Today I was making an inventory of things to take to NYC and things to leave/sell here. One of the things that I came across brought back some memories....my laundry basket!
Weird right?
This laundry basket of mine holds a lot of memories for me.
I got this back in the winter semester of 2006 at BYUH when I was 18. I was only friends with Seth at the time, but we had started to hang out a lot. He told me that he was going to take a trip to Wal-Mart, and asked if I needed anything. I told him that I needed a laundry basket, and he said that he would pick one up for me.
I went over to his house the next night to go pick it up. He happened to pick up some markers as well, and for some reason we just started to color all over this laundry basket. We drew all sorts of things on there; things we planned to do together, and stuff we had in common, etc. I've had that laundry basket ever since. I see it every day, but today I took the time to actually look at what we drew, and it brought back a lot of memories.
A lot of the drawings have faded, but I can still recognize everything. On the back side, "FHF" is referring to the fact that I was Seth's "Favorite Hawaiian Friend." That made me laugh. I had forgotten about that. There's also a stick figure of me on a canoe, since I had just started to dance in the canoe show at the PCC. On the right, "STAR WARS" had been written, as that was something that we both loved and watched all of the time.
This side says "I heart Seth," which was written in friendly/flirty terms at the time. But of course now it means something! There is also a sketch of Seth riding a shark. Seth was a scuba dive master and would encounter sharks all of the time. That always kind of freaked me out.
The bottom drawing is of Disneyland. Since we found out that we were both from San Diego, we planned to take a trip up to Disneyland together later that summer (we weren't dating yet)! So in this drawing there is a Mickey Mouse head, a teacup from the Fantasyland Teacup ride, and Seth's drawing of us on the Buzz Lightyear laser ride. We had this ongoing bet on who would be better on scoring the most points on that ride.
Needless to say when we actually started dating and went to Disneyland that summer we were already engaged. Oh yeah and I won the bet.
On the other side of the basket, is us skydiving out of a plane. There is also a Koala Jedi (drawn by Seth of course..???) and Seth climbing a palm tree. This is one of the first things he demonstrated for me when we met. haha. The plane picture is supposed to be us on our first date, where we went skydiving on the North Shore for our first date and my 19th birthday. Seth wrote at the bottom, "Happy Birthday To Lacey! 19!" We were barely friends at the time, but we always pinpoint this date for the start of our relationship. We had so much fun that day and Seth made my 19th birthday unforgettable. This was our first picture together:
I wish I could take this laundry basket with me to NYC because it holds so many memories for me. Buuuuttt....I think I would kind of crazy trying to take it with me on the plane. haha. At least I have pictures of it now to remember. Memories are priceless!
