Twinkle Twinkle Little Ship

Who says going to the islands means you're losing out on all the Christmas cheer. These twinkling lights over paradise beg to differ - - there is holiday spirit wherever you look. Spending a chunk of December in the islands isn't avoiding anything, it's a slowdown, an embrace of what's really important and a chance to let go of the things that aren't!

What are you all doing for the holidays?

I can't wait to visit the Sea Turtle Rescue center and hopefully get to hold a little baby sea turtle. They are my favorite lil guys in the world..I will probably cry when I touch one. They are so darn cute!!! I love them!! I wish I could smuggle one home.....

Thanks in advance to the Ritz Carlton - St. Thomas, Kelly Steward and the entire Ritz Carlton team for the complimentary second honeymoon!! xoxo

Honey Badger Don't Care if You Like My Show...But Here Ya Go

Honey Badger Don't Care! It Takes What It Wants!


Allright, kiddos, here it is!!! First time ever, standup comedy!!!
Huge Thanks to my friends that showed up!! I would name them but they didn't give me permission to put them in my blog. And I would also like to thank Honey Badger for getting me through another stressful time with a video view before the show. Because he doesn't give a sh*t.



PART 1


PART 2


Hope you liked it! But if you didn't, I disabled comments, so I won't know. Come on, you try that.

Happy Thanksgiving, you turkeys!

Me and my little gobblers. David participated too but *someone* had to take the pic!


Had a great night at the Comedy Zone last night , woke up super early this morning to do the 5k Turkey Trot in the SouthPark area with the whole family - did great! Everyone got medals, it really was some nice family bonding time. I totally reccommend making something like this part of your tradition. It brings you together , it's good for you physically, mentally, gives you warm fuzzies and now you have burned plenty of calories to compensate for the carb/calorie apocolypse that's going to happen later. See? Everyone's a winner!!!!

So, it's happy dance time.

Allright guys....so my jackass parade of a twitter feed and my sparkling personality (?) have earned me not just hosting privileges but I am now going to be doing an actual stand-up set instead of just bringing out the acts.

This could really go either way. I am nervous/excited!! I don't really care if I get booed or anything because there will be strategically placed thugs in the audience to prevent that. Just kidding. Not Really. Ok Really. Or DID I? Muuhahhahaa

Anyways, now I'm writing my material because this is never something I thought I'd do , like FOR REALS...I always admire people's ability to do that, but I never saw myself doing it on an actual stage. I had no problem making myself a sideshow at school or work, but that was pretty much the extent of it.

It is the night before Thanksgiving, so my guest list allotment is pretty hefty. PLEASE contact me at sdp1108@gmail.com if you would like to bring a date, family or friends. It's an all ages show (although I'd still keep them at least 18) and I need to know by Wed morning.

You'll go to 900 Seabord St. and enter through the Saloon , preferably around 730pm. Check in and you'll be guided down to will-call where your tickets will await. I will be on site so if you encounter any problems getting in, please ask for Mike the manager and he will track me down.

DS Sanders is hilarious.

This is such a neat little venue and I'm always proud to be affiliated with the NC Music Factory , as we've been working together for awhile now!!!

My formal website is www.shannondawnmedia.com if you want to see what professional Shannon is up to, but other than that, please come support me Wednesday, if not, I am in talks for a more regular relationship with the Comedy Zone.

Please email me right away so I can hold your table. Love and snuggles and probably a shot or two. BAM!!!

There is also a huuuuge party going on at the Saloon that will be in full swing after the show so feel free to knock a few back afterward before we have to all give thanks and be nice to each other tomorrow!!!

Love you ALL the way to the moon!!
-Shannon

Here Comes the Sun Little Tweeties

My Friend Jessica Says HELLO, HOT MEN!! Ok I said that. She needs to date. Let's get this ball rolling.


Good morning!! I am doing better today . Maybe everyone just needs a little time out to pout for a while. I would like to point out, however, that I didn't just sit around and pout around my house during my funk. I basically just outstretched my arms to my twitter family and recieved hugs.

