Shannon Moreno

"Right now I’d like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I’d..."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:08:23 -0700

““Right now I’d like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by...

smile friday

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:38:18 -0700

smile friday

"I never want to see you unhappy I thought you’d want the same for me"

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:46:17 -0700

“I never want to see you unhappy I thought you’d want the same for me” - Almost Lover, A...

My Best Trip to King Soopers Ever...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:34:13 -0700

For those who don’t know, King Soopers is the local grocery store in Colorado, a lot like...

Let’s go back to that, being completely, unapologetically,...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:38:58 -0600

Let’s go back to that, being completely, unapologetically, in love.

Fuck cancer, for real.

laydownyourburdens: herestothefuture: constantwanderlust:shewas...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:46:11 -0600

laydownyourburdens:

herestothefuture:

constantwanderlust:shewasdisarming:synecdocheforsuccess: maeby:planetearthisblue: itsratherbipolar:

And Shepherds we shall be
For thee, my Lord, for thee.

LOL

Amazing.

SHUUUUUUUUUUUUT UP! This is rad!

cameronchristopher: johnnyfive: sillylilly: twiddledee: Chels...

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:16:14 -0600

cameronchristopher:

johnnyfive:

sillylilly:

twiddledee:

Chelsea Handler.

ok WHAT. Have you seen her show lately? Other than her guests NEVER being funny, something has been seriously wrong with her hair and makeup. She’s been looking creepy.

Chelsea has really lost her touch. When you’re the least funny person at your round table it’s time to step up your game. I still like watching because usually the comedians at her round table are hysterically, I will watch Guy and Ross no matter what show they are on, but I’d agree that she’s kind of losing it in terms of comedy and looks. She’s been looking all kinds of rough lately.

Also, this picture is soooooooo photoshopped.

cameronchristopher: Pumpkin cookies (almost cake-like) with...

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:12:37 -0600

cameronchristopher:

Pumpkin cookies (almost cake-like) with cream cheese frosting.

OHMYGOD I LOVE BAKING

You always make the coolest stuff! Teach me your ways!

Recipe for the Pumpkin Cookies

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:06:28 -0600

cameronchristopher: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies (adapted from allrecipies) yields 16 large...

SEE!

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:43:49 -0600

SEE!

juliaallison: Caroline, Maya and my nails - purple’s the...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:42:53 -0600

juliaallison:

Caroline, Maya and my nails - purple’s the trend.

Julia Allison says purple is the trend…I agree.

juliaallison: Okay, so after discovering OnceWed, I couldn’t...

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:48:38 -0600

juliaallison:

Okay, so after discovering OnceWed, I couldn’t help myself from spending at least 20 minutes (FINE! FINE! It was 35!) looking at their archive of real-life weddings … and I stumbled across this: Halli & Adam, the hipster marrieds.

Aww, guys. I sort of want to hate you, because … you know … you totally abide by every hipster-getting-hitched guideline: ironic facial hair, check! ironic glasses, check! ironic short wedding dress with bloomers, check! ironic vest, check! ironic wedding photos taken on an ironic old truck, check!. But damn if you don’t look adorable anyway.

That’s just love. HIPSTER STYLE.

Damn you Julia Allison!!!! I will never accomplish anything again. This might be worse than Facebook.

Late Night Chats With Dano

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:47:43 -0600

Dan: That's why I quit living for others. Me: I wish I could. I keep thinking that what I give is...

Brand New Eyes

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:58:46 -0600

“Ignorance”- Paramore If I’m a bad person, you don’t like me Well I guess...

mikescancer: My Preemptive attack on the loss of my...

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:55:30 -0600

mikescancer:

My Preemptive attack on the loss of my hair!

“Baby I don’t care, I ain’t in love with your hair

If it all fell out, well I’d love you anyways…”

Mike shaved his head so it would make it easier when it starts falling out. Maybe some people notice his shaved head in place of his much loved locks, but I can’t get past his smile and those beautiful brown eyes. In his defense, those brown eyes can distract me from anything. He looks different, but I still love him exactly the same.

