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Sunday, June 8, 2014

Cassie's Journal - June 7, 2014



We had a pretty good thunderstorm roll through starting an hour or so before dawn, so the sleepover instead of camping turned out to be a good call.  It was still raining off and on by the time we were up and ready for Tai Chi, so we exercised indoors; and then it was girls’ day to cook breakfast for everyone.  Okay, not really, but we were allowed to pick the cooking over the clean-up; and those of us conscious enough to vote picked working on the pre-breakfast crew.

The rain also meant that we didn’t need to rush around to get Lucas fed and back at home; though he did still need to get there – and Rebecca, Rowen, Tim, and Michael all had work or morning chores to get to as well.  As mentioned, I cooked; we had an entertaining time while eating our morning meal; and then the boys cleaned up while the girls took their turn getting ready for the day.  Once all of my friends had left and Alicia had come over to take charge of Ethan, Ehlana, Naomi, and Aiden; I went to work helping Mom with chores for an hour or so until the rain stopped; and then it was outside for Dad and me and on to getting as many chores as we could ticked off the to-do list before I needed to do a quick wash up and get to the park for my first game of the season with the Vortex.

Rowen and Rebecca met me there, and we were both in time for a short warm-up with Claire and our team; but Jenny was running late and only got there as the game was about to start.  Her hair was perfect, and her team shirt immaculately tucked in without the slightest wrinkle showing; so the delay was obviously worth it! ;^)

Honestly, I’m not picking on Jenny – just recording one of the things that I find amusing about some teenage girls for posterity.  You have to admit that doing all of that – particularly when you’re about to play a baseball game on a recently rained on ball diamond – is fairly silly.  Then again, so is playing to win the cleanest, neatest clothes in the park award is about as silly – unless you can get the rules of the game changed to reflect that on the scoreboard.

“Well, Jim, she struck out; but looks fabulous!  The umpire should give her top style points for that!”

“Yes, I’m sure you’re right, Dave.  Five out of five for sure!”

This update has definitely gone off the rails!

Our game was against Ayres’ Avalanche, and both teams had lots of family and friends support for the first game of the season.  Mom and Dad even had a mini family picnic thing going on so that they could multi-task while watching the game.  We kept them entertained for a couple of hours too, but today at least, in the rock-paper-scissors of baseball games; Avalanches cover Arctic Vortexes – by one run.  They were the home team, and won it during their last at-bat, so I’m not crushed or anything, but I have mentioned a time or hundred that I like to win; so getting the big ‘L’ in the record book today wasn’t all that much fun.

The good news for the day is that Rowen and I had a little cheerleading squad with us for Michael and Tim’s game at three o’clock, and while we can’t claim for sure that we had any impact at all on how well Landry’s Lightning played; they did rather soundly get the win over Taylor’s Thunder by a score of eleven-to-three.

If they keep winning when we’re cheering for them, the other guys might even stop razzing Michael and Tim about not only getting good luck hugs and kisses from their girlfriends; but from Ehlana, Naomi, and Sophia too.  Again, that is hardly empirical evidence relating to the results on the scoreboard; but all of that attention did have our boys fairly fired up by game time.

I should back up and mention that Michael and Tim were both working, so they couldn’t watch all of our game, and with a low score, we didn’t use up nearly all of the time we had available; but Michael did catch the tail-end of our game and we had some time to hang out between my game and his.

We also got to hang out together tonight after he was finished work at the Inn; though the dinner rush was already on by the time he got there after going home to get cleaned up first so he worked with Jake and Stephanie until close.  They came over to our house too after work so they could hang out with Violet and Dillon; though the four older teens did their own thing in the living room while Michael and I first spent some time with Ethan and Ehlana before tucking them in for the night; and then had two solid hours of alone time in the lounge to play while not really watching a movie.

Future note to Violet, Dillon, Jake, and Stephanie – the payback was funny tonight; but I really hope that you quit while the joke is funny.  Also, you didn’t ‘catch us’ doing anything we didn’t want you to see – I sensed you coming before you hit the bottom step of the main staircase – on the first floor.  You’d also be amazed at how quickly you can recover from partial nudity when using a time-phase is an option.  I had my shirt back on before you hit the third step!

And off again once you were all back downstairs again; but let’s not go there or it’ll be hours before I get any sleep!

Without offering any more details, that alone time with Michael was the highlight of our day; and way overdue.  We are going to somehow find more time for us to do that this summer – even if I have to start using time phases every day to do that.  Michael went home at midnight because Jake and Stephanie had a bit more fun teasing us and telling him that he needed to go home with them right away before he missed his curfew.  They didn’t seem to think there was anything inconsistent about ordering him home while Stephanie was spending the night at their house and Dillon was staying at ours.  Since we did get to both have a little fun with four of our favorite college teens and still get the alone time together too, I’ll cut them some slack on that tonight.

I got ready for bed after Michael left with Jake and Stephanie, so I was in bed before twelve-thirty; but got caught up in a bit of family business work that came up via email; so it’s heading toward two now, and past-time for me to call it a night.  Aunt Grace’s birthday dinner at the Inn will be the top event of the day, but that’s also pretty much the only thing we have on the go other than church tomorrow; so it should be a fairly quiet day.  I do still need some nap time even if we get to just have a quiet, lazy day, though, so let’s call it a night.  Until next time…

…Live long and prosper, fellow Magi of the Light!