Summer’s coming…oh no!
February 18, 2008 at 3:01 pm | In Uncategorized | 7 CommentsI appreciate the sentiment in someone telling me to smile, but I think that hearing it makes me madder and makes me want to smile even less. I get it. I don’t smile unless I feel like it and there are some days when I don’t feel like it very much. Is there something wrong with that? I don’t walk around cussing people out (at least not out loud). But as long as I make the conscious effort to keep the cussing to myself, they never know about it. So it works. That’s the beauty of being able to think.
I’m so into this whole self improvement thing right now. I started reading that book I wanted to read per Kellie’s suggestion. It’s called “The Mastery of Love.” I don’t know that I’m going to ever truly master love, but I’d at least like to be able to find and keep it. I can get someone interested with no problem at all (for the most part). Keeping them in a whole different story. I get bored SO incredibly easily. If they made a relationship Ritalin, I would ask for the prescription. They don’t, though, so I’m trying to figure this stuff out by reading books and junk like that.
I started taking Hydroxycut over the weekend and I’m pretty excited about it. I don’t know if the stuff is going to work, but I feel good knowing that I’m trying. I got a bottle of it for Kellie, too, but she hasn’t started taking it yet. But I’m looking forward to another bonding thing with Kellie. J-Si is taking it, too, and he says he sees results. I can’t wait to wake up one day and have abs out of nowhere just because I took this miracle pill. And they have the ab machine that I user at the gym on sale at the sporting goods store, so I may even go and get that. I am so completely focused on feeling hot this summer. It’s not enough to hear it from other people that I look decent. Not even hot…just decent. I need to feel it because I didn’t last summer and I never want to feel that way again. Ugh. Gross. I fear being that person that people look at and ask what I was thinking wearing a two piece swim suit. I would rather swim and ski in jeans and a t-shirt than be that person.
I know it’s shallow and a lot of people are going to be pissed off that I would think that…much less type it, but it’s what I think. If you are comfortable enough in your own skin to parade around in whatever shape you’re in, then so be it. I’m not a big enough person (big meaning mature) to have that attitude, but sometimes I wish I did. Sometimes I envy those who completely lack the self awareness to know that something they do is a bad idea. I’ll admit that I’ve got that in some areas of my life, but body image will never be a part of that list.
I realize that I’m being the typical chic saying all this. It’s nothing jaw dropping or life changing, but it’s what’s on my mind. I’m not obsessed, but it’s forefront enough that I’m doing something about it. Maybe I really will have an ab by June this year. I wanted one last year, but I failed. So now it’s time to try again.
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Shanon, Just enjoy the dating ride– it’s a weeding out process.. It really is. When you find the right person, you won’t get bored – It’ll feel right and you won’t have to try to make it feel right.. It won’t be boring, it will be comfortable. I know people tell you this and you get tired of hearing it but you really will find the right one when you quit looking. Let tem find you. YOu’re worth it.
Comment by melanie — February 18, 2008 #
Girl I know exactly how you feel about the smiling thing. I hate it when people tell me to smile. Even if I’m not in a bad mood per sae and I’m just lost in thought or something, people will say, SMILE! Well, I’m here and I’m at work, maybe I don’t feel like smiling. Maybe I have a headache. I don’t understand people’s obsession with smiling.
Comment by mandi — February 18, 2008 #
Hope the Hydroxycut works for you. I tried it too, but it did not work. Then I went to NutritionalTree.com and found it only rated like 2 out of 5 stars based on customer reviews.
Comment by Lee Crock — February 18, 2008 #
What is Love???
A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, “What does love mean?”
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“When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore.
So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.”
Rebecca- age 8 (Yes Rebecca, I agree.)
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“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different.
You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
Billy – age 4
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“Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.”
Karl – age 5
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“Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.”
Chrissy – age 6
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“Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired.”
Terri – age 4
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“Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.”
Danny – age 7
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“Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more.
My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss”
Emily – age 8
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“Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.”
Bobby – age 7 (Booby, is it something like, “It is more fun to give than to receive’?)
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“If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,”
Nikka – age 6 (Great advise!)
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“Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.”
Noelle – age 7
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“Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.”
Tommy – age 6
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“During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.
He was the only one doing that. I wasn’t scared anymore.”
Cindy – age 8
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“My mommy loves me more than anybody.
You don’t see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.”
Clare – age 6
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“Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.”
Elaine-age 5
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“Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.”
Chris – age 7
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“Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.”
Mary Ann – age 4 (Isn’t that called unconditional love?)
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“I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.”
Lauren – age 4
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“When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.”
Karen – age 7
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“Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn’t think it’s gross.”
Mark – age 6
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“You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.”
Jessica – age 8 (Great advise, Jessica!)
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And the final one –
Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge.
The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.
The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman’s yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
“Nothing, I just helped him cry.”
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When there is nothing left but God, that is when you find out that God is all you need. Take 60 seconds and give this a shot! All you do is simply say the following small prayer.
Father, God bless all my friends in whatever it is that You know they may be needing this day! And may their life be full of your peace, prosperity and power as he/she seeks to have a closer relationship with you.
Amen
Comment by jj jazzy craig — February 18, 2008 #
Hey Shannon! Just thought I would drop ya a line and say I don’t think anyone can or will ever master Love..
It’s such a tricky thing. Not that it will matter but I think ya look awesome! Def way better than “decent”! I’m sure you’re gonna look HOT this summer! Anyways..have a good day! TTYL!
Comment by Vannah — February 19, 2008 #
heard on yesterday’s show that you and kellie were taking hydroxycut…..bought some for myself last night! never tried them either; we see what happens.
Comment by Sharon — February 19, 2008 #
Shanon you inspired me today, if you, as cute as you are and skinny as you are, are working on your body, then me, at 200 pounds, needs to work harder. I have no will power. It makes me unhappy, and I need to toughen up and DO IT.
Did you ever think of doing some sort of challenge with the show?
Comment by Sara Jo — February 20, 2008 #