I didn’t escape the tweeird for the entire weekend, but
after my little intervention after school on Friday with Michael; I hadn’t
expected to avoid the consequences indefinitely. Working all day yesterday also meant that I
was out of the loop for some relevant tween action too; so let’s start with
that.
Michael, Tim, and their team – the Wranglers – had their
first ballgame of the season yesterday afternoon. The tween news wasn’t really about the game,
which they won; but about their personal cheerleaders. Nora and Vanessa were there to support
‘their’ boys; and they made sure that I heard all about how successfully they
motivated Michael and Tim to contribute in some way on six of their team’s
thirteen runs. They also went to the
Emporium to help celebrate the win; and then Michael had an escort home from
there, and then back to the Inn once he was
ready to get to work.
All of that was apparently part of the revenge I deserved
for messing with the post-exams private party; but being at church and Sunday
school didn’t keep Vanessa and Nora from continuing their campaign that was
certainly going to teach me an important lesson. Unfortunately for them, they had two little
problems with making that happen. I was back
to feeling like my normal self; had gotten a great night of sleep; was
fully-charged up; and didn’t care at all about their games. Their bigger problem, though, was that
Michael wouldn’t play along. What our
friends saw and heard mostly from Vanessa and Nora was practically the opposite
of what was really going on. Michael was
being as nice as always, and he didn’t try to draw me into the tweeird zone any
farther than I already was; but he also didn’t encourage Vanessa at all, and
quietly disentangled himself from every attempt she made to get close and cozy
with him.
The more general chat topic today was summer holiday plans;
since we’d all be on them by next Sunday.
Vanessa and Nora had that covered too, and while Tim was having a tough
time looking enthusiastic with some of their ideas for summertime fun; he
didn’t have a problem with anything that included girls in swimsuits or
romantic, moonlit interludes. Michael
looked like he wished they’d stop including him as part of the ‘we’ in the
‘we’ll be doing’ list of activities.
For some reason, nobody got around to asking Rowen or I what
we’ll be doing. We’re probably just too
predictable.
Sure, let’s go with that.
It’s time to move along, and I’m not going into the details
of every little thing that Vanessa and Nora did and said during and after
Sunday school that were directly or indirectly fired my way. I really didn’t care about any of it today;
and while they also likely misinterpreted my reactions; I didn’t care about that
either.
Rowen came over for lunch after going home to change first;
and then Mom and Dad took us out to the Ridge River
Ranch for a trail ride while Uncle Adam and Aunt Leanne took care of Ethan and
Ehlana. With all of the rain we’ve had
this spring, quite a few of the trails aren’t in very good shape yet; but
Pamela and John both went riding with us today; and they led us along a
meandering route that kept us mostly on clear, dry trails. A lot of the kids our age would rather have
their kids leading the trail rides, and Rowen and I love that too; but John has
really great stories that he tells while leading his rides that we love a lot
too. Since John doesn’t get to do rides
with us all that often, it’ll likely take years before I’ll hear anywhere near
all of those stories; so I’ll enjoy them every chance we get. I missed having Aunt Leanne and Uncle Adam
with us; but riding is definitely out for Aunt Leanne this year. I’m fairly sure that she’ll think these
little sacrifices are worth it even though this might not be a best summer ever
for her.
We wrapped up the afternoon with another family
barbeque. Rowen had her own family
plans, so she met up with her parents at home when they were finished working
at the store. This time, we only had
Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Adam, and Aunt Leanne over; and they all stayed after
dinner for some park play time and a Magi lesson that was mostly for play with
Ethan and Ehlana too.
I came up to my room when the twins went to bed, and it was
back to the normal school night study routine.
The language studying was multi-tasked with my Jacuzzi time; I had a
chat with Violet and heard all about her prom while doing my hair; and then I
moved on to some backlogged archive assignments from my lessons last week after
getting into bed with Mandy. I worked on
that for an hour and a half, and then moved on to email and a little family
business work that came up from the email.
After having a week of earlier-than-usual nights, I’m ready
to get some sleep again even though it’s only going on one o’clock. The next three days at school are just going
to be a wind down and clean-up; so the only tough part of the week I expect to
have will be any and all moments I spend in the tweeird zone. With the way things went this morning in
Sunday school, I’m expecting more of the same tomorrow for sure. That’s a really good reason why I should wrap
this up and get some sleep, so...
...until next time, this is Magi Master Cassie Proctor;
logging out!
