The top news story around town wasn’t, but
probably should have been, the second-hand charity store. It is going to get talked about much more
often this week, though; and some of my favorite women are going to make sure
that all of our friends and neighbors get involved in sending donations to the
store so they’ll have lots of stock for their grand opening in a few weeks.
At school, football playoff fever has
struck; and that’s made Michael, Tim, and the rest of the guys on the team celebrities
with their fellow students. They didn’t
feel like rock stars by the time Coach Robinson was finished with them after
practice, but, fortunately for Michael; he is the one guy on the team with a
girlfriend who can help him out with the strains and pains that go along with
intense practices.
There is one other event going on this week
that is newsworthy at school; and that’s the midterm elections. Okay, it’s an educational must, but I can
tell you that everyone in my class is just very glad that we only need to deal with
it for a few days this week thanks to Halloween getting in the way of dragging
it out for weeks. Unless things have
really changed around here in the future when you’re reading this; elections
just aren’t that big a deal here in Witch Falls. Our collective voice in state and federal
politics is zero, and even if it wasn’t; there aren’t any choices in these
elections that actually make a difference.
The bottom line here is that we just live
our lives as best we can around here with as little attention or involvement of
government at any level beyond our own community. Since we’re a net-positive on the cash flow
to those state and federal governments; they’re usually okay with leaving us
alone.
Too bad they don’t do that for everyone!
;^)
I’m not going to drag out a long diatribe
on politics – tonight. Resisting that
when it’s time for the election post-mortem is another matter, though; and I
might not be able to keep myself from commenting on that. You’ll know the answer to that sooner than I
will if you keep reading at least another couple of days into my journal!
Moving along, we’ve had a nice fall day,
and while football was all that most of the guys wanted to talk about and do
today, Rowen and I also had our cheerleading practice after school; and Michael
and I had dinner and spent the evening at his house. Lucas stayed for dinner and studying time
with Rebecca too; so the four of us had fun hanging out together – and with
Miranda and Jacob. Doing our homework
with Rebecca and Lucas takes longer for Michael and me than it would if we were
doing it at my house and on our own; but it’s worth the extra time to get the
extra time with them.
We also talked about possibly setting up
another teen sleepover this weekend, but don’t have anything firm yet. I’ll keep you posted; and hope that we can do
that – especially when those nights work out so well for Rebecca and
Lucas. His father probably doesn’t think
so, since he loses the extra help on the farm while Lucas is busy; but I’m also
sure that his mother intervenes when needed.
Okay, I’d better move this along. It’s late, and I need to be up early to help
out with a special birthday breakfast for Dad in just a few hours.
The dinner and study time at Michael’s was
the best part of the day for me; though our music practice after that was good
too – even if we didn’t have time at the end for much of a make-out session
before I needed to get home. Ethan and
Ehlana were still up then and working on their college studies, so Mom did my
Magi lesson with me while they were busy; and then I helped to get them tucked
in for the night by eleven-thirty. That’s
why it was after midnight by the time I was changed and in bed with Mandy and
my computer; and ready to get started on my studies and family business work.
Mom and Dad are not staying up late and
working too; but they’re also not sleeping either. As always, the imagination rule applies; so
have fun with that if you absolutely must while I don’t – though I am glad that
they’re both having a happy start to Dad’s birthday.
I wouldn’t say that three and a half hours
or so of language studies, archive homework, and family business action has
made me especially happy too; but I did get a lot accomplished. That’ll make up for what I expect will be a
shorter work window tomorrow night; though we’ll see how that goes. Birthdays on work and school nights aren’t
usually all that wild and crazy around here; so it is possible that I’ll have a
mostly-normal night after the dinner party.
I am still going to have cheerleading, band, and praise team practices
tomorrow too, though, and really should have been sleeping an hour or two ago
to be ready for all of that; so that’s it for tonight, and, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
