Thursday is definitely going to be one of my nights at the Inn. Michael and I
did our homework with Tim and Rowen after school; I stayed to help out in the
kitchen and have dinner with him; and then we were reunited with our best
friends for game night.
We’ve had a bit of rain off and on today, but that didn’t
get in the way of Tai Chi, and Michael stayed for breakfast before going home
to get ready for school. Starting the
school day with music really is great, and while we’re excited to be in the
school band already; Michael and I prefer the more challenging first and second
saxophone parts we get to play in our class over the much simpler parts we’re
being given to play in band practice.
The rest of our classes rolled along without anything to
report except that the girls in our class spent a lot of time talking about
Karla’s birthday party tomorrow night while the boys were still stuck in
football mode. Rowen and I weren’t
really in on the girl chat because we weren’t invited to Karla’s party. Michael and Tim weren’t invited either, and
that was fine with them because they didn’t want to miss the football game
anyway. Karla is currently spending a
lot of time with the other single girls in our class; and I’ll take a not-so-wild
guess that Vanessa and Nora had something to do with nudging the four of us
into being excluded from the party guest list – though Rowen and I haven’t been
to any of Karla’s birthday parties since I moved here anyway for various
reasons. (Small party, couples only,
etc.)
We had a bit of extra homework to do tonight because this is
a Day Two schedule Friday week; so we don’t have the extra day to get our
assignments done – and quizzes and tests are now an option for our teachers
too. We were getting some afternoon
showers, so Tim wasn’t in any hurry to go play football or anything, but
Michael and I needed to help out with getting ready for the dinner rush; so we
didn’t take any longer getting our work done than needed.
I teased Rowen about leaving with Tim after we were done
studying and coming back with him when they got to the Inn for game night; but
the second half of that really was just coincidence that they arrived at the
same time with their families – though she wouldn’t have had a problem with it
if they had spent those couple of hours together. Unfortunately, she’s still too shy on her own
to do something radical like invite him for dinner with her family; and Tim’s
still trying to figure out how he feels about Rowen and what to do about
it. At the rate they’re going, I’ll
predict that they’ll be friends with benefits for a while longer before working
things out.
They’ll be junior game night champions for at least a week
too. Michael and I dropped out of the
top five tonight, possibly because we had Ethan and Ehlana distracting us more
than they helped; but we had so much fun together we didn’t care. The junior competition was still a bit
lighter than usual, but we had a few more kids and teens stop by for something
to do while it was too wet to play outside anyway.
Mom and Dad had taken a chance on the weather and walked to
the Inn, and we were getting a sprinkling of
rain for the walk home; but we didn’t really get very wet. This week, we stayed to help out with the
post-gaming clean-up and then we walked home with Michael and his family. That was a bit too much company for
fireworks-worthy goodnight kisses, but Michael and I will survive; and we’ll
try to make up for that on the weekend.
The rest of my evening has been a blur of action. I helped Mom with the full bath and bedtime
routine for Ethan and Ehlana; we did a Magi lesson after that; and I hopped
into my Jacuzzi and got to work on my computer after that. Putting in four hours of work after I come up
to my room is a lot tougher to do when you don’t get started until after eleven
o’clock, and I’ve already needed to blow my plan to stop working by two
o’clock. If I didn’t have some
Magi-powered options; I’d be drinking a lot of caffeine-rich beverages tomorrow
just to stay awake.
It’s going to be three-thirty by the time I get to sleep if
I hurry this up and put my computer away for the night. I’ve had longer afternoon naps than the sleep
time I have left tonight; but I’ll deal with that, and keep trying to find a
better way to juggle everything I have on the go. For right now, though, sleep is at the top of
the to-do list, so I’m (virtually) outta here.
Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!
