Monday, 31 August 2009
Tis rather amazing that we now have 15 followers!!!!! That, to me is just so great! Not only that but they are two new followers whom I love dearly!!! (And LovelyLPT... I am sorry you don't have and Aunt Weezie. What a shame! Maybe you could pray for one??)
Anyway.
If someone were to ask me what I liked most about church last night, without a moments hesitation, I would tell you straight up: it was prayer. I didn't even get to pray by myself for a very long time. Only two songs. But when we got in a big circle at the end, Nate asked me to pray. And that was just so so awesome. I have always wanted to do that. And I was able to last night. I was so happy.
And I will not lie, I cried. It was my fourth time. Leah witnesses it. As the words trickled from my mouth, tears broke free as well, and there was really that spirit of breaking. It wasn't one of those "broken hearts breaking" feelings. It was a "God's taking it all away" feeling.
Blurb for the day.
- There's this thing called DKWW. No it does not mean Donkey Kong Wittle Warriors. (though that would be quite cool.) It means Don't Know What to Wear (catchy right?) and it's this silly thing that hits me EVERY STINKING MORNING! So I'm standing in front of my closet door that leads to Wonderland (by the way) shouting at Morgan to give me an idea of what to wear. (She usually shouts back that I need to figure it out myself.)
- I've been thinking about how my crying-ness has really been itching to climb. Quite the leaky faucet, I've become.
- Speaking of leaky faucets, Morgan and I's faucet was dripping when I came home and I pretty much lost it. Why? Because that's an insane waste of water if you didn't know, and I'm gong going green
- Actually, not really.
- I am probably the worst green person you will ever see.
- Probably because I'm not green.
- That. Was a joke!
- Oh you faithful readers, sometimes, I say.
- I think that the world would be a better place if we all smiled more. (my sister wakes up smiling, no joke...) Maybe if we all graffitied our smiles on peoples hearts, people might feel more wanted. Maybe?
- Like Pastor Aaron always says: "There are so many hurting and broken people out there who are looking for acceptance and love from somewhere else. But they won't find it. There is only one thing that can bring joy, and that's Jesus!"
- And I believe every word he says in that! And if we have Jesus in us, if we carry him around (like Kylie with her paper Jesus) we should have a share in spreading that joy!
- Enough said.
A&A
Sunday, 30 August 2009
So here I am choking and gagging on my gum, and I came up with this genius idea. I will do the blog backwards. No, I'm not going to type everything backwards... I have a life, you know? BUT instead of doing my whole "deep" paragraph thing first, I'm going to do the Pearls Of Wisdom! Way to switch it up yah?
- So, yesterday I went to Emma's house. I don't mean to gloat or shove the cake in your faces, but I really loved it! So, we first did this thing where we took frozen shirts (yes people, you heard me) and the goal was to thaw the shirt out and put it on.
- I was with Danielle and this is sort of how the rest of the game went:
SYD: *grabs the shirt and holds it to chest* Danielle! Hug me! *Danielle comes and gives me a giant hug and we start spinning in circles. Our shirts start to get REALLY wet.*
DANIELLE: Quick pull it apart!
SYD: OW! I think I broke a nail
DANIELLE: Don't be a baby!
EMMA: OH MY GOSH WE GOT SOME OF IT! *look of horror crosses every one's face* DANIELLE: Sydney! Keep hugging me!!!!
- OK, time for narrator to interrupt here... I'm not a very huggy person, so this was, to say the least... interesting.
- In the end, Danielle and I lost and our shirts and jeans were impossibly wet.
- But it was fun.
- AND we fulfilled Emma's life-long dream of receiving an Edible Arrangement... it was the most amazing thing to watch her face when she saw the arrangement. Honestly, I could have cried. Definitely a Hallmark moment.
- In fact, I'm waiting for Ruthie to post the pictures on facebook because she has the best on AND she got the whole fiasco on film.
- Can I also let you faithful readers know that my brother really likes this special popcorn that smells like throw up.
- He just popped some.
- I think my lunch is trying for freedom.
- Anyway.
- Last night we also did this makeup thing where you have teams of two and one of the people is blindfolded and they're doing the other persons makeup. I think I did pretty good on Ruthie, except for the fact that her eyeshadow didn't match and her blush was a little over the top and her lip stick made it look like she had a wee bit of a bloody nose.
- Other than that.
- It was better than what she did to my face! Every time she would come towards me with a brush or tube she would start moving it up and down so it got everywhere.
