A Tribute to Cindy-Face and Lielzebub

Let's go back to the Fall of 2005. I was nineteen, a semi-sophomore at BYU, one of the newest first altos in the BYU Concert Choir, and the roommate of two lovely ladies to whom I've dedicated this blog post.

I could go on about how Cindy has one of the least weird-looking babies I've ever seen (seriously--out of all the newborn pictures she posted, there was not one that looked like a terrifying lizard monster), or about how Liel has this vast cultural knowledge of all things French and fascinating, but instead, I'll post some "documents" that we drew up when we began living together, just to prove the collective awesomeness that was the three of us in 602 N 800 E #103*.

DINNER SCHEDULE!!!!

Monday

• Cindy and Alexandra-Performance Psych until 6:50
• Do Dinner on Own
• FHE Night

Tuesday

• Alexandra-Bio Lab until 6:50
• Liel and Cindy make food that has leftovers
• Gilmore Girls!!!!

Wednesday

• Cindy and Alexandra-German Choir until 5:50
• All cook something together (Easy stuff)
• ALIAS!!!!

Thursday

• Rotate who cooks dinner each week

Friday

• Will have dates maybe (in which case, eat something small before so date doesn’t think you’re a pig)
• Entertain with fun parties that will show everyone how amazingly wonderful we are!

Saturday

• Will have dates maybe (see Friday)…then again, whom are we kidding? We’ll never have dates. We’re sad.
• Eat Homemade Pizza together!

Sunday

• All cook something together
• Bond

We actually kept the dinner schedule going pretty well. We stopped watching "Alias" because it got weird, but our Thursday night dinners were quite memorable. And we didn't really have dates that often, except for one time I turned down going to dinner with a boy I liked because we were making the homemade pizza (I got lectured because of that).

ROOMMATE MANIFESTO

1. Condo=Love. Love the Condo; Love your roommates; Love yourself.
2. Don’t do drugs.
3. All boys who will be spending excessive amounts of time here must be approved by other two roommates.
4. No making out in the house. Do it outside, away from the window. Goodnight kisses are okay.
5. No hair in the sinks or showers.
6. Conserve electricity-be sure to turn off lights when not in the room.
7. Last one up at night: turn off all lights, lock door.
8. A good thorough cleaning job will be done at least once a month. Schedules and job divisions will be provided later.
9. If you’re on a date with a boy you like and the two of you are at the door and there’s no kissing going on, the roommate(s) at home have every right to play “Kiss the Girl” out the window to get the point across.
10. If you’re on a date with a boy you don’t like and he’s trying to kiss you, the roommate(s) at home have to save you by opening the door at an “inopportune” time.
11. As is made clear by rules nine and ten, we will wait up for you if you’re on a date.
12. Boyfriends will not interfere with our friendship.
13. Put the toilet lid down!
14. Don’t piss each other off. And if you do, apologize. Don’t throw things or shout obscenities. Unless it’s for comic effect.
15. Obey all rules of common courtesy.
16. Be flexible.
17. Don’t pull a you know who with a you know what.
18. Don’t burn the condo down. The condo=love. See rule one. Do you want our love to burn? Huh? Do you?
19. Learn something new about everyone once a week.
20. Don’t sin anymore ever. You reject from the war in heaven. Just kidding. Okay, the real twentieth rule is that we should pray together. The roommates that pray together, stay together. Until one of them gets married. Or graduates. Whichever comes first.

THE END!!!!

These were our rules. We talked about making out a lot (probably because we mostly didn't until Cindy got her boyfriend-who-is-now-her-husband in June).

Why We Should Have Boyfriends:

1. We are dang cute!
2. We’re funny! Hello, have you met us?
3. We can sing…that’s hot.
4. We’re smart. We got into BYU; that’s proof of that.
5. We cook. Maybe not like [NAME HAS BEEN DELETED], but we can still cook.
6. We won’t cheat on you.
7. We have excellent and flexible tastes in movies.
8. We will not make you do stupid things.
9. We won’t call you strange names.
10. Cindy is a good kisser. Alexandra learns quickly. Liel will not be conscious through it; she’ll be compliant.
11. Cindy plays video games.
12. Alexandra has amazing rhetoric.
13. We speak various languages.
14. We’re adventurous and willing to try new things.
15. We keep the Honor Code religiously.
16. We will take you to the temple; you want to go to the highest degree of the Celestial kingdom, right? Well, we’ll get you there.
17. We shower regularly and brush our teeth lots.
18. God owes us for years of sucky boys and breakups.
19. People our age are getting married! We need to catch up.
20. Boys make you warm. It’s cold outside. We need warm boys.

We made a list, because men respond to logical arguments better than any other form of seduction. I don't know how I was included in number 14.

*Not one of us lives here anymore, so don't bother starting your stalking there.