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







