Agent Shawnee

OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! I'M BLOGGING!!!!

What's up???? I haven't blogged this year yet! What the hell?! I almost forgot how to type! 

What have I been up to???? Well a lot.... 

I started a new web series called Twist!

This a series for people to discuss health and fitness without worrying about someone shoving ideals down their throat that they don't agree with. It's also about discovery and working together to become healtheir and happier people! I hope you can join in the fun! I can't wait to see what you all come up with!!! 

I have also been vlogging like a little MANIAC!!! 

This is my latest one! Meet my boyfriend Josh! He's awesome! :) 

I'm quitting my job!!!

I am quitting working at Whole Foods after five years of service with the company. I am moving on to other adventures and chasing my passion and hopefully it will lead me to much success! I'm hoping I can live my passion and the money will come later lol. Rather I'm ASSUMING the money will come later. Everyone keeps telling me that's the way to go so why not give it a chance? 

Anyway that's what's been going on lately. I'm sure there is more... watch my vlogs they tell you all kinds of stuff! 

-Shawnee

PS I will try to blog more. The written word is NOT DEAD! NOT DEAD I TELL YOU!!!

So... what has happened???

Thanksgiving happened. (Well I rescheduled it to Saturday lol) I cooked my very first turkey and I don't think it came out to well :( BUT the potatoes came out great and my pumpkin cheesecake! 

I saw the Pon Pon Pon girl at Royal/T! It was awesome! She is just as cute and awesome in real life!!

Then I went to Josh's work Xmas party the next day which was my bday!!It was old western theme and there was great food. 

This was my makeup for the party

And... this was my hair!

The day after my Birthday Josh and I went to Disney Land and we got passes! Wh00t! 

You can check out all my Disney Land pictures HERE

You can check out all my California Adventure pictures HERE

How did I take all these super awesome pictures?? Well.... I got a brand new DSLR for my birthday/xmas! Wooooooo!!! I got the Canon Rebel T3! It's pretty magical! 

Speaking of my awesome new camera I have a New Years resolution to take a photo a day! I created a new site you can find HERE! Hopefully I keep up with it lol! 

For Christmas Josh and I spent the day together and I made  a brisket and we exchanged gifts.

Our Xmas Tree and gifts :)

My Haul 

Josh's Haul

Marie's Haul (She can't wait for those treats!)

Sally's haul.

The day after xmas Josh and I headed up to my Grandma's in Wofford Heights and spent the following two days with my family. (My three cousins, my mom, her husband, my uncle, my grandma, and my cousin's daughter) My grandma made two great meals. Also my little trooper Marie did some rock climbing!!!

You can check out all my lake pictures HERE :)

♥ Shawnee

Hey guys! Long time no blog right??? I need to get on this lol! I also need to get on to keeping AppLand up to date! I'm so bad! Well I have been pretty busy! 

I moved to LA! Woooooooo!!!! No more Redondo Beach!!!! Actaully that was a bit ago but I never really blogged about it. I have  a wonderful place to live and yeah there's a pool! Wh00t! 

On Oct 21st and 22nd I went to Blizzcon for the first time! It sure was interesting and neat! The first day we went to the opening ceremony where they announced the next WoW expeansion, a Diablo 3 cinema, and some Starcraft thing. Psst I've never played Starcraft... I also hadn't played WoW in a long time but this totally got me back into it! After the opening ceremony we wandered the floor. There weren't very many booths.

There was a booth for the Guild web show. $20 to get an autograph and no pictures unless you paid the $20!!!! What a rip off!!!! Totally makes me like the brand less. The show is funny but lets exploit our popularity for money because we can't sell any goods?? Make some stuff the super fans want to buy and give an autograph with purchase don't just friggin' charge for an autograph!!! Losers. I even got in trouble for taking this picture... double losers!

We headed to the official Blizzard store where Josh got a statue for his desk at work and I got a little Windrider Cub! He's so cute!!!!!

For Halloween I made some yummy Franken Berry treats! Talk about diabetes inducing!

I also dressed up as a very creepy girl and went to Royal/T for a Halloween party.

I met lots of cool people, had my picture taken A LOT, and got to spend some time with Alexa! Super fun!!!

Long time no personal blog entry! LOL 

So... I've had black hair for a while and I got a itch to lighten it this week. I started doing it the first night and it came out so bad! Then I threw some more highlights in and toned it to a chocolate brown and I love it!!!

Before...

The first night it came out with hot roots! Ick!

My chocolate hair all finished and cute! I love it but I want to lighten it more!

