Our family and friends play day has been
fun, and I’ve loved spending the time with Mom, Dad, Ethan, and Ehlana; I don’t
actually have much news to report today.
Michael didn’t come over for Tai Chi this
morning because he helped out with the breakfast shift at the Inn today so that
he could take the rest of the day off to hang out with me. They didn’t have a very busy day at the Inn
anyway; since most people around here were taking a break from all of the
holiday action. While Michael was busy,
I had some work to do around the house anyway, and after having breakfast and
cleaning up; we took care of the chores around the house pretty much until
Michael was set free for the day.
It didn’t get very warm outside today –
just a bit above freezing; but we had some play time outside that included a
trip to the park – mostly so that we could get some fresh air and a bit of
exercise after a couple of big food days.
We did a bit of visiting while we were out too; but were home in time
for lunch – and the start of another round of college football bowl games. The big match-ups were pretty much done for
the season already, except for the Championship game a week from this coming
Monday; which is why the games were on at least one television around the house
today; but Dad, Michael, and any visiting guys didn’t really pay all that much
attention to the sports action on the tube.
Video gaming in the lounge was a big part
of the afternoon and early evening, though; and there were usually at least a
half-dozen willing gamers in the house for most of that time as we had our fair
share of visitors stopping in for either cameo moments or to hang out with us
for a couple of hours. Rowen and Tim
were in the second group for that; and came over for the afternoon while their
parents were busy with work at the computer store and shop. They had other plans for tonight, though I
guess it’s more accurate to say they had a non-plan for tonight – more like a
hope for some alone time together without family and friends around to get in
the way of a little one-on-one fun.
That worked out for Michael and me, and the
highlight of our day was the clothing-optional make-out time we got to have
after Ethan and Ehlana went to bed for the night – and Mom and Dad decided to
turn in early too after a couple of very busy, long days and late nights. That was probably our last chance of the
holidays for any seriously hot play time for two; so Michael and I are both
very happy campers tonight – even without shooting for another sofa
sleepover. We should probably take a
little break from that anyway to make sure we don’t push our lick with the
parents too far and mess that up for ourselves in the future.
Michael went home at midnight; and I’ve
been doing my bedtime computing while having a soak in my Jacuzzi. I wouldn’t have done that if Mom and Dad had
been sleeping already, but they weren’t – and we don’t need any details about what
they’ve been doing instead since going to bed.
There wasn’t anything new from around the family in my email inbox, but
I did get a couple of friends’ updates for New Year’s Eve and Day; and it
sounds as though most of my friends and classmates had fun over the past couple
of days. I had a bit of family business
work to deal with too, but that didn’t take long; and I pretty much just did a
cursory scan of the usual news, sports, and entertainment information I check
every day.
All that I have left to do for this update
is to add a bit of news for the weekend plans.
Rowen doesn’t have everything finalized yet, but Tim, Michael, and I are
confirmed for a sleepover at her house tomorrow night; and we’ll spend the
evening there too. If we have dinner
together, we’ll have to take care of that ourselves instead of adding extra
work to her parents’ already busy work weekend; but we’ll decide that tomorrow
too – once we know how many teens and tweens we’ll have there for the
night. I’m sure that Patrick and Scott
will want to be there; but don’t know whether they’ll have other friends along
as well when Rowen’s definitely extending other invitations. I’ll likely spend some time tomorrow
afternoon helping her to get ready for the teen play night; but that’s going to
be the top fun event of the weekend for sure – especially since Michael and I
will be making up for that by working the full shift at the Inn on Sunday.
Oh, I guess there is one more bit of news
that I’ve skipped – which is also why you haven’t read anything about Violet
and Dillon yet in this report. They’re
not in Witch Falls anymore; and left for Woodvale this morning so that they
could spend the day with Chris, Martin, and Dawn – and then spend the weekend
with Violet’s family before the kids head back to school on Monday. They’ll be back here on Monday so that they
can do some extra work at the lab before heading back to school too; but I
probably won’t get to spend much time with them anyway. At least Ethan and Ehlana will see them at
the lab; since Mom will be working there a lot in January while Aunt Grace is
still off from work. Josiah and
Christina are doing the same weekend away thing with her family; so we aren’t
going to have much of anything going on with our home-town family this weekend.
I do have that sleepover tomorrow night,
though, so I’d better wrap this up; get ready for bed; and get some sleep. It’s hard to believe that we’re already down
to just two days left in our Christmas holiday, and while I don’t really want
it to end already; I guess that most of us are pretty much partied out at this
point anyway. Okay, that’s it for
tonight; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
