It was boys against the girls for game night at the Inn; and
that was Miranda’s excuse for having Mom as her partner again this week while
Dad teamed up with Jacob for the night.
I don’t know if she’ll come up with something else for next week, but
that plan did earn Miranda a repeat senior championship; and everyone had fun
with the forced partner switch-ups.
Rowen and I didn’t win the junior championship, but neither
did Michael and Tim; and we did end up two places ahead of the boys. It would have been great to report that Jacob
and Dad had won the senior championship just to mess up Miranda’s grand scheme,
but they were having more fun playing with Ethan and Ehlana than with the games;
and pretty much ended up near the bottom of the standings where Jacob’s teams
usually placed each week regardless of who he was partnering with. He’d win for most fun team a lot of weeks,
though!
My day up until we went to the Inn
after school was fairly uneventful. It
was a standard school day morning at home and nothing particularly exciting
happened while we were at school. Rowen
and Tim did their homework with Michael and me at the Inn
before moving on when we needed to help out in the kitchen; and Michael,
Rebecca, and I had a lot of fun together while mostly helping out with the prep
line and some dishwashing. The three of
us had our dinner break together too; and Rebecca and I helped out with setting
up the games while the dining room was cleaned up and the last few dinner
guests finished their desserts and after-dinner drinks.
While I’m thinking about working at the Inn, I haven’t yet
mentioned in my journal that Jenny isn’t spending much time at the Inn right now – just as she wasn’t working with Rebecca
as often while dating Joel during the summer.
Being a cheerleader is part of that, and so is wanting to spend time
with her new boyfriend; but she still stops in to chat with Rebecca now and
then too. Hopefully the extra time I’m
spending there now will help Rebecca a little while she’s missing that extra
time with her best friend.
Moving along, after game night, Michael walked home with me
– and with nearly all of the gamers heading home in the same direction as
us. When the goodnight kisses teasing
started this time, I took Michael’s hand and led him into his house so we could
take care of that without an audience.
Aunt Leanne and Aunt Grace were waiting to tease me some more at my
house, but those private goodnight kisses were worth it.
Once they’d had their fun with me, my aunts let their
husbands take them home; and I started helping Mom with Ethan and Ehlana’s
baths while Dad got to work in the office.
We multi-tasked that with a Magi lesson that worked on water element
manipulation; and then we did the bedtime snack and story with Dad in the
office before getting Ethan and Ehlana tucked in for the night.
Mom did my lesson after that, and then I did some
multi-tasking too. I got my language
studies out of the way while soaking in my Jacuzzi, and then took a break from
the work while doing my hair. It was
almost twelve-thirty by the time I climbed into bed with Mandy and got started
on my archive assignments; and that was nearly two and a half hours ago. The archive studying was followed by some
work on our Magi Project archive; and then I got into some family business work
after checking my email and receiving some project updates.
It’s almost three o’clock, and I’m seriously ready for the
nap I still have time for; so that’s all for tonight, folks.
Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!
