I hadn’t really thought about it, but we’ve missed two Day
Two schedule school days because of snow – even those of us in town that had a
half-day last Thursday didn’t really do any new work while our country
classmates were home. That meant that it
was make-up time today; and will be again tomorrow for our bi-weekly Day Two
Friday.
With our teachers keeping us busy, the fun level was a bit
lower than usual. Michael met up with
Rowen and I for our lunchtime music practice, and we knew that continued to
irritate Lisa, but other than looking in to the music room while wandering by a
couple of times and continuing to give me the cold shoulder; she seemed to be
getting along fine with Michael all day; and we didn’t have any personal
tweeird moments – while we were at school.
Rowen and I were both back to our usual Tuesday-Thursday
after school jobs, so I only stopped in at the computer store long enough for a
little chat with her parents before going home; grabbing a snack and drink to
go; and heading into the office to get started on my family business work. I did my homework at high speed too before
stopping for dinner, but that really didn’t take long; and my job was
definitely more interesting.
I’m not tired of winter yet or anything, but working on
projects to get ready for summer retail and manufacturing had me thinking about
long, hot summer days even though we still have three and a half months or so
to go before summer holidays. Talking
about that, and other family business issues, ended up being a big part of our
dinner conversation, and though that might not be most twelve-year old kids’
idea of fun; it was for me. We’re
dealing with a lot of challenges that can vary quite a bit in different
countries and regions; and even with our special abilities, it’s still a lot of
work to our businesses the way we want them operated and be successful too.
Since I’d worked in the office right through until
dinnertime, I was drafted for the clean-up crew of two; and Dad and I took care
of that little chore while Mom, Ethan, and Ehlana got ready to go out to the Inn for game night.
Aunt Leanne had been too busy to spend any time with me over the past
couple of days, so when we met up with her and Uncle Adam in the dining room at
the Inn; she was ready to go with an ongoing litany of jokes about my recent
snow adventures with Michael. She added
in a healthy dose of hugging comments and offers; and wrapped up the night with
a discussion about why neither Michael nor I were able to win the junior
championship with Lisa or Rowen this week.
Rowen found everything Aunt Leanne was doing and saying very funny, but
Lisa was far from amused.
I didn’t make things any easier for myself with Lisa, but I
had fun with the whole thing. Trying to defend
myself or Michael was a bad tactic, so I mostly just teased Aunt Leanne right
back. Suggesting that Uncle Adam might
need a new game night partner because his was too busy with extra-curricular
entertainment to concentrate on the games earned some laughs, and so did my
suggestions for possible replacements.
Grandma Eleanor is younger than Aunt Leanne now, so adding some youth to
his team might be just what Uncle Adam needs to get back to winning senior
championships again. Baby and
pregnancy-related counter-jokes were mostly a hit too, but at best our little
comedy contest was a draw; and I’d say that Aunt Leanne had a slight edge if
only because she was far more determined than I was.
At least Mom and Dad didn’t have to deal with similar jokes
– they won the senior championship tonight, though they gave credit for that to
Ethan and Ehlana for successfully distracting all of their opponents while they
were busy playing to win. Aunt Leanne
attempted to have a little more fun with Michael and me before we went home,
but Mom and Dad saved us from that by deciding to take Ethan, Ehlana, and me
home right after the championships were announced instead of staying with Aunt
Leanne and Uncle Adam after she volunteered to help with the clean-up. I was glad to have the out – especially when
Lisa made it obvious that she was not leaving her boyfriend with any
opportunities to get into more tween trouble.
I really hope that Aunt Leanne didn’t do anything after we left that
I’ll regret tomorrow.
The rest of the night has been all about studying for
me. Dad had work to get done in the
office, but Mom was just putting Ethan and Ehlana straight to bed, so other
than taking a few minutes to help her with that; I’ve been working in my room
since getting home. A little keyboard
practice wasn’t part of my study plan, but I did that for a half hour anyway when
I needed a little break between my work in the archives and on my language
lessons and practice.
Even with the short school week, I’m looking forward to the
weekend – and some more quality snow play time with my friends. That’s going to make for a fun first weekend
of March – I didn’t really even notice until now that February officially became
history hours ago now. With my little
musical interlude, I’ve stayed up working a bit too late, so I’m going to wrap
this up and get started on my not-very-long winter’s nap.
Until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor; logging
out!