- Nonetheless, we all matched and we were all stunning.
- Sorta.
- Depends on who you are.
- I doubt Freddie Highmore would want to meet me in that state.
- No, he probably wouldn't want to meet me period... but you know? That's the beauty of a star crush... you have no idea what they think.
- Enough said.
Trip, Ace & Demo
~A&A
Saturday, 29 August 2009
Have you ever seen those little flies, that just lay in your window sill, dead?
I know you all have. They are just there. In a little wad like they were meant to be there.
I have always wondered how those little guys just die and end up in the window.
They're just cruising along.. then BAM! No more cruising.
I guess it's a weird thing to think, even a little out there.
But it sort of also shows how anything that we are doing can end in a second. Cherish every moment.
Blurb for the day.
- So, I feel really awful that I haven't been on in two days. TWO!!! And I'm in the middle of civilization too! It was because I have been so, so busy these past two days. I know that's not an excuse... still...
- Last night was awesome! We went to this Grand Opening and I hung out with Ruthie and her sister, and we saw a few people I haven't seen in a while. It was really cool.
- And we watched BACK TO THE FUTURE... I love those movies...
- I am re-reading THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES.
- This is because I watched the movie two days in a row and I was re-inspired!
- I'm also reading the CHRONICLES OF NARNIA (my favorites are the first, sixth and seventh... probably the seventh...)
- And can I just say that Freddie Highmore is stunning in SPIDERWICK?!?! Oh. my. gosh.
- Freddie Highmore on the brain.
- Anyway.
- I think that Emma hasn't realized her full potential. She is an AMAZING runner, AND AN AMAZING POET! I can't write poetry. There you go. Another reason why we- as twins- need each other. I can't write poetry, she needs only a little work on stories... they go hand in hand!
- So, I'm pretty much the "useless" twin shall we say because all I need to do is give her a couple pointers on writing fiction and she'll take off.
- Tis a sad thing.
- We found out how to beautify our blog, so by the time You Faithful Readers get to read this, it should be about gorgeous... what do you think? Questions? Comments? Call this number...
- That was a joke.
- Ha.
- Ha.
- I have to be totally honest, the the book 1 Peter astounds me. I have been slowly reading it, savoring ever bite, and it never ceases to amaze me how deep it is. How informative.
- Today we have something really special planned for Emma, but I'm not allowed to reveal what it is... tomorrow... tomorrow...
- Enough said.
~A&A
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Just me and that old dirt path,
The ground pounding
Beneath those old wore out running shoes that I love so much,
Trees whipping by because I’m going so fast
I’m sure no one else can see me,
Legs striding out as far as they go,
People walking by, talking…
But I don’t hear them
All I hear, is the beating of my heart,
So loud, so strong,
Just like me…
Because I am a runner
If flying is so safe, why is the airport called a terminal?
QUOTE:
"A hug is like a boomerang, you get it right back."
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
- I think today should be forever known as "Momentous Occasion Day"... technically it's "Heroes Day" and a handful of people's birthdays.
- The reason today should be crowned "Momentous Occasion Day" is because today, Emma wore a dress. I guess it's not that big of a deal because she's worn dresses before... but today it was extra special.
- WE HAVE 13 FOLLOWERS!!! Somebody do a dance...
- AND today (so far...) I have gone the entire day without a piece of gum!!!
- I am SO proud of myself... I feel like I could do anything!!And I have to be perfectly honest with you faithful blog-readers... I actually started writing this post yesterday while waiting for my audition... however I was never actually able to finish it...
- Yesterday I was supposed to let everyone know that I was sitting next to Grace and Danielle while I was writing it. Actually, I'm sitting next to Ruthie... but back THEN I was sitting next to Grace and Danielle!
- That's kind of a weird thing to think... that about this time yesterday I was doing the same thing. That happened. It's in the past.
- Wow.
- I still have big dreams to make our blog beautiful... they are still in the market. I have tried and tried. Nope. Nada. Zilch.
- Oh well. You know what they say: "If at first you don't succeed try, try again."
- I'll be spending at least half my life trying.
- But you learn from trying don't you?
- Like Thomas Edison once said when they asked him about how many times he failed to make a light bulb: "I didn't fail. I found out 132 ways how not to make a light bulb."
- So there you go. You never really fail! Now there's some fortune cookie junk I can live with.
