First off: Fast and Testimony meeting is SO crazy in my ward. Everyone wants to bear their testimony! Which is a good and a bad thing. I had actually planned on bearing mine because my testimony grew in some pretty great ways in the past month, but I didn't even get the chance because after every two testimonies, five more people would get up and sit on the stand. There wasn't a minute of silence. Sadly, those pauses between people deciding to get up is when I hear and feel the Spirit the strongest usually; it's able to sink in in those moments and it's usually when nobody is going that I'm compelled most to bear my testimony. I'm sad that didn't happen for me this past Sunday.... Maybe I'll bear my testimony someday in this ward....
Date Night(s!)
So I was walking up to campus with my next door neighbor Monday, and he was asking about my weekend and what-not, so I told him that "I went on some dates." He got a kick out of that! He brings it up every time we walk to class. But it is actually true. I went on a date on Friday and on Saturday night. Maybe saying "a couple of dates" would work better, but either is still true. *sigh* And I had a good time! And this is the part that gets everyone. They were with the same guy. Haha. So it was pretty great to chill with Matthew two days in a row. He took me on the first, and then the original guy I asked for Saturday wasn't able to go, so I got Matthew to tag along instead.
Now, coming from not having a date since maybe April, this was a big deal for me. Which is why I'm writing all about it here. They were my first dates here in college, and I'm glad they were with a good friend I've made here. I don't know how some people handle random guys they've seen twice on campus ask them out. I mean, how??
The first night we went to Lee's and picked out pumpkins. I loved how Matthew made it different than normal runs to the store. He got my door, made sure we walked next to each other, etc. It made me feel pretty good inside. Anyway: we found the perfect pumpkin! Well, I found it. But Matthew accepted it as perfect, even though there were lots of imperfections on the face- that's what made her perfect (we declared it female from the start).
We carved the pumpkin, and I found out that I'm terrible at carving pumpkins. I don't know why Matthew trusted me to carve it. But he did lots of cool fancy stuff that we attached to the outside that made it beautiful. And of course we didn't have candles, so we took a trip to Walmart to buy some, haha. Walmart runs happen quite frequently for us. After that we took pictures with our creations. And we definitely posed just like our pumpkin. Did we name her??.......awk... Well, she became our green pumpkin's boyfriend, and they kiss 24/7.
Then we made our amazing graham cracker haunted houses. It was gorgeous. And I'm proud to say I was much better at it than pumpkin carving. Matthew is also pro at these, so he was very serious and smart about how to go about building a proper roof, gluing it together, etc. It turned out A. MAZ. ING. It's still sitting in our kitchen even because I don't want to ruin it.
Isn't it the happiest thing? Yeah. It is.
I had to go to the DI, and he said he'd take me over, but we ended up going about 6:15pm, and we were suppose to meet up for the date at 6:30pm, so it all kind of morphed into the date. I got my stuff at the DI, and we went to the store to pick out a dessert.
It only took FOREVER.
It's fine.
We finally settled on brownies with Andes mints (Mom would be so proud) and went home to make them. I was able to ask the question that has only burned in the mind of every girl who has ever wanted to ask as guy out: who gets the doors?? (See, it's very obvious who gets the door when the guy asks, but when the girl asks?) Matthew said that he would be inclined to get the door for the girl, unless they were an independent feminist who preferred to get it herself. So that didn't exactly answer the question, or the question that was underlying ("Are you going to get my doors tonight?"), so when we back to Old Farm's parking lot, I said that he could get my door if he liked to. He said he would like to, and so that was lovely. :)
P.S. He offered to get the bill at the store, but I pushed it aside and paid. Also, we needed eggs for the brownies, but I don't use eggs so he was just going to buy them so he could use them after brownies, but I bought them. Then he exclaimed, "but I was going to buy the eggs!" And then later he tried to give me money and there was chasing around the kitchen, and I ended up putting the money in his fridge. It was great.
Anyway: the point of the date was that each of the four couples would be in charge of one part of the meal, and that we'd buy all our ingredients and then switch one ingredient with another couple so that we had to incorporate something from another part of the meal into our assigned part. Stephanie and Blake were in charge of the Chicken Parmesan, and we were in charge of dessert, right? And for a minute we were the only two couples present to cook anything, so we switched items. We gave them a few of our mint chips that they had to sprinkle on their chicken (not my favorite thing in the world), and long story short: we put sauteed garlic onions in our brownies. We only put them on top of half the mix, so that there would be actual edible brownies, but Matthew was tricky and made us have a battle of wits (the other two couples had NO clue what item we had put in our brownies). I made good observations in the baking process, so I chose the good kind (although there was still an onion on it!). It was very exciting to see the reactions of those who chose the onion brownies. Very entertaining. Until they all tried to make me eat my own creation, which I eventually did after a lot of begging from everyone. It was the nastiest thing of my life, and it was only in my mouth for maybe .005 seconds. It was that gross. And then all I could taste was garlic onion burning on my tongue. I don't know how Matthew ate an entire brownie with onion in it.... (He was pulling a Wesley from Princess Bride and the poison situation.)
After dinner, we washed dishes and cleaned up, and then headed over to another apartment to watch Megamind (in which we decided that I am totally Minion and Stephanie is Megamind). Basically, we had to go back to get our DVD player because theirs wasn't working, so Matthew and I said we'd go get the DVD player. I had forgotten to grab my key from my purse that I left at the other apartment, but I had locked the door. Anticipating a situation like this (especially after what happened to Matthew earlier that day), I had left a window unlocked for the purpose of breaking in. I actually really wanted to climb through the window; it sounded like a great adventure, but as I was trying, I was failing. Big time. So Matthew just hopped in and opened the door and we got the DVD player. #EMBARRASSMENT
It's pretty great because I still give goodnight kisses because it's my thing, and I can't imagine a date where I don't give them a goodnight kiss... So basically, Matthew got lots of kisses from me this weekend. They just all happened to be chocolate ones. ;)
I'm so grateful to have good friends that I can go on dates with. Not just Matthew, whom I went on the dates with, but the other guys and girls that joined in the dates too, and the fact that we can all just have a party with each other all the time. :)
Okay. The end. Thanks for reading my long story, Logan. ;)
