July 5

Last year I didn't get around to writing about the day after the Fourth of July, so here it is.

2012. I think I had to go do a source check in the library for work, and it was raining quite a bit. It made me really happy. It felt like September. I remember the cool weather made me think of "The Great Pumpkin Waltz," but then I had to remind myself that it was still more than two months until the beginning of the Halloween season, let alone the holiday itself. Then that day some of my "horse" friends wanted to go to a production of Cyrano de Bergerac in the HFAC. I was going to go meet Carissa, the one who had suggested it. While I was on my way to her apartment, I met my former roommate Jeff Anderson. I talked briefly to him. Then I went to Queen's Arms apartments, but I didn't remember which was Carissa's. So then I went to my apartment to find her apartment or phone number on lds.org, but the ward directory was down. So then I just went up to the HFAC. I went into the play, and I saw my roommate Cameron sitting there. I went and sat down. Then Hanna and Kristen (and maybe someone else) came in. They told Cameron that Carissa was outside the theater waiting for him, so he went out and met her. We moved seats just before the play started. It was an abbreviated, happier story than the original Cyrano. After the play, we walked home, and I talked to Hanna about how it felt like September. She was from Rexburg, so she didn't know what Utah Julys were usually like.

2011. I woke up in the morning in the apartment below me. I didn't make my bed, but I took my Fourth of July pillowcase up to my apartment. When I went back to that apartment to sleep that night, Jimmy (my temporary roommate) had made my bed.

2010. We didn't have school, so I slept in. I think my roommates bought some maple bars and made bacon to put on top of them--but I was still sleeping when that happened.

2009. Our investigator Nick Montez was supposed to come to church, since he was getting baptized that week. He showed up during the gospel principles class--he was late because his truck had broken down. He met with President Landeen, the branch president of the Lewis-Clark YSA branch, and President Landeen gave him a serviceman's scripture set. President Landeen approved it, so then we went to the stake center so that Elder Hinebaugh, the district leader, could interview him. He passed!

2008. Elder Bramall and I had to get up early. Elder Bramall was the district leader, so we had to go meet with a member of the stake presidency, along with the district leader of the Spanish area. When we showed up, we saw the Spanish elders about to knock on a door on the other side of the street. Elder Bramall called out to them and asked what they were doing. They said that the stake presidency member had given them the wrong address, so it was a good thing we got there just in time to prevent them from knocking on the wrong door--it would have been like tracting at 7 or 8 in the morning (I can't remember what time it was). I think we had some kind of breakfast. Then we were singing a hymn to start off our meeting. Elder Bramall said that President Clark liked "Saints Behold How Great Jehovah," but the stake presidency member didn't want to sing that. After our meeting, we went home and took naps, since we had gotten up so early. Then we had a service project because a less-active part-member family was moving into our ward boundaries. The Wenatchee 3rd elders, Elder Bates and Elder Major, helped them move, too (that was the ward the PMF was moving from). The family provided us Costco pizza. It came up that I didn't like mushrooms, and Elder Bates said that he thought that I would like them. He knew I wanted to be a vampire, so he thought that I would like something that grew in dark, damp environments.

2007. I had to have my pre-mission physical. There was someone being trained, so Dr. Cope asked if that trainee could observe. They gave me an extra sheet for modesty.

2006. I think I was casually eating the crumbs leftover from the Fourth of July cake we had bought.

2000. Since the next holiday was Halloween, I took out my small Halloween decorations, including my school art projects, and put them up in my room. (I don't do that anymore, although I still get a little sad at the holiday drought that starts in July.)

1996. I seem to remember throwing snaps outside the backdoor of my paternal grandparents' house. There was a puddle from a sprinkler, so the snap didn't work. I purposely tried to do that because I heard that it made a cool sound in water, but it didn't work. My dad told me about the time he ended up at the hospital the day after the Fourth of July because he was trying to light leftover fireworks.