Two days before Labor Day

With Labor Day coming up, I'm going to remember what happened the Saturday before that day.

2013. In the morning I had to go up to the geology computer lab to work on the writeup for Geology 210. The TA Brad had shaved his beard, and he looked really different without it. I worked all day on that writeup. Others left, planning on working on it later, but I'm glad I stayed--even though I worked most of the day, I didn't totally finish. I had to use Adobe Illustrator to modify one of my pictures:

 I think at one point I took a vending machine lunch break, and in the evening I went over to the CougarEat. I also bought a newspaper jack-o-lantern decoration from the Bookstore, that being my favorite of their Halloween decorations (they also had orange and black owl salt and pepper shakers). When I left for the day, I went to 7-Eleven to get my last Slurpee of the season (it was August 31), and by the cash register there were Reese's pumpkins. I think when I got back to my apartment, there was no parking, so I had to park far away and walk back. (Maybe I ran back.) I had to go through some sprinklers, and I was worried they would ruin my new shoes.

2012. It was September 1, and I was kind of sick. I slept in and took a nap, listening to my music to try to get my new Kelly Clarkson and Owl City music integrated into my collection. It was rainy when I went grocery shopping. I remember seeing the shaved ice shack outside the store and thinking that I couldn't get them anymore, since it was September. I saw gummy werewolves and gummy vampires for sale, but it was still too early to get them. I wanted some cough drops, so I bought some apple cider-flavored ones. Then I went home and watched some of the Frozen Planet documentary. My roommate Cameron and his friend came in while I was watching. They wanted to watch something, but they finished the documentary with me, watching a fight between a wolf and a reindeer (or something like that). Before they watched Downton Abbey, I had to show them the clip of the ice trapping starfish:



2011. I went to Famous Footwear to buy new running shoes. I really liked my K-Swiss Tubes, so I bought some more of them, but orange and black instead of green and grey. I tried some new Adidas, and as I was checking out, the cashier said her husband had some and he loved them. (I ended up not liking those shoes.)

2010. I left early in the morning with my parents and Allie to go to Moosehorn Lake to ride on our little inflatable boat. At one point, I was having a hard time steering and almost ran into another guy. I apologized, and he was very friendly, saying it was a great day for boating. At one point, Allie was in the boat with me and said "gooder." I told her that "gooder" was nonstandard, and that she should say better, but she said people knew what she meant. (I don't think I would have corrected her today.) At one point she made a remark about putting her hand up and making the waves stop, like Jesus. On our way home, we stopped at McDonald's in Park City. We had to wait a really long time for my mom, because she was helping some lady who had a disease and needed to get new clothes from her husband.

2009. We had dinner with the Browns and their parents (whose name I can't remember). After dinner, we went to our apartment. Elder Warren had held the phone that day, because it was transfer call day and we were super anxious. We got our call from President Palmer, and I remember Elder Warren saying, "So do I have to learn Spanish?" Then President talked to me and said I was staying and getting Elder Tamblyn. Elder Warren told me that he was being transferred to Brewster and Twisp, in a newly organized "zebra" companionship, where one companion was English speaking and the other was Spanish speaking. I said that that had always been my dream--to go to that exact area and have to speak Spanish, but that people told me it wouldn't happen. Elder Warren said he thought he was the person who said that would never happen. And then he got it instead of me, even though I knew some Spanish! That night we went out to go tracting, but as we were locking our bikes to a sign, a wasp stung me on the neck. Elder Warren said I should get some Benadryl. We walked to the convenience store on the end of Grelle Ave., got some Benadryl, and walked back. We might have stopped at the recent convert Renee's on the way back. I was super tired filling out the progress report for Sunday, and Elder Warren laughed at me.

2006. We were in Fillmore, camped out in my grandma's backyard. My aunt Michelle took Susanne and Allie to a little store in town, where Allie got a sheet of sticker earrings. That day we also went to Duane's grocery store, where Susanne got some Hershey's chocolates. The chocolates were haunted houses (I think) and the white chocolates were ghosts. We saw some Halloween Peeps, and Allie said they should get them for my birthday. I was impressed that she remembered I got some for my birthday the previous year.

1999. We were camping in Fillmore Canyon, and I think this was the time David had brought his friends up. They were excited to feed cows on the Christensens' farm.

1997. I remember seeing a bunch of tombstones. Later I learned that that was a mortuary, and I said that I had thought it was someone with their Halloween decorations up early.