Memory Lane

On my last trip to Utah, my friend Ashley, had the brilliant idea of taking pictures of all the places we have lived in Provo...a photo journal of our early 20's for posterity's sake. So that's what we did. Its been a while since i lived in most of these places, and it was frightening to go back and see them...how did i survive without hepatitis? Why did i think that it was a good idea to live in these scary apartments/houses to save a couple of bucks? Kind of makes me wish i would of just hunkered down at the Belmont or something (just kidding!).

number 1: Condo Row
Age when i lived here :18
Roommates: Kaity, Anne, and Heidi
Good Times: The entire time i lived here it was good. There was an apartment of boys that lived across the street that i was good friends with and i spent most of my time over there.
Something i would like to forget: Dating a 29 year old (gross), working at Hogi Yogi (double gross), and getting mono.

Number 2: California House
Age when i lived here: 18
Roommates: Tisha, Whitney, Chrissie, Camille and a 28 yr old that watched a lot of Jag.
Good times: my first residence in the 191st ward and all the friends i met that summer (brandon, matt, cambam, mere, herm house, etc...), romantic fireplace with Tisha's Sade CD, listening to all of Cameron and Matt's records (Cat Stevens, Kingston Trio, Heart)
Something i would like to forget: Edging the entire lawn with scissors, Larry the creepy slumlord.

Number 3: Chatham Towne
Age that i lived here: 19-20
Roommates: Melora, Lori and Sarah
Good Times: Morning Yoga, killer dance parties, Sarah's Peter Pan play at the Scera, starting beauty school, one of the best birthdays i have ever had.
Something i would like to forget: First experience with underground parking (scraped both sides of the dear Subaru on the first day), first experience with snow, 3 flights of stairs, dying my hair black with pink streaks.

Number 4: Oldham House Age when I lived here: 20
Roommates: Meredith, Jana, Lindsay, Tara, and i cant remember her name but she was nice and quiet and married a guy from Mongolia, i think.
Good Times: Lazy Summer days, painting on the grass with Ashlee Baldwin, BBQ's, a diet of grilled cheese sandwiches and Special K with red berries.
Something i would like to forget: sweating to death every night, Tara waking me up at 5am to drive her to work only a few blocks away, box elder bugs all over my room, food poisoning.

Number 5: The scary of all scaries, The Attic
Age when i lived here: 20
Roommates: Natalie and Ashlee
Good Times: Throwing Ashlee one of the best bridal showers of its time (its been easily topped since then, but it was a good starting place), our place FILLED with balloons when Ashlee got engaged, Natalie doing her impression of Delilah, nightly, rain on the tin roof, yes, i said the tin roof.
Something i would like to forget: Thinking a rapist is hiding ready to snatch me every time i left or came back to my house, giving people directions every time anyone came over (it was located behind a 4-plex and up that crazy rickety staircase), wearing stilettos coming up and down those same stairs (they are grated).

Number 6: SkyviewAge when i lived here: 21
Roommates: Alicia, Olivia, Lindsay, Camilla and Ashley
Good Times: Applying self tanner to Cameron Earl, getting ready every morning with Camilla and Ashley and listening to Hoobastank's "The Reason" on repeat, all of Alicia's treats and crafts, all of the visitors we got constantly (Skyview got a lot of traffic), being really really really tan, watching Oprah with Liv.
Something i would like to forget: 3 flights of stairs, the ugliest and worst furniture of all time, an always messy kitchen (way too small for 6 girls), my car battery that had to be jiggled while the ignition was turned on simultaneously (a job for 2...couldn't go anywhere alone).

Number 7: La Jolla

(picture coming soon)

Age I lived here: 21
Roommates: 2 girls i don't remember. They were random, we never really spoke and they were there for like 1 month of that summer.
Good Times: Practically living alone, rent was only 90 dollars, floating the Provo river, road trips, diet of chips and sour cream (no joke).
Something i would like to forget: a really high loft bed that put me dangerously close to the ceiling fan, my car getting towed for no registration(oops), trying to go blond again.


Number 8: The Remodeled BasementAge when I lived here: 21
Roommates: Amy and Shalee
Good Times: Living sandwiched between best friends in the yellow house and the funny boys next door, learning to love Relief Society, really nicely remodeled place.
Something i would like to forget: no couch and no closet, listening to Shalee and Rex (now married) make out on the bunk underneath me, landlord Loren's KILLER dogs that would bark and scare you to death every time you left the house, the death of the Subaru.

Number 9: The Omni

Age when i lived her: 23-24
Roommates: Rachel, Lisa, Allie, Beth
Good Times: Riding my bike everywhere, my long long long beautiful hair that i miss so so so much, using Sean's BMW to drive everywhere, a successful dinner group, Road trips to Vegas, Huntington, and Tahoe, Painting and decorating, the best birthday I've ever had.
Something i would like to forget: the day when Derek called to tell me he had cancer, an unhealthy relationship, all the patent leather shoes i wore (gross), dangerous shopping habits.

& finally, Number 10: The Fishbowl Age when i lived here: 24
Roommates: Francesca, Emily, Sarah, Angenelle, Stef
Good Times: Giving the house a complete makeover, awesome backyard BBQs and parties, my beautiful TV, a closet straight out of MTV cribs (no joke, the thing was the size of a room, and i did install a chandelier, 4 covered parking spots.
Something i would like to forget: My job, an always icy driveway, dust bunnies everywhere from the Ikea area rug, creeptastic Landlord.

Provo, overall, was good to me. Lots of jobs, friends, ex-boyfriends, drama, and a lot of growing up and learning. I am glad i am gone, but i am also glad that i was there for that time in my life.

BYE BYE PROVO.