Trip, Ace & Demo,
~A&A
Monday, 24 August 2009
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket -- safe, dark, motionless, airless -- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."
~C.S. Lewis
I actually think this is a pretty amazing title. I thought of it by digging through my well of deep-thoughts, that wasn't nearly as full as it should have been.
Still.
I think I've been having more serious posts lately. Of course, I still have my usual Pearls O Wisdom... but they're not... deep?
I think that yesterday was the most amazing and life-changing church service I have ever had. And I don't say this lightly.
Yet the thing that really broke me apart, that really made me think deeper, was when Pastor Aaron was prophesying over people. I have no clue why, but as I watched those people receive something that was everlasting, something that went deeper than deep, it really grabbed my heart. At that moment it felt like someone had grabbed my paper heart, and ripped it apart into tiny little pieces that fluttered one by one to the ground.
That's what it felt like. So I stood there, feeling my heart be ripped apart, and I was choking us, sniffling, fighting emotion that I had never felt before.
But I didn't cry.
Because as I stared at my construction paper heart in a pile on the floor, I also saw God kneeling down and piecing it back together... and that entire time he was telling me in a still small voice: "Every single word uttered is yours too."
God is my key to my heart. It's locked, guarded, almost impossible to break in or out of. It's chained and held down daring someone or something to break the chains and hurt it. But God fights his way past those guards, and he opens it, with his key.
I don't think people realize it but it only takes one key to set a prisoner free....
Then the lock runs away with the key...
Trip, Ace & Demo,
~A&A
Sunday, 23 August 2009
I don't wanna look like someone else/ I don't wanna live like someone else
2 comments Posted by A+A at 12:42 pm- My little brothers are newly obsessed with Guitar Hero no thanks to Ryan...
- No joke. They were all argueing last night at the dinner table about how good they are.
- 85% is not good.
- I hope they realize Guitar Hero was invented to make people who couldn't play an instrument to save their life feel good about their selves. Oh Video Game Inventors.
- Last night I was dreaming about my scarf...? Then Morgan woke me up at the crack of dawn (ok, I don't know if it was the crack of dawn or not... I don't have a window... I'm just guessing.) Anyway. So when I finally fell asleep again, I'm guessing an hour later, I started dreaming about the book I'm going to start writing after I finish writing READ THIS BOOK BACKWARDS.
- Which by the way, faithful readers, I only have about 1/3 left to write for READ THIS BOOK BACKWARDS.
- An accomplishment, if you ask me.
- Ok, it's not an accomplishment if you're an already published author. But still.
- And this is for my fridentical twin (what does that mean... freaking identical?) I would LOVE to do homework with you on that off hour!!! OF COURSE LOCKER PARTNER!!!
- For those of you who don't know... my locker partner that I was supposed to have is void. So I asked the administration office if I could know who my partner was and the lady was like:
"I'm sorry, I can't tell you that information. It's private."
- I mean, really?? I'm allowed to share a locker with somebody I don't even know and trust them with everything I put in there, but I'm not allowed to know their name? Yeah.. that's great philosophy.
- Moving on.
- I'm actually pretty proud of htis post... it's not that long!
- Comments (and followers... MORE FOLLOWERS!!) are always, always appreciated!
- Enough said.
Trip, Ace & Demo,
~Yours Truly
Saturday, 22 August 2009
Today, we then went out shopping and I got a few new things! (I was, as a matter of fact, rather excited because I think the objects I got were adorable. But you'll just have to see them when I wear them!)
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Because God can tear it down. With one look, one word it can come crumbling down.
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
- The skinny jeans I was able to wear today are just so darn cute!! I just think my outfit was lovely... yes, I am finally for the first time taking time to gloat on the blog.
- Don't get used to it.
- I think that getting back into the swing of things, and getting re-hooked with the education environment has opened my eyes a little. Like, since this summer I have really been handing God my life. And going back to school made me want to lick my lips and go back. Like when you get salt water on your lips, you know you just want to lick it, just one tiny taste, but you know, you just know, you shouldn't.
- That's what it's like for me.
- But you know what? I can do this. I need God more than I need that salt water, so to speak. So now, I think I'm going to read my bible every morning instead of night to prepare me. To help me put up my shield. I know there's more out there... that doesn't involve going in head first....
- And high school boys? I just have to say... over the summer they all grew up... in a lot of ways... just saying. Just. Saying.
