2012. I watched the holiday episode of The Munsters at home. I think I was listening to my music, and "Alejandro" finally played itself. I think I added a bunch of Christmas music to my computer. I switched to the green Taurus to take back to Provo, and I listened to the all-Christmas 98.7 radio station on the way. I was pleased with their selection of Christmas music, not all the same old stuff. They played Lady Antebellum and even Cherie Call. When I got into Provo, I stopped at Fresh Market to go grocery shopping. I saw that they had dragon fruit, so I bought one. (It wasn't very good.) I think I bought snowflake Ritz crackers (and later realized the "snowflakes" have eight points instead of six--I don't plan on buying those again). I pulled into my parking lot to unload my car, but then I had to go park on the street because the green car didn't have a parking permit. When I got back in the car, the radio was playing a Michael Bublé interview.
2011. We had to work early that morning. That might have been the day we expected there to be treats, but there weren't any. My blog tells me that I had an unsuccessful run that afternoon. That night I had to write my talk for the next day.
2010. That morning I went with my parents to the temple. As we went there, we listened to my new Wonder of Christmas MoTab CD. Later, I picked up my friend David Christensen to go running up on Bountiful Boulevard. I was wearing blue pants, and David came out in red pants, which he had borrowed from his brother, since it was the day of the BYU/Utah football game, back when it was still in November. I ran farther than he did, and when I turned around I caught up with him. He pointed out the Charlie Brown nativity scene at one house, which I thought was ugly. Later, I went with my parents out to Centerville. We had to pick up missionary plaques. My parents were listening to the game and were quite displeased with it, while I was just sitting in the back eating sugar-coated almonds from my brother-in-law Matt. We went to Walmart, and I wanted to get the special edition of the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack, so I got a tin that had three Peanuts-themed CDs in it. On the way home, I put in the 40 Years: A Charlie Brown Christmas CD, and I loved David Benoit's version of "Christmas Is Coming," but I was unimpressed with the rest.
2009. It was my last full day of proselyting. We did a lot of tracting. At one house, the people's last name was Cook, and Elder Tamblyn asked if they were related to Cooks in Moses Lake. I thought it was a stretch, since it was a common name. One guy later in the afternoon was nice and knew some members, the Biglers. Elder Tamblyn periodically needed to rest. At one point we stopped the car so he could make some calls. We were listening to the new Ring Christmas Bells MoTab CD, and he changed the CD because he thought it was ridiculous they were making animal noises. We had dinner with the Christensens, and they had invited a nonmember friend. I can't remember what kind of lesson we gave, but Brother Christensen began talking about Adam and Eve. After dinner, I wanted to stop by an apartment where a less-active named Rebecca Dyer had lived. We knocked on the door, and someone called out asking who it was. We told her, and she said, "No thanks." But I was wanting to ask about someone, so I yelled through the door, asking about the girl who had lived there previously. There was no answer. I was so annoyed that they would ignore our questions and judge our intentions, so I pulled out a pass-along card and wrote a note on it, saying we weren't trying to bother them but were wondering about the Rebecca Dyer. Then we went home.
2008. I believe that we had lunch at the home of some friendly Baptists (maybe they were Pentecostals or non-denominationals).
2007. I would have worked on my farewell talk, although I don't specifically remember doing so. I think I decorated a tree downstairs while watching Christmas episodes of my old TV shows, since I wouldn't be able to watch them for two years.
2005. We went to Target, and I got a dollar DVD of The Beverly Hillbillies that had a Thanksgiving episode on it. That night we watched The Polar Express, since my mom's friend had lent it to us, and we all thought it was dumb.
2002. My sister was listening to the radio, and they played a silly turkey song. The DJ said they'd never play it again that year. I remember turning on my Charlie Brown Christmas CD while putting up decorations.
1998. My friend David called me to see if I could help him work on his Reflections submission. When they picked me up, David said to his mom, "Mark's good and has all his Christmas decorations up." For the contest, they were photographing kids doing adult jobs. We went to the library, and they had me stand behind the counter and pretend to scan books (the librarian had given us permission to do so). We saw a float from the Bountiful Light Parade.
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