October 24

Now it's time to remember what happened on October 24.

2014. My family was having a movie night at my sister's house, so we went to Little Caesar's and got pizza. We also went to Rite-Aid to get candy. I wanted to get orange Kit-Kats because I could have them, and my dad got candy to give to trick-or-treaters, but it didn't make it to Halloween. We watched Munster, Go Home!, and at the end, Susanne remarked about the snow accumulating rapidly in the movie. Then we went upstairs because she had to practice nursing on me and record it for a class. She started out, "Hi, I'm Susanne," and had to ask me questions as if I were a patient. She asked if my native language was English and I said "Sí." There wasn't enough memory on the phone that was used at first, so we had to start over again. During the second take, Buddy the dog got on top of me while I was lying on the couch, and she remarked about the puppy. She looked at my belly and said "I'll keep you modest." When we got done, we went home, and I watched Garfield's Halloween Adventure by myself. Then I wrote in my journal:
"After work, we went to Nan's house, where we ate pizza and watched Munster, Go Home! Then Nan had to do a physical assessment, which took a while.

2013. I commented on my roommate Jordan's Facebook post, telling him that grape jelly is bland, that he should use raspberry or blackberry instead. That night I watched the Garfield special; Jordan kept laughing at the song that kept saying "The one thing he's not is a scaredy cat!" When the ghost pirate ship showed up, Scott said, "Oh, this is a scary one. Everything we've watched so far have been comedies." I don't know for sure, but it's possible this was the night when I was waiting for Scott to quit watching the World Series before I watched my show, and a commercial was playing Lady Gaga's newly released "Do What U Want," and I said that it seemed like she was going downhill, which made Scott laugh.

2012. I was watching the "Safe and Sane Halloween" episode of Bewitched with my roommate Bryton. He remarked how cute Tabatha was, and he was laughing at all the things I found unfunny (such as characters getting confused for seeing strange things).

2010. I don't remember the day, but I did write in my journal, which I didn't do often at that time.
"Tomorrow I start my first day of real work, not counting Friday's orientation meeting. I still need to hear back from the post office. Part of me hopes I don't get that one because the schedule would be unpleasant, but it would make quitting the Church job more legit. I'm mainly excited to get a more impressive resume.  

2009. We finally got in with some people we had been trying to see for months. They were very friendly (and the wife was talking about Rocky Mountain oysters), but they definitely weren't receptive to our message, as they were strong Christians. They said no one could see God, since even Moses had to cover his face when he came down from the mountain. They asked almost condescendingly about baptisms for the dead. I tried to defend modern-day prophets, and the husband said he could believe in modern-day prophets, but he didn't think Joseph Smith was one. Then we went to Lapwai, the reservation outside of Lewiston. I drove up highway 95 to try to find a trailer park where a less-active member lived; I got a little lost on the way. I don't think we found who we were looking for, but other people confirmed they lived there. Then we went back to Lapwai proper and parked in the grocery store parking lot, and a man came up and talked to us. It was pretty obvious he was drunk; he kept telling Elder Tamblyn he shouldn't have "black eyes" (sunglasses) as a "Christian man." We wanted to get away but it was a little difficult. I told the man we would talk to him when he was sober, but he kept insisting that he wasn't drunk.
"Elder Tamblyn woke up again not feeling well. Then while he had personal study I slept because I didn't sleep the best last night. We visited a PI who were anti but nice. They claimed that no one can see God and thus Joseph Smith is not a prophet.
"We had lunch with the Bickerdykes, and then we went to Lapwai. We tried to see a LA and I got us going toward Orofino. When we were where we were meant to be, we tracted and dogs followed us completely around.
"Before leaving Lapwai a drunk Indian came up to us and told us he put his son before God so God took him away, so now he can't love anyone, and told Elder Tamblyn it wasn't good to have 'black eyes' (sunglasses).
"We had dinner with the Andersons and came home since Elder Tamblyn didn't feel well." 

2008. We visited our "eternal investigator" Christol (yes, that was how her name was spelled), who had a three-year-old, Edward, who was out of control. We were sitting on a bed in the living room, and Edward was attacking a little puppy, so I was trying to protect the dog. Suddenly there was a yellow liquid on the bed and Elder Love got up fast. He didn't know what to do, since Ritzville didn't have a dry cleaner. We went to our apartment and a Jon McPherson came over, since he was coming with us to a lesson. Elder Love changed his pants, and I told Jon why. Jon was a convert and just returned from his mission. We told him we had met some Catholic people who knew him and spoke disparagingly of our religion. He said they were very disappointed when he was baptized because they wanted him for their daughter. We visited our investigator Adriana, and a girl from the branch who was her daughter's friend was there too. I thought the member was the investigator's daughter. It was an awkward situation. We visited a less-active but very friendly part-member family, the Hunts, and I told them I had been in his parents' ward but never met them, and then they offered us Peanuts Halloween fruit snacks. That night we visited the recent converts the Johnsons. We told them about the dog incident earlier in the day, and Elder Love said, "I was p--I was mad," and Jason Johnson said, "You were going to say you were peeved."
"This morning we did our planning session. Then we had a lesson with Crystal. Their little puppy was behind Elder Love, while Edward was hitting it, and it peed and got Elder Love's suit.
"Then we met with Adriana. Briana, Maira's friend, was there, and for the longest time I thought she was Maira. I was embarrassed, because I kept asking her questions.
"Later we met the Hunts, a very friendly PMF. His parents were in the Greenbluff ward, but I don't remember them. Then we had a spontaneous lesson with the Johnsons. Denise wasn't too happy.
"We made a McDonald's run, and came back. For once we had no zeros in our daily actuals." 

2006. I was really excited to go to Shopko with my family and buy two newly released TV show DVD sets, the fourth season of Bewitched and the first volume of The Addams Family. Both of these had Halloween episodes, so I watched them when I went home. I told my dad I had bought an Addams Family DVD, but he was disappointed when he learned it wasn't the movies.