- My cousin, Tommie Hill, who was recently drafted for the New York Giants, played his first game last night. Not only that... BUT HE WON THE GAME!!! In the last ten seconds he made a touchdown! It was just so awesome!!! And if you would like, I posted the link to see the play below! He's number 63 (the one who got the touchdown) Ironic. I know.
http://www.giants.com/news/headlines/story.asp?story_id=39639
I hope you all enjoy your week and live under God's wing. He loves, all you gotta do is love back.
Blurb for the day.
Trip, Ace & Demo,
~Yours Truly
Monday, 17 August 2009
- Today we had this "Welcoming" type thing for school... I think it was called orientation. It was kind of fun but really long and I got pretty tired.
- Then, because it was 500+ teens in one gymnasium it was exceedingly loud! So I came home with this throbbing headache that I had no idea what to do with.
- Then we went shopping. MENTAL NOTE TO SELF: It's not exactly thrilling to go shopping with a headache....
- Nonetheless, I got new clothes. You win some you lose some.
- Morgan and I decided... no we know... we are going to learn the dance to Michael Jackson's Thriller. It will be a... interesting experience, to say the least. But I am excited!!
- Last night, I had to stay home and watch my little brothers. So we ended up making spaghetti with meatballs for dinner and having these scrumptious little cookies for dessert.
- THEN we tried "exercising" in the living room and that did not work! So we watches STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE and it was just great! If you would like to know, that STAR WARS movie and the second one: ATTACK OF THE CLONES, are my favorites. Hands down.
- And now I'm blabbering on about STAR WARS and yada, yada, yada.
- Sterling still has gills.
- Enough said.
Trip, Ace & Demo,
~A&A
So I didn't get on the blog yesterday and it was a huge shame to me. My whole family is disappointed in me and they are thinking about adopting me out to another family. Gotcha! But i wasn't joking about the first part where I said I was really disappointed in myself because I really am. I was on a really huge streak where I was getting on everyday and then I just had a day where I was getting on and I was reading all the other blogs that we follow and right as I was about to start my parents told me that I had to go to bed, I was thinking about doing it in bed on my laptop but I was really tired so I fell asleep. Now I feel bad that I am making excuses.
I went to my freshman orientation to day and I had a ton of fun. My group leaders were really cool. One of them was named Martha and she was really nice. They kept relating things to them and it made it really comforting to hear that the teachers don't care if your late your first few days and made me realize that most of the things I'm worried about, all the other people will be worried about them to. really little things like stressed about how much homework there is going to be and scared that you don't know where to go and you don't know if you are going to have any people you know in your class and all that jazz. And now after comparing classes with everyone and taking a tour of the school I'm feeling a little more confidant. I have weight training and I'm happy to get my muscles going again! So we did a bunch of fun activities like this game where you put your name tag on the back of your pants so no one can see your name and then you all stand in a circle and one person stands in the middle. the person in the middle picks a person and that person has to say some one elses name and that person had to say someone elses name and so on and so forth and all the while the person in the middle was trying to tag the person who's name was called before the person says someone elses name. If that makes any sense. I think it does at least but I did play the game and it was me who was explaining it so...
We also took a tour of the school dressed in different outfits, we were supposed to be fighter pilots in "flight school". ha ha, get it? No? oh well, go look it up on google -SYDNEY!!!
So then after we went to orientation we had cross country and I had a BLAST! its really fun and to add to that I love to run. I don't think I have ever realized it but the actual running is fun. Crazy as it seems I like feeling the pain in your legs and knowing that you can endure it to be the best (well not quite) and feeling like they are the strongest things in the world. And then afterwards when you stop running and feel amazing. like you can do anything in the world. That was just my little speech for the day, blurb as Sydney would call it.
I just wanted to thank grace for giving me some books to read, I'm really looking forward to read life as we knew it because i remember how you told me it was really good! And Sydney I think that I'm going to reread the chronicles of Narnia just for you because I've only read the first 3 or 4. So I'm exited for that because i just finished another 750 page book soooooooo I will read some of the books that grace got for me and theni will read the chronic- WAHT chols of Narnia. From SNL. did no one see that one? jeez tough crowd
So I also went to Zoe's house in between the orientation and Cross country and we went to panaras and I got a salad which was delish. (even though it made me kind of sick when i was running) but that was really good. Well that's just about it for today
Don't feed the wild animals!
~A
Sunday, 16 August 2009
~C.S. LEWIS
(acclaimed author of The Chronicles of Narnia)
I know your pain is for a reason/ you need to feel just to know that you're alive.
