Volcabulary

Girls don't have phone numbers any more, they have digits. Trevor got in the car with me when I picked him up after homecoming. He had performed in the band in full uniform, a big drum, the biggest on the field, so big he couldn't see over it. The band had marched out on the field. Trevor's drum had kept tipping sideways so he could see where his feet were going.

I had seen a young band member girl tying Trevor's shoes, as I watch from the stadium bleachers, just prior to marching out on the field, since he couldn't bend over himself with the giant drum strapped to his front. He did a great job. He had to, as the drum could be heard above all other instruments and helps keep the beat. he screws up, and everyone knows it even the un musical.

After his pre game performance I snuck out. I didn't know any of the kids and didn't see any parents I knew to hang with. I texted an old friend who used to hang with me at our old school during the games, just to tell her I missed her company. I went home to help tom install more flooring. We dwell some more on the bull nose piece and prep for tackling the floors the next day. Trevor calls just as I am beginning to get worried for his ride home. It is just after 10:00pm. I had purposefully left Trevor with no money so he would have to check in. He had not done quite as well in math this week. He forgot to turn over the paper and do the back side. As a result I told him no extra cash for the game. I am glad he was on restriction of funds because as he got in the car he told me if he had money he would have gone to the homecoming dance. As it was I had just become nervous that he hadn't called yet when he did call for a pick up.

In my day you had a date and dressed formal for the dance. Now it is a show up in whatever kind of affair. The court was dressed up in ball gowns, but the rest of the people attending the dance were coming from the game. Well, I assume in my day people dressed up, I never went to the homecoming dance.

Trevor is impressed by one of his band members. This guy already has the digits of a girl. "Excuse me?" I ask. What is a digit, "The phone number" . The new phrase for getting a girl's number is getting her digits. The girl writes her number on your hand. Trevor says young men can have sweaty hands so you have to be careful not to sweat the number away before you save it in your phone.

I am ready for bed by the time we get home.

I am up early, comparatively early from the rest of the family, the next day. The interior decorator is coming at 9:30. We walk through the house. she agrees that the island is awful in the kitchen. She thinks the laundry needs to be moved and ont into the basement as Tom would like. We move some furniture around. I have to laugh as I thought I had a lot of furniture, but this house has room for more. Once she finds new locations for things, I am amazed at how much room we have for more. I may even have room for the pieces Tom wants out of the basement.

I learned a lesson on lighting. I need to go buy halogen light bulbs. All those light bulbs I bought are all wrong. They keep the light in the can in the ceiling. you put a halogen light where it is supposed to go and you will be amazed at the light being down with you where you need it and not just a bright light in your ceiling. I can see that was an expensive lesson, but it is a difference so dramatic even I see it. I don't know what I am going to do with all these wrong bulbs. They do work in lamps.

We also hung some art work. I wish I could have afforded more than just the two hours of the decorator's time. She was worth every penny. She was a lovely mediator for Tom's and my ideas. she had some great suggestions to make our finances work with our grandious plans.

she suggested just doing the upper cabinets in the kitchen to save money. Check in the can lighting to see if we can remove the dropped ceiling and put in track lighting in the kitchen to make it feel taller and roomier.

A lot of ideas to mull over and pick from. It was a great morning.