Assortment

A few things stand out from my time living on Springville Way.


1) The Broadway musical Jekyll and Hyde was in pre-production, and somehow we had the music. Sam made me a tape of the songs, and I completely fell in love with the music. I listened to it in my Walkman over and over and over again, and sang my little heart out with it. Once the musical came out, the music was a little bit different, but I always loved the pre-production music more.


2) Speaking of music, it was while we lived in this house that our stake did a Best of Broadway production. I tried out, and got a solo. It was On My Own, from Les Miserables. I sang that song over and over and over again too, in all its romantic sadness. Oh me.


3) Sam had no bedroom. He was the unlucky one who had so many little sisters that there were no boys to share a room with. At this point, Mark was still little enough that he either shared with my parents or was in with the girls. But once we left Corcoran, we didn't have enough bedrooms. In the Greenwood house, Sam had a section of the garage that was set up as a bedroom for him. In the Springville house, his bedroom was the living room. He slept on the couch, and all his stuff was stored in stacks behind the couch.


4) Sam was a music collector. He had hundreds of CDs, which he kept in CD crates in alphabetical order. Sometimes he was asked to DJ the dances, and I thought that was super cool. He was always really good about playing requests.


5) Somewhere around our neighborhood, and all around Turlock, were these flowers called Star Jasmine. Even now, 24 years after having graduated high school and left, I can still smell them. It is my favorite smell ever...that star jasmine, in the blistering heat of the California sun. I wish I could insert a scent into this post. The smell of star jasmine is an extremely nostalgic and sentimental smell for me.