No, no I was not evicted. But on moving day, those of us who move out of our winter apartments and move into another for Spring, there is a period of temporary homelessness. For my friend Cherie and I, this period lasted about five hours. Luckily, we survived and moved in ok with Hailey's help.
{Little plug for Hailey, she's an incredible friend and she deserves it: Hailey's blog has some pretty funny stuff in it, sometimes she even mentions me! Yes, it's a wordpress blog, but nobody's perfect. ;) Love you girl!}
So, here is how Cherie, Hailey, and I had fun while homeless.
We piled our stuff into my car and the back of Hailey's truck, Little Buddy. My Prius, Dillinger, was so stuffed that the poor little guy was un-driveable. So we took Little Buddy to the library and then to J-Dawgs so we could eat lunch.
I don't know if any of you have ever ridden in the cab of a smallish Toyota Tacoma with two of your friends. For those of you who haven't, it is an exercise in togetherness. We have, over the course of Spring term, figured out how to sit so that Hailey can still drive. I love Little Buddy to death, but his is not the roomiest of truck cabs. All the better for bonding!
They kicked us out pretty early in the morning, so we were not quite yet ready for the pure awesome that is J-Dawgs, so we went to the library instead. Now, the Harold B. Lee Library is quite something, but we see that one every day on campus. The Provo Library, on the other hand, was alluring in its novelty. It was the home of the Brigham Young Academy before it moved to Temple Hill and became the University it is today. We parked and went inside. The sheer number of books overwhelmed us. We REALLY wanted to get library cards, but guess what you need for that? That's right, you need proof of address. So we couldn't exactly do that. We still need to, actually.
After a while we were actually hungry enough to eat a full lunch, so we left the library for J-Dawgs. This wonderful place, for those of you who do not know, grew out of a small stand that still sits outside the new location. They sell, as the name implies, hot dogs...some of the best hot dogs you will ever eat. They have all the traditional condiments available, and then their special sauce...it's like honey-hickory-sweet-smoke-barbecue HEAVEN! I get a polish dog smothered in special sauce and ask them to line the bun with their wonderful, salty, crunchy pickle spears. It sounds completely weird but that is how I like them. You can personalize your hot dog there, which is just one more reason it's great. Hailey and Cherie had never been there before, so we thought it was a good time for them to try it out. They actually quite enjoyed it.
After that, we were quite tired and we still had a few hours left before we could move in. We decided to go to RC Willey, a large furniture chain. We moved from couch to couch until we found the most gloriously comfy leather couch. We were pretty darn sure it had memory foam inside, and stayed there for about an hour. We wanted to buy it, but it was real leather so we couldn't afford it. Eventually, we started examining mattresses, including a really nice memory foam one that we also wanted to buy. We joked with the floor salesman about donating to poor college students...they laughed.
But at about this time we could move into our new places. We helped each other get everything in. It was a really fun bonding experience, and it could have been a horrible hassle. But anything goes better with friends.
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