1 comments Posted by A+A at 3:27 pmI believe that it is most possible to be frustrated at yourself.
Because that's the way I am feeling right now. It's mainly because what I feel... namely am feeling right now... is not good.
As in spiritually good, not "ugh I feel sick" good.
I guess it's because I wasn't who God wants me to be yesterday and today. i was kind of beside myself and had my mouth running. That just drives me crazy how I sometimes do that! Because in the Bible... James 1:19 says:
"Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath."
I don't suppose I did just that these past few days. It just makes me so angry because if I want God, if I want the kingdom of heaven for eternity, if i want happiness, I have to NOT want this. I have to refuse what makes me in the mix. And that's hard. but God says that: "Therefore, if anyone be in Christ he is a new creation; the old has gone and the new has come!" (2 Corinthians 5:17) I wish there was a scripture that said he would make everything easy. But then again... what's the point in that? The fun of life is learning, not sitting pretty watching everything pass you by. Blurb for the day.
- Yesterday I went to Grace's (so did Emma) and we made really cool tie dye cupcakes and cleaned for Ty's (since it's no longer a secret) SURPRISE PARTY!!! It was really a lot of fun!!
- Plus, since we were so kind we decided to clean Ty's room for him...
- Of course there was some personal gain in there as well. Much like us short-sheeting his bed for instance.
- Hypothetically speaking of course.
- Then we went to Emma's and make GOT MILK? posters and all that jazz.
- And can I just say Freddie Highmore looks absolutely STUNNING in his poster?
- There. I said it. Glad I got that off my chest.
- Tonight I had to miss drama and church because my parents and Morgan are going to BINGO to support the school and I have to stay home and watch my brothers.
- I mean, I am sure we will have so much fun but still... I have a longing.
- You win some you lose some.
- By the way... I love LPT's newest blog posts and such but I do also somewhat miss her famous inspi-ro bullets.... Just saying.
- Enough said.
~Yours Truly
Saturday, 15 August 2009
So you wanna know something?
The GOT MILK? poster Emma posted. FREAKED. ME. OUT.
Why? Because I thought her sister was on a real GOT MILK? poster and I was about to lose my mind and call her up and ask her "when did Abby become famous?!?!"
Because that's just how gullible I am.
At least I'm not nearly as gullible as Ruthie (no offense Ruthie, it's just, I know for a fact that gullible is not written on the ceiling...)
Moving on.
- Last night (our entire family minus my dad because he fell asleep on the floor) we watched the movie October Sky. I really, really love that movie. And I realized I didn't put it on my TOP 10 list. I am... ashamed? I should just make a TOP 20 movie list, that way it will be easier.
- But I honestly do love that movie. It always makes me cry when he's talking about heroes. It is just so inspiring.
- The only thing that made my movie watching experience last night a little less enjoyable is the fact that after every curse word, Audrey (my little sister) would go "BEEP!!!" because she didn't know when the words came, and by then it was already too late. It was pretty cute though, and I understand where she's coming from because I don't like movies with cursing.
- Yet we finally were like: "Audrey, you really need to stop. Do the beep in your head or something."
- Nevertheless.
- Then I really wanted to read THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY more because I was at a really good part, but I had to get up really early this morning. Not happening!
- I have been working on my story... no scratch that... my book. I just can't call it a story anymore, it deserves more respect than that because of all the hours we have put into it!
- Anyway, it's really shaping up, and I enjoy writing it so much. But God is my inspiration and I shall never forget that. Every page is his and really, I couldn't have gotten past the first line much less the 14th chapter without him.
- So there you go.
~Yours Truly
Friday, 14 August 2009
My sister and I decided that we wanted to do our own got milk ad's today and that was really really fun. The one above is my sister Abby for those of you who don't know and she wants to be a soccer player so I made the paragraph to fit that, I'm not sure if you are going to be able to
And one day what's lost can be found.... you stand in the rain.
1 comments Posted by A+A at 10:20 am
Last night (after completing our watching of SPY KIDS) I decided to read my books I got yesterday. (OK, I don't think that last sentence was even proper English! It was a... what does Emma call them...? Incomplete's? Alrighty Danielle help me out here...)
She'll probably say negative.
