Taco Bell, Piano Music, and Embarrassment

My dear friend Camilla and I had quite an eventful morning. We'd decided last night that we were going to get together this morning to run a few errands and just catch up on our lives. It had been about a week since our last visit which is too long. So I picked her up at her house, playing her piano for a few minutes while she finished doing what she was doing around the house, and then we left. First item of business: getting a December Ensign at the Distribution Center and returning a book to Deseret Book. Of course this month's Ensign was sold out, which irritated me because I'll just have to go back later. Then I went next door to Deseret Book to return a book that was a little embarrassing to return. Enough said. You can ask me if you're unbearably curious.

Then we went to the mall to grab a few things Camilla needed, namely Christmas sheet music. She's becoming quite the proficient at the piano. I'm proud of her. I, however, am on the downward slope and will probably continue in that direction until Eldon and I get a piano at some future day when our apartment isn't the size of a large closet. :) My little talent - meager as it was - is threatening to be covered in dirt and all manner of foulness and I know I'm going to lose it if I don't do something soon. I just don't know. Maybe Chiara and I will hang out at Camilla's house while Daddy's at school. Probably. Then, Camilla, your whole house can smell like baby. I wish there were a candle of baby smell. I'd be their #1 customer.

Anyway, after the mall we decided that a traditional Taco Bell run was in order and we made the plan to grab some food and then eat it at her place while we watched a movie before she had to go to work. So we're at the drive-thru and we have a surprising number of responses to the speaker's question, "Anything else?" "Why yes, actually ... " It got kind of ridiculous. How do two young girls (that's a bit of a euphamism) spend $10 at Taco Bell? Oh, it's easy, you just keep ordering stuff! So after he tells us the total I started driving to the window to pay. I started jokingly talking to the person who had taken our order, as if she could hear me. "What do you mean is this food just for us? No, we uh, have lots of roommates and we're bringing this back for them. Actually, the two of us aren't going to be eating any of it, we're just delivering it to the needy ... " etc. etc. I'm so funny sometimes, and in that moment we were dying laughing. Which, for Camilla, was a little tragic because she'd just taken a HUGE drink of her large and spacious gallon-sized bottle and started choking on it. I had just turned over to her, slightly repentant of my commentary, when she opened the passenger door and spit out all the water she'd been gagging on ... which of course made us laugh even harder. We are two very, very classy individuals. I wonder what the people behind us were thinking. Who cares?

Anyway, the moral of the story is that everyone should have a friends who they can be silly with and not worry that their friend's love or respect will diminish in any way. :) I love you, Camilla!

P.S. Favorite quote from the movie we watched: (pregnant friend speaking to non-pregnant friend) "Whatever ... I'm a sacred vessel - all you have in YOUR stomach is Taco Bell!" Needless to say we laughed about that through our mouthfuls of taco and nacho deliciousness. :) True!!