Do you believe that hugs and support are medicine? I do, I believe that it is just as much medicine and sunshine and prayer can be depending on your situation and what remedy your heart desires most. To be honest, I think I just needed a little bit of a rest. And some retail therapy didn't hurt.

Monday's highlight was taking my Platinum best friend Jessica and forcing her to get into hair and makeup and we did an impromptu photoshoot at the Saloon at the NC Music Factory. You should follow them, Richard Hilyard, my friend that is the manager was all for letting us pose on his bar with Jack Daniels. @RichardHilyard @SaloonNCMF @NCMusicfactory. (what? you know networking is the key to success right? Link up, link up, and interact!)

Jessica is my assistant to my business and she is having a big of a rough time right now with her divorce. So, I pouted about myself in my heart that I felt was in an empty cold lightless fishtank later because Jessica needed some love. We did her up beautifully, then whisked her to the Saloon for some sassy pictures. I took all the pictures. I am professionally trained but I'm very lazy and not technical, so much of my skills aren't retained and I know the best photographers would criticize, but I'm proud of the pictures I took of Jessica because she really needed a pick-me-up. Then we sent them to her ex husband, which could have been a bad idea but he said the nicest thing he'd said to her in years. She looked like a super model! So big ups to that decision, right?
I will post the pics, promise, I just wanna get the writing out of the way.

Then, Tuesday, which was yesterday, ( I am not trying to sound like Rebecca Black, I just really have a hard time with my days running together when I'm out of commission) Anyways, so yesterday, we went to the mall and romped around in Belk because I heard they can fix my favorite basic black Very Prive' Christian Louboutin heels. They are my absolute favorite shoes besides my Uggs. I will discuss those later as well.

Anyway we got to Belk and they said they have seen worse and that they can fix them for like barely any dollars. And then we met these awesome salesgirls and I was so excited that people were being nice to me after that damn pain in the ass hairdresser phantom commenter guy who ruined my parade that I was like on a high.

You will not believe what I did at Victoria's Secret. I think I blogged about this once. Anyway, I was buying Jessica some bras because she is single and she needs to feel sexy and Vickie's is the best way to do it. No more Target bras, dude. You need to treat those puppies like gold since that's all these damn men seem to check out first anyway. Not saying that's a great thing but it's just nature. So the saleslady mentions to me , because I'm in their store all the time, that they got new seamless panties. Like they are made out of some kind of space age material that are silky and they hold you in at the same time. Well actually one day I put my underwear on backwards and then left it that way because it worked better. They are essentially cut like hip huggers or granny panties, but if you wear them backwards, the high part lifts up your butt cheeks SO high and what is supposed to be the front part flattens your stomach better than spanx and keeps it seamelessly and totally in check. So I demonstrated and they said "Holy Shit that's amazing" So either they placated me and made fun of me in the break room or Victoria's Secret is going to unveil a new line of ass lifting underwear that is going to start a revolution and I won't see a dime of it.

I'm telling you, girls, try it. I would post a picture of before and after but that violates an ethics clause that my husband and I have in place about body parts on my blog. But I'm telling you. Go buy the seamless hip hugger panties and put them on backward. You'll thank me for it.

So then after that Jessica was in a hurry to get to her kids' performance and didn't have time to clean up so I yanked one of my 9302493280 dresses from my closet and made her glammed up in less than 20 minutes. And that includes a mini photo shoot , the pics of which I will include.

So after she left, I was lonely and felt sad again and griped on twitter and wondered if the angry anonymous blog pisser onner got his flowers and chocolate yet. I have recieved no thank you yet. I bet he smashed them. Seriously, who could punch a sunflower in the face?

I woke up happy because it was raining and that means I could wear my brand new hunter wellies boots today and I even have the changeable fold over socks to wear with them too!!! Today I felt saucy so I wore the leopard print socks and this awesome 60's Jackie Kennedy cape-style coat that I got yesterday that has a big bow with my leather driving gloves (that also have a bow) AND my pearls because I wanted to be fancy and because because David wanted a ride to work. I was driving on the way back and I noticed a lady wearing a lime green and pink rain jacket with matching Wellies too and I wondered if the rain made her day too!! It's so much fun to be a girl!!!

