Martin Luther King Day

Today is a day to remember a man that impacted history and his life was taken so young.
 Malcolm X, Evers, Parks are some of the many people we know from the Civil Rights Movement from the sixties. Everyone worked hard to make the world we live in a reality then and helped pave the way for what we live in now.

Being a woman of color, I own the world I live in to those work worked hard and lost their lives fighting for the world that I live in. "I have a dream" is a speak that I look to as a pick me up. I know that today is MLK Day, but today is Civil Rights Day. I love and thank you to all of the men and women, black and white, who worked for this. Thank you for giving me the life that I have now and I am not in a school for either black or white kids, or having to ride the back of bus. Drinking out of different water fountains. My parents wouldn't be married; my life would be in black and white...

Hope everyone had a great day and thought about those who made our lives a reality



  -shannon

my late Christmas present....

as a treat to myself I bought small things after Christmas but I spent a good amount on something I have wanted for along time... and I will give you three guesses? 

• a new pair of shoes?
• new makeup?
• new dvd collection?

absolutely not... I finally bought a laptop... now I can check Facebook and blog on a regular basis...  

I gave my brother a $300 spending including shipping and by golly we saved $10...  am glad to have this laptop and didn't get a tablet yet..

 have a good day every one,

    shannon :)

2014

hey y'all

 I hope that everyone has has a great year... this year is going to be good. 
more blogging and going to add photos and keep working on another blog that my friend and I are working on called "A Night in the City" and talk more about things and other issues through the year..

this blog with be like my vlog channel but without videos, I'll take photos and things from my phone since I have the mobile app... y'all give topics you wanna chat about..


I had a good new year and ready to start off with a clean slate and stay positive.


 have a great day ;)

 shannon

had a great year & ready for the new

just wanted to say happy hope y'all have a merry Christmas and a happy and safe new year :-)

Wednesday Night

I know this is a late night post and my first in about a year almost. But many things are going through my head and I am going to explode and I need to do something.

I know that "the man upstairs" has a plan for everyone. But we all won't know ours until later in life.

Everyone have hurdles and jumps and handles it differently. 

How come it still hurts to get up?

I am a young woman that is going to be twenty years old and still has pain from 

over 10 years ago and still going strong about it.

Pressures from work and to find a new one,

trying to find a good insurance plan,

looking for health insurance,

and trying to get over people that you truly care about;

how can you make it all just wash away?

Just pick up and go away?

Forget is all ever happened and live with the guilt?

Live with the agony that will get you in a dark place?

I have the experience of being in that dark place,

and it is no fun to be in.

I have been stuck in this rut for years and 

it has become my home and I haven't left it.

I am the cool collected person in the corner

when I just wanna cry and have someone

in my corner to be there.

I had that and now I don't.

Will I ever have that feeling again?

There is this old Irish tradition of the Claddagh ring,

I wear mine with the heart facing out, meaning that no one has my heart.

But if someone has my heart, I will have the heart facing my body.

And I currently wear my ring on my right ring finger.

You can also use it as an engagement/wedding ring too.

I used to wear my ring like i was in a relationship because I was;

I was in one with myself.

Living with Hard of Hearing..

When I was a little girl, everything was great.. I was loving, cute, kind, and thought everyone could hear. As I grew up, I started to see that my father has things in his ears.. I thought that they were ear plugs; well, they are but there are not!!! They were hearing aids. I didn't know what they were and why he had them. As I got older, realizing that my dad was deaf and once he took the aids out, can't hear anything until he puts them back in. So screaming at him to hear was fun. Hearing aids aren't covered by insurance and cost a lot of money. My da's cost $2,500 each ear; that's $5,000!!! but I would rather have my da being able to hear and understand what others are saying.

The new abcfamily drama Switched at Birth made me think that I grew up with deaf and but in a different situation. When I see deaf people I feel sympathy and know what it is like to live in two different worlds. Living with a deaf parent and a hearing parent is strange. My dad only has one working hearing aid since they do cost a lot of money; and that is money that we don't have at the moment. I look at people that have hearing and look at the deaf and think that I have to live with both. It is difficult. I have to watch how high the volume is and make sure that things are good. When I hear the hearing aid buzzing that means my da is sleeping or napping. When it is late at night, that means its time for bed. He gets up and goes to bed. 

Having to deal with the hearing impaired does't help in public places like eating out and going somewhere. You can only talk to the left ear since that has the hearing aid. Having to talk for a man that can but can't really hear what the other person is saying.
 All I am saying is that people have to make sure other can hear and help those that need it. Making things easy for people that do not understand is a help and as is having Braille for those who are blind. My aunt is blind and my da is legally blind without is glasses. Having things simple is a way of caring and knowing they can communicate with others!

- Shannon