is she going to eat me?" 

we'll see how tomorrow goes.

so far this is so much fun.

ok so, one, i think this is possibly the most romantic photograph i have ever seen in my life:



^^as taken by joshua longbreak:http://www.thelongbrake.com/blog/

two: i'm not on my laptop so i can't upload a lot of really cool pictures. which makes me sorta sad. except i emailed a few of me and my brother.  they're random and silly... and a result from a semi-boring family dinner:



  
                                                   
 

yeah, there are some for your viewing pleasure.

this is me today, from a trip to aville with my parents where i got the cutest shoes in existence [besides chucks]
 
total nerd.


so i quit ghost town.  i wasn't getting an internship and i was being used. to the freaking max man. to the max. and though, i love the people i worked with and i miss them, i'm so glad to be rid of that place...and thankful that i can see those people outside of work. which is demanded now obviously since we no longer see each other at work.  i've started putting more hours in at church which is great and is working out fabulously.

 i am also going to continue to live at home thru the school year.  i was a commuter my freshman year, did the dorm thing for my sophomore and junior years and now for my senior year i will be a commuter once more.  i love the idea of living here with my family and being able to go to school and see everyone there but be able to come home at the end of the day to my sweet family and well... my nice clean room and rather large bed. needless to say i'll be spending a ton of time on campus. a lot of great kids are at school now, old friends, and newly graduated hs kids.  which is freakin' awesome. i mean DJ my claimed big brother (never mind that he's younger than me he's bigger thus he is my big brother) is going to WCU and my bff Zac is a grad. student there now.  marlee is living in the same room so i know exactly where she is. and even better, a few friends of mine are commuting from wville too. so hello, carpool! so i feel like i'm where God wants me and we'll see how this year goes. i think it'll be interesting. :]]]

i'm really conflicted about some relationship stuff.  i mean i'm so content with my life right now.  there are a couple of guys, i won't elaborate here, but the people who read this and are really in my life know who i'm talking about.  i'm actually going to walk the lake with one tonight. but i'm not looking for anything. one i love so so so much, and i always will. the other i just met a couple of months ago and just started to really get to know in the last month or so.  but, i'm not looking for anything.  i'm full of commitment issues. and i just love how my life is going. furthermore, i don't want any boys to mess it up.  i want to be able to focus on school and deal with things as they come at me.  i love the fact that i can do whatever i want, whenever, without having to call up some guy to say "ok honey this is where i'll be blah blah blah". ugh i hated that part of relationships. hated it. my sister, is almost engaged. i mean practically all they have to do is just  get the ring and all that settled. someone else i know just got married. and i'm just sitting around with my biological clock wigging out inside of me saying "shannon! it's time to make this move in your life" and my rational is just like "pssht. whatev."  it's great. i feel bad for girls that are wigging out right now because they haven't found their true love and all that.  it is my fond hope that they reach a point where they're cool to do what God wants and to just go with it. He knows what he's going... and He gets His way anyways right? exactly.

so i had some starbucks today in the mall. and i must say i'm generally not for starbucks. but one, i hadn't had my coffee yet today, and two, it was the only available source of coffee. so dad and i had some and sat outside (this is in the mall... it was weird and i don't care to do it again) but the coffee (dark roast) was surprisingly good. i was shocked and so was dad. we generally go to panacea where i feel at home and i know people that frequent the place. all that stuff. but i was looking at my cup:

again from good ol' joshua:http://www.thelongbrake.com/blog/
that made it worth the whole thing. :]

so anyway, i think it's about time for supper. so i'm off to enjoy that and hit the lake in my new cute shoes!