Five Random Pre-Marital Memories

Okay, Laura asked for it. Here is number one. When Traci Gregerson(Johns),Jessica Verheof and I were juniors we took a trip together to Yakama, Washington to see Traci's boyfriend who she'd met at Red Fish Lake. I don't remember the guys name but he was pretty dumb. Cute enough, but not my favorite guy. The only cool thing about him was he worked at a cherry factory. We got to go to the factory and eat as many of those big yummy cherries as we wanted. It's a 9 hour drive up there and we drove the John's Trooper, just the three of us. We got there sometime in the afternoon and later that night I called my mom to let her know we were there and okay. My mom asked me how Utah was and at first I thought she was kidding. It turned out that she hadn't really heard anything I had said except we were driving to see Traci's boyfriend. I told her we were closer to Seattle. Then she said, "Oh, okay, have fun. When are you coming back again?" Ha ha. She could have at least got the right state! Or one next to it, or within 600 miles of it. When we were up there we had fun cliff jumping and I taught Jessica the art of bum sliding down a river. Holy cow! I thought she was going to drown from laughing so hard. I was trying my best to keep myself up while holding her up, too. We also went to this fun restaurant where they had a deck built out into this huge pond full of those nasty huge goldfish things that get to be the size of cats. It was a pretty fun trip.

A friend and I were bored one time so I let her dye my hair. During 9th grade we were bored and in Kmart or somewhere cheap like that and I saw a box of dark brown hair dye. I’ve always wondered what I would look like as a brunette so I grabbed it and we headed home. I didn’t realize anything was up until we were rinsing my hair out in the bath tub. I freaked and asked why the heck the bath water was BLACK! Not brown, BLACK. I checked the box and it said dark brown and had a picture of dark brown hair. I should have sued. That night I walked into our living room and sat down with my parents to watch a little TV until bed. I think I was sitting there for an hour before my mom looked over and asked incredulously why my hair was black. I told them it was an honest accident but I don’t think they believed me. I definitely didn’t like it black, but it was an interesting experience watching my hair turn every gross color from black to red to orange to blond again. Believe it or not, I haven’t dyed my hair since. Moral of the story: don’t buy cheap hair dye.

This one is completely retarded of me, but sometime in high school, can't remember when, Traci Gregerson, Tara Hamilton(not sure what her last name is now), Jessica Verhoef and I went to the STP/ Red Hot Chili Peppers concert in the Idaho Center. One of our big goals of the night was to go crowd surfing. Yup, where you let weird strangers pick you up and lift you across the entire crowd all the way up to the stage where you're then taken around the side and out of the concert hall; they let you in I think two times and then you can't get back in. So we all did it and surprisingly the only one who was dropped was tiny little Tara. By the way, she and her husband just had the most beautiful baby girl!

Emma Egner(Turley) has been my best friend since we were in 3rd grade. We would stay at each other’s house practically every weekend and I miss it so much! I think all of my favorite childhood memories include Emma. When we stayed at Emma’s house we would first clean her room. I’m a bit of a clean freak and I can’t stand to stay in a room that’s messy. Traci, hmm. So we would trash out her room and organize it a bit from the last weekend’s festivities and then we would make treats and popcorn. We would drink this stuff that tasted like coffee but didn’t have anything bad in it. I can’t remember what it was called. Oooh, that sounds good, I’ll have to call Emma and find out what it was. Then we would watch movies and goof off and laugh the entire night. We had this game we loved to play. We would get wire hangers and “fish” popcorn out of a huge bowl from her bed. I need to call Emma and have a sleep over with her two girls and her boy as soon as we get into our new house! It gets me excited just thinking about it!!! Then the best part of the night was always bed time. Emma and I would take turns playing with each other’s hair. We would fight over who played with whose hair last until we both dropped dead when the night was almost over. Ha, that reminds me! We made a time capsule, otherwise known as a fanny pack, filled with graffiti from our 6th grade graduation party and letters we wrote to ourselves to read once we graduated high school. I bet it’s still packed up at her parent’s house. I’ll have to find out. Postum!!! That's what it was. It didn't really taste like coffe, similar, and it looked just like it. I'm going to go get some tonight.

This one still makes me laugh! I hope my kids are as dumb as I was so they can have funny memories like this. One year for my birthday party in junior high, we had my yearly 10 girl crazy sleepover party. I made myself my own birthday cake shaped like a mitt and ball in honor of softball season, and we were all having fun, except maybe Laura and Julie who thought we were evil for taking a caffeine pill each so we could stay awake. Very dumb and immature, but if that’s as bad as it gets, I think kids are doing okay. So we went on a walk to the junior high track to walk around and play when the ice cream truck dude came along and started flirting with us. Gross, I know. Well, we flirted back hoping for free ice cream and instead he told us to hop in and he’d give us a ride to the school. Have you ever seen a tiny ice cream truck with 10+ girls stuffed into it? I’m surprised it even drove! I looked outside at the tires and they were practically flat on the ground with the truck only able to go about 5 mph. There were girls suffed onto the ice cream cooler in the isle and out every window. I’m afraid the truck would have been fatally wounded if it had been more than two blocks he had to drive us.

And there you go! Everyone else who reads this needs to do this, it's funny.