“cuz I’m gonna love you forever and ever, forever and ever amen”

P.S. It’s Randy Travis lyrics, it’s a sweet song, so if you don’t like it…sue me!

This is a tweet Julia Allison posted about 6 days ago, I replied...

Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:20:03 -0600

This is a tweet Julia Allison posted about 6 days ago, I replied to her in 140 characters or less, but there’s so much more to that…so:

My Greatest Adventure

My greatest adventure started in early Summer of 2008, I was so down and out; I hated the job I had, the person I was, and everything surrounding me. I needed an out, and that came in the form of a road trip to San Francisco with my friend Katie. We left late one night and drove through Northern Colorado and Wyoming in the absolute dead of night. There was no one on the road, just us, and the stars. I remember looking through the sun roof and thinking this is so cheesy, but perfect. I took the wheel when we crossed into Utah and I will never forget driving through the mountains and watching the sun rise, it was so colorful. We ate breakfast and Utah, and almost got lost. Then we drove through Nevada, into Reno, and experienced Reno and all its…well…its…ummm…glory? After a few days in Nevada we were off to San Fran. I hadn’t been back to San Francisco since I was maybe 5, but I spent my early years in California and I was excited to go back to some of my childhood memories. San Francisco had its charms: the ocean view, wonderful people, and abundance of activities to get lost in. Its downfalls? it was 60 degrees in June, so after a few days we made our way to LA, where the sun shines, but its hard to see through all the smog. I love LA for all the wrong reasons: it’s vain, it’s superficial, it’s absolutely ridiculous. We were there for a day, and then KT suggested we go to Tucson, Arizona. I didn’t know it then, but that was the most important question I had ever been asked.

Why Tucson?

When I was in 7th grade I lived in Aviano, Italy. It was such an amazing opportunity that my fathers profession as a military policeman in the Air Force presented to my family. I attended middle school at an American school on the base. I had all the standard classes: English, Math, Science. When it came to my electives I decided to take band (confession: I’m a flute player) and Spanish. Band was mediocre (confession: I’m not a great flute player) and Spanish was so interesting. My Spanish class had high school kids in it; at times it became overwhelming. This boy with dark hair and glasses sat behind me; we never spoke. A year later the classes ended, and I moved away. Six years later I had graduated high school and I was emerging myself in the technology my generation now knows and loves: social networking. I found that boy who sat behind me. He had grown into a gorgeous young man. He was a musician, but not like every other asshole who picks up a guitar, he was really talented. We started talking everyday. We were both broken, and lost, you know, all that crap you go through the first couple years of college. I found something in him I had been dying to find, a confidant. I told him everything, and he told me too. He helped me stand up for myself in a toxic relationship. I fell in love with him. He lived in Tucson.

So we drove to Tucson. I tried to surprise him, but failed miserably because he went to work and wasn’t at home to surprise. I’ll never forget the feeling I had from the second we crossed into Arizona state lines until the second I saw him walk through the door. Butterflies is putting it mildly. We stopped and ate breakfast before entering Tucson and I almost threw up what little I ate. It was definitely love. The problem with being in love with him is that I knew in my heart he would never love me back. Someone so perfect could never love mediocre me. I’m shy, and not, aesthetically, what I thought someone like him deserved. It was love and heartbreak all at once. It was such an awful, amazing, and confusing feeling. We finally saw each other and I couldn’t contain my smile. Words escaped me when I was around him, just being around him left me in awe. That night he had a little party in celebration of our surprise visit. That night I consumed some beverages that might not make my parents incredibly proud, but I consumed them. I don’t remember it, but that night we had our first kiss. The craziest part? HE kissed ME. He was in love with me too.

