Happy 14th Birthday, Marcie!
We did a little lunchtime party for Marcie
at school today, but she’s already away on a birthday weekend adventure with
her family this weekend instead of doing a party. Her boyfriend, Marc, isn’t on that trip with
her, and there was a hint or two of tension going on between Marcie and Marc,
but it didn’t sound to me as if Marcie had a choice in the matter; so I hope
that Marc will cut her some slack.
Marcie had a good day at school, and her weekend plans with her family
sounded fun; so I hope she’s enjoyed the rest of her big day and trip.
Football fever ruled here in Witch Falls
today, and while Marcie and her family weren’t the only members of our
community not at the game tonight; they were in the minority. We’d drawn Westburg for our first-round
opponent, and while their team and fans didn’t have a good night; we definitely
did! The fifty-to-thirty-three final
score doesn’t sound too bad for Westburg, but we pretty much had one of our
best defensive games of the season; and the score was only that close because
Coach Robinson had our guys kick field goals for our final five scoring drives
of the night after earning five touchdowns by early in the third quarter.
Jason Johnson’s twenty point night had him
spending too much time bragging yet again, and while I wouldn’t dream of
wishing him bad luck with his kicking game; it would be nice if he’d stop
acting like he was the next Kyle Landry-type star of the team. Tim didn’t say anything to him at the
after-game party tonight; but he was especially irritated after doing as
ordered by the coach and holding back instead of running up the score when he
and Michael could have both easily done that.
Westburg did score two late touchdowns to
get to that thirty-three points, but by then; it just didn’t matter. Tim had two of our five touchdowns, and
Michael, Caleb, and Lucas split the other three between them; but Michael’s
biggest contributions tonight were on the defensive side of the ball. He had two interceptions that our team turned
into ten points – along with eating time off of the clock along the way. Those weren’t our only good defensive plays,
but they were two of the highlights; and that side of our game definitely
looked better tonight.
The bottom line, though, is that we’re
through to the next round of the playoffs.
Coach Robinson will find out sometime tomorrow who our next opponent
will be – and whether we’ll be at home again or away. That’ll come down to what our record is like
compared to the other playoff survivors; but we do have a shot at a second home
game – particularly if any of the under-dog teams won tonight.
Before I move on from football, we had a
fun night with the cheerleading; and we had the bonus of the temperature staying
warmer than forecast through the end of the game too. I really love cheering for Michael, Tim, and
the rest of our team; but it’s most fun when I get to do that with my family in
the crowd – and we had everyone there tonight except for Aunt Deborah and Aunt
Grace. Aunt Leanne went home early once
the game outcome wasn’t really in any doubt; but that was mostly because she
was worn out – not due to any concerns about barfing on the other spectators.
Just kidding, Aunt Leanne! ;^)
Our half-time routine was another hit, and
I should mention that Dani is particularly happy about how those little shows
are going for our squad. We don’t
exactly have competitions with the other squads, but we are still competitive
both while working the sidelines and during the half-time break; and Dani feels
as though we’ve won pretty much all of those match-ups this season with more
creative and fun routines. Yes, Rowen
and I help out with that, but it’s a team effort; and everyone has come up with
at least one of the routine ideas this year.
I still love our ‘singing in the rain’
routine the best; but Rowen and I are fairly biased about that.
The post-game celebration was at Jeff and
Tammy Morris’ house this week; and Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I all went to it
once we were finished with the usual clean-up work at the school. That didn’t exactly leave us with hours of
play time, but compared to a road game; we had lots of time to have a little
fun with our friends. Yes, football talk
rules those little get-togethers; but Rowen and I – and the rest of the girls –
managed to keep entertained too.
While I’m thinking about the guys and
talking football, I’m going to go back to mentioning Jason Johnson again – but only
in comparison to Jeff Morris. Jeff is as
low-key about his game play as Michael, Caleb, and Lucas are. No, I’m not including Tim in that group, but
that’s only because he loves to be flashy – not because he brags about
himself. Anyway, my point is that Jeff
didn’t say anything about his own play, as usual, and he’s so quiet; I’m not
sure that many people even thought about the fact that he was on the throwing
end of three out of five of our touchdowns tonight – and had a really good
completion percentage to go along with piling up more than three hundred
passing yards. Yes, Michael and Tim
usually pad those numbers with a lot of running; but Jeff really is doing a
great job both as quarterback and team captain.
Jason could learn a thing or two from Jeff; but I doubt that he will.
Some of the older teens could stay up late
and party tonight, but more than half of us couldn’t. Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I headed for home at
twelve-thirty – at the same time that Lucas was catching his ride home and Rebecca
left the party too. I went home with
Michael and Rebecca while Rowen took Tim home with her for a little bit of
alone time before his one o’clock curfew.
Michael and I had a little bit of cuddle time too; but Rebecca stayed
with us too and we mostly talked about what we wanted to do for our Saturday
night sleepover until it was time for me to head home too.
That was a fun end to the night, and though
I have been working on my computer for over an hour since climbing into bed
with Mandy; only about twenty minutes of that time was spent dealing with some
family business work that I didn’t want to leave until Sunday night or
Monday. The rest of the time, I’ve just
been winding down while checking my email and surfing the net.
We’ve got another yard work day on the
schedule, so I should get some sleep now – especially when I’m sure that we’ll
be up late again tomorrow night. There
really isn’t much else to report from home or school today anyway. It was too cold outside this morning, so Tai
Chi was indoors, and it was fun having Michael stay with us for breakfast; but
there wasn’t anything to write about from our classes today – other than Marcie’s
birthday fun and entertainment. We did
get a bit of extra homework dumped on us that we’ll need to get done sometime
this weekend, and there are some tests booked for next week too; but none of
that is really a big deal for me anyway.
Okay, there’s no point in dragging this
out, and I am ready for some nap time anyway; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
