Let’s begin with some social news from school that
definitely leaned toward the weird today.
Nora and Brock have officially joined the Grade Eight
couples club, and while they’re still not yet a couple; Vanessa and Allen
paired up so they could hang out with the rest of us too. That’s not really any different than Rowen
and Tim hanging out with Michael and me; but it sure feels different. Rowen and I have never been part of the
couples club before when Vanessa and Nora were, so that was part of the weird;
while just hanging out together not really that many weeks after we’d been on
Nora’s and Vanessa’s hit list seemed very odd – especially since they were
mostly trying to ignore our presence while still participating in some of the
same conversations we were having with our collective friends. It’s very obvious that Nora is still very
happy about ‘beating’ Tim to the next relationship; and just as obvious that
Vanessa really wants to have Allen join the club with her. I’ll take the under on whether she’ll have
him caught by the fall festival.
In other news, while I haven’t mentioned anything other than
high school football in my journal so far this season, Monday is a big football
day for the guys; and Michael and I are having a fair bit of fun with my
ability to keep ahead of all of the guys when it comes to the weekend results
and Monday morning quarterbacking of college and professional matches. Michael should have gotten special
commendation for not even suggesting that we watch football on Saturday night;
but then again I guess you could say that he did – not that either of us were
thinking about football at the time! ;^)
We played some football at lunchtime too; and Rowen,
Gretchen, Sally, and I were all out of the field this time too instead of
sitting on the bleachers. The boys may
not let us play tomorrow; but that’s only because our team won fairly
easily. That did have a lot to do with having
Michael, Tim, Joshua, and Elliott on our team too; but the guys on the other
team were complaining about us being a distraction – not about our football
skills. I’m sure that helps them deal
with the fact that they weren’t able to catch up with Rowen or me even once;
and it’s not our fault if they spent more time girl-watching instead of keeping
an eye on where the football was going.
There wasn’t much else going on at school today other than
one little pop quiz; so it seemed comparatively quiet. I brought Michael, Tim, and Rowen home with
me for our after school study session, and then we took Ethan and Ehlana with
us to the park for some more football and playground action. I know the guys really want to play football
whenever they can on Michael’s days off – especially when the weather is
cooperating; but I have no intention of sitting on the bleachers and watching
them once it gets colder. We took bikes
and the trailer with us to the park, and left early enough so that we could do
a construction site tour when it was time for all of us to get home for dinner
at our respective houses. The new
apartment building is already taking shape; and I’m always impressed with the
progress at the lab between one visit and the next.
Michael came home with me long enough to help with Ethan,
Ehlana, and the bikes and trailer; but then he went home for dinner while Mom
and Dad just had their own kids to feed tonight. I’d missed out on the cooking, but took care
of the clean-up on my own while I waited for Michael, Rowen, and Tim to all
come over again so we could have a music practice to get ready for class and
band tomorrow; and play some video games in the lounge after that.
Ethan and Ehlana came upstairs with us for the music time;
and they both sat on my piano bench and happily plunked away at it while the
rest of us were practicing our band music.
While Tim isn’t in the band, he played along with us; usually just
picking away at the melody of each song while Michael, Rowen, and I played our
assigned parts. That doesn’t really
sound all that great when Michael and I just have basic harmonies for most of
our music; but then we also have some long breaks where we can take turns
playing along with the melody too. If
Tim keeps working with us, he could get an invitation to the band too; though
I’m not sure if he’d want to join or not since he really wants to play football
during high school.
Mom let the twins stay with us long enough so that they
could have a little video gaming fun with Michael and Tim; but then she took
them downstairs when she was ready to put them into the bathtub for their usual
Monday night clean-up. Michael, Tim,
Rowen, and I played on until it was time to do the bedtime story and snack with
the twins; and then we went downstairs to do that with them – and Mom and Dad –
in the office. Tim still hasn’t spent
much time in the office yet, so he’s still really impressed with the set-up
there; and wants to convince his parents that they really need a home office
like ours too. I’ll take a wild guess
that if they did remodel their office that he’d move in and have his X-Box
hooked up to the big screen monitor. I’d
suggest that he should just ask Santa for a bigger television for his room, but
then he’s probably asking for the new X-Box One this year – the same as most
other boys his age are likely doing this year too – Michael included.
We’re still more than a month away from Halloween, so let’s
not get on a Christmas kick quite yet; but Rowen and I will have an easy time
this year picking out gifts for boys this year – if enough of those new game
systems are available. Maybe I’ll take a
look around my companies and see if I can help out with that potential little
problem – I do have a few toy stores in my investment portfolio.
Moving along, Michael, Tim, and Rowen went home when Ethan
and Ehlana were taken up to bed, and Tim walked Rowen home while Michael and I
spent a couple of minutes saying goodnight on my front porch in a mostly
non-verbal sort of way. Michael was on
his way home too by the time Tim and Rowen split up in front of her house; and
Rowen and I both stayed outside and watched our boys until they were either
home or out of sight. We exchanged grins
and waves before going inside too; and then I went straight to work on my Magi
lesson with Mom.
By the time I was finished that and had chatted with Mom and
Dad for a little while until Dad was finished his work for the night it was
heading toward eleven o’clock. After
coming up to my room, I got changed; climbed into bed with Mandy; and got
started on my archive homework. I spent
an hour or so on that; another hour and a half on my language studies; and have
been doing my nightly computing and a bit of family business work since
then. It’s heading toward two-thirty,
and past-time for me to get to sleep.
That’s all the news I have for today anyway; so until next time...
...Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!