The next morning KT and I started our drive back to Colorado. I was so incredibly saddened, because leaving him, even then, tore me apart. It was a 16 hour drive home, and at about hour 12, I got a text asking if I knew that we kissed. Enter heart explosion here. For the next 4 hours I had a smile on my face that was so prominent, it hurt. Everything came out in that 4 hours, we told each other how much we had liked each other, for so long. We both had the same fears about the other not recipricating our feelings. The next week we decided to start a relationship. I’ll never forget the words:

“I would give anything to be your boyfriend”

I never wanted to have a long distance relationship. I’ve just never been that kind of girl. I ended plenty of relationships with decent guys because I just never felt like investing that much energy in to them, but a long distance relationship was my only option with Mike, and I took it. He was different, he was worth all my energy. From the second we decided to start this relationship we did it wholeheartedly. We were going to see each other at least once every month, no matter what. Mike focused me in so many aspects of my life. School and work became priorities, and I was thriving in both. Most importantly I was happy. The way Mike made me feel was absolutely unreal. I’m still not sure that kind of happiness is allowed to exist in nature, having him in my life made me feel beyond euphoric, there is no name for it, and there never will be. They say when you find the person you’re going to spend the rest of your life with, you just know. With him, I always knew. So we trampled through what we thought was the hardest year of our lives. With the happiness of having him, came the pain of being so far away. The thousand miles between Denver and Tucson are officially the longest thousand miles in the world. When he would leave me I would just sit and cry in my bed for one day, at the bare minimum. Watching him leave was like losing a piece of my heart, every time, it never got easier. He decided to move here, and in July of this year, he did.

I was so excited 2 months ago, I had my love, and we were going to start our life together. We moved in to a modest one bedroom apartment in the heart of Denver, we had our dog; we were a little family. Everything I had dreamed of was now my reality, but our reality suddenly got incredibly real. Almost immediately after moving here Mike noticed his neck was incredibly swollen. He went to the doctor, they performed a biopsy on some of his lymph nodes, and then we got earth shattering news—Mike has cancer, Hodgkins Lymphoma. At the point of diagnosis he was only stage two. This meant the cancer had spread to more than one of his lymph nodes. After a few more staging tests, we found out the cancer was in his chest, abdomen, back, pelvis and right femur. Our road has never been a smooth one, but this nearly took out the engine in the car.

We’ve been met with some resistance from some people who I thought would support us. To say this is hard is an overwhelming understatement. My boyfriend in 21 and has cancer. Most people my age are not dealing with this. There is not a day goes by that I don’t wish the tables were turned. All I want is to take his pain away, and from day one he’s been my pillar of emotional strength, and I’ve always been tolerant of physical pain. Now he’s enduring the physical pain and I have to learn to be strong emotionally, for him.

So, this is where my greatest adventure brought me. Right now I’m sad, demolished. I’m fighting the cancer, and the people who are trying to take away the most important person in my life right now, but my adventure has been one of love and I’m not about to give that up for anyone. I’ll stand behind Mike like I always have. Fate brought us back together, and nothing, I mean NOTHING is going to tear us apart. We have repeatedly shown our strength and how seriously we love each other, but that apparently hasn’t been enough since we keep getting tested. I say throw whatever you can at us, we’re solid. Nothing will ever come between us and ruin my, our adventure.

Hmph.

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:28:12 -0600

I wish I could tell someone about how furious I am still.

laydownyourburdens: (via topherchris) This is actually how I...

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:47:24 -0600

laydownyourburdens:

(via topherchris)

This is actually how I discovered Gmail was down.

Hotmail fo’ life!

Mike: I don't like it when artists have concerts with gimmicks

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:51:12 -0600

Mike: I don't like it when artists have concerts with gimmicks Me: Like My Chemical Romance? Mike:...

blankdeluxe: (via blindedwithscience) not too many people are...

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:26:06 -0600

blankdeluxe:

(via blindedwithscience)

not too many people are enjoying it these days.