Valentine's Day around here is often called Single Awareness Day (SAD). I had the best Valentine's Day ever. For this Valentine's Day I decided that I would make myself up and look nice just because I could. Lynnae, Savannah and I were going to take "glamour" shots", but things happened (which I will explain next) that prevented it. So here is what happened. It truly has been a SAD day. Our plan was to go to Walmart to get groceries and stuff to celebrate V-Day. We got into the car and it wouldn't start, so we asked a friend to jump it for us. We did that and started on our way. Not even half way there, we hear a thumping noise and realize that we got a flat tire! So we pull over as fast as we could. Because of how bad the tire was and how the street was, we couldn't pull completely off the road. The battery was still weak, so we couldn't put our hazard lights on. We got out of the car and saw how bad it was--bad. We checked to see if we had a spare, and fortunately we did and it was a full-sized tire. Meanwhile cars are trying to avoid hitting us as they want to turn. A man pulled up besides us (with his wife) and asked if we could use some help and we told him yes. Thank goodness!! He changed the tire for us. Oh, an important detail I forgot to mention is that it was snowing and really cold. It snowed about four inches while we were there. Anyway, as he was changing the tire, I stood at the back of the car to try to direct the cars so they would not hit us. They came so close to me and car sometimes that it was really scary. We had a few others ask if we were okay, but we also had some others yell at us to move or turn on our hazard lights... impossible. After the tire was fixed and the man left, we were about to leave when Savannah said she couldn't find her keys. Even before this happened, I was laughing. I thought the whole thing was a bit funny and thought, "Bring it on!!" Savannah and Lynnae did pretty well to keep their cool, although Savannah did swear at a couple drivers who were really rude to us. We looked all over for the keys but couldn't find them. We each were saying silent prayers to find them. Keep in mind that every 2 minutes or so a large flow of traffic would come and have to slow down for us for seemingly no reason. Finally, Savannah called her brother, whose car it is, and asked him if he had a spare key, and fortunately he did. As we were waiting we had a lot of both positive and negative people talk to us. It was not so fun especially since we were freezing. I decided that I would go into the car because I was cold and knew that the keys had to be in there. I looked around and decided to look in Savannah's purse although both Lynnae and Savannah had looked in it. And I found the keys!!! Just before I found them, one of our other roommates drove by and stopped in front of us because she recognized us. When we got in the car, the other drivers were being horrible, but fortunately nothing happened and we were able to leave. This is not the end to the tale though. The spare tire was going flat, too, so we had to find a gas station. The first station we went to had a air pump, but it was out of order, so we had to drive further to another one. At first it wasn't working, but then one of the gas station workers came out and helped us. As we were driving to the gas station Savannah noticed that the emergency break wouldn't come off, so we were driving with that on, too. The engine light kept coming on and we could tell the the battery was still weak because other parts of the car that are electrically run were going really slow or not working. Scary! We decided that we would change our plans and go to Macey's instead. Lynnae and I went inside to get food while Savannah drove the car around for half and hour. It seemed to work and everything went well from then on. I was still tense from it all, but we got home safe. I was only tense after we left the side of the road because I was so sure that worst possible thing that could happen next is to hit another car or be hit by another car. Luckily that didn't happen.
A couple of weeks ago my roommates Savannah, Lynnae, and Monique made Valentine's Day predictions for everyone in the aparment. Mine were the following (neither of which came true): Michelle: Will get a job interview and effectively forget it's Valentine's Day until 9:17 p.m. She will then come out into the front room to discover that a secret admirer has left her a bouquet of lilies and white rosebuds.
Michelle: Will head to the Library for some dedicated studying around brunch-time. While there, she'll turn a corner and crash into somebody. Her books will fly everywhere, and her stranger will help her pick them up. In a romantic gesture never before seen in the Harold B. Lee, they'll reach for the same book and their hands will meet. Eyes will follow, and for the first time, Michelle will see the handsome, glowing young man with whom she collided. He'll introduce himself as a BYU grad student and grandson of a general authority – an apostle. They'll talk for a while, which will turn into a date. By the end of the night they'll know they are meant to be, and Michelle will have a ring on her finger before I go into the MTC.
However, one of the prediction made for Monique, who will be leaving for her mission to Nauvoo in a couple of weeks, came true (with the help of her roommates and some good humored guys). Here is what hers was:
Monique: Seventeen guys, whom she may or may not know, will propose marriage, presenting a real quandary. How can she possibly have gotten seventeen marriage proposals!?! O_O She's going on a mission for Pete's sake! How can she tell seventeen guys that no, she can't marry them?! She will politely refuse each one, then tell her brother about it, who will follow her around with a shotgun, just waiting for someone else to try it. No, make that an AK-47.
They managed to get 17 guys to do it!! It was really funny to see how the guys did it. Our close friends did it in person. We recorded two of them. James proposed to Monique by giving her a rose made of foil and had music playing in the background. She said yes and hugged him, thinking that he didn't expect that, which he didn't. But she didn't expect what came next, either. Loud music came on and Lafe, a really funny guy in the ward who is in my fhe group, came out of a closet with a stick to duel James over Monique. James was defeated and Lafe proposed to Monique with other music playing in the background. Later Jared proposed to her with two rings. He left us when we went back to the apartment, but later came back with a letter written to Monique professing his love and explaining to her why he had to leave her right then. It was so funny. Later we all listened in on a phone proposal. This guy was so long winded and wouldn't let Monique talk. He was saying so many funny things. The the phone disconnected right when he proposed! She called him back and said yes. Then he actually set a date for two years from now, since she is going on a mission in a couple of weeks. He is the only one who did that. To see the video, look at my photo gallery by clicking on the recent pictures link.
After that we went to the tumbling gym that I went to on my birthday (where I sumo wrestled for the first time) and then ended the fantastic day with a toast (non-alcoholic Sparkling Wild Berry) to being single on Valentine's Day. We also enjoyed some tasty strawberries dipped in chocolate. Once again, if you want to see more pictures, click on the link.
