Bringing Wednesday Back...

Dear Pineapple Wednesday,

Now that it is summer and the perfect season for a nice refreshing bit of delicious flavor, I am secretly wishing that Pineapple Wednesday was no longer on hiatus. I am seriously considering bringing Pineapple Wednesday back. Again. I know I say this constantly, and then it just ends up stopping, but I miss it. I miss that nervousness when I walk up to some random stranger holding this somewhat exotic fruit. I miss introducing Clementine Woolysocks or Methuselah Honeysuckle. I miss hoping for a text message or a call or a comment on my blog. I miss wondering who this random recipient is, what they think, and whether or not they enjoyed the pineapple. As I sit at home on Wednesdays, I feel somewhat like something is missing from my life. I miss the crazy adventure that was Pineapple Wednesday. I miss the excitement, the nerves, the laughter, the stress, the time, the people, and everything about Pineapple Wednesday. I know it's a crazy, stupid idea. I know it's weird, but doesn't everyone deserve a little aloha every once in a while?

Comments? Concerns? Should I try again? Should we bring Pineapple Wednesday back once again?

The New Week 2

Pineapple Wednesday came back for a second week. This time the adventure started at the grocery store. I had donned my Pineapple Wednesday shirt and headed off to buy the beloved pineapple. While making my purchase, the cashier made the mistake of asking me about my plans for the day. I told him ALLLL about Pineapple Wednesday. He probably thinks I'm pretty. Ha. No. He probably thinks I'm pretty crazy though. But whether he was actually interested or just playing along, he asked me what I do for the other days of the week. This is something I hadn't actually thought about. An expansion of Pineapple Wednesday?! Hmm... Probably won't happen I would be in the poor house! But he suggested ice cream for the weekends. I do so like ice cream. :)

So I guess what I'm saying is maybe we've spread the word a little bit? Maybe we have a new fan? Maybe still no one even knows about us. But hey, Provo! We're here. And we have pineapple! I was hoping that since so many people in Provo are apparently obsessed with Psych, that people would get it. It's only been 2 weeks so I guess we will just have to wait and see.

This week there was no hurried rush to get to the designated Pineapple delivery zone, no extensive search for a parking space where I won't get a ticket. It was a lot more calm than the first. Of course I talked too fast and started to get desperate and just shoved it in some poor soul's hands, but we are starting to get things figured out.

This week we started out in the science building. I had never set foot inside that building before, but it was cold outside and it was the first building with unlocked doors that we came too! We wandered a bit, but most people were in class or talking on their cell phones or listening to ipods. We seriously walked up and down every floor of that building before we decided to go somewhere else.

Can I just say how much I love the weird looks I get when people see us wandering around campus carrying a pineapple? If they only knew. I try to educate as many people as possible, but it's hard when there's only one pineapple to give away each week. Sigh. If only Pineapples were free and money grew on trees right?

Around this point I started getting tired of wandering in circles and started getting pretty desperate. Then I saw someone coming up the stairs. No cell phone. No ipod. Just coming up the stairs. I put on my big cheesy grin and stepped in front of him. I love that first reaction of people. I wish I could just take a picture of everyone's face. Ha. It would be so exciting. But I do my little spiel about me and my partner of the week "Galileo Humpkins." Let me tell you how hard that was to say about a girl without laughing. For real. I promised it wasn't toxic. Which I promise it really wasn't.

No updates to report on either week thus far. I think the people of USU were a little more open to random girls giving them pineapples... since we had updates on almost everyone there. But we are still willing to give UVU a chance. Maybe when spring rolls around and the days become warmer it will seem just a little less peculiar. But then again... maybe not. But Pineapple Wednesday will continue nevertheless.

Until next week...

Aloha!

