What is this Greenery!?

The weather was nice and I decided that it'd been too long since I'd gone biking. So I grabbed my aqua-pack, bike, wallet, keys- oh and of course, my always-present camera- and headed off on the 4-something mile trek to our local Super-Walmart; the "mall" of the Clarkstonians :-)

As I pedaled my way along a residential stretch in downtown Clarkston, all seemed just great. Then suddenly, there is a monstrous rosebush that bars my way; worse yet, it's growing much nearer at an unnervingly fierce rate. Fortunately, the sidewalks are not very high and I managed to swerve into the street just in time for a narrow miss. Whew. But just when I think it's safe, I turn out to be mistaken and plow through the branches of a large bush that are sticking out over the sidewalk... at least it wasn't thorny. Even so, I couldn't help shaking my head with annoyance- idiots, I think to myself, do they have no consideration for the well-being of fellow civilians?

Now, this may seem like one of the weirdest comparisons you've ever heard, but we can be similar in our lives to those people who let their bushes grow over the city walkways. Yeah, I know, you're probably just staring, going "Ooookay, Sarah. Whatever you say..." But really. Do we keep our actions "pruned back" or do we let them run amok and in turn, cause those around us to stumble or swerve into potentially dangerous areas (like my nearly being in the middle of a busy street)?

So, almost everybody gets told this at some point in time (and usually more than once), but its always good to be reminded: our speech and actions can greatly affect others. The question is: do we affect them to the bettering of their spiritual life, or does what we do get in the way of their walk with God and cause them to swerve off the strait & narrow road?

Pruning the bushes may seem like an unimportant task that can be put off until later, but although their growth from day to day is subtle, bushes can get wild and out of hand before we know it. Likewise, some sinful behaviors and habits in our lives may not seem like a huge deal and we figure "Oh well, one of these days I'll change my ways, but just not right now". As my youth group leader says, "You're always either growing closer to God or moving farther away from Him. There's no middle ground." If we just keep saying "Sure I need to change, but I'll change later", things can only get worse from there. I don't know about you, but I sure don't want to be the one to cause someone to fall off the sidewalk of life into dangerous streams of traffic.

Life of Lately...and Military Intellegence!

I'm starting to get overdue for the next post... I just haven't really had much time lately though. lol. But lets just say my week has been WAY awesome :) And everything I posted about on the last post has all been cleared up and all's good. I'm happy. Oh, and my brother, David, and I are doing a skit in the homeschool talent show next month, so below is the script that I wrote (at 5am yesterday!), which we will perform... Lemme know what you think! The three of us loved it :-) (and it may look long on a blog post, but it actually takes like all of 2-3 minutes to read. I timed it when I test performed it yesterday. lol


Narrator= David
Soldier= Me
General= Nathaniel

Narrator: I wonder about military stuff sometimes. Apparently the walkie-talkie was a military invention. Then I come to wonder; "how the heck did it end up with a name like that?". I mean, military stuff always has these cool tough sounding names... Tomahawk Missle! Apache Helicopter! Ak47! ...Walkie talkie?

General (walks over to a table with several devices lying out on it): Well, what do ya have there, Soldier?

Soldier: It's a new telecommunications unit that enables the troops to speak effectively in the field.

General: What's it called?

Soldier: Walkie-talkie!

General: Huh?

Soldier: Look, I'm walkie and I'm talkie! (marches around while speaking)

General: Huh well I suppose you are...

Soldier: I'm walkie and talkie General, can YOU walkie and talkie??

General: *cough* Erm, sure. So, what's this new explosive device?

Soldier: The Whammie-Cablamie!

General: And this? (holds up gun)

Soldier: This is the Rootie-Tootie-Aim-N-Shootie!

General: I see....

Narrator: Hey, can YOU think of a better reason? (pauses) Don't answer that. But really, I guess I could see how all the tough guys overlooked a name like that. I mean seriously, those guys are in some INTENSE training! It's not easy...all those drills... Not to mention having to learn all these new terms and such.

General: Alright soldier! ABOUT FACE!

Soldier: (pulls out a mirror) Uh...

General: What the heck are you DOING soldier!? I said about face!

Soldier: Well what about my face? I don't see anything wrong with it.

General: I'm not talking about your face! ABOUT FACE!!!

Soldier: There you go again talking about my face. Seriously dude. So what, do I have a zit or something?

General: I've had ENOUGH of this, Soldier!! ABOUT FACE AND I MEAN IT!

Soldier: Well whatever it is about my face, would you PUH-LEASE stop yelling about it?!