Here are Jessica's pics!

here's another two from the Saloon!

and then here are some from her RED day

PS, her divorce finalizes soon and it dragged on a while so BOYS SHES SINGLE. You must have a job. Must like kids (she has 3 under 11). Must be able to afford to take her to dinner, and no damn drama. And if I dont like you, you're out of luck. :)

Anyways, hope you liked the lovely shoot I had with Jessica which brightened both of our spirits. And if you have a hateful comment to post, just know that I have cop friends that work in technicological stuff that can pull IP addresses from the comments and match them to computers.Because NC just passed a law about online harrassment! TADA!! Anywhoo have a great day! I LOVE YOU!!

I'm so excited I'm going to pop.

I'm going to preface this by telling you all that I get excited over little things. I mean, I really do. I'm so cheesy, I cost extra at the drive thru. Haha, was that funny? I thought it was. I just made that up. BAM.

For example, if someone is nice to me at a restaurant or in the service industry, especially airline, I will write a letter about how nice they were because it makes me so happy that there are nice people left. Everyone wants to complain nowadays. I mean I complain alot too but I try to be sweet.

That gets me stepped on often and I already know I'm weird so I'm aware of all that.

That being said, I have had great news this week professionally.

I know it's really hard to incorporate professional with this blog, but it's a complete seperate thing sort of.

So, I got this job contributing at this awesome really popular magazine, and my first interview went great!! It goes to print in the next issue and I get to go to a issue launch party which I have heard are very elaborate and exciting and fun. YAY!!

Also, I covered my first event for that magazine's online version and that should show up soon. My editor, the main editor told me that she needed her best writers to cover Fashion's Night Out at the Metropolitain and then she asked me. OMG best and me in the same sentence. That was so great!! Plus, the coordinator Effie is my sweet, sweetest pal and I love her so much I can't wait to do it. I'm so proud of her.

I'm proud of me too! I just got assigned to interview my favorite blogger, Brittney Cason, for a feature. She's taking over the morning spot on a local station and I think she's great. I have read her blogs for years.
I also relate to her so I'm all thrilled to do this professionally and personally. I swear that girl probably is going to think she's gonna need security because I was so excited to meet her when Breeze from the same station introduced us at Maroon 5.

Let me back it up. I cried when I saw Van Gogh's Starry Night. It inspired me. I loved that painting my whole life. When I finally "met" it I cried. I cried on the elevator ride up to the impressionist wing at the museum. I mean not like boo hoo ing but SO excited it leaked out my eyes.

I also cry at the end of every movie where the love story works out. I was inspired that love and soul mates and sweet nothings existed even though they really didn't before, so when they work out on screen , I feel excited and inspired and I finally found that in someone else and I married him. I cried SO SO hard and ran up the aisle. I could barely talk. It was horrible/awesome. I'll post a video.


I am inspired by my kids, when they dress up and look older and bigger and are going to dances. They're my stepkids. But they're my kids. They inspire me every day. I cried when Natalie went to her bat mitzvah. She looked so big and grown up!!

So, things that inspire me are dear to my heart, and Brittney Cason has made me laugh even when I was having a shitty day and a shitty personal life when nothing else seemed funny!! So yes, I'm excited in this non creepy fan way, but so thankful that she had a role in keeping that smile on my face when I went through some really hard times. I'm grateful for her and she has a career she started from blogging.

So to get this interview with this magazine with this person is a big deal to me and I am so thankful that my life is going the way I always hoped it would.

So please cross your fingers with me and hope that her management okays the interview because it's work for the magazine and it's meeting one of my favorite people.

I'm late for something now, but I just wanted to put that out there because I'm just so pleased with my life. YAY!!

Congratulations to me, moving forward, being motivated, meeting goals!!