penny and me like to roll the windows down...

Its 10:54 am on Saturday and i am sitting a a desk reading john calvin and listening to hanson and having an amazing time.
thats right, i said hanson.

this weekend was my bff's birthday (here she is). (and by she i meant her and me and a hippo.) so i came to visit her a WM. anyways, she got sick yesterday so shes sleeping in extra late today. i just happened to wake up at 7 to run quite a distance, then i took a shower and hung out with jesus and here i am, reading john calvin.

kathryn most definitely has hanson on her itunes, and not only old school hanson, but their 2004 album, and its awesome. im going to buy it today on our trip to target.

from this, ive decided i like songs about rolling down the windows and driving. and i like a lot of them, too. but the one that confirmed this pattern was "Penny and me". and it goes like this:

cause penny and me like to roll the windows down
turn the radio up
and push the pedal to the ground
and penny and me like to gaze at starry skies
close our eyes
pretend to fly
its always penny and me tonight.

ahhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhh!!! i love it and i love when i really get to do stuff like this. it makes my whole life better and i definitely know that god gives me these little episodes, no matter how crazily cheesy they are, to tell me he loves me. yay : )

ok im digressing.

miss monica! dont you roll your eyes at me, its a good song and im going to play it for you and your going to love it. i promise!

ok. just thought id write about how incredibly in love with hanson i am. still. after 10 years. except i dont really stalk them anymore. i just happened to find out by way of google (the music sparked my interest, of course) that taylor hanson is married with 3 kids, the third was born in early september. zac got married to his long time girlfriend in june, and im pleased to know that just years before now i would have cried and gone into mourning at the news that i was not to be his wife, but i can honestly say that im fine with it now! i have matured.

speaking of married, i recently was informed one of my ex boyfriends is getting married. which isnt painful, but as kathryn put it, "hes not really the getting married type." awkward. VERY awkward...

ok. calvin is calling. happy saturday!

i am only as hardcore as hannah has taught me to be

All day today i was extremely tired and dozey, especially in Calvin class. I had to wake up early to go to an elementary school and administer a reading assessment to a first grader, and i guess i just stayed tired all day. And sometime between the end of XA and right now i decided the best solution would be to pull and all nighter with hannah...

hannah is the original hardcore non-sleeper. this girl is a beast. she doesnt eat anything but pizza rolls. she doesnt excersize but has rock hard abs. she doesnt sleep at all during the week but has survived the engineering school for 4 years without being put on academic probation. Kinda takes your breath away, doesnt it? So here i am supposedly doing a childrens book review while homegirl is doing a differential equations test. ha. life is so crazy isnt it!

i talked to my friend leonard a second ago on aim. in less than 3 minutes, i learned that he is getting a job doing political campaigning for fossil fuels somewhere outside the region, an my friend gen, who just returned from a year in uganda, is applying for a fullbright scholarship to study in paris. peachy. i suddenly feel like my life is boring, because im just sitting in charlottesville doing my college thing. the highlight of my day is reading what monica writes on her blog (which is a highlight indeed, believe me!). im going to be a first grade teacher and they are going to...do something. well i doubt either of them are pulling all nighters...

but im not going to go into self loathing or even whining. i think something that immediately snaps me out of life-envy is to realize that even though their lives are so exotic, they dont have jesus so their lives arent any more awesome than mine. not that im saying im better than they are. im just saying, it doesnt matter how many people they might save when they cure hunger or something crazy like that, because if people arent delivered from sin it doesnt really matter what happens in this lifetime. so basically, im just gonna keep doing my god thing and he will take me where he wants. im so relieved to think about how i dont have to do anything on my own and hes gonna take me bigger places than i can imagine just because i love him. oh man.

basically i need to go finish my book review in preparation for a 5 am run with the sunrise :)

goodnight to you. not to me!

that one time i broke my tailbone

My weekend has been a blur. It always happens though, so im going to stop being surprised by it one of these days. Basically, my highlights are the following: Friday i ran errands all day with Logie, aka logan, aka kates boyfriend who is one of my favorite buddies to run errands with. And the dance party at the Shout House (116 Harmon, a lot of boys live there). Then hanging out with my newly married friend christina cause her hubby is out of town. And, of course, seeing Felisa because she is in town. Except from now on she is known as "Fandrew", because her and andrew have a wedding date and location. And yet, no ring!