Genearl: *Facepalm* ARGH. Ok. Forget it.

Soldier: See, I told you there was nothing wrong with my face.

General: (takes deep breath, speaks slowly) Just turn, stand up strait, and face in THAT direction (points towards audience).

Soldier: SIR, YES SIR! (turns and stands strait & salutes the audience)

Narrator: Yeah...like I said, it can't be easy. Heck, they don't even call you by your own name. But seriously folks, pray for our military. Uh, and not cause they're all like her (points at soldier) *lowers voice* She's not like mosta them; trust me. She's just a few bullets short of a fully loaded gun if you catch my drift.

General: HEY YOU! (runs toward Narrator, dragging soldier along by the wrist)

Narrator: Huh?

General: You and all the rest of us have all of 30 seconds to vacate this stage!

Narrator: Vacation already?

General: NO!

Narrator: Then why leave?

General: Gomer Pyle here just accidentally innitiated the detonation sequence of the Whammie-Cablamie!

Soldier: SHE'S GONNA BLOW!!

General: So lets MOVE, MOVE, MOVE, MOVE people!

Narrator: Oh! Well in that case...I'm outa here! G'night everybody!

(Explosion sound effect plays as cast runs off stage)

(After explosion, cast comes back, bows, and moves their props back stage)

I just wish that I could dissapear//someone take me far away from here

First off, thanks people for commenting on my last post- it makes me glad to know I at least have two people who check my blog :)

Well what a week. What a first few weeks of 2010, for that matter. It's amazing what a range of feeling one can experience in a short amount of time. Currently I feel horrible. I got in trouble with mom earlier for the first time in ages and now I have a headache and a sore throat that has been ever-increasing all evening. *sigh*

I suppose I could save myself a lot of trouble sometimes if I was better at talking to my parents about stuff. Ugh. Why does it have to be so freaking hard sometimes? In a sense it would be easier to just tell them, yet the actually telling them part is something that freaks me out so much I could practically throw up. And I'm not even particularly sure why. But talking to parents about relationships is scary...anybody with me on this one? And yes, incase you're guessing, they know nothing of what's been going on between David and I the past month (and if you don't know what the heck I'm talking about, read the comments on the post below this). It's not even like there is anything bad that has happened with him and I that I'm trying to hide, either. It's just the very fact of admitting that yes, he and I like eachother that intimidates me. I don't like talking relationship stuff with them, even though it's probably what should be done. I suppose I'm just affraid what they'll say or do... there's always this fear in the back of my mind that if I tell them they'll not let the two of us hang out any more =/ Maybe it's irrational. I don't know. But I don't particularly want to test the theory just incase it does happen....ergh. life.

On the up side of stuff, until today things have been awesome. My birthday has lasted for like a whole week this year and that is totally great =D Like seriously, I started getting gifts and bday wishes from people since 2 days before my birthday and then I've had a tricling of birthday cards and belated wishes and presents from then until this past Tuesday. Oh man I have amazing friends! Despite not having had a party like I did on my sweet 16, it's been a very special birthday none the less :)

Anywho, our computer is going to kick me off soon.... now to go sweat it through our evening family time devotions. Because if mom is going to grill me, it will be right after devotions while her, dad, and I are all together. Cause thats when all the serious subjects come up *shudders*

I am in way over my head.


CRUD.

Now what.....

This is the Sound of Settling...

Ok to start off.... I'm just curious... Do I still even have readers any more? Just wondering... cause it seems like I'm lucky to even have 1 comment any more on stuff :-/


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And with that being said, I shall move on.
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So, wow. This has been quite a Christmastime here! Its been a great December. A little crazy, too. Crazy as in working like mad to send Christmas cards, and still not getting to everybody you had hoped to send to, but feeling good about the ones you managed to do in time. Crazy as in having loads of parties to go to with friends. Crazy as in having 2 guys tell you they like you within the course of 3 weeks. Crazy as in it suddenly being so close to the year TWENTY-TEN :-o !! .... and more. But looking back, I most definitely must say its a good kind of crazy.

Christmas was great. Oh, and Christmas Eve, Eve as well. haha my parents decided to save space in the car, they would let us all open all but one present the night before Christmas eve so that we would have less stuff to pack to gma & gpa's the next day. Honestly I very much approve of this idea, because as it turns out, one of my gifts happened to be a video MP3 player, so it gave me just enough time to load some music/pictures onto it before we left :) yay! So then the next day (Christmas Eve, of course) we went to my grandparent's house (like we do every year). That evening we opened gifts with my gparents, family, and aunt + uncle. Sweet! It was great. And we all got some good laughs when Grandma recieved a Snuggie but put it on backwards XD ...honestly I thought it looked kinda cool that way. It was like this awesome pink cape-- with sleeves! But apparently you put it on with the covering on front and its like a long sleeve hospital gown without a way to fasten it in the back. *shrugs* really it could go both ways.

