Shaunanagins

Okayokayokay, I need a vain moment.

I’VE NEVER COLOURED MY HAIR. But when I found out that I can still donate pre-dyed hair to cancer wig organizations, I had no excuse not to make my summer look a little lighter.

Also, just finished second year University?  Yup. So down to rock the government desk job thing for the next four months.

#nosrsly

Lmao. That is all.

wowfunniestposts:

I remember when I came out of the closet and told my parents I was Chinese. They’ve never looked at me the same way ever again,

funniest blog ever

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Letters from kids to God.

This is so so precious.

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this blog is epic

(via afterthestorm)

Made a playlist of all the songs I have which are 3:14 long.

Kind of an eclectic mix, buuuut rocking out is the only way to celebrate Pi day right…or any day, for that matter.

Also, way to own the Pi-count, Disney.

This is basically how I feel about everything that happens to me, ever.

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And THAT’S why the robot apocolypse is totally gonna happen.

(via knockingondoors)

Not sure if this is happening in Canada, but this is beautiful. I know light beer can be a bit of a let-down, but this has me chickin’ out hardcore over here.

laughingsquid:

Coors Light Iced T, Iced Tea-Flavored Beer

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everyone is gay: Personal Post Phursday*

everyoneisgay:

*Hey y’all. We are switching our Your Stories and Personal Post days in light of the response from yesterday’s KONY video post.

Dannielle Says:

OH OKAY ALRIGHT OKAY YEA OKAY.

Y’all piss me off sometimes. Riddle me this:

If you have the opportunity to use your voice as a way to change…

Taken from a friend’s facebook, super well said:

I really hope that every single person who takes 30 min to watch the #Kony2012 video, takes 30 min to:

1. read something intelligent about the LRA’s impact on Central Africa
2. read critiques of this video and this form of advocacy

Start here:
Fun analysis from Wronging Rights: http://bit.ly/wl2zno
Siena Anstis looks at Invisible Children: http://bit.ly/w5B2We
Then there’s this from Securing Rights: http://bit.ly/wVe7Tq
Plus then a REAL report from ICG: http://bit.ly/xxHl25”

I know that the face of activism has changed, and I know that some very good things can come out of social media, but I’m also very very worried that people will just latch on to a cause because it’s a Facebook/Twitter trend, and won’t take the time to read more than the sexy, easy to understand film/blogpost/etc.
Many things made me very uneasy, watching this video, and it wasn’t only the images of children suffering.

So I would say “lolzomg, I’m sooooper sawry I haven’t written in awhile,” but that would be a (very annoyingly worded) lie. I’ve actually been writing a lot: Just not here. 

In January, I decided to try making a little-known password protected blog. I guess I just decided that the things I want to think about and laugh about aren’t always things I feel the need to share with the world. I don’t want to use the word private, because that’s not totally accurate. Most of what I wrote, what I write, what I will write, isn’t “private.”  To be honest, most of how I roll isn’t super private. My last “private” blog entry was about cats. The one before that was about buses.  The one before…okay, well, that one might have been reserved for a limited audience.

But you get what I’m saying, yes?

Sure, the odd thing seems fitting to broadcast on the public blog, or at least it did at one point. But was I thinking about any sort of audience when I wrote most of what is on here? Hardly. It was more the situation of having an idea, or a moment, or a joke, or a feeling…having something which wasn’t quite tangible, but which I felt I could make tangible. Sometimes I did that through emails, or journaling, or some level of creation that didn’t involve wordworking at all. Sometimes, though, I posted on here. 

And that was pretty cool. Random spurts of “HEY, this is how life looks to me at the moment,” or “HEY, this is how I’m feeling right now,” in between sarcastic .gifs and enlightening (but often forgetable) quotes. Comments on big girl shoes, on flighty definitions of home, on what I was learning, (and, more famously) on why people needed to chill the eff out. People said they liked reading them. No doubt I liked writing them.  It served a purpose, and it served that purpose for two very dynamic years.  It also kept me in touch with some friends and family, and helped me share some ideas with my second year media class.

So what’s changed? Rest assured, I still have an adventure every single day, there’s still never a dull moment.  But in 2012, my daily ramblings aren’t major discoveries, they’re nuances.  They’re comfortable adventures. They necessitate some standing background on what’s going on in my life. My funny stories are funnier when you know the characters. Plus, I dig having a platform where I feel comfortable throwing up a picture of myself with bedhead. This blog isn’t quite there yet. ;)

I’m home. I’m happy. And the private blog just works to share the details of that properly, with the people I love, in comfortable place.

…okay, so this doesn’t really need justification. It’s pretty clear why sending an uncensored update to a few close friends would be appealing, or at least occassionally more appealing than placing myself at the mercy of the public internetz.  I say occassionally, because of course there will be the odd time where big girl shoes or major ideas or stupidfunny memes come up and I will of course still Shaunanagins-ize them (methinks this should be a valid scrabble word). 

I’m just letting you know that there’s a new blog in town.  Now I’m off to go watch The Hurt Locker, hate on mornings, plan a couple impending road trips, and just generally get back to that loving life stuff I’ve been doing lately.