Ughhhh i hate how my "quick" updates take a billion years. i dont like recapping my life. but saturday...

today i sold concessions for Black Voices, which is funny cause i had to carry this big water tub up and down stadium steps and i decided im never going to be pregnant. or at least take my pregnant self to a stadium event. it was fun though, and alumni tip pretty well. and its not like i missed much of a game, because we definitely lost to w. michigan, and the QB threw to nobody in particular for most of the game. ughhh. and tonight we played broomball with xa and went ice skating and i got to practice all my jumps/hops and spins and twirls from last semester!!!! and i fell on my tailbone and it really REALLY hurts right now, and i might need one of those cushioned donut things. like an old lady. oh man.

btw we ordered disney princesses on ice tickets today. come on october 22 :)

dear God-
Honestly, ive recently discovered that i am sketchy as crap. i know you know. and im wondering if this is just some kind of stage that im going through. like just a short time to get out those repressed manipulations that ive held back for the past 2 years or something. God, i need you, i NEED you to deliver me from this, because i could hurt a lot of people.
plus i dont want to BE sketchy. its just not something i want. and i know it doesnt glorify you...

miss monica, i know you the only one who reads this. thats seriously what im praying, and i dont mind sharing with you, cause i love you <3

ps- last night i found out a lot of my friends were disciplined through being beaten with hand-selected switches. i never knew it was so common! thats so bad! so i called my mom as soon as i heard that and told her thank you for raising me so well that she never whipped me, and never needed to.

also, ive been told a lot recently that im becoming more and more ghetto by the day.
im pretty please with this. maybe it will affect my physique, too? amazing...
thanks BV!

goodnight.

They dont call it a crazy straw for nothing.

So here it is.
The much anticipated blog. And its not even like this is the first time I've done this (ps i hate capitalization so from here on out its all lowercase) because i had to do one for school last semester. Plus i used to be one of those teenagers that thought that everyone cared about reading what my life was all about. I think i've matured since then, and now i know its just miss monica who cares.



And here is miss monica (the grumpy one in the front, not the pouty one in back) :)
Now there are a few things everyone needs to understand about our relationship.
First of all, and probably most important of all, you pronounce her name "miss mo-nee-kuh", cuz dat girl sho iz cuhrazy.
Second, the technical term for our relationship is "its complicated," as facebook lets us know.
Third, she is ADORABLE. Look at her! This is the ideal miss monica, always grumpy but still smiling because even when she says she hates you and then hits you repeatedly, she really means that she loves you. Plus the fact that she had to work on not hitting people this summer just makes her more amazing.
Fourth, she inspired me to write this blog. Praise the lord.

So in the spirit of monica, i need to get all spiritual. Granted, her whole entry is always about the lord, but im just going to allow this part because well, lets face it, im just not as spiritual as she is.
Basically my life is undergoing a massive remodeling, and its a little bit crazy. I feel like everything my relationship with God, and thus my life, has been about has been...not fake because it has been so real...but its just being refined now because im seeing a much deeper truth. It took the deepest heartache to make me realize that i can trust God's tender heart, and i would go through it a thousand more times in a heartbeat to learn what i have. so praise god. everything is going to be different from here on out. And with that, God was kinda like 'ok sydney- youre not going to move. im going to lift you up, and we are going to try this life thing one more time. this time you dont do anything but let me love on you.' hence, a title was born.
blah. i feel like this is getting too deep already.

ashley and i are having a gallon-of-water drinking contest and i need to pee. obviously. i can tell you who wins later! i know youre excited, but try not to pee your pants...haaha!

goodnight.