the most delightful thing

is that i've got a TRUMPET. a trumpet!! it's lisa's and she brought it to work for me on tuesday and i didn't even know. lisa bought the trumpet instead of rented it when her son showed an interest one year, so it's been burried in her storage for a long time. when i heard of it i begged and begged and pleaded and pleaded for her to lend it to me. "i wanna play it!" i chirrped. she gave me a look and said she'd have to look for it. that was a month or so ago, so i forgot about it. lisa is my friend. i gave it a few experimental blasts before i went home. everyone was like "common, play something for us." they just didn't get that i hadn't played it in 16 years. i was so excited about the trumpet that it all but chased my it's-friday-i'm-tired-and-all-i-wanna-do-is-sleepiness away. when i got home, i sat in the kitchen and tried it out. i had forgotten the fingering for the notes and everything, but luckily it came with a little book with a finger chart, scales, little songs like three blind mice, yankee doodle dandy, greensleeves and the like. boy were my lips rusty. i sounded horrible but i had a wonderful time. i had trouble with the low notes and the high notes and my best notes were g, a and b. ha ha. the fingering came back to me very quickly and i went through all the little songs and totally butchered them with the unpredictable toots and blasts and curdlings of my horn. before i knew it, and hour had gone by. my lips were red and numb and my omnishers were flabbergasted at the sudden demands on them. i reluctantly put the trumpet away and drove out to burnaby to help karey set up for the bishop's ball. there was a wicked cool wind blustering about when i stepped out of the house and there was a wicked sunset too. pink and purple and whatnot. when i got to the church, karey was stressed out with the white lights (some worked and some didn't) and didn't respond well to my questions about how to help and i didn't respond well to her mal-responding. "you're not very easy to help." i told her after i had all but decided to go back home to my trumpet. but we both calmed down. i did some miniscule things like push the couch into the gymn and hand christine and her ribbons to tie the lights onto the arch with. then we all went out to eat. thai food. first we went to this small place across from value villiage. we parked at value villiage where a man was lying face down on the cement while and officer cuffed him and searched him. nice neighbourhood. the thai place was small and it smelled good but that's all we knew of it because it was full. karey was sad because she like's their sweet and sour. she sticks with what she knows. jackie met up with us there and we decided to go to the one by save-on at metrotown. thai house. it was goooooooooooood. of course i got pad thai but this time i also got soup. hot and sour soup with coconut milk, bamboo shoots, lemon grass, mushrooms, tomatoes and chicken. yumYUM.

karey went back to the dance and i drove christine to fraser. she was going latin dancing at the polish centre. it fits somehow. i told her all about my trumpet playing in an excited manner. then i came home and told the girls all about it. i couldn't help myself. i got it out and played while heather made sugar cookies. i must say that i've improved somewhat. elicia got out her flute. we laughed and laughed. it was a good time. sarita's going to join our band with her clarinet and we joked and said heather could play the triangle. elicia and i tried to play together but we soon realized that our instuments were in different keys. no matter. i found a website that will transpose the music for us. yippee!