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.
Trip, Ace & Demo,
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:
DANIELLE: So... uh... how do we do this?
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.
I think that people with big ego's really bug me. They have this whole world they've created for themselves on a silver platter. Yet, when you think about it, people who have everything given to them on that shiny, beautiful platter, aren't really happy. Silver tarnishes. and after a while, what you thought you had, what looked so beautiful and pleasing, really isn't all that great after a while. No matter how much those people can push my buttons I feel really sorry for them. They're lives are gilded. Covered by something beautiful, but on the inside they're normal. Just like us. They're just an old hunk of wood covered to look beautiful. However, the condition of that wood is different for everyone. Some may have rotting wood, infested with termites, lying underneath, while some may be splitting in two. Some may be standing firm. No matter what though, we are all still very much the same. Blurb for the day.

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.
Trip, Ace & Demo,
~A&A

Wednesday, 26 August 2009

Runners High


Have you guys ever heard of runners high? Well I have to tell you, it's one of the most amazing experiences in the WORLD! Let me first tell you that it's different for different people. For me it's like I just get so exited to run and get thins HUGE burst of adrenalin and I run way to fast for the good of me and get all pooped. It also happens when I see someone in front of me who really want to beat so I speed up and they see what I'm doing so they speed up too and we both end up sprinting like we have a 3,000lb bear on our tail even though we are like 3 miles into a run. So I made a poem, and please please don't laugh because I suck at writing poetry but I really felt like this was something to write about.


Getting out there to just let everything else go,
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


Ok, go ahead and laugh at my cheesy poem but I like it. So there.

We have our first meet tomorrow for CC and I'm really exited, we ran part of the course today and I think that I'm really ready to take it on! Well at least I hope I am... Wish me luck, this determines what spot I'm on, on the team!

So today I went over to this girl Connor's house and tryd on all her old prom and homecoming dresses and I decided to keep 4 of them but i don't know if i like all of them or not... One of them doesn't fit me... Yet. I'm determined to fit into it someday because it is so amazingly pretty.

Ok well Ive been up really late lately so I think I'll hit the hay. Goodnight, sleep tight, see you in the morning light.

Don't feed the wild animals.

~A

Q&Q

QUESTION:
If flying is so safe, why is the airport called a terminal?

QUOTE:
"A hug is like a boomerang, you get it right back."




(Due to recent requests to have the Question Of The Day brought back, I decided to combine them!)

Tuesday, 25 August 2009


It's so weird how life, from different people, looks totally different.
It's like you take a tall guy in a candy store and stick him next to a short guy. The tall one can see over the counter to pick out the candy he wants. But the short one, no. He has to be helped up so he can see his options.
A wise person (this wise person I actually know) once told me this:

"You don't go hiking so you can stare at the top of the mountain. You go hiking to get the whole view."

Which is what I think we all need to really consider and do. Imagine our lives as that one hiking trail. It's long, sometimes rough, sometimes smooth, up hill all the way. And yes, the trees are beautiful as we pass them by. The scent of pine and water... the smell of nature, cool, crisp, and clear, is beautiful, and we can't take it all in at once. Animals and life is all around us, so beautiful it's almost impossible to comprehend. And our life, our hill may be beautiful as we go through certain parts. Yet once we finally get to the top, we realize just how much we were missing.
Blurb for the day.
  • 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 think if I had to choose someone (besides Leah and Grace) who made me laugh all the time, it would probably be Emma. That last post? It just made me laugh. There's nothing like best friends. There's really not. And if you don't have one, I am so so sorry, but God will always be your friend... even if he doesn't have a cell-phone.
Ha. Little self-self connection there.
Nevertheless, I do have to agree with Emma on the whole "twin telepathy" thing... even if it is a little out there it's definetly something I should consider...
At church today we had the most interesting message I think I have ever heard. It was about going through the fire (or trials of life... Nate was NOT talking about litterally walking through fire... aherm... Devin...) But I loved his example. He took a dirty mirror to depict out lives. Then through each trial, through everything you do, you God scrapes off some of that junk and you become clean, and you can see your reflection.
I thought it was very cool.
Pearls of Wisdom:
  • 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

High School

Hey yall!

I feel really bad because I haven't been on in a while and Sydney is still the most devoted person I know, but it has been taking me a while to adapt to high school unlike Syd who walks around like she invented it. So now I am back and I will try to get on every day again (I was on a roll!). I have trouble because I'm not very good at doing my homework quickly, i get sidetracked and go out side and play with my little neighbors an do all that kinda stuff. doesn't that ever happened to you? It does to me are the time.
So now I will talk about a school, well, my experiences anyway. So you have all your normal classes, and then you have your fun classes. My fun classes are all P Es which isn't very fun if you ask me. I have weight training on Tuesdays and Thursdays and I have volleyball on Monday Wednesday and Friday. There wasn't anybody in my volleyball class that I knew so I introduced myself to this girl named Casey. She seemed fairly nice if you ask me. We have to play football and both of us stink at it. I cant wait till we get to the volley ball portion because I'm going to kick some major butt! Just kidding but I'm waaaaayyyy better at that them I am at football. The last time I played football was like 3 years ago and broke my finger. It's never been the same since, all crooked and funky looking.
So I'm really enjoying high school and you were right lovelyLPT, I have defiantly gotten used to it and finding my way around and all. I love love LOVE being able to go off campus. (That was in my mouth!) and off hours are like heaven! well I've really only ad two but its enough! So I think that I'm going to ask Syd if she wants to do HW with me on Thursday because shes one of the only people I know who has the same off hour as me on that day. Not that I wouldn't want to do it with her if I knew more people with the same off hour, I mean were twins for crying out loud and I can even prove it. Has anyone ever heard of twin telepathy's? well its this thing that scientists have researched about how twins minds think alike... Well we wore the same shirt ON THE SAME DAY! yep, that's right. were defiantly twins for real. What are the odds. see those cute babies up there? those are us, we were separated at birth.
so i really love biology, its so interesting to me. the only problem is that I'm the only freshman in my class so i don't have any friends, that's ok, ill find some. And history is kind of boring because i don't think that the sub is very knowledgeable. I guess i should tell you that the reason we have a sub is because our teacher is 8 months pregnant so were going to have a long term sub for the first semester. i don't think that hes really the best guy for the job, i mean hes nice and he makes it interesting but he isn't very, oh i don't know. ther's this kid in my class who probably knows more then the sub does. (he answers every question like he's the teacher).
Sorry if you think that this is a really long post, if you want you can split it into like different days... or weeks maybe. I usually don't do posts this long but i had a lot to cover. Ok I might be skipping all over the place with school and twins and all. So I also wanted to say that I think its so so so cool and amazing and just plain, STUPENDOUS that sydney is so dedicated to God. I have really never met some one like her so lets all give her a round of applose. I really look up to her and I know that sound kinda funny because shes my age but still, I love ya syd!
Ok that's it for today.. again so sorry it was so long but I had to.
Don't feed the Wild animals!
~A

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