There were two tests at school today; assignments to work on
in other classes; Rowen and I worked our after-school jobs; and I helped Mom
out with another double-dinner cooking session so we could deliver another meal
to Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne tonight.
I’m starting out with that list because apparently, according to a few
of my classmates, I was having too much fun today.
I’ve admitted lots of times that my ‘normal tween’ act isn’t
very good, or at least I don’t think I’m handling my tween years very well so
far; and I received some anecdotal, if not empirical, proof of that today. Rowen was having another happy day, but her
brainiac bookworm reputation lets her get away with finding major test days
fun; and she thought that the complaints directed my way were really
funny. I’d try to be more like my best
friend, but let’s face it – I’d never be able to bottle up my hyper-active
personality for very long even if I could use my Magi abilities to help me try
to do that.
At least this kind of tween trouble doesn’t have all the
weird that goes along with the boy-girl drama that keeps popping up in my life
no matter how much I try to avoid it.
It’s Tuesday, so you can probably guess that it was our
lunchtime music practice that led to the tweeird moments of the day. Just having Michael there with us was enough
to irritate Lisa, and the fact that we were laughing and having fun both times
she just happened to pass by the music room helped to take that irritation up a
couple or three notches. That was all my
fault too, and Rowen was just as amused about that as she was about the
complaints about me being too happy before, during, and after our tests.
There isn’t anything else to report from school, and my
family business work mostly involved working through a bunch of fairly
unexciting reports and proposals. The
news from home was mostly about Aunt Leanne again today. She had another tough morning, and Mom was
there to help her out again, but she pulled it together by lunchtime; and
worked in the office all afternoon. We
made dinner for them again because Mom didn’t want Aunt Leanne’s morning
sickness to be set off again by the smells of raw or cooking meat; and that
pretty much worked as planned. Aunt
Leanne even managed to eat more than she’d been able to handle in total since
Sunday.
Doctor Adam made sure that his wife had another quiet
evening, and was personally making sure that happened. Back at our place, after delivering their
food, Mom and I had dinner with Dad, Ethan, and Ehlana; and then we got started
on another work night. The only
difference to last night was that Mom took the time to do two Magi lessons –
one for Ethan and Ehlana; and one with me after they went to bed for the night. We did both of those in the office, and I
continued working on the family business while everyone else was busy with
work, Magi lessons, or the iPad entertainment that kept Ethan and Ehlana busy
when they weren’t doing their lesson with Mom.
I came up to my room after helping to get Ethan and Ehlana
tucked into bed, and there isn’t much of anything to report from my archive
reading or language studies. There were
some interesting family email updates, and the one from Aunt Grace reminded me
that I didn’t even mention her day in Crystal Springs
with Aunt Leanne on Saturday. I knew
from Mom and Aunt Leanne that she’d picked out her gown and the bridal party
dresses; taken care of a little wedding-related shopping while they were there;
and had a fun day. Aunt Grace’s email
included jokes about needing to work out with her trainer for the next few
weeks just to make up for the fast food she had with Aunt Leanne on the
weekend; though she was at least glad that they’d waited until after the dress
fitting before pigging out for the rest of the day.
While her version of the weekend report was fun, I was also
glad to hear about her upcoming trip to spend the Easter weekend with Mark and
his family in Seattle. They probably at least thought about meeting
somewhere else so they could have a weekend with a little more alone time than
they’ll get to have in Seattle, but spending some extra time with his family
before Mark makes the big move here will be good for all of them. I really love the warm fuzzies that come for
a visit every time I hear about how great everything is turning out for Aunt
Grace and Mark.
The rest of the email news included a baby update; March
Break plans for my cousins in Woodvale and Granite Park; and some fashion news
from Violet about what she was wearing to the Spring dance at school a week
from Saturday. I haven’t wanted to even
think about the dance, let alone make multiple choices for what to wear,
depending on what the weather will be like for the first weekend of Spring
Break. I’m sure that the whole
anniversary thing with Dillon makes this dance a big deal for Violet, but my
fashion plan for that is to grab something out of the closet when it’s time to
get dressed and head over to the school.
Now that I’m thinking about scary things like school dances,
though, now I’m going to need to spend some time not thinking about soft, comfy
(not cuddly or cute) bunnies; so I need to wrap this up and get started on
that.
Until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor; logging
out!
