2012. My roommate Ammon's girlfriend had pasted paper hearts all over our door. So Ammon was making something for her. I was watching A Charlie Brown Valentine on my computer when he came in and asked if I had markers or something. I knew I had some colored Sharpies, so I started looking. He was blasting the Katy Perry "Part of Me" lyric video, which had debuted the day before:
I asked him if it was from her Teenage Dream album; he said it was just a new single. As I was pulling stuff rapidly out of a box to find the markers, he told me I didn't need to tear my room apart.
2011. I was wearing my gaudy Valentine tie. After church my roommate Zach and I delivered cookies to our home teachees; Briana commented on my tie.
2010. In the morning we went to Mr. Mac so I could get a new suit. As they were fitting me for it, the man commented on my Snoopy Valentine shirt, and said I should wear it the next day. My mom said that the next day was church. Allie got some toys from Matt for Valentine's Day, including a squishy caterpillar. I think on this day I was trying to play a bunch of songs from my Peanuts piano book, but since I don't play piano, it didn't work too well. I even played Christmas songs, and my mom was surprised when I was playing "The Christmas Song." Then we went to Trolley Square to go to the Old Spaghetti Factory. I kept reminding my family about the shootings that occurred there three years before. My mom ordered the menu item called potpourri for my dad and said he always pronounced it "pot poury."
2009. Elder Betenson and I were talking to a guy outside when a member drove up to us, joking that he was running us over. It interrupted our discussion with the guy outside, although he obviously wasn't interested anyway. Elder Betenson was complaining about the member, saying he was really weird. We met a potential investigator named Don and went in and had a lesson with him. I had an awkward moment when I was telling the story of the First Vision and accidentally combined "hearts" and "far" into one word, but thankfully no one laughed or said anything. Then that night we had dinner with Johnny, who wasn't a member but was very friendly to missionaries. He was moving out. Elder Betenson told me about how smart their little daughter was. We took our shoes off at the door. The Isaksens, some members who lived down the street, came over too. Sister Isaksen said to us, "This is a joke I heard from a returned missionary on the radio in Salt Lake City." Then she told a kind of dirty joke and said she didn't get it until she was married. I wondered why she was telling it to us. Johnny gave us ties as a farewell gift, and we took pictures.
"Today we walked all over checking up on new names. We street contacted a guy and a weird member interrupted us by driving right up to us. It's like, 'Can't you see we're doing missionary work?' Normal people would leave us alone.
"But the best part was following up with a potential, Don, who became a new investigator! Then we had dinner with a nonmember named Johnny, who is moving out."
2008. I think this was the day that Elder Chun was finally feeling well enough again to come back to our area after being sick for a week. It might also be the day that I got a Snoopy valentine from my mom.
2006. I was wearing my Snoopy "Cool Love" shirt, and my sister pointed out that the red splatters on it looked like blood. (They really did.) This might have been the day that she had bought a Valentine red velvet cake at the store because Allie wanted it.
2005. I remember sitting on the stand to bless the sacrament and noticing that Wendy Moosman was wearing a Valentine's Day tie with Peanuts characters on it. I wondered where she got it and I was envious. I remember getting Allie out of her carseat when we got home from church. She was eating a red heart-shaped cookie she had gotten in nursery. It was so cute to see her eating it. She was brand new to nursery. This is one of my memories that kind of makes me sad.
2004. I lent someone my VHS copy of Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown to show in seminary. After school, Daniel Bitner told me that she had my movie, but I had to get on the bus, so I didn't get it back. That was OK with me, because I wanted to watch the newer special, A Charlie Brown Valentine (which was on DVD). My mom brought home all the Valentine candy she got from school. I think that night they gave me my Valentine present, the first season of Gilligan's Island. Then I think we went to Shopko so I could pick up my new glasses. It sure was weird wearing a new prescription; everything looked distorted and small.
2001. This might have been the day I sprained my wrist, but I think that happened the day before. They gave us lists of our partners for the Valentine dance the next day. They said that everyone got to dance with everyone they requested, except for Andreia Dixon, because too many people wanted to dance with her. I was therefore surprised that I got paired with her for one of the dances, since I didn't request her and I found it unlikely she would request me.
2000. I wore my gaudy Valentine tie to church. After church we lit our fireplace and my mom made mini cheesecakes with colored Nilla wafers. I read the final Peanuts strip in the Deseret News. When my sister came over for dinner, I showed it to her and she said Schulz had died. I didn't believe her, but it was true. My brother was talking about how he was sure one of his roommates was going to propose the next day. My cousins might have come over; if they did, I know we watched Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown and ate conversation hearts. I remember my dad watching 60 Minutes and it talked about Charles Schulz. Maybe this was the night I made my box for valentines out of a shoe box. I don't remember the specific day for that, but I can't imagine I would have done it any earlier, since I tended to procrastinate.
1998. It was Courtney Brown's birthday and it was also Friday the 13th. Her parents came and talked about her birthday being on the 13th. (At the time I remember thinking she was born on Friday the 13th, but when I look at a calendar that's not possible.) That day we handed out valentines. When I gave one to Skyler, the boy with the mullet and earrings, he said, "Great, a valentine with no candy." I was confused because I had put candy in each valentine. When I finished handing them out, I noticed some extra Kisses in the bottom of the plastic bag, so I realized that some had fallen out of the envelopes. Then I went home and watched a Valentine episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
1997. I remember filling out my valentines to give to everyone the next day.
1996. Same story as above.
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