It’s Friday night, and the only story in town again this
week is high school football.
I’m happy for the players, coaches, and fans of our team
that they won their second-round match, and are now just one win away from a
return to the championship game; but I was just as happy that the rain held off
until after midnight so that we could stay dry while watching the game. It was still chilly enough out by the end of
the game, but cuddling with Michael and hot drinks helped to keep me warm, and
though I’m admittedly a fair-weather spectator; Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I had
fun – and watched a pretty good game too.
Our team was playing Westburg tonight, and they made it
through to the second round after earning an upset win last week against
perennial contenders, Hillcrest. They
were big underdogs for this game too, but they certainly didn’t play that way –
even though that wouldn’t be obvious to anyone just looking at the fifty-four
to fifteen final score. Westburg played
a great game for three quarters, and only started falling apart when they had
no choice but to take some chances in the fourth quarter while trying
desperately to make up the eighteen points they’d needed to catch up to us on
the scoreboard. Unfortunately for them,
that led to two defensive touchdowns for Kyle and a third take-away that he
caused while one of the other guys jumped on the fumble; and Westburg only
managed one more field goal near the end of the game on one long, last drive
that was all for pride and their fans.
There was another post-game party tonight, but Michael, Tim,
and Rowen came home with me after the game instead so that we could watch a
movie and hang out in the lounge for a couple of hours. I’m sure that while Tim wanted to go to the
party, his decision to pick the movie instead had a lot to do with the chance
for some alone time with Rowen. Michael
and I still haven’t heard a peep from him about Rowen’s birthday since Monday,
but we did make sure that they had twenty minutes or so on their own in the
lounge while we tucked Ethan and Ehlana in for the night and cooked up a pizza
for our post-game snack.
While I’m thinking about that – our chat last Monday and
Rowen’s upcoming birthday – I should mention that Tim is going to Crystal Springs with his parents tomorrow; and
invited Michael to go with him. Maybe
they’ll discuss Rowen then while wandering around the mall and shopping for
things like birthday gifts. Tim’s mother
is dragging him along because she wants to do some clothes shopping for him
too; but he’s not very happy about that – despite knowing that he needs more
winter-weather clothes now that he’s four or five inches taller than he was at
the end of last winter. He can complain
about it all he wants, but Tracey does a pretty good job picking out clothes
for him; and his rare fashion disasters are always self-inflicted.
I’ll update the Rowen and Tim story tomorrow if Michael has
any news, but I didn’t get a chance to talk with Rowen without the boys around;
and don’t have any details about their alone time – other than that they both
seemed happy and appropriately mussed up.
I wouldn’t dream of suggesting that there was a link between that and
Tim’s appetite, but he managed to demolish half of the pizza by himself; and
there were two empty bags of chips by the time the movie was over too. Michael settled for splitting the other half
of the pizza with Rowen and me; mostly because he didn’t want to trade the
extra cuddle time with me for another twenty minutes in the kitchen we’d have
needed to cook a second pizza.
While the approach of the Christmas holiday season had us
tempted to watch a Christmas movie tonight, we managed to resist the urge; and
went with an action flick instead. Rowen
and I might prefer just about any other film genre to the predictability of the
good guys fight bad guys mixed in with car chases and blowing things up; but
then we really don’t care all that much about what’s on the television when we
also get to cuddle with our favorite boys.
The football talk wasn’t all that exciting either, but wasn’t unexpected
– especially after Tim used my computer to find out the scores from the other
high school games; and which team we’ll be playing against in the third round.
He was a very happy camper after finding out that Grand Summit will be our third
round opponent; mostly because we won our second-round playoff game against
them last year. That bit of recent
history is a plus for our team, but a quick glance at their team stats this
season suggests that their team is better this year; and they match up pretty
well against us. The not-so-great news,
according to Tim, was that three-time champions, Clairmont, made it to the
third round too. He’s worried about
that, but I imagine that Kyle is hoping that our team will be up against
Clairmont again if we make it to the Championship game – both for a second
chance to beat them and to be sure that if he does win a championship that it’s
because he helped to defeat the best teams.
I wasn’t expecting this to be nothing much more than a
football report, but that seems to be what I’ve ended up with; and there isn’t
really much else to write about anyway.
Michael and I didn’t even get as much alone time tonight as
Rowen and Tim did, and by the time the movie was over; we needed to rush a bit
to get things cleaned up before Michael, Rowen, and Tim all needed to head out
and back to their own homes. I missed
out on dinner and a visit at Aunt Leanne and Uncle Adam’s house while hanging
out with my friends and watching the football game; but Zack was having a
cranky day so they didn’t even bother trying to watch a movie tonight too.
Mom and Dad had gone to bed while we were in the lounge, so
I came straight up to my room again after sharing a goodnight hug and kiss with
Michael on the front porch; and I’ve been cuddling with Mandy while doing my
usual nightly computing since getting changed and ready for bed. Our major fall clean-ups are finished for
another year, but there will still be the usual weekly chores around the house
and yard to do tomorrow; so I’m going to wrap this up and get some sleep. Michael and Tim will be in the city tomorrow,
and then Michael will be working at the Inn from whenever he gets back until
close; but I’m hoping that we’ll get some alone time after that. Should that happen, I definitely don’t want
to be too tired a second Saturday in a row; and that’s a really good thought to
wrap this up with – and head into dreamland thinking about!
Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!
