Saturday, December 29

 
i suffered a terrible disappointment this morning. my best friend is on vacation and so i sadly haven't spoken with him in a few days. but today i signed into my email account, and as my eyes scanned the subject list i read "it's me! you better answer me!" i emitted a squeal of excitement as i clicked on it, expecting to read about all the adventures that are happening in the future (read: the time zone two hours ahead of my own.)

instead, i found a nefarious letter inviting me to enjoy the illicit delights of young catholic school girls, and the nether regions of pop queen britney spears.

where do these people get my email address? fuck me.
posted by from shannon at 11:03 PM

Tuesday, December 25

 
i love christmas eve. today my older half-brother joined us, which i don't think has ever happened before, and it was great. my niece and nephew, who are twins and just turned one, are hysterical. i especially can't get enough of emily. today she was doing her raptor bit - which is really funny, because she doesn't even mean too. she doesn't even realize how great she is. she runs around with her hands up by her chest. then she bends down real low and takes these real deliberate steps as she runs. and she has this way of tucking her head down so that her neck disappears, but it starts bobbing up and down as she moves. with the wide eyes and careful glances she makes, accompanied by these sounds that seem to be growls - well, she just kills me.

we went to mass today, which isn't really as fun as baby raptors but is at least interesting because of the thoughts that occur while i am sitting there. today i was daydreaming and i just caught the phrase "may the birth of jesus continue on forever." and my instinctual internal response was, that's going to suck for mary.

then i realized that the priest had really said "may the joy of the birth of jesus continue on forever." whoops. i started snickering uncontrollably in the pew. my mother glared at me, but that only made it all the more hysterical.

see kids, sometimes jesus can be fun. happy birthday, big guy.
posted by from shannon at 12:13 AM

Sunday, December 23

 
since i posted that thing about the one big dream earlier this evening one of my friends actually im'ed me to say that he had wondered about it. then i told him i wasn't sure what it (the big dream) was anyway. i explained that i think i do have one big dream, but right now it is broken into smaller pieces, and that once i start figuring out how to put them together i'll see the one big dream for what it is.

i just thought of that, on the spot.

he said, you are philosophical.

i said, i know.
posted by from shannon at 11:05 PM

 
whoops. just got in a mini family skirmish over my little brother's reading material. he is in the middle of the "left behind" series, a "book series dealing with the rapture and the end times" (from the official site.) it follows a group of nonbelievers through the seven years of torment prophesied in the bible. two of the main characters are a father and daughter (the mother and the son "disappear" because they are saved, as they are good christians), which is an interesting coincidence seeing that in my family, the mother and son are good catholics, and my father and i - well, not so much. he doesn't really seem interested enough in faith to form an opinion, and i am mostly confused (but have definitely not had the follow-through to accept jesus christ as my savior, leading me to believe that i would most definitely be doomed to suffer the seven-year torment described in said series.) my brother's affinity for these books probably should not bother me, but i really love my brother, and i feel uncomfortable with the way he embraces the traditional catholic let's-scare-people-into-believing tactics. and i feel weird knowing that he fully believes that my father and i are doomed to the ceaseless tortures of hell if we don't get our acts together.

hmm. think i'm gonna go have a snicker doodle.
posted by from shannon at 8:54 PM

 
i accidentally deleted a blog from earlier, but here is what it said, pretty much:

it struck me as funny today that no one has ever asked me about my "one big dream" (see weblog description at left.) does that mean my friends assume they know what it is? i got this weird image of my friends reading my blog from their computers, chuckling to themselves and sort of muttering, "oh, that shannon and her one big dream." do i seem like i really do have this one big dream, and everyone perceives this but me? because if this is the case, and they do think they know what it is, i wish they'd tell me. i'm sort of curious.


posted by from shannon at 8:34 PM