Inside joke. You probably wouldn't get it unless you're one of my editors or a TOP SECRET SPY... which of course, since you're a TOP SECRET spy I should probably keep that hush-hush, you know, since it probably wouldn't be wise for all my blog readers to know that a TOP SECRET SPY is reading our blog. So now I'll write it tiny, because people these days... unable to see anything smaller than a roly-poly (aherm... Grace..). TOP SECRET SPY. Ha. There.
BY THE WAY. Ironically enough (an trust me, in my life things can be pretty ironic) Freddie Highmore was on the Martha Stewart show. I'm not even kidding. Since when does Freddie Highmore show up on cooking shows? Since February 6, 2008 just before he turns 16 that's when. AND I MISSED IT!!!! Well... I can always watch it online. If you want I could post the link but knowing how un-freddie-fan my readers seem to be, that probably wouldn't be the wisest idea.
I shall save it for myself.
Which by the way.... I probably will never meet Freddie Highmore, much less see him in real life as a living, breathing, 3-D being. This infatuation ship must be sailed.
In 40 years or so.
And now I must share with you the events of my night... and the events of my morning even though, in all technicality, it is still morning.
Nonetheless.
Last night (as you know earlier I purchased two books) and I finished SONNET TO A DEAD CONTESSA. Can I just say it was PHENOMENAL?!?! It was... very good, just as the other books in the series are! And this morning I woke up and read started THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY and it is amazing so far!!! Drew me right in, that book did, and the only reason I put it down was because I had to eat and up-date the blog and tidy my room and get dressed. The small things in life. You gotta love 'em.
And if you are looking for something up-lifting and encouraging today, I reccomend you read Psalms 91... OR Jeremiah 29... wonderful passages.
This is like, one of the rare day where I didn't do bullets! Oh. My. Gosh.
Enough said.
Trip, Ace & Demo,
~Yours Truly
Thursday, 13 August 2009
"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more, to stand up to your friends."
Too true
~A
Since I can't do a quote of the day (tis Emma's day) I shall make my lists that I have been so dearly needing to make... they are the two lists of my top ten movies and books:
TOP 10 BOOKS (so appropriate since, you know, I read books and Emma wants books to read. Wow.)
- Maximum Ride: School's out- Forever
- Maximum Ride: Saving The World And Other Extreme Sports
- A Summer To Die
- Gilly Hopkins
- The Lady Trent Mystery Series (this list is only so long!)
- My Sister's Keeper
- Why The Bell Tolls
- The Giving Tree
- Nancy Drew: The Hidden Staircase
- Bible
-Finding Nemo
-Finding Neverland
(The rest are put randomly)
-I Am Legend
-Back To The Future 1&3 (like I said, this list is only so long)
-Monsters Inc.
-War Of The Worlds
-Contact
-Little Manhattan
-Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
-Alice In Wonderland (there are soooo many more but it's only a top 10 list...)
Trip, Ace & Demo,
~A&A
So, apparently there was a meteor shower last night.
Where was I?
Bermuda, that's where.
Not really. But honestly, I live in a cave, It's not like I was expected to watch it out my window.
However, I get to gaze up at the pristine, perfect sky in Lake Powell every summer for two weeks. Admiring God's beauty and counting every satellite that goes by (and boy I tell ya... more satellites in the sky than you would think!)
I just learned how to spell satellite thanks to blogger-spell-check.
I have to say, my life is never complete. I mean, really, every day I become a little bit happier, every day I learn something new (no kidding), every day I climb a wee bit higher in a trial of life. That's life and it's never really complete. However, it comes pretty darn close.
Last night I was reading Jeremiah... These verses stuck out to me (this is God speaking):
5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
before you were born I set you apart;
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
Isn't that just so awesome? That before we were even a little molecule or whatever we are when we start out, God was thinking about me. He was probably like: "Huh, Sydney, I'm going to make her this (blank line for my future in my eyes is still waiting) someday." Or something like: "My Emma, what a sweetie." He knew each and every one of us. I just find that SO amazing. There is a God that loves us so much that he has called us and chosen us before we glimpsed the morning sun, or smelled a cake baking, or heard the waves of the ocean kissing the rocks.
He knew me.
Blurb for the day.
- I purchased the book THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY today and I am going to start reading it. I also purchased this book called SONNET TO A DEAD CONTESSA. So the title is a little unnerving. But it's the third book in a series by Gilbert Morris that I just love. Plus, he's a Christian author so I don't have to worry about what I read. Weird title, great book. You win some you lose some.
