Your descriptions make it sound like any additional frivolity can only improve it, Connie.

The Mormon church explicity states that light mindedness is frowned upon

Wait, the religion that was founded on invisible gold tablets that only one guy could see frowns upon light mindedness? I mean, sure, every religion is kinda nutty when you look at it from outside, but really?

"Chest of drawers" is the term I learned. Many generations since anyone in my family was midwestern.

Yeah, chest of drawers is quite common where I grew up.

"chest of drawers"

What do y'all call it instead? A dresser? A bureau? Some other word I don't know?

I spent some time at the pool earlier today, then walked until I found a grocery store, bought some food so I don't really need to leave unless I want to, came home and ate lunch and had a beer, and the combo of beer and sunshine promptly made me take a two hour nap. Yay vacation?

I'm still a bit sleepy but thinking of getting ice cream in a bit. Also finished the new Incryptid book, which was fun, but needed more Aeslin mice.

Yes, dresser or bureau.

There's also the occasional highboy.

There's also the occasional highboy.

Not to be confused with the occasional highball.

the religion that was founded on invisible gold tablets that only one guy could see frowns upon light mindedness?

Yes, it's true. Watching college kids out being college kids comes with an air of uneasiness, because you occasionally catch them with a look of uncertainty. "Are we doing this right? People are staring. Should we stop?"

There are people who can be spontaneous and giddy and delighted in the universe, but the kids who go to Brigham Young University oftentimes come across with a mix of defiance and "check the list, we're supposed to be doing a fun activity tonight and we've got instructions."

Monday evening is Family Home Evening, where the family gets together to socialize and sometimes go over the assigned church lesson. Board games are big. We know not to go to the family restaurants on a Monday evening, because that's a favorite activity. The college students are away from their families, so they get assigned to "family" groups. I don't know if this is still done, but one girl gets assigned to be "mom", ie, arrange the snacks, and one boy is "dad", who leads the lesson. The groups often have an assigned activity, such as a trip to the grocery store together or scavenger hunts. If we went to the grocery store near BYU, there would often be groups out on various quests.

Friday night at the grocery store is "put on your make up in the parking lot with your girl roommates/tidy your hair and your clothes in the parking lot with your boy roommates"--no co-ed roommates at BYU--then go grocery shopping and mingle. Hubby and I would have fun watching The Hunt as they looked each other over.

We did also call them dressers. Although "dresser" might also refer to a vanity. Which also has drawers. Bureau is something I understood but wouldn't say myself. Furniture terminology, not so precise.

Trying to think what the furniture store called them when we bought our bedroom set. Can't recall. I think one piece is a lingerie chest?

I do not know what a highboy is.

Unrelatedly, I think my brain shut down two or three hours ago. I hope I don't have to re-do everything I did this afternoon come Monday. And now I really want some kind of cocktail but finding some way of combining my meager choices of spirit with at least as sparse array of mixers is beyond me.