2013. We were having FHE at our bishop's house, so I rode with Joel DeVore up to Bishop's. On the way there, one of the passengers was playing solitaire on his laptop. They were talking about The Onion, and I said that on April Fool's Day the Onion should run real news. When we got there, I admired Bishop's granite boulder, like I usually do. (It's inside his house.) When we left, I remember there was a discussion about dubstep. I was impressed with Google's treasure map theme, and I appreciated the Delicate Arch and Salt Lake Temple pictures they put on the map.
2012. I watched general conference, and I remember seeing someone outside running, something that surprised me in Provo, since it was Sunday. I made a blog post, and I think my roommate Bryton came back from visiting home.
2011. I was walking on campus when I overheard a middle-aged lady reporting on a conversation she had previously heard: "'Let's not jump off the building. Let's go actually study instead.' She's like, 'Oh, all right...'" I was going to a mission reunion that night. I had parked far away, and I was carrying a jug of Gatorade to take to the reunion. I was walking past an apartment complex when I heard them playing Rebecca Black's "Friday," so I sang along as I walked by. Traffic was horrendous. I have never seen it that bad in Provo/Utah County before. I was listening to Owl City that day. At the reunion, there was a little program in the chapel, and my companion Elder Kitchen said he and a sister there were engaged--but it was an April Fool's joke. Elder Kitchen and his friends were staying at my parents' house (they were visiting for general conference), so he wanted my mom's number.
2010. Our internet was down, so I called to get it fixed, and I had my planner there to write down anything I might need to know. When I told my phone number to the guy who answered, I wrote my own number in my planner. (I only remember this happened this day because I put it on Facebook.)
2009. We did service by helping a family set up their trampoline. It was really cold. In their house, the members had the radio tuned to a Christian rock station, and I recognized the songs from my first area, when my companion wasn't overly obedient. We got picked up for interviews, and there were six of us missionaries crammed in one car. Elder Kitchen wanted to sing "Oh Holy Words of Truth and Love" for the opening hymn (since conference was coming up), and I was glad to sing a lesser-sung song, and Elder Nixon had never heard it. This is my journal entry for the day:
"I suppose the only April Fool's joke was the weather. My fingers were numb today when we helped the Formans with their trampoline. The wind was cold and biting, but it later yielded to snow. We talked with a man--a PI--who said he can't be baptized because he's living in sin.
"We had interviews--my interview wasn't too significant--and then we went back to work. We saw the Williams family, knowing it wasn't a PMF, but they have four kids, and only two of them are on the directory. The others are 8 & 9, which bodes well for us."
2008. We went to the temple, and on the way, Elder Johnson was complaining about people driving "slow" in the fast lane. We took pictures, and Sister Gillins took a picture with my camera. She saw some of the other pictures, and she was perplexed at a picture of a toilet (since I had taken a picture of a tiny nursery toilet, which I had never seen before).
2007. We were on the road on the way to Nashville. My mom looked for conference on the radio; we heard some religious choir on a station, so my mom stopped there. But then she changed the station when a narrator said, "Friends in Christ." I wondered why that was so bad--certainly not LDS parlance, but not something bad. So we listened to weird CDs. We listened to this one called Songs for a Mormon Child; I wondered why my mom liked it so much (even she commented about the girl who tried too hard), especially since there were no kids in the car. Then we listened to all five discs of the Children's Songbook CDs, which I thought were awful. (I actually grew to like them on my mission, but now I think they're terrible again.) Then we stopped at my cousin Tammy's in Iowa. I think we had missed all of conference. They told us about how they had set up a blanket fort tabernacle for the kids to watch conference in. When they began putting the kids to bed, I remember Tammy telling her oldest son, Adam, that two-year-old Ben, when saying prayers, had repeated "Uncle Ricky" as "Uncle Ribby." That night we talked with Tammy. We talked about the synesthesia blog post I had made before leaving. She talked about how she wanted to line me up with a girl from her ward who wanted to be an editor, "this girl Candice." I told Tammy I had actually met her. She said, surprised, "Candice Bellows?" I told her that I had met her at Y-Weekend the previous fall. She told me how she had called her mom, distraught, that she was at a play at BYU that seemed to laugh about a girl being pregnant and not married. I said I was a little surprised at some of the content in the play.
2006. I remember that my two-year-old niece Allie was playing with my mom's friend's niece Austin (what a weird name for a girl!), who was a little older. We were trying to concentrate on conference, but the girls were playing. Allie was getting annoyed with Austin, and Austin kept saying, "She's yelling at me!"
2001. We were watching conference and I said to my mom, "There's a spider on you!" My dad actually seemed more surprised, maybe because he was sleeping. Then I told them, "April Fool's!"
2000. I remember using the Health Rider during one of the Saturday conference sessions. My brother told me it wasn't good to do a cardio workout during conference, but my mom reproved him and told him it was impressive that I was watching Saturday sessions. I think it was that day I put plastic Easter eggs on pieces of yarn and draped them around the rearview mirrors of all three of our cars. (These last four memories were lifted from a previous blog post.)
1999. I was wearing the arm cast that had been pulled off of my arm in one piece two years earlier. I was trying to pass it off as a new break. Some people noticed the name "Reiko" signed on the cast, and said it must be fake, if it was the Reiko (RAY-ko) in our grade. I told them it was my cousin "REE-ko," but that was not true.
1998. Our teachers told us we needed to run laps or else we wouldn't be able to make it to fourth grade. Being a fat little kid, I really struggled, and after running, I asked if I had made it. Mrs. Slagowski said I had. But then when we learned it was a joke, I was really annoyed. One of my classmates, Skyler, told me that I needed it.
1997. Our teacher, Miss Slater, had a card-pulling system in which yellow was default, red was a warning, green was timeout, and it escalated from there. On this day, she told us she was starting a new system, where everyone started on red, and you had to be extra good in order to get up to yellow. Erica Lovell did something she shouldn't have, so she had to pull her card, which meant she had to go in timeout. Later in the day, Miss Slater told us it was a joke, and we were surprised that we had believed her, and that Erica had to go in timeout on this "new" system.
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