I love our major shopping trip events!
As I’ve mentioned already in earlier
journal updates, we had a smaller group today than for any of the trips over
the past couple of years; but we still had sixty-one girls – plus the one boy
in the group; Ethan.
Our day started out great with the buffet
breakfast at the Inn; and then Rowen and I got to spend the drive time with our
Moms, Ethan, and Ehlana – a little mothers-kids time that we don’t get to do
often enough. We re-grouped with
Rebecca, Jenny, and their Moms at the Mall; and added Naomi a bit later when we
caught up with the group she’d gotten a ride with. From then on, it was pretty much non-stop
shopping except for our lunch break and a late-afternoon drive over to Wal-Mart
for the supply shopping wrap-up to our adventure in the city. I won’t bore the guys reading this with the
blow-by-blow bargain hunting, mini-fashion shows, or occasional mother-daughter
disagreement over clothing choices; but most of that was fun – even some of
those little battles of will over the fine line between teen fashion and trash.
I can assure you that Michael and Tim will
be very happy with the summer wardrobes that Rowen and I picked out, but if you
need better proof of that, and since you’ll be reading this in my future some
day; read ahead to my Sunday update – I’m sure I’ll have something to say about
Michael’s reaction to the new swimsuit I’ll be wearing at Quarry Lake for Ethan
and Ehlana’s party.
There’s a one hundred percent chance that
Mom will have a similar effect on Dad with her new summer clothes and swimsuits
too, and while most girls my age might have a problem with thinking about their
mother’s hot factor; I’m really starting to appreciate the fact that she’s
passed those particular genes down to me.
I’ll be able to shop in her closet in a couple of years too; so my
perspective on watching her shop is changing now too since everything she buys
now is something I might get to borrow from her in the future! ;^)
That will mean she’ll be able to shop in my
closet soon too, though if I actually wanted to avoid that risk; I could always
take my wardrobe in the same direction some of the other teens did today so
that I didn’t own anything Mom would want to borrow – or would scare me if she
actually did want to wear some of those things.
I won’t do that; but only because I just don’t like a lot of the clothes
that some of my friends do. This is not
a shyness issue or anything – I just have my own preferences; and they don’t
include wearing anything that might randomly show off parts of me that I don’t
want anyone – other than Michael – to see.
I’m sure that sentiment has a lot to do with why Mom and I weren’t
having any fashion disagreements today – I liked everything she picked out for
herself!
Okay, moving along; we had a blast at the
Mall; moved on to the less-exciting shopping at Wal-Mart – though that did give
Rowen and I a chance to pick up the rest of the friends and family gifts for
the upcoming birthdays and anniversaries that we hadn’t taken care of at the
mall already. Dad met up with us there
so we had extra cargo space with his truck; and then we stopped for fast food
before hitting the road for home. Ethan
went in the truck with Dad for some father-son alone time, and while they went
straight home; we stopped in at Palmer’s and Taylor’s for a quick check of the
remaining bargains from their usual shopping trip day sales before Mom and I
dropped Patricia and Rowen off at their house on our way home.
Rowen and I had thought about doing a
sleepover too; but opted for some post-shopping boyfriend alone time instead. Michael was already at my house by the time
we got there – and he’d helped Dad with getting the truck unloaded and pretty
much all of the supplies put away. They
even had cold drinks and a snack ready for us by the time Mom and I had the
minivan unloaded and our shopping bags hauled up to our bedrooms on the second
and third floor.
Going for a swim after that was an option
too, and Michael and I took Ethan and Ehlana with us for that while Mom and Dad
came along; but sat on one of the benches and watched the show while sipping on
bottles of wine coolers. With half of
our family away for the weekend, there wouldn’t have been a dinner and a movie
night anyway; but it still seemed quiet by comparison after having some busy
Friday nights around the house. Michael
and I didn’t have a problem with that – we got to have some alone time in the
lounge after we tucked Ethan and Ehlana in for the night not long after our
swim – and Mom and Dad had gone to bed not long after that.
No, they weren’t sleeping at the time; but
let’s not go there.
We’d still been in our swimsuits when we
came upstairs to the lounge, so getting into dry clothes was required before
getting to the cuddling in the lounge while mostly not watching a movie. Since we sort of forgot to split up to
different rooms while doing that, though; neither of us had watching movies on
our minds by the time we’d helped each other get changed.
Just in case I don’t mention it often
enough – I really love Michael a lot; and it’s amazing to get to share all of
these new experiences with him. And
sometimes, like tonight; it’s also flat-out hot!
This is probably the point where parental
units reading this in the future are referring back to the ‘let’s not go there’
comment above and saying “Ditto!”
Relax, Moms and Dads – our definition of
hot is not quite as advanced as yours – and Michael and I do have our own
boundaries that we won’t be crossing. You
trust us not to follow a pile of rules about our Magi abilities; you can trust
us with this too.
I’ll still move along anyway; but only
because I really don’t need to record every little detail about that side of my
relationship with Michael in this journal.
There are other places to look in the archives if you want to read up on
sexual relations between Magi – or with Magi and non-magi for that matter. Yes, I’m adding some information there too;
but only because there is so little written about teens in the archives. That’s actually a bit stunning when you
consider how many millennia of information is in our archives; but then I
seriously doubt that most male Magi even considered including that kind of
information in their journals.
Feel free to argue that point amongst
yourselves; but I can back that up with just a simple search of the archives
that shows that women Magi were far more likely to write about personal sexual
experiences than the men were – with the obvious problem for those types of
records being that there historically weren’t nearly as many women Magi Masters
as men – even though we currently have a three-to-one advantage.
I’ll look that up sometime; but that
probably is a first in our entire history.
Don’t feel bad, Ethan – you’re outnumbered; but we all love you a lot!
Where was I? Right – moving on. Michael and I had fun playing together and
not watching the movie; he went home at midnight; and I hopped into bed with Mandy
and my computer while wishing I’d kept Michael and was cuddling with him
instead. There isn’t much else to add to
this update. There were a couple of
email that were updates from the action leading up to Tory and Kyle’s wedding
tomorrow. While Uncle Adam, Aunt Leanne,
and the rest of the Johnson-McEwan clan are celebrating the wedding tomorrow, I’ll
be doing yard work and then spending the afternoon playing or cheering at
baseball games. Michael will be working
a lot too; but there’s a good chance that we’ll get to have more alone time
tomorrow night once he’s finished the dinner shift at the Inn.
That’s all going to be fun, and I don’t
want to be too tired tomorrow night for that Michael and me time; so I’d better
just wrap this up and get some sleep.
Until next time…
…Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the
Light!
