about me

in the new year, we might as well get to know each other...

i was born in New Jersey, USA. that is on the east coast and I have moved to two different towns and around the same block with in 3 years...

so from the beginning:
my name is Shannon Rae McCloskey. I was born on Valentine's Day (February 14) 1994 in NJ. I am the oldest of two. I have a younger brother named Sean. He was born on March 12 the following year in Denville. We lived in a one bedroom with our parents until I was about 18mos. old and then moved to my childhood home in Roxbury.

new hair color, going to dye it darker!
my makeup post will me on this
blog and my other blog. A Night in the City;
please check it out. my friend
and I just started it.

I went through the Roxbury school system from kindergarten; this is where I met some great people. And I had some great teachers that I still remember to this day. Kindergarten was probably was the best because we switched classes everyday with the other teacher. My teacher was very musical(one of many reasons I went in music later in my school career); he made everyone laugh, then we would go across the hall to the other classroom and that teacher would teach us things that she taught hers. Then before you know it, hear is high school; we called it a prison because there is no windows, NO WINDOWS to see the outside world. You only saw daylight is if you took gym, during lunch, band class, or if you were lucky to have a class in either E or P halls. I enjoyed my freshman and senior years the most. I had amazing teachers through out my four year at RHS but I some are more cool then the rest. When graduation came, I was not so sad to not have to walk the hallowed halls of my now alma mater. I miss going to band and taking all the history classes I could; and seeing the teachers that made it possible for me to graduate.

Now a days, I spend my time writing and working. I have been working in a pediatric doctors office since my junior year on high school(started in 2010). It is a good job while your in high school since I'd go after school. I also still volunteer at the public library. I have been there for almost ten years and love it. I have met some amazing children along the way; they are all now in elementary school and their parents/grandparent(s)/care-taker have become friends through story time. I have come a long way from book jacketing books and shelving. Now, I help run story time and other programs throughout the year. This year will make my tenth and final year. I have taught many others and made friends within the employees at the library. All the memories will be and I will tell in a future a blog closer to my final Friday.

As the year goes on, I will share my daily events on days, recipes, makeup looks... On occasion, I might write a blog in German from time to time; I can speak... please leave any questions and talk to you soon

  -shannon :)
  

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.