- We (as in me and all my siblings) watched SPY KIDS 2 last night. Can I just say Antonio Banderas cracks me up? I believe I may. Next to Freddie Highmore, and Johnny Depp, and Michael Fox, Will Smith, and Tom Hanks, man he is up there on my list.
- The list that I have yet to write. But trust me, he's up there.
- I think I may just be going crazy.
- Last night I had a weird dream again (whats new?) But really? I woke up and was about to let my conscious know that Weird Dream Month had already passed. Then again, I often have weird dreams so there's really nothing I can do.
- I will spare you the bore of my odd dream (though I will tell you it involved puff paint, weeds, a girl named Courtney, retirement funds, and super heroes. I think this revolutionizes the meaning of weird.)
- Anyway.
~Yours Truly
Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Stand in the rain, stand your ground, stand up when it's all crashing down.
1 comments Posted by A+A at 12:46 pm
Out of plain curiosity, I wonder why God didn't actually scribe the bible and drop a billion copies down to earth. Seriously, it would be a lot easier in a debate about why the bible is real, when people ask: "The bible wasn't written by God, how do you know it's true?" To just be like: "Uh.. yo, I got the proof right here. See? Written by God. Word." But God seems to like making things a little tougher than you would think. I guess it's why there's faith. The reason I believe the bible is the Word of God is for the same reason I believe my 'Super Volumizer Shampoo' will make my hair have volume. It's faith and believing what you read on a package. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see." (Hebrews 11:1) Blurb for the day.
Right now (or just a few moments ago) Audrey and Zach are "wrestling" (Translation: unsuccessfully smacking each other with pillows while busting their gut laughing.) Zach ended up laying on the couch and Audrey ended up on the "Fat Couch" (another story for another time.) Kind of random but I just thought you might like to know.
- It's kind of weird having so many of my friends in school right now and I'm just moseying through stores and hanging out with friends as if summer never even ended.
- By the way, I found out why teenagers are called teenagers.
- So it's not scientifically proven or anything, I kind of just had a brilliant moment where a light bulb went on in my head and I was like: "WHOA! OH MY GOSH I JUST THOUGHT OF SOMETHING BRILLIANT!"
- One of those moments.
- Anyway.
- Teenagers are called teenagers because when they get into their teen years they do a pretty good job of aging the parents.
- OK well I thought it was brilliant. That was real deep thinking on my part!
- I have to say I am very proud of Emma getting on the blog every day and making her posts! Let us give her our applause!!!
- And "Don't feed the wild life". Brilliant! Has the world been doing a lot of deep thinking while I've been sitting here trying to find a reason why teenagers are called teenagers?
- Knowing me, probably.
- I mean, I just found out they sold Churros at the Sam's Club we always go to.
- HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN GOING THERE AGAIN?!
- Point made.
- Now I'm going to go check Freddie Highmore's IMDB because I really have nothing to do until 2:30 besides that.
- (By the way, around 2:30 we're going to the store to get my new book. Highlight of my day.)
- Enough said.
~Yours Truly
Tuesday, 11 August 2009
I really like to bake and I have decided that I'm going to start baking more, like yesterday for instance I made a chocolate chocolate cake and I think next I will make a marble cake. Or maybe I should make that amazing marble bread that they sell at Starbucks sometimes. Usually its not there but it wish it was there all the time. I mean have you tasted it?
Ok i will stop ranting about marble cake and start ranting about getting a physical to make sure that you can do sports in high school. This is all I had to do.
- Height
- Weight
- Eyes (Which by the way I have 20-13 vision)
- 15 jumping jacks
Done. That's it. I mean, the paper work took longer! Ok well now they know that I'm not going to drop over dead when I do cross Country.
I hung out with grace to day and we had lots of fun. We played on club penguin and we did this mission because we are secret agents. we had to figuring out those missions are not easy! I mean its only a computer game but it was still really tough. And then I had to go and grace figured out a mission I haven't ever been able t complete. She must be crazy good.
I finished my book this morning and it was really good. I mean it wasn't as good as the first time read it. or the second... or third for that matter. But I still love the harry potter series. Very good, very good. OK, just because I want to I'm going to make a list of book I really like that we had to read for school.
- And then there was none
- Touching Spirit bear
- Cracker Jackson
- Hatchet
- My Brother Sam is dead
- To kill a mocking bird (Lots of people didn't like it but I though it was good)
Ok well that's enough for today,
Don't feed the wildlife,
~A