Happy 46th birthday, Jacob!
The business owners in town often don’t really get to
celebrate their birthdays, but Jacob and Miranda might have the toughest time
with that; since they can’t even go out to dinner or anything unless their big
day happens to fall on a day off or holiday.
Jacob did get to have a bit of a party during game night, but that
really wasn’t much more than a birthday cake as part of the snacks and getting
to open a few gifts from his friends.
Before I get to that, let’s do a quick review of the rest of
my day first.
The big story for me might be that Lisa completely left me
alone today. I’m fairly sure that is
completely because of what she said to me yesterday, and that’ll be a very
weird turn of events if those insults wind up being what helps her get over
being mad at me. For now, it’s enough
for me not to have those icy glares; I didn’t hear even one nasty, whispered
comment; and nobody followed me around – not even when Michael joined Rowen and
me for our lunchtime music practice; and there weren’t any of Lisa’s friends at
game night either.
While I’m thinking and writing about this, I’d like to
mention that I did think about just leaving yesterday’s incident out of my
journal. If you’re reading this in the
future, you know that everyone in our town keeps moments like this
private. It’s one thing to publically be
mad at someone, and another to talk about something like this when it was
really just a thoughtless, heat-of-the-moment mistake. By the time this is available to other Magi
to read, it’ll be long past, and I trust that you will allow it to stay there;
but I decided to include it just to record an instance that shows that things
like this do happen here in Witch Falls.
I love the fact that we all strive to have a nicer, better place to live
with our families and friends, but I think it’s just as important to know that
we’re not perfect either.
If we were, I wouldn’t suck so much at being a tween! ;^)
Moving along, the change in the atmosphere at school helped
make for a really good day for me; though the extra sleep last night helped
too. Rowen and I were both working after
school, and I mostly played with summer-themed projects and plans straight through
until Mom had me stop to have dinner.
It’s been another rainy day, so Mom drove us to the Inn in the minivan;
and we were there in time to help out with getting everything set up for the
games. We also had a pair of birthday
gifts for Jacob – one from all of us; and one that I’d picked up for him. Don’t make a big deal of that – I love
Miranda and Jacob because they made Mom and I feel like we were home
practically from the moment we me them; and for everything else they’ve done
for us since then.
Miranda was going to have a tough choice tonight – stick
with her usual game night partner on his birthday or have Mom on her team like
she usually does when Dad’s in the city.
It would be a great birthday story to report that Jacob won the senior
championship tonight, but that didn’t happen; and he made the team decision for
Miranda so that she didn’t have to choose.
The good news for Jacob is that Miranda and Mom did win tonight; and he
received some celebration promises from his wife that I don’t need to write
about here.
Rowen and I had a lot of fun playing games, and for me, that
was mostly because I didn’t feel like I needed to be watching my back any time
I was anywhere near Michael; or actually having fun hanging out with him and
Rebecca. They had a pretty good gaming
night too, and came in third for the junior competition. Mom took Ethan and Ehlana home right after
the games were over, but Rowen and I stayed to help Jake and Stephanie with the
clean-up while they sent Jacob and Miranda home then too. Yes, Michael and Rebecca stayed too; we
walked home together; and all of my friends got goodnight hugs from me as we
split up first at the Stone’s house, and when I hugged Rowen before she left me
to run the rest of the way to her home from mine. Let’s skip the Michael-teasing she had for me
between those two moments, and not just because her insistence that Michael’s
hug had been longer than the ones for Jake, Stephanie, or Rebecca was totally
untrue.
By the time I got inside, Mom pretty much had Ethan and
Ehlana ready for bed, but we did a little Magi lesson with them, and she did
another lesson with me before I came up to my room for the rest of the
night. I multi-tasked some Jacuzzi time
with my archive homework; did my usual nightly computing while getting ready
for bed; and then I spent the last hour or so on my language studies. The extra sleep last night helped a lot, but
it’s late, and I’m ready to call it a night now, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
