Remember the City of New Orleans.

Hi everyone, it has been a long and healthy summer for myself and my family. I hope that you all have been as well also. I wanted to come to you tonight to ask everyone to say a prayer or send up a thought or whatever it is that you do in a situation as this. Tonite I have been sitting here in tears -once again- for the city that was devistated in such a HUGE way this day last year. A city- that even though I was raised my entire life 1 hour away- I still feel is such a part of me and who I am. And what it means to be from Louisiana. There wasn't a time when I can not remember going down to New Orleans. Be it for shopping, the Mardi Gras, Christmas, or just to spend the day at the flea market and Jackson Square- drinking cafe' au le and having begnits at the Cafe Du Monde outside. All around you there was life and this energy- that same life and energy that has been the rythm to this city since the first people came here and brought with them this certin magic that was New Orleans.
I am sad to say that the place that I spent so many happy days with my family at the Zoo and in that square just enjoying those sites when I was a child, then many nights out on the town when I was older with my buddies- will not be there for my baby daughter to see and experience. It makes me cry just to think of this as I type. I wanted to share that with her..we are sorta displaced here-she and I- with my family beign back there, I suppose that I always took for granted that the things that were such a part of my life would always be there for her to see someday too. I know that the city will be built back..but what will it be like? The blood that grew that city and fed that city, all the great chefs and musicial genusis and artistic talents- they are not there...the elders that were, in my opinion, the reason that city was what it had become- so diverse in culture and so rich in its mix of faces and races and families- are gone now. How can you repair such a historical place when the history is gone? Is has been moved away, sent away, no means to come back and many with nothing to come back to. I Still ache when I see the footage and hurt even still more, that I was here in my overly dry west coast with no way to help..other then to cry along with the rest of the world. I felt so helpless..if I hadn't been a new mother, I would have been there- helping in some way...I think that unless you lived there or it was part of your life, then it is hard to imagine how strange it is to think of it being compleatly different than how you always knew it to be.
New Orleans will be there, but as far as I am concerned it is only now a shell of a city that I am proud to have been part of, lived in and around, and gotten to experience in my life as the way it always had been. Keep us in mind and thank you for caring. ~ Shann

Gotta Write a blog....

And I have no idea what to write about...I have been sitting here looking at all the sites that I go to daily for my gossip, and I continue to see things about Britany Spears. I have come to the conclussion that either she has to be the worlds most blatently dumb young mother, or she is really not all that bad, and we just keep on seeing the screw ups and near death experiences for her little boy. It is so sad that with all her money and whatnot, she cannot just get help..I know she has nannies, but maybe she just needs someone at all times..Where is her mother in all of these mishaps? Or better yet- that idiot dole of a father K-fed (lord help us all if he continues to procreate) The world will be overraught with armies of tank top wearing, bad hip-hop singing half-thug wanna be's. And the girls will all never match their clothes, nor wear shoes, but will always have the latest in funky blonde dreaded up hair extensions..And flip-flops. Lord help us all. And someone help this girl pull it together- is used to be fun to talk shit about her, now it is really just sad.

Someone sent this to me and it made me smile...

So, here it is to make you smile....

Tequila and Salt...

This should probably be taped to your bathroom mirror where one could read it every day. You may not realize it, but it's 100% true.

1. There are at least two people in this world that you would die for.

2. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.

3. The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you.

4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you.

5. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.

6. You mean the world to someone.

7. You are special and unique.

8. Someone that you don't even know exists loves you.

9. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.

10. When you think the world has turned its back on you take another look.

11. Always remember the compliments you received. Forget about the rude remarks.

So............If you are a loving friend, send this to everyone, including the one that sent it to you. If you get it back, then they really do love you.
And always remember....when life hands you Lemons, ask for tequila and salt and call me over! !!!

Just something I think is super interesting....

WASHINGTON - Call it a coincidental sign of our digital times or a reason to stay up late and stare at the clock. Either way, early Wednesday morning the time and date will be 01-02-03-04-05-06.
At 1:02 a.m. and three seconds on Wednesday, April 5, 2006, it will be the first hour of the day, the second minute of the hour, the third second of that precious minute in the fourth month and the fifth day of ... uh oh. It's not really the sixth year.
It's actually 2006 — only in our shorthand is it '06.
"It just happens to be a chronological oddity," said Geoff Chester, spokesman for the U.S. Naval Observatory, an official world atomic clock timekeeper. "If you were to use the full year, that would screw things up completely. You do have to bend it a little if you want to make it work. That's what you call 'Finagle's Law of Best Fit'."
Even numerologists, such as Rob Ragozzine, who runs the SimplyNumbers.com web site, dismiss the 1-2-3-4-5-6 moment as merely "a neat coincidence" because of that pesky 2006 thing.
"People are interested in numbers," said Jack Horkheimer, 67-year-old host of the Star Gazer public television show and executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. "Would I stay up all night waiting for it? Ten years ago, I would have had a party. Now, I will probably be deep in the arms of sleep."
There are less bleary-eyed alternatives. There's 1:02 p.m., but Horkheimer said that's really 13:02 p.m. and doesn't really count.
Chester recommends celebrating universal time, the standard scientific time, which is four hours ahead of eastern daylight time. So 01-02-03-04-05-06 can be celebrated at 9:02 p.m. EDT by calling up the U.S. Naval Observatory's "master clock" then and waiting for the universal time pronouncement, he said. That number is 202-762-1401.
The clock is also on the web at: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what1.html.

Hi everyone after so long we are back and better then ever! J has done such an amazing job on the rebulid of the site and we have together added so many new features (like this Blog) that I think that you will have fun here and will be seeing me around much more. There have been many changes this past year while I was away..I have had a baby, and she is the light in my eye and my entire reason for being here- now I know. Mommyhood has been great so far, but I am ready to shoot and work and just get back out there. So, although the pics will not be like they always were, and they wont be as many as before, I will be putting them up whenever the mood strikes me. SO come on in, leave me a message, check out the new site and keep your eyes open for our LIVE CHAT schedule. Love Alwyas, Shannon