Neglected

Dear Pineapple Wednesday,

I'm sorry for I have neglected you. Moving home from school was CRAZY. And in this little place I call home there was really no one to deliver a pineapple to... except for creepy guys that hit on me at Walmart. Frankly, I don't deem them worthy of receiving such an honor. I move to a new school in about a week. Lavender Gooms/Ghee Buttersnaps/Methuselah Honeysuckle etc. will be home from her excruciatingly long trip, and we will be reunited... for a month. Hopefully during that time we can rekindle the magic of Pineapple Wednesday. And spread some more joy.
An update though... after taking a trip to Italy (where my dastardly cell phone refused to work. Imagine that. heh.) I returned home to find my cellular device flashing with a few unheard voicemails. Of course I felt the need to listen to them. And of course as always, that lovely (usually extremely annoying) feature of cell phones that causes them to play old mail first was indeed working. It informed me that my message from blahblahblah-blahblahblah-blahblahblahblah was going to be deleted. Little did I know that I had just been informed of the number I had been longing for ALL THIS TIME! Shawn! The roommate of cemetery pineapple guy! Remember him? The one whose number my phone REFUSED to tell me?! Yes. After all these months of torture... it finally gave in and told me the number.
Now the real question is... do I call it? Readers. If there are any of you. Tell me what to do! Is it too creepy to just give 'em a ring and say aloha? After all this time. There is that part of me... that crazed psych-addicted pineapple-giving part of me that desperately wants to. But that more sensible, timid, socially awkward person inside me that refuses to pick up the phone, type those digits and say "Hey. I don't know if you remember me... but I'm that crazy pineapple girl from Logan. How ya doin'?" What do I do? Anyone?
I doubt anyone reads of my pineapple adventures... but if you do, now is the time to give me your advice. Encouragement? Or lack thereof. Since Methuselah isn't here to tell me what to do (though she already told me to call him and is somehow thoroughly convinced that he is my future husband and I'm going to marry him someday) I need your help now, reader. And hey, Shawn? If you stumble across this? I'm not really as creepy as I sound... I promise. I'm just a girl who likes psych, pineapple, and making people happy. Spreading the Aloha, ya know? And I promise I'm not convinced you'll fall madly in love with me and we will get married. :) I'm not THAT big of a creeper for sure.

Aloha!

Oops!

So... today was Pineapple Wednesday. But... I am a FAILURE! Due to finals and moving out of my apartment... I failed to give away a pineapple this week. :( Shame on me, I know. Instead I've spent my evening on the psych website playing games and watching episodes of psych. I did wear the pineapple shirt today though. :) That should make up for something right?!
I watched the theories of the pineapple videos from Psych too... does that count? haha. I like the guy that says the pineapple is happiness. Pineapple Wednesday is supposed to be about happiness. Bringing a bit of aloha, love, and happiness into someone's life. :) That's the goal.
The pineapple is the international welcome fruit. :) It's just a way to say hello! Embrace the pineapple. It rocks! It brings a little bit of paradise to (at this point for me at least...) Utah and soon to be Idaho I guess.
Sorry for failing at pineapple wednesday this week. :( Pineapple Thursday anyone? Even though that really just doesn't roll off the tongue. Bummer. Next week, dear friends. Next Week.

Aloha! Happy Pineapple Wednesday!

Wow! Week 3 update?

Today I was looking around the internet for other pineapple related blogs.. ya know, just checking to see if anyone else out there randomly gave away pineapples, when I suddenly stumbled across this!
Remember Pineapple Guy #3? He sent me that text about seeing the guy playing the mandolin and asking for miracles. It just so happens I may have stumbled across mandolin guy's blog!

Check it out!

http://jessewessy.blogspot.com/2010/04/miracles-they-told-me-about.html

See that first miracle?! That's totally us from the Pineapple Project! :) I feel super spiff now. It's like we're pretty legit. Now if only someone would actually read this... heh.

Oh. And to update about week 4... No call from our new friend Shawn. :( Bummer. We tried though, right? And there's still time. He can still check the blog... maybe... who knows?!

Well... Aloha!