It was apparent this morning at school that I am not paying
as much attention to the world of sports as I should. Yes, I knew that the World Series started
last night, and that the Giants beat the Tigers, but either every other kid in
town watched the game; or I was the only one willing to admit that I
didn’t. I’ve mentioned before that while
I love playing baseball, or cheering for Mom and Dad’s team, I don’t really
like just sitting around and watching it on television; so I don’t plan on
watching the rest of the games either.
Ditto that for tomorrow night’s home football game. Our nice warm weather moved away this
morning, and by game time tomorrow; it’s going to be downright chilly. Football talk around school was about tied
with the World Series for top stories, but in this case, I wasn’t the only girl
to decide that sitting on bleachers in the cold for two or three hours before
going to the dance didn’t sound like fun.
Since Rowen and I were going to be having Dawn and Jillian with us for
the weekend, that gave us an extra excuse – I mean good reason – to miss the
game.
Other than sports news, there isn’t much to report from
school. We had one test; more
Halloween-themed fun; and Rowen, Michael, and I spent most of our lunch
practicing in the music room. The only
change from our regular Thursday for Rowen and I was the after-school Halloween
costume session with our Moms while Alicia took care of the twins.
I haven’t written about the ongoing progress for our
Halloween costumes yet, but since the dance is tomorrow night; Rowen and I
needed to get our gowns and costume accessories finished tonight. It would be more accurate to say that our
Moms got them finished for us, with a little help here and there from Aunt
Leanne and Grandma Emerson earlier this week.
I’ll take a wild guess that Aunt Leanne’s contribution to the effort is
directly responsible for why Dad suggested that we should wear some kind of jacket
or wrap with the gowns after he saw Rowen and me wearing them when he got home
from work. That was a great compliment,
while at the same time, at least a little bit, I agreed with him. Maybe we shouldn’t have given in to Aunt
Leanne on this and just gone with the Hogwarts robes we’ll be wearing for the
school party and Halloween night.
Oh well, it’s done now, and the gowns do look great even if
there’s a bit less of them here and there than either Dad or I would like. Rowen doesn’t share that opinion; and really
loves her costume.
Since we already had half of the Emerson family at our
house, we had Rowen’s Dad and brother come over after closing the store for the
day; and we had dinner together. Though
Rowen’s parents don’t go to game night all that often, they decided to join us
tonight; so after eating and cleaning up, we all walked over to the Inn. Miranda had
the dining room decorated for the holiday; there were some game changes for
this week only; and at least two dozen Halloween treat options from the Olde
Bakery.
That couple of hours of fun more than offset the extra work
I needed to do after getting home. The
only thing that kept my get-to-sleep early plans for this week on-track was
that I used more than a little Magi power to do that extra work at
hyper-speed. It’s amazing how much work
you can get done while in a time-phase, but the down side is that it still
feels like you worked hard for six or eight hours in real time when you’re
done. I’m back in real time now, but
finished my family business work; and the equivalent of an hour or so each of archive
and language studies.
Since that six or eight hours worth of work came at the end
of an already long day, even though it isn’t midnight yet; I’m exhausted. It just wouldn’t be good if I needed to go
home early from the dance because I was falling asleep, so that’s going to be
all for tonight.
Say ‘goodnight, Cassie’.
“Goodnight, Cassie.”