Honestly it would take too big of a post to write up the entire weekend at my grandparent's place. But I'll just list some random fave memories:

My cousin David's wife Holly playing Peanuts music on the piano

Big Christmas dinner (it's like Thanksgiving!)

Discussing everyone's past experiences or experiences of others of beheading chickens. While we all ate lemon merangue pie (uh no idea how we got on that topic...).

Playing (and winning!) my first ever game of Bunco (FUN!)

Walking around the house in the dark at 4:00 AM in the dark with a blanket over my head carring mom's mini netbook around trying to get access to wifi... and finally succeeding, after going back to where I had started, no less =P

Feeling smart in my sunday school class at my grandparents church. I was shocked how juvenile the teen class seemed.

Playing with the McDonald's Drive Thru kitchen playset at my aunt + uncle's place...hehe! They've had that thing for like 20 years! Started for my cousins when they were kids. Then they had it out for me when I was a little kid, and I hadn't seen it in ages...but then they got it out again for my cousin's kids. So when they went to do something else I took over the kitchen *big grin* it was SO fun. Good times.

And last but not least (in fact honestly it was the most memorable part of the whole weekend)... a certain evening IM conversation with a good friend of mine, that made me feel sad for a time but ended with us both being really happy :-)


....Yeah, there have been loads of ups. And some downs too...like when my 4 year old cousin barfed all over right before everyone left after Christmas dinner =P and not sleeping good for 4 nights in a row. But oh well. All things considered, its really been one of the best Christmases ever!


...and on a side note, HAPPY NEW YEAR'S EVE!!!!!

I'll Send Those Christmas Cards or Die Trying!

Funny... this wouldn't have been my number one thought of what I would be doing in my day. In fact, generally I try to avoid being out in these below-freezing temperatures as much as possible (unless of course it's snowed good or there's an Ultimate Frisbee game...cause us Frisbee players are diehards like that, lol). Yet here I am, out in the midst of it all, tearing down the sidewalk with the fog from my breath blowing back in my face.

The sun is setting, it's less than 18 degrees outside...yeah. It's not a very long run, only a couple blocks and back, but within the first two minutes I think I started loosing feeling in my fingertips =P I don't want to think what this would be like without my fuzzy earmuffs and gloves. Oi. Scaree. Yet despite the cold... its strangely fun. People's Christmas lights are just starting to turn on, and between that and the freezing breeze blowing in my face as I run, I can't help but smile. It feels like I should be playing out a scene from some kind of holiday movie, and if it wasn't that I was already getting out of breath due to temperatures, I would totally start singing Sleigh Ride or something of the sort right about now :-)

Nearly to the post office, I turn the corner and am greeted by one of my favorite sights that I forgot I might see. Vernon Park, in all it's lighted glory! They seem to add some sort of new little piece to the light display there every year, and it's such fun. And I'm still wondering where the heck the town bought a whole light up CASTLE. It has to be custom made cause I've never seen anything like it anywhere else. Tearing myself from this sudden and beautiful destraction, I decide to save a little time but part with some possible warmth by going down the alley where the drive through drop boxes are, instead of going inside. Hey, there's no cars coming, so I'm safe. I dash down and throw in my mail. Mission complete.

Now with my nose running, legs stinging from the cold, and a smile on my face, I shall see how fast I can run back to the welcoming heat, towering bookshelves, and wonderful high-speed broadband internet of the local library.

This is my December, this is my time of the year...This is my December, everything's so clear...

Snack Food Tales...figures I'd think of a title like this. I should eat some breakfast.

Sure he's 15 and she's 16
But their birthdays are coming soon
They're the sorta friends who'd
Spend all night cracking jokes beneath the moon
Together they are, most every week
He seems to be in love
She's not sure what to think of that
Was he sent to her from above?
The weeks they pass, the years go by
He'll greet her with a hug
As she smiles and tells him "hi"
Cause he's her friend and she's his too
She'll split her package of skittles
As he lets her sip his mountain dew
He loves the girl,
But she's so confused on how to feel
Does she love him too,
Are they meant to be for real?
Perhaps one day she'll see
But only God knows when
With his arm around her shoulder
He stands with hope, 'till such a day as then