1 step too far

after our youth group finished up we were all hanging out in front of the building waiting for rides and parents to pick us up. the conversation started with me telling everyone about me and my sister sticking headphones up our nose and opening our mouths (this really dose work). then everyone started telling about what people could do with odd things that they somehow put in their bodies. "i know someone who can partly swallow a noodle and then pull it out their nose!" in sarcasm someone said "i can eat a noodle" then my loverly sister says "and pull it out the other end!" cheesy smile, grossed out screams and a laughter is what followed.

BATMAN justiccimo

On sunday my sister went to help a friend film a music video for a talent show. It was an opening song to an Italian Batman TV show. Today we were wondering how to spell the Italian word for justice which is Justicimo. we didn't know that so my sister said "justicee- mo alaah bametoa mala!" well now we know what language she is NOT bilingual in.

Louis!!!

My sister was on the computer with a friend choosing a graduation invitation. She had to email a picture to the friend and while waiting for it to send a Louie Armstrong song started playing. My sister seemed to switch her voice from her mouth to her throat and started singing in voice not unlike a horse muppet. She spontaneously would sing a line of Louis every few minuets and then keep doing whatever she was doing before. Finally she started singing and then coughed and choked a little. Smiling sheepishly she stopped singing.

the bright future

on sunday after church my family, my sisters boyfriend and some friends of my parents went to lunch. while the parents were busy discussing media and politics us teens were daydreaming and planning our future retro diner in Oregon. After planning the inside of it we thought then we could have our art studios in a retrofitted barn in the back (talking about it made it sound a lot cooler then writing it down) and we'd park my seaplane and sail bout outside as well. Then my sister, being her, had an idea: we must dig a canal that goes through the diner and kayak to work everyday. oh wait no we should, like, get a mini-submarine with the little seeing thing! So it kept going and we laughed but then it reached the point where now Ayla will be riding an organ,the musical kind, pulled by dolphins through the canal to work everyday. Like King Triton!!!

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Ayla turns to me wide eyed with enthusiasm "you know what feels like boggers?"

so me and Ayla, my sister, were home alone and hanging out in the kitchen because thats where all the food is. we were talking about some random thing and then her eyes open wide with excitement "you know what would be cool?" she says enthusiastically "if you could poke your eyes and tears would squirt out at people!" i look at her in disbelief as she illustrates her idea by making spraying noises and making gestures away from her eyes with (unrealized by her)her certain special fingers. after a few seconds she realized and stood there glancing around like a misbehaving child. we laughed until our stomachs hurt.

my sister loves to sing and isn't half bad, well compared to me she's amazing. no, she is really good at it. her favorite genera is jazz, but there is a catch in her enjoyment. she's not black. i was listening to the Broadway Lion King soundtrack and she walks in during the Raffiki solo, sighs and says "i wish i was black, they always have great voices." this is spoken by her every time she hears a black jazz singer. it's funny to hear her always say this!

-Tallis R.D.