On Sunday Josh and I went to Little Tokyo for the Sakura festival! It was a $1 to get in! Pricey! Hahahahaha! It was pretty small but they had like three stages of entertainment. One was Hawaiin, one was just some bands, and the other was very Anime Expoish. They even had a cosplay contest! LOL There were also lots of cute booths with adorable clothes and accessories. I didn't buy anything at the festival but there was a lot of stuff I wish I did! Heehee. We took a picture with Hello Kitty then ventured to Little Tokyo to look at shops, get boba, and eventually get dinner. The boba we got was so-so (it was no lollicup!) but the shops were definately cool! After the boba we walked around and wandered into several shops and I get a few Hello Kitty pouches to organize my purse with. I definately will go back to these shops when I  have more spending money! After looking at some shops we went to get Ramen for dinner at Orochon! It is a famous place I guess? I still rather Santouka!  After the Ramen we stopped at one more shop called Q Pop Butique! It was so adorable!

I'm a ninja!!!!

Josh, Hello Kitty and I!

Me CamWhoring LOL

The Cosplayers

Me Camwhoring!

My Outfit... after a day of sun hair fell flat and I took my necklaces off...

Milk Tea Boba!!!!

Funny Domo doll! hehehehehe

Today I haven't done much. I got a cute new purse and got Marie some toys to play with while she has to stay at home. The place I got the purse from was soooooo cute and so affordable! It's called Pink N Sage! I will give you more info about the place when I do a bag check video or blog entry!

That came out sideways! Boo! But this is my new pursee!!!

Marie with one of her new toys!!!!

It's no secret that I hate Facebook with a burning passion so please note that this blog entry biased.

So Google+ just launched and it's in beta so I know many of my readers and friends don't have it but trust me.... It's great. Hey!!! If you need an invite... You let me know. *wink wink nudge nudge*

I know we are in social network overload and people are wondering why they need another or why they should jump off the Facebook bandwagon. Well if you ask me you should jump off the Facebook ship and let it sink just like we did with Myspace. Don't get me wrong... I loved Myspace!! If they didn't let their profiles get so cluttered with apps and music I think they would be much stronger today. I just hate Facebook.

I resisted Facebook for a long time but after getting harassed about it for a while then I got addicted to pillow fight and then farmville and the app addiction proceeded until I retired. The apps were the only good part of Facebook but the posts on my profile even when I blocked them and the 500 invites a day are quite annoying. Then I started getting the emails...
If anyone messaged me, I got an email.
If someone wanted me to give them a brick for their farm, I got an email.
If someone liked my post, I got an email.
If someone commented on my post, I got an email.
If someone posted in my wall, I got an email.
If someone commented on a post I commented on, I got an email.
If someone posted on the walk of a group, I got an email.
If someone invited me to am event, I got an email.

(ok ok ok can I just make a PSA right now???? PEOPLE PLEASE STOP INVITING PEOPLE TO EVENTS IF THEY AREN'T LOCAL TO THEM
OR FAKE EVENTS!!! Seriously guys... If I get one more invite to "Hey everyone! Put your cat as your profile picture!!!" or a club opening in France or "RSVP if you like ZOMBIES!!!!" I'm going to block all future events from that person.)

...ok continuing on....

If I was tagged in a photo, I got an email.
If I commented on a fan page post and 500 people also commented, I got 500 emails.
And so on....
Ok....
Ready for the real kicker???
I DIDN'T HAVE ANY EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS TURNED ON!!!!!!!
Bah ok.... Deep breathes.... It's going to be ok Shawnee.... Google created G+!

Now let me tell you what is awesome about G+....

Lots of people are super excited about the hangouts and Angry Birds but I'm totally excited about something else... CIRCLES! It's so easy to organize my friends and change permissions per individual post. I didn't realize how important this was until recently. I've been working on a project I don't want everyone and their mom on my Facebook and Twitter to see until it's done but I can't resist sharing because well.... I'm a self absorbed social networking addict! So I have been making posts about it for just one circle so I can get some feedback without throwing the whole thing out there for the world to see. You can also make posts unsharable. The privacy is really awesome and easy to use and well right out there to use from the beginning unlike Facebook who makes you dig for it and when you don't find it you have to do the tedious task of making lists and most of the other options don't work... Erm ehm *cough cough*email notifications*cough cough*

I also have to admit having a fresh start is really nice. Don't get me wrong, I love connecting with as much people via social networks as possible but other social networks have been so unorganized. With G+ I can see a certain circle's stream or look at everyone sharing with me or see all my circles together. It's not one sided like Twitter (I still love Twitter don't get me wrong!)

G+ is very streamlined. I feel like Facebook is constantly adding USELESS features! Messaging and email combined? I like Facebook messenger but I never know if I will be instantly chatting with someone or if it's going to be a week until they get back to me. And Skype? I use Skype to Skype why am I going to go out of my way to go on Facebook to Skype plus I don't want to have 700 people to be on my Skype contacts list. I actually work when I'm on a computer and rarely want to video chat. They also choose my friends for me. With G+ I can view each circle's stream and not miss my friends posts.

I could go on but I'm going to stop now... Lullz

Shawnee