Happy 14th Birthday, Jenny!
I’m sure that she’s had a good day, and was thrilled to have
some of the older cheerleaders and their boyfriends at her party tonight. My only momentary involvement in celebrating
her special day came when we gave her a gift this morning at school before she
and Rebecca left with Garth and Jason.
Rowen and I had Michael do the honors for that just because we knew it
would be entertaining – and it really was.
Garth teased him about giving presents to his girlfriend; Jenny kissed
him; and we had a few laughs that felt almost like ‘old’ times for Rebecca,
Jenny, Rowen, and me. Maybe we can have
that kind of friendship back again when we hit high school next year. For today, though, the great academic divide
closed in; and we returned to our normal place in the social hierarchy like
good little kids.
The only other effect that Jenny’s birthday had on my day
was Rebecca’s absence at the Inn for the dinner rush and game night. I have no idea why Jenny wouldn’t want to
have her birthday party at the Inn so her
guests and ‘cool’ friends could be entertained while competing for the junior
championship with us, but she didn’t want to do that; so Rebecca was at her
house for the night instead.
That wasn’t a big deal for the work side of our evening,
since it was a fairly quiet night at the Inn; but Miranda and Jacob were still
happy to have me stay and help out with Michael; and we had even more fun than
usual since we didn’t need to rush around to keep up with the dinner
orders. Game night was good too, but
let’s back up and do the rest of the report before getting to that part of the
recap.
Other than that birthday gift moment with Jenny, the rest of
the morning between waking up and then had been fairly normal. Michael came over for Tai Chi, and then we
split up until it was time to head for school while we each got ready for the
day and had breakfast. The music testing
that we started the school day with didn’t thrill everyone in our class, but
Michael, Rowen, and I aced ours as usual; and Tim was happy with his
better-than-usual mark too. I’d suggest
that we could try having Rowen motivate his music ambitions with a little alone
time in the music room; but that probably wouldn’t get his mind onto honing his
trumpet-playing skills. Rowen would be
too nervous about getting caught anyway – even if she would also love the idea
and wish she had the nerve to try it.
We had another test and a quiz to write today, so there was
some stress for some of our friends; but I was having a much better day. To be blunt, that’s mostly because I was
pretty much done with the most unpleasant part for this round of my menstrual cycle;
so even the cold fall weather was easier to take – though we didn’t spend much
time outdoors today. Michael and Tim
went out at lunchtime to play some football, and Rowen and I watched the first
few minutes of their scrimmage game before going for a walk and playing with
some younger kids; but we went back inside and warmed up with cups of hot
chocolate for the last fifteen or twenty minutes before we needed to get to our
computer class.
Our after-school studying was at the Inn,
but we didn’t have much homework – mostly because we have a Day Two schedule
Friday this week; so we’ll get our weekend assignments for those classes
tomorrow. That left Michael and I with
lots of time to help in the kitchen after Rowen and Tim left; and we ended up
with extra time to have our own meal too before joining in to help with the
clean-up.
Jenny’s party had a big effect on the junior championship
competition; and we had less than half of the usual kids and teens – hardly any
teens at all. That’s the main reason why
Michael and I won tonight – and Rowen and Tim were second – though having Ethan
and Ehlana with us most of the evening could have given us some good luck
too. They definitely helped out a lot
with the fun level!
With the smaller-than-usual group of players, our play time
at the Inn ended earlier than usual too; so Michael came home with us and he
and I took care of getting Ethan and Ehlana bathed and ready for bed before
meeting up with Mom and Dad in the office.
Michael couldn’t stay late, but since he was here with us; Mom
substituted a Magi lesson with him, Ethan, Ehlana, and me for the usual story
time. That was awesome, and while I
really, really, really want to have more alone time with him; extra Magi
lessons would be great too. We didn’t
have much alone time tonight, but I did spend some quality time saying
goodnight to him in a non-verbal sort of way between the time we tucked Ethan
and Ehlana in for the night and when he left for home – ten minutes or so
later.
I still needed to do my regular Magi lesson with Mom after
he left, and deal with a little teasing from her and Dad about why it took
Michael and me so long to get the twins into their beds; so it was
eleven-thirty before we all went upstairs, and I got changed and started on my
last bedtime study and work session of the week.
Three hours and change later, and I’m pretty much cooked
now; and need to get what sleep I can to be ready for a long, busy day of
classes, football, and Halloween dance fun.
I’m not at all enthusiastic about the football game, but this should be
a best-ever-so-far school dance for me – and hopefully for Michael, Rowen, and
Tim too. The answer to whether that ends
up being true or not is just a digital page flip away for everyone reading this
in my future or beyond, but it’s still a half-day of action away for me; so I
really need to get started on